Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [pron] [noun] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | One year later she and her husband were expressing their thanks to the Home Support Project for helping them to go on looking after Mrs Cummings at home , and said that although it was still a strain it was ‘ nowhere near as hard as it has been , now that we 've got other people to help us ’ . |
| 2 | If the bonnie banks of Scotland were to open their accounts to the world , there would be a run on the pound and some of the country 's most famous clubs would collapse with embarrassment . |
| 3 | On the patio , some Italian children were rehearsing their contribution to the show being put on for parents that evening . |
| 4 | The Commission held a hearing in Brussels on 21 November last stating that , as part of their wish to harmonise copyright and neighbouring rights throughout the EC , they were turning their attention to the question of droit de suite . |
| 5 | To the Pharisees , who were blind to the evidence before their eyes , and were postponing their hopes to the future , our Lord responded , ‘ No one will say , ‘ Look , here it is ! ’ or , ‘ There it is ! ’ because the Kingdom of God is within you ’ ( Luke 17:21 ) . |
| 6 | In the early years of the fifth century the Roman province of Belgica , west of the Rhine frontier , was invaded by the Germanic-speaking Franks , the people who were to give their name to the country in which they settled . |
| 7 | All participants were demonstrating their commitment to the philosophy of Climb for the World — One World , One Family , One Nature . |
| 8 | According to IRNA , another 1,000,000 Iraqi Kurds were making their way to the Iranian border . |
| 9 | Andy and Des were making their way to the 18th tee . |
| 10 | Wedged neatly between his route flying at this period was a rescue operation to collect Gen Sikorski 's staff who were making their way to the South of France , hotly pursued by the Germans . |
| 11 | They were to owe their appointment to the trade union 's and the owner 's representatives on the board ; and , if they could not agree , to the binding decision of an independent commission . |
| 12 | When they were swanning around looking pretty , our families were working their fingers to the bone for virtually nothing and now Miss High-and-Mighty thinks we should admire them . |
| 13 | Tino Savvas said : ‘ The problems with delivery reliability were because customers were stretching our capacity to the limit . |
| 14 | His research work at the university 's petroleum warfare department led indirectly to him joining Esso , and within weeks he was faced with one of the many challenges that were to punctuate his rise to the top of the industry . |
| 15 | Despite official claims to the contrary it was widely believed that China was maintaining its supplies to the Khmers Rouges and considerable stockpiles of arms were thought to have been accumulated . |
| 16 | Grace , who was purling in the front circle , gathered he was drawing their attention to the war and the number of dead and maimed . |
| 17 | ‘ But he knew I was pledging my honour to the king 's peace . |
| 18 | India announced that it was to increase its contribution to the third replenishment from $6,500,000 to $8,000,000 . |
| 19 | The rout of German self-opinion meant that while Britain , France , Holland and Belgium were busy shaking off the last vestiges of feudal restraint in order to industrialise , the Prussian reaction to defeat was to define their contribution to the world as Kultur — a commodity that was best seen as the absence of change . |
| 20 | Something at the back of his mind was pushing its way to the front and giving him a curious grey feeling . |
| 21 | She was pushing his body to the limits of its endurance to divert and ease the strain on his spirit . |
| 22 | John Weston , leader of the IAAF team of doctors , said the Kenyan star had declined a random test and he was forwarding his report to the IAAF for action . |
| 23 | Soon after her Moose Jaw success with poems in the Times-Herald she was selling her verse to the Winnipeg Free Press , the Calgary Herald , the Vancouver Province , the Toronto Star and the agricultural publication , The Saskatchewan Farmer . |
| 24 | Thus he met Tally Jackson , who was to give his name to the book that Liebow finally wrote , Tally 's Corner : |
| 25 | In the 1940s , Communists ( though not Strachey who , by then , was switching his allegiance to the other superpower ) , looked to the Red Army to enforce the peace with the same uncritical admiration as nineteenth-century ‘ imperialist pacifists ’ had looked to the power or the British Navy . |
| 26 | ‘ If only I had some money put by , ’ he told Rosie , as he was taking her home to the pub one evening . |
| 27 | While the EC was debating its approach to the problems of Eastern Europe the president-elect of another distressed part of the world was nearing the end of a pre-inaugural tour which took him to all the major capitals . |
| 28 | Meanwhile Laura Davies , who missed the cut , was winging her way to the Nabisco Dinah Shore . |
| 29 | The Sergeant was carrying his sword to the infantry among the trees . |
| 30 | He implied that those of all the top brass did too , and that the president was changing his attitude to the war because of that . |