Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [pron] [adv] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With only small amounts of money changing hands , a limited number of dedicated venues , and , if it were to restrict itself solely to black audiences , a finite number of punters , the black comedy scene is clearly still in its infancy . |
| 2 | Whilst Jean was there , the women were spending anything up to twenty-three hours a day locked in their cells . |
| 3 | Our journeys , we found , were to take us simultaneously to some of the least-charted regions of the planet and to the least-charted regions of our own minds . |
| 4 | Nothing could dent the self belief that was driving her on to new heights . |
| 5 | I think their suggestion was that they had to go via Norwood Gardens because they then turned right at the in and went up into the middle of and it was to get them on to that line that they had to go through . |
| 6 | there was a communicating door in one corner of the room and from behind it came the third movement of the Mozart , which was working itself up to that frantic minor-key Turkish routine which I 've never thought a good enough ending for such a great beginning ; but then that complaint went for just about everything in my life . |
| 7 | So the school 's first job was to cut me down to normal proportions — which they did . |