Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [pron] [noun sg] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The voters were by then more hostile to Mrs Thatcher and her government , but they were switching their support to Labour , not to the third parties . |
| 2 | And by now , the tabloid writers were switching their attention to other male members of the Neighbours cast , and hinting Kylie may be dating them too . |
| 3 | Yet at the same time local officers and shop stewards of the same unions were finding themselves party to local , enterprise-level agreements setting the terms under which temporary workers could for the first time be used , or under which their use could be expanded . |
| 4 | Mr Ritblat said he and his fellow directors were showing their commitment to New British Land by investing almost £12million in cash into the new company , which he said would concentrate on the UK but also look for overseas opportunities provided by the creation of the Single European market . |
| 5 | Decades later , both Bentham and de Tocqueville were to add their support to these essentially libertarian ideas by arguing that total freedom was very much preferable to any form of suppression . |
| 6 | He believed that God was drawing his attention to this particular message from Scripture and that O'Neill was a harbinger of the troubles that lay ahead . |
| 7 | The images of youth arose from a society in which the middle class was reviving its claim to political and cultural leadership at the very time when it was being challenged by the new class politics . |
| 8 | What else he had failed to tell her was that there was a fortune at stake — and that the custodian of it was this Bluebeard , this marauding monster … who , even now , while she was going through the motions of hating him , was turning her body to liquid honey . |
| 9 | If I was to give my life to this orchestra then I could not allow that someone throw me out at a moment 's notice . |
| 10 | His only concession to emotion was to give his shirt to one of the ball-boys — a valuable memento for one German lad . |
| 11 | Also in March I announced that Dr David Owen was to give his endorsement to one of the parties in the general election . |
| 12 | Airlines attracted the attention of corporate buccaneers like Carl Icahn who was to turn his attention to that icon of American might USX ( the former United Steel ) . |
| 13 | The British Hotels , Restaurants and Caterers Association announced it was to change its name to British Hospitality Association ( BHA ) . |
| 14 | Happy indeed is the curator of a select collection like the Mauritzhuis in The Hague , where one collector 's policy was to limit his collection to thirty excellent works , lesser works being discarded to make way for better . |
| 15 | During that communication , the pilot received and acknowledged instructions to maintain an altitude of 13,000 ft. until reaching the Toro intersection ( some 13 nmi south of the accident site ) , whereupon he was to begin his descent to 8,000 ft , at Maria intersection and then follow the Llegada Norte arrival procedure into ACA . |