Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [pron] to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One hundred and fifty nine subjects ( 88% ) were visited one to three times per week by the district nursing service . |
| 2 | All over the burrow , both the newcomers and those who were at home were accustoming themselves to each other in their own way and their own time ; getting to know what the strangers smelt like , how they moved , how they breathed , how they scratched , the feel of their rhythms and pulses . |
| 3 | We think , therefore , that it is absolutely necessary in order to carry on the Business of this Establishment , as perfectly as possible , that two such Characters should be appointed — and we , in consequence suggest , that altho ’ each be as much as possible qualified in both Departments , yet if one were to devote himself to one Branch and the other to the other branch — the College would be much more usefully directed — for , if one Professor were fully qualified for both — yet so arduous a task could not possibly be executed by one Man only . |
| 4 | Checking their activities to see that they were confining themselves to local products , and were not turning to smuggling was very difficult until improvements in transport and in the structure of government meant that the vast majority of imports paid duty . |
| 5 | See this was after the nationalization and the policy of the railway executive at that time was to instead of two stations in one town , they were all they were reducing it to one station you see . |
| 6 | He was transporting her to another world , and she responded to him with uninhibited abandon . |
| 7 | For several days , maybe up to a week before that , whatever I was doing it was leading him to that decision . |
| 8 | and the doctors was selling them to rich Romanians and things like that so there 's such a lot of corruption in the country . |
| 9 | The pater was saying something to that effect only the other day . |
| 10 | He was aping them to some extent , but what was different was that touching quality . ’ |
| 11 | The intention was to reduce it to that rate which would constrain aggregate demand to grow at a rate which could be met by increases in real output . |
| 12 | Not for them the comfortable life ; they might get ideas above their station , which was to devote themselves to hard labour and be grateful for small mercies . |