Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [pron] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was strength and an inner confidence reflected in those steady grey eyes that she suddenly realised were subjecting her to a thorough appraisal . |
| 2 | Now , after a month of nervously transferring it from place to place as the situation worsened , the French government were giving it to the British . |
| 3 | Employing one of those supremely disingenuous somersaults of logic that only long training in double-speak and the official brand of British arrogance can confer , Mr Howard told a Westminster audience of backbenchers that ‘ If the Commission were to take us to the European Court I can think of few things more calculated to bring the Commission into disrepute ’ |
| 4 | It was a crisp Saturday morning in February , and the young man had picked her up from her flat and was driving them to a motor-racing track in the heart of Surrey . |
| 5 | In those circumstances the only option open to a government , determined to return Rover to the private sector , was to sell it to a British company which was not involved in the car industry . |
| 6 | His aim was to reconvert them to a Unitarian Christianity devoid of superstition . |
| 7 | Eisenhower , who was in the midst of his re-election campaign and was presenting himself to the American electorate as ‘ a man of peace ’ , failed to make clear to his British and French colleagues in the Atlantic Alliance the depth of his reluctance to countenance the use of force over an issue that was only important and not vital to US interests . |
| 8 | Her decision was extremely painful , for Beatrice believed ( as it happened incorrectly ) that she was committing herself to a celibate life for ever : |
| 9 | In some haste he drafted a brief manifesto to show how the Conservative Party was adapting itself to the post-Reform Act political scene . |
| 10 | Soon he was showing them to the leading head-hunters in employment agencies . |
| 11 | Yanto grunted some inaudible remark and was introducing her to a goggle-eyed Billy as Nigger joined them . |
| 12 | Lydia was resigning herself to a long stretch of celibacy . |
| 13 | The best Korf could think of was leaving everything to the provincial gentry , which Alexander had tried without success in his Moscow speech of March 1856 . |
| 14 | A Norwegian freedom fighter who knew the area was to take her to the nearby village , after which she was on her own . |
| 15 | But I was advised to imagine I was telling it to a good friend and not worry about what other people might think . |
| 16 | His pole was impaling her to the absolute limit , and she began panting as if she 'd just run the four-minute mile . |