Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] to [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | With these exceptions , troops lived in barracks , and certainly the officers were rarely posted to their home territories . |
| 2 | From Manners ' remarks in Parliament on 18th February , it is clear that he was by then already familiar with Scott 's proposals although the detailed drawings were not sent to his office until 3rd March . |
| 3 | He was ringing people he did not like to tell them that they were not invited to his party on Wednesday night . |
| 4 | You were not invited to our country . |
| 5 | The frame rents were not related to their value or to the expected income from their use . |
| 6 | If the customer can demonstrate that the critical aspects were not brought to his attention or were " hidden in the small print " , he may be able to demonstrate a breach of this rule and ( in the case of a private customer ) sustain an action under s 62 of the FSA . |
| 7 | Coleman 's lecturing skills were not confined to his College students . |
| 8 | These doubts about his work were directly related to his predicament in the last months of 1939 . |
| 9 | It is probable that plague remained a constant threat , even if it is less well recorded in contemporary writings than at an earlier date ; probably men were more inured to its presence than they had been in the first shock of 1348 . |
| 10 | Many of these wrecks were caused by storms , but a large number of these ships were purposely led to their demise by islanders patrolling the beaches at night with lanterns to lure a careless ship on to the reef offshore . |
| 11 | Half-day training courses were also given to our telephone operators as part of the long term aim at increasing our effectiveness in the use of the telephone . |
| 12 | The Severum had previously outgrown his siblings very rapidly and had shown no hint of aggression except for eating three Halfbeaks which were temporarily transferred to his tank . |
| 13 | Wicked episodes were often brought to my attention , but nothing either then or since has been as evil as the man Beck . |
| 14 | There is some evidence that these were originally connected to his grandson Frederick II , and that by the mysterious process of collective imagination and tradition , they became drawn to the more powerful figure of Barbarossa . |
| 15 | Because their correlations were strongly linked to their rating of the respondent 's perceived adequacy of their social relationships but not to their availability , they conclude that it is not therefore the actual social environment of people which is important to the development of neurotic symptoms , but rather that , when faced with adversity , it is those individuals who view their social relationships as inadequate who have a substantially increased risk of developing neurotic symptoms . |
| 16 | And erm the youngsters were n't objecting to their music . |
| 17 | ’ supervisory officers were virtually confined to their office or foot after midnight on the night shift when they had used up their allocation . |
| 18 | I never heard of these scripts again and they were never broadcast to my knowledge , but , for whatever interest they may have , I included one of them in my collection of short stories , scripts and plot summaries under the title ‘ Bits and Pieces ’ to be published one day . |
| 19 | The early steps in their relationship were not easy , and a few in the industry were never reconciled to his leadership , though all recognised that he was acquiring a strong sense of identity with the industry 's interests . |
| 20 | The constables were speedily despatched to his home at Bray . |
| 21 | A year afterwards , an express came , Mrs. Welch reminded her of her dream , and upon opening the Will it was found that the cabinet was left to Mrs. Blencowe and Mrs. Jennens was directed by her dream to the secret drawers , where she found diamonds and other valuables , which were afterwards given to her daughter Mrs. Peareth |
| 22 | She did n't like it , but she could n't back away without making it very obvious that her nerve-ends were definitely reacting to his closeness . |
| 23 | We both accepted this without question , and a marriage allowance was duly added to my salary . |
| 24 | Although he was opposed to any plan to assassinate Hitler , he had been involved with the German resistance movement for some years , treading a dangerous path that was eventually to lead to his downfall and death . |
| 25 | And it was presumably owing to their encouragement that in the 1540s Crecquillon began to compose chansons and Clemens and Gombert increased their production from a trickle to a flood . |
| 26 | Rincewind hurriedly recalled that a dryad was so linked to her tree that she suffered wounds in sympathy |
| 27 | He was run down and killed , but he was so attached to his job that he still wants to keep his eye on his old work place . |
| 28 | Hotspur watched the marred profile beside him curiously as they paced side by side , for he was greatly drawn to his prisoner , and could not reconcile the many stories concerning him with this man he had begun to know . |
| 29 | , he was only referring to his fear of Jack . |
| 30 | This last question was apparently directed to her watch , which she was studying as she checked his pulse . |