Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [to-vb] to [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | initial destinations questionnaires were sent to 171 SERC-funded students : SERC provided details of the names and departments of students holding information engineering awards that were due to come to an end in 1984 ; |
| 2 | We 'd gotten to the stage where we were selling out venues like the Hammersmith Odeon and none of us were prepared to return to the club circuit , so we quit while we were ahead . |
| 3 | Learning a PC package from scratch was not a viable option but they were prepared to change to a Macintosh package that more closely matched the corporate standard . |
| 4 | Although railway-building in North America has been described above as ‘ quintessentially capitalist ’ , in fact railway companies were prepared to build to the West only in return for massive inducements . |
| 5 | It none the less remains true that there existed within the late seventeenth-century church a group of churchmen who adopted a tolerant approach towards dissent , were willing to respond to the discoveries of the early natural scientists , and were interested in the relationship between religious belief and reason . |
| 6 | We were supposed to go to the wedding , my father died . |
| 7 | so embedded now in English cricket folklore : the lost teeth at Taunton in '74 when Andy Roberts bounced him ( ‘ my first big break ’ ) , his dark months of Test captaincy , Headingley '81 , when he decided to have some fun and whacked 149 not out ( ‘ soon the depression lifted ’ ) , Hollywood ( ‘ nice little diversion ’ ) , the accusations of misbehaviour off the field ( ‘ ridiculous ’ , ‘ farcical ’ , ‘ part of the learning process ’ ) , thoughts on the World Cup ( ‘ Pakistan were lucky to get to the final ’ ) , the Somerset break-up . |
| 8 | Apart from the 270 000 people of Hull there were only another 300 000 in the whole area who were likely to travel to the city for its shops and services . |
| 9 | No traders were likely to come to the Hall that day or any other , and she could hardly risk being seen speaking to them even if they did . |
| 10 | It is the meaning they were likely to convey to the person to whom they were addressed that matters and not the meaning they might , on analysis , bear to a trained legal mind . |
| 11 | In almost every European State the majority of the more important diplomatic posts were filled by aristocrats , sometimes great aristocrats , who were unwilling to submit to the drudgery of specialized training and often unable to acquire large amounts of specialized knowledge . |
| 12 | In fact , as the article 's authors drily reported , ‘ the majority of officials were unable to respond to the survey with comprehensive , consistent data . ’ |
| 13 | Nothing was achieved and several men had to be left ashore as they were unable to swim to the boats , whose RNVR crews would not beach for fear of damage to the crafts ' hulls . |
| 14 | Indeed , they were unable to get to the heart of providing for those who did not work regularly and hence could not pay regular rent or , often , any rent at all . |
| 15 | Fire crews attending the incident were unable to get to the scene before the cloud developed , due to the five mile contraflow . |
| 16 | Unfortunately , we were unable to contribute to a resolution of these problems without moving away from the non-participant minority shareholding which has always been central to our involvement in Bank of Edinburgh . ’ |
| 17 | Louis Deterink , of the company 's Dutch administrators , said : ‘ In Britain we were unable to contribute to a solution , mainly because the British Government would not help . |
| 18 | The continuing resistance of the young Duke of Aquitaine delayed the progress of peace talks between the Kings of England and France but on 8 September they were able to agree to a truce until Michaelmas ( 29 September ) , the terms of which specifically excluded Richard . |
| 19 | An armada of small private boats and a flotilla of naval vessels sailed to the rescue ; more than three hundred and fifty thousand men were saved , men who were able to return to the battle against Hitler 's armies in Europe and Africa . |
| 20 | NOW that the World Cup is over and we are back to the league games again , I think that all rugby supporters who were able to go to the matches or to watch it on television must admit that rugby was the winner . |
| 21 | ‘ It is clear that we were able to demonstrate to the ministry that we are able to do the work and give value for money . |
| 22 | In some of the most outstanding film sequences of volcanic activity ever made , the divers were able to demonstrate to the world exactly how pillows are born . |
| 23 | The snow ploughs had been through and so we were able to drive to the starting point on the northerly shore of Loch Torridon . |
| 24 | Soon after her arrival , the Company began replacing its Hillman Imps and Austin 1100s with the new Vauxhall Viva and managers then driving A60s , Avengers and Austin 1300s were able to change to the Hillman Hunter and the Austin Countryman . |
| 25 | Your reply should therefore include not just what you actually did but any special skills you were able to bring to the job and any particular equipment you have been trained to use . |
| 26 | The trolley-buses were able to manoeuvre to the curbside , but they were unable to pass each other and frequently , in awkward manoeuvres , one or both arms became disconnected from the overhead cables , resulting in a loss of power and the trolley-bus coming to a standstill . |
| 27 | Some females were able to switch to the plaiting of straw hats , bonnets and mats . |
| 28 | Through a system of ‘ Citizen Schools ’ Highlander slowly helped establish a methodology of non-formal adult education in which the students were able to relate to the subject which they needed to learn — in this case the desire to learn to read for the purpose of being able to vote . |
| 29 | In 186 B.C. there were Galatian mercenaries in Egypt who were able to announce to the world in perfect Greek from the little temple of Horus in Abydos " We of the corps of the Galatians have come and have captured a fox " ( Bitten berger , OGIS 757 ) . |
| 30 | This demonstrated that both PA-Oct-11 and PA-Oct-2 were able to bind to an octamer motif in vitro and that this binding was competed by an excess of unlabelled probe DNA . |