Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] to a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , some studies suggested that the crucial floating voters were not characterised by a high degree of interest , involvement , and knowledge , but by ignorance and indifference , and they were less involved in following the election campaign than were those who were keenly attached to a party . |
| 2 | These debates were eventually brought to a close by Williams , but by this time his fame had spread throughout the islands and had given him a mass following , especially among the lower Creole class . |
| 3 | They were little loves to a dog , but whether they were , as billed , the cream of British dogdom , well , all owners would like to think their dogs were . |
| 4 | We left the Legation as the sun rose and our cars were constantly brought to a standstill in the crowded streets . |
| 5 | I were only saying to a lady this morning about ee aye our Emma used to come to Leyland with a a wad of ten shilling notes new and we 'd go to er Southport would n't we ? |
| 6 | In the S.pombe cosmid library , some probes were only hybridised to a subset of 1500 clones , resulting in missing data . |
| 7 | And then another lunch was estimated at two hundred and eighty and forty-five came , and it kept swinging like that all week and they never knew what the hell was going to happen so they got really aggravated and then we had , you know , some of the kids , the Ban-the-Bezier group were wandering around with their face masks and their Type ninety bags over their heads and were saying crude things over a megaphone in Tom Quad , right and then these bowler hatted policemen , whoever they are , were patiently explaining to a number of girls who were sunbathing on the lawn that this was n't done quite that way here . |
| 8 | But in grazing country these larger fields were soon reduced to a number of smaller fields of round about ten acres apiece . |
| 9 | They were usually limited to a tacking angle of 50 degrees . |
| 10 | The lands of the middling sort of squire were usually confined to a handful of parishes , often in the form of a main property , on which he probably resided , with smaller outlying holdings . |
| 11 | The Monthly Cost Accounts were usually brought to a close under this heading , being incomes from various sources . |
| 12 | You ca n't possibly do this job , ’ but his cases were always brought to a conclusion in the minimum time and , more importantly , with the minimum expense . |
| 13 | The majority of the incomers who settled in these localities were young couples who were still committed to a strategy of occupational and residential mobility in order to further their career interests ; they were ‘ spiralists ’ , and with only a few exceptions , their residence does not seem to be permanent . |
| 14 | Spectators were also treated to a display of sheepdog skills which saw & names , put their crafty canine sue through her paces , rounding up not only sheep but a few noisy geese as well . |
| 15 | All students were also allocated to a librarian at the library of medicine who would help with the self directed parts of the course . |
| 16 | Also of note are six large gold rosettes which were probably fitted to a belt and twelve elements from a necklace modelled on lily or papyrus motifs . |
| 17 | For most positivist criminologists such concerns were often left to an appendix to their main causal concerns , or omitted altogether . |
| 18 | If your wheels are ‘ factory ’ red then they were originally fitted to a fire engine . |
| 19 | The government and the TUC were now committed to a concordat to bring inflation down to 5 per cent over three years , while new TUC guidelines were issued over picketing and the operation of the closed shop . |
| 20 | They were admirably suited to a problem of framework or atmosphere . |
| 21 | Those admitted to Holland were immediately transferred to a camp surrounded by barbed wire and guard dogs . |
| 22 | The bottles were dishonestly delivered to a shopkeeper , the third defendant , who was to get the deposits on the bottles from the company and share the money with the first two defendants . |
| 23 | They were increasingly subjected to a programme of enforced cultural ‘ Japanization ’ . |
| 24 | These types were then related to a range of macro-economic outcomes such as levels of inflation and unemployment . |
| 25 | The raw scores were then standardised to a scale with a mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 15 . |
| 26 | Samples were then applied to a Microporasil column 3.9 mm ID , 300 mm length ( Waters Associates , Milford , MA , USA ) with a flow rate of 1 ml/min . |
| 27 | We were then treated to a video of somebody discussing childbirth , which at first could not be heard by those at the back . |
| 28 | We were then treated to a description of the rapidly descending boulder : ‘ It 's about two feet square and a foot deep . ’ |
| 29 | The team were then treated to a meal and the mill manager presented them with the Challenge Trophy [ through gritted teeth ] and before the lads could get the lens caps off their cameras , they took it back , saying that the cup would stay at Rank 's but Rentokil 's name would be put on . |
| 30 | Mr McNamara is alleged to have borrowed money from General Motors to buy custom-built vans which were then re-sold to a company based in Cyprus . |