Example sentences of "[noun pl] [was/were] [adv] [prep] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The words were not like music to Doreen 's ears . |
| 2 | Likewise , the purpose of introducing science into the secondary schools was never in doubt to such leading advocates as H. E. Roscoe , the first President of the Association of Public School Science Masters ( the precursor of our Association for Science Education ) ; school science was , for Roscoe , as Layton quotes him , to be ‘ the means of sifting out from the great mass of the people those golden grains of genius which now are too often lost amongst the sands of mediocrity ’ . |
| 3 | Inevitably , I noted these criticisms were rarely in relation to what he had said ( few had actually read the book ) , but rather were expressions of shocked outrage that he had failed to keep silent and say nothing at all . |
| 4 | By the beginning of the new century some of this new ideology , with its taboos on unmanly vices was certainly for export to the working class and we see the emergence of mass youth movements such as the Scouts , and the transference to the grammar schools of many of the key characteristics of the old public schools . |
| 5 | A GRE spokesman said the changes were not in reaction to the losses incurred over the past three years , as the life business had remained profitable . |
| 6 | It was argued that the strength of these pressures was roughly in proportion to the centrality of the speaker 's position in the closeknit group . |
| 7 | It seems that the appellants were considerably in debt to the mortgagees and the purpose of that second charge was to secure the debt . |