Example sentences of "[noun pl] were [adv] [v-ing] to [art] " in BNC.

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1 Italians were now coming to the fore in car racing thanks to Alfa , and Nuvolari joined the team as the man to spearhead their attack on the German manufacturers .
2 But quite different ideas were also contributing to the formation of modern sociology .
3 These questions were utterly demoralising to the vassals of the late Emperor , and were to cause debate and confusion for many years to come .
4 Author Penny Junor — widely regarded as the royal writer closest to the prince — said the latest allegations were deliberately damaging to the Royal Family .
5 AFTER a weekend of hard talking between Michael Knighton and Martin Edwards , the Manchester United chairman , the 37-year-old property developer 's advisers were publicly sticking to the line last night that his £20m take-over bid for the club was ready to proceed .
6 Some of the casualties had small circulations , but by the spring papers with an average circulation of about 50,000 copies were also going to the wall .
7 Barriers and handicaps were always contributing to the alienation he bemoaned and yet instinctively courted .
8 But , they do seem to stress the way the changes in democratic practices were merely responding to the need to adapt the US model to Japanese values as though there were a collectively agreed set of values to call upon .
9 Some analysts were gloomily looking to the FT-SE 100 index to fall below the 2,200 level if the 15 per cent base rate is maintained for any length of time .
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