Example sentences of "they [was/were] [adv] [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whilst Rowe and Lambert took exception to the then prevailing view that children should , and more important could , be returned to their own families , they were strongly committed to family care as the main form of substitute care for those children who could not return home . |
| 2 | When they were eventually brought to trial , the most revealing thing that came out was that thousands of women were seeking , by a variety of means , to terminate their pregnancies . |
| 3 | It would seem that in Capadocea they were even converted to Christianity for , in that region , St Christopher is often depicted with a dog 's head . |
| 4 | I thought they were just going to X-ray me back , but they X-rayed everything . |
| 5 | The record high interest rates were attractive to holders of sterling even though they were also damaging to business . |
| 6 | They were ideally suited to town life before the spread of hygienic knowledge , readily distributed by polluted rivers , reservoirs , and wells . |
| 7 | By degrees the British came to dominate this trade , partly because they were so committed to sugar that they were bound to make large purchases of slaves on their own account , partly because their increasingly dominant position at sea meant that they could take the place of the Dutch as general suppliers of slaves for planters in other European colonies who wanted to buy them . |
| 8 | Madonna and Jackson never have mixed — even professionally , though they were once set to work together on a duet . |
| 9 | that there is that fear , that is because that is the second World War this is why the erm the er late thirties , early forties was never gon na succeed , because they had two completely different archaeologist , plus now in their purest form their not that but in the they were , they were never going to work , I mean that is the fact that their communists , the sole reason they 've been against each other for a hundred and fifty years there is no other reason |