Example sentences of "was [adj] [to-vb] [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I DO not think Nicholson was right to bring Natasha to Britain . |
| 2 | As there was no building , tickets could not have been issued from there ; it would be interesting to know if it was possible to buy tickets to Stretford Bridge . |
| 3 | NO PLACE ‘ There are those who argue the Secretary of State was wrong to grant consent to Wilton power station and they say that , because he was wrong consent , should be refused for transmission connections , ’ he said . |
| 4 | Although I was sad to say goodbye to Bessie , I was both excited and nervous about the new places I would see , and the new people I would meet . |
| 5 | He swung himself nimbly over the fence and was disconcerted to come face to face with Henry Yaxlee , walking purposefully from the direction of the school . |
| 6 | With Thomas Sackville , Baron Buckhurst [ q.v. ] , as a cousin and constant support , perhaps even financially , Alford was ostensibly well placed for advancement , and he was able to secure election to borough seats in Lancashire , Cornwall , Berkshire , and Sussex so that he sat in nine of the thirteen parliamentary sessions of Elizabeth 's reign . |
| 7 | Glaxo , by contrast , was able to gain 14p to 642p amid upgrading following yesterday 's results . |
| 8 | A SOLITARY strike by Neil Gregory was enough to steer Ipswich to victory in a scrappy encounter at Ram Meadow last night . |
| 9 | It was nice to take games to North and Midlands and Glasgow and let people see touring sides and top level games . |
| 10 | In the next chapter we consider events which are unexpected and which shock the couple into making a response ; for example , the discovery of an affair can destabilize a relationship to the point of breakdown , although more frequently it triggers a re-evaluation of the partnership and some heart-searching as to why it was necessary to draw attention to problems in the marriage in this way . |
| 11 | FDR made it clear there must be no assistance to the French ; indeed he was ready to transfer Indo-China to Chiang Kai-shek , who was too realistic to rise to the bait . |
| 12 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that although an adult patient was entitled to refuse consent to treatment irrespective of the wisdom of his decision , for such a refusal to be effective his doctors had to be satisfied that at the time of his refusal his capacity to decide had not been diminished by illness or medication or by false assumptions or misinformation , that his will had not been overborne by another 's influence and that his decision had been directed to the situation in which it had become relevant ; that where a patient 's refusal was not effective the doctors were free to treat him in accordance with their clinical judgment of his best interests ; that in all the circumstances , including T. 's mental and physical state when she signed the form , the pressure exerted on her by her mother and the misleading response to her inquiry as to alternative treatment , her refusal was not effective and the doctors were justified in treating her on the principle of necessity ; and that , accordingly , the judge 's order had been properly made ( post , pp. 786G–H , 795B–F , 796F–H , 797B–F , 798A–B , E–G , 799B–G , H — 800B , E–G , 803C–D , F — 804B , F–G , H — 805B , F ) . |