Example sentences of "was [adv] [adv] [verb] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But surely there has never been a case of any Hollywood actor admitting himself for therapy because he was so badly addicted to women . |
| 2 | He would now and then play the most egregious fool in his carriage and was so much given to jesters , players and childish sports , to make himself merry , that anybody who saw his gravity on the one part and his folly and lightness on the other , would surely say that there were two distinct persons in him . |
| 3 | Trying to pretend he had mistaken her for someone else was obviously not going to work . |
| 4 | He was obviously well accustomed to women going to pieces in his presence . |
| 5 | I confirm to the hon. Member for Orkney and Shetland ( Mr. Wallace ) that the exemption level was introduced at £15,000 many years ago and was only recently raised to £45,000 . |
| 6 | This passage was already well known to Ash scholars and had been extensively quoted . |
| 7 | Some market men said they believed Smith was trying to support the price because the firm was already heavily exposed to Ferranti , having picked up the bulk of shares placed at 81p in July by Jim Guerin , International Signal and Control 's former chairman . |
| 8 | So when , late that night as I was just about to go to bed , I heard a discreet knock at the door , I was not amazed to find a waiter in a claw-hammer coat pulling a heavily laden food trolley into my room . |
| 9 | It would take many pages to list all the ones which have been identified by researchers today , but the phenomenon was not just confined to recordings . |
| 10 | The argument of counsel to the contrary effect and , indeed , some of the judgments — e.g. the reference by Pollock C.B. , at p. 91 , to the plaintiff as a ‘ quasi-corporation ’ — seem to reflect a confusion of thought about identifying the company with its members that was not finally laid to rest until the decision of the House of Lords in Salomon v. Salomon and Co . |
| 11 | She had also left some grasses free-flowing , stuck only at the bottom so they could move in the breeze , but had been told this was not strictly according to tradition . |
| 12 | The task was not simply to come to terms with Wagner 's music drama , but to reconcile his theory of it with his actual practice . |
| 13 | Already wise to the ways of two of the most notoriously sharkish industries , TV and pop , Kylie was not however going to Hollywood with her eyes closed . |
| 14 | Though modern empirical experimental science is one of the more obvious products of that movement , the Society was not narrowly restricted to science in any modern sense . |
| 15 | The pattern of adhesion ( diffuse or localised ) was not obviously related to hydrophobicity , although only nine localised isolates were tested . |
| 16 | Some of the elaboration given was not directly related to objects and events in the five seconds of film just viewed . |
| 17 | All these patients had bulky gastric tumours extending to nearby or distant organs and death was due to progressive and uncontrolable disease and was not directly related to surgery . |
| 18 | It was not directly related to households ' capacity to pay . |
| 19 | Tumour DNA content was not significantly related to gender of the patients , tumour site , or tumour differentiation ( Table II ) . |
| 20 | Parity was not significantly related to endometriosis ( table II ) . |
| 21 | it was held that the circumstances were such that the conclusion had to be that the passenger was ‘ a person using the vehicle ’ for the purpose of clause 6(1) ( c ) of the mib agreement of 1972 and was not therefore entitled to compensation from the bureau . |
| 22 | The intermediary was to be Queen Victoria , whose eldest daughter had married the Prussian Crown Prince , and in the hope of enlisting the Queen 's support Eugénie was once again despatched to England in August 1869 . |
| 23 | By July , however , both Wolfgang and Constanze were ill , and Mozart was once more writing to Puchberg for money , in view of his inability to work . |
| 24 | But much of the casual work done by women was probably never reported to census enumerators ; the number of wives recorded as lodging-house keepers or washerwomen , for example , was probably very inaccurate , largely because of the difficulty census enumerators experienced in classifying women 's domestic labour . |
| 25 | The GSLP , which was traditionally strongly opposed to Spain 's claim of sovereignty over the territory , had campaigned on a platform calling for greater autonomy from the United Kingdom , particularly in the economic sphere . |
| 26 | This emphasis upon a common style is partly connected with that sense of national identity and community which the war provoked , but it was also intimately related to Eliot 's preoccupation with what he termed " The Social Function of Poetry " in both developing the language , and enriching the sensibility , of the culture . |
| 27 | Wishing to be faithful to the whole biblical tradition ( unlike many moderns ) , the church fathers insisted that Satan was a rebel but that he was also somehow connected to God 's purposes and plans for the world in terms of both judgment and deliverance . |
| 28 | It was also successfully invited to Covent Garden . |
| 29 | He was also much given to quotations and he quoted now . |
| 30 | Burns was also mightily attracted to Loch Doon and immortalized it in his song ‘ Ye Banks and Braes o' Bonnie Doon ’ , written for Johnson 's Museum in 1790 . |