Example sentences of "was [adj] [adv] to [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mario Aresti , finance director , said the erosion in margins was due equally to increased production costs and attempts to maintain volume sales . |
| 2 | As Syme has remarked , ‘ Rome 's peculiar greatness was due not to one man 's genius or to one age , but to many men and the long process of time . ’ |
| 3 | Although it was beneficial both to optimal planning and the creation of much-needed accommodation to maximise the number of rooms that could be sited internally , the aggregation of these spaces was still inadequate to ‘ fill up ’ the middle of the broad interior , and in the flour-mill section of the building the residual central space was devoted to a full-height internal courtyard or ‘ atrium ’ which rises through seven storeys to terminate in a glass-roofed conservatory . |
| 4 | Friedrich von Hayek 's early career was devoted entirely to economic theory . |
| 5 | Now he was looking at Toby with the pleading grin of the schoolboy planning a jape , and Toby , who was near enough to that stage to want to put it firmly behind him , would have loved to refuse . |
| 6 | It was near enough to high water when I landed , which meant that the dinghy would be roughly at the tide-limit , in that no-man 's land of weed and wrack brought in by the tide , and left to mark high water . |