Example sentences of "was [adv] [prep] [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was Mr Carway who discovered that the holding in Laforza 's parent company , the Jersey-registered AIUK , was only under option to Eagle , not directly owned by it . |
| 2 | This was totally in contradiction to Mr Venables ' claim that he was promised security of tenure . |
| 3 | The island was also of interest to geologists , botanists , zoologists and other scientists . |
| 4 | We have in the past raised this through the er Association of County Councils in the education side , with and we , there was quite a lot of support , and also have had support in the past from er , Kenneth Carlyle and Douglas Howe erm who were , supported the view , er which was particularly in relation to youth training , as this is more adult training we 're talking about here . |
| 5 | Finally at 0015 the casualty was safely under tow to Lowestoft with the master and engineer aboard and the lifeboat was able to retrieve her hard-working crew and return to station . |
| 6 | The classical tradition held that Nature became beautiful only when subjected to reason ; the romantic view , that Nature was beautiful precisely because she was uncontrolled and was therefore in opposition to Reason . |
| 7 | The only complaint — and she was not really complaining against her uncle , perhaps I should rather say the cause for depression — was that from time to time she was very homesick and longed to see her mother and girls of her own age . ’ |