Example sentences of "was [adv] [art] [noun sg] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Presently a remark of Elizabeth 's started him off on capital punishment , because it emerged that Ivy was rather a friend to hanging . |
| 2 | But for Jenks thought was always the precursor to action . |
| 3 | It was probably a mistake to programme Judith Weir 's Isti Mirant Stella ( dedicated to Maxwell Davies , and written for the St Magnus Festival in Orkney some ten years ago ) alongside the new work . |
| 4 | Service to a king or a great lord was often the key to patronage and status . |
| 5 | ( For some it was simply a road to oblivion . ) |
| 6 | Baldwin gave him the impression ‘ that the last thing in the world that lie wished was either a return to office or the end of his holiday . |
| 7 | There was evidently no recourse to Rule XXII under which a vote of " five-sixths of the whole of the financial members " was required . |
| 8 | During his speech at the inauguration ceremony , Sharon said that Jewish settlement was not an obstacle to peace , but was instead an obstacle to war . |
| 9 | If that were indeed the case their Englishness was certainly no impediment to involvement in a cosmopolitan , international world in which French speech and culture was dominant . |