Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eventually I reach the road and follow it to its top , surprised by how close I was to the summit of the pass . |
| 2 | I was surprised to discover , now that I was going to leave it , just how attached I was to the undistinguished piecrust that was Reine , a place neither exciting nor dulling . |
| 3 | So perfect , I had to keep parting the hop bines and leaves to see how close I was to the farmhouse . |
| 4 | I should like to say how grateful I was to the kind gentleman who pulled me clear . |
| 5 | She suddenly realised how close she was to the fortune-teller 's shop and an impulse drew her towards it . |
| 6 | Helping her to progress from the infant she was to the adult she will become is , I believe , the hardest task of parenting . |
| 7 | I 've said more'n once to Bessie Beavis what a credit you was to the human race . ’ |
| 8 | But there were undoubted benefits to both church and state in this set of policies , for they were to the mutual advantage of nationalism and catholicism as these were perceived by their respective institutional representatives , namely the politicians and the hierarchy . |
| 9 | They were to the 1980s what F Scott Fitzgerald was to the roaring twenties . |
| 10 | Accuracy of language was crucial when your life was at risk and each use of ‘ Loyalist ’ , when applied to the Protestant equivalents of the IRA , had been to Trent , a Catholic himself by birth , an insult to the Catholic community of whom the vast majority were as opposed to the evils of terrorism as they were to the injustices of long-practised prejudice on which Irish terrorism bred . |
| 11 | In political matters , he had acquiesced in the practices which he found established in England , notably antagonistic though they were to the libertas ecclesiae in the Gregorian sense of this phrase . |
| 12 | The West German Social Democrats were hostile to the whole concept , as they were to the EDC and West German rearmament , while some French Socialists were unhappy about the proposals on how the new structure would relate to Britain . |
| 13 | However , these processes — central though they were to the success of PNP were at first given little attention in the LEA 's in-service support programme . |
| 14 | The American papers were an inspiration to people like John Lloyd , as they were to the group gathering 400 miles down the A1 . |
| 15 | She gazed out of the window aware now of how close they were to the centre of the city and Rune 's apartment . |
| 16 | In the final quarter of an hour more than forty parties drew up in this same agitation ; and the closer they were to the final minute , the wilder their excitement to give in their cards . |
| 17 | The authorities ' heavy-handed intervention showed just how sensitive they were to the question of the empire 's internal diversity , for the Brotherhood 's goals were in fact much less radical than St Petersburg supposed and Shevchenko and Kulish may not even have been members . |
| 18 | Erm , we 're coming as it were to the end of the first part of the proceedings , er , but , I 'd like to give a brief thanks to the er , C R group , that 's the Charities Recruitment Group , for the part sponsorship of this A G M Conference . |
| 19 | Erm , I think Yeltsin 's threat as it were to the Ukrainian is actually a diplomatic move , he wants Ukraine to remain within the Soviet Union , er and if it does so he 's not going to make an issue of the border , but , er , if it does break away completely I think what he 's saying is well there 's a frontier that we 're going to have to reconsider because large Eastern areas of Ukraine including huge industrial towns are predominantly populated by Russians . |
| 20 | This is very difficult because it means er it is a potential threat as it were to the countryside of the county . |
| 21 | He got out of here , though it was to the colours . |
| 22 | Before her brief exposure to pop stardom , she served an apprenticeship to a still-life photographer , and it was to the camera that she eventually returned , specialising in record covers and rock portraits . |
| 23 | At the beginning of his latest resurrection , he was still insisting on wooden rackets , which , flattering though it was to the Cambridge stockists who were able to supply him , made Borg look a little like something out of an Ealing Comedy . |
| 24 | The three doors of this were really long mirrors , and it was to the wardrobe that Miss Rene went and , opening it , she lifted down a hanger from which hung a dress and coat . |
| 25 | It was to the Scottish firm of Hurst Nelson of Motherwell that Blackpool turned for its next batch of cars in 1902 . |
| 26 | Of all the uniformed organizations , the Boys ' Life Brigade founded in Nottingham by the Revd John Brown Paton , was the most distinctive in so far as it appeared to be non-military , committed as it was to the principles of life-saving , even though it had a BB-style uniform and a military command structure . |
| 27 | In fact , the use of pesticides in cereal farming is largely limited to seed dressings and sometimes aphicides , but it was to the use of persistent organo-chlorine seed dressings that the decline in birds of prey in the late 1950s and early 1960s was convincingly attributed . |
| 28 | What they would not accept was that vain and dreadful C.P. Snow , whose appointment as Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Technology was as insulting to the scientific community as it was to the Labour Party . |
| 29 | However , it was to the small farmer and small businessman , the very people who had failed to colonise the east , individuals who felt themselves beset by Poles , Jews and communists in ways they could not articulate , that the Nazis were to make their main appeal . |
| 30 | Mr Copley took an occasional service at St Andrew 's when Mr Smollett , the vicar , was on holiday , an involvement in church and village life which , Meg suspected , was as important to him as it was to the church . |