Example sentences of "[noun pl] were [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Newham the development officer 's heaviest referral months were May to September , and January and February ( the summer holiday and severest winter weeks ) ; in Ipswich the pattern was slightly different , with January and February being low referral months , but with October , December and March matching the high referral summer months . |
| 2 | Second , that a high proportion of the contributors to avant-garde movements were immigrants to such a metropolis , not only from outlying national regions but from other and smaller national cultures , now often seen as culturally provincial in relation to the metropolis ( e.g. , the typical figure of Guillaume Apollinaire — born Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrovwitzki and his eventual role in Paris ) . |
| 3 | Their companies were advisers to the employment agency 's cash call . |
| 4 | Poor communication and a lack of understanding of their respective needs were core to the failure of the book trade and FE to get the most out of each other . |
| 5 | Pagans were as much atheists to Christians as Christians were atheists to pagans . |
| 6 | Unlike casual labour , skilled workers were heir to a tradition of militancy . |
| 7 | Indeed it can be argued that the churches in such places were heir to a ‘ purer ’ tradition than Rome 's , because it was not diluted and distorted by Pauline thought ; it was something closer to what Jesus himself , James and the original Nazarean hierarchy would have propagated . |
| 8 | It was very much an artisan street this , but with a smattering of richer folk , too , so the shearmen , scribblers , shoemakers , carpenters and shop-keepers were neighbours to an attorney and two well-heeled clothiers — Thomas Clement , employing 11 scribblers and 12 shearmen , and Henry Sheppard , who even described himself as a ‘ Gentleman ’ . |
| 9 | The number of people who have been convicted of an offence and whose life stories were inspirations to others , or who have produced literature in , or after imprisonment is large . ) |
| 10 | While Keynes 's ideas overlapped with Liberalism , his philosophy taught him that all political principles were expedients to be adopted or discarded on ethical grounds . |
| 11 | He sketched out its original business plan on the back of a napkin in 1983 ( a time when napkins were home to many new ideas ) . |
| 12 | The days when teachers discouraged their pupils from reading Shelley and Tennyson , because these poets were anathema to Leavis , are now long gone . |
| 13 | In Japan the supreme virtues were loyalty to one 's ruler , one 's lord or one 's immediate superior , and filial piety . |
| 14 | Both departments were heir to the Chadwickian and Benthamite politics of the 1830s but each had crystallized a specific mode of social intervention . |
| 15 | Before the Report was published teachers were prey to the wildest fantasies about its contents — we would insist on rote-learning , daily exercises in grammar , no more creative writing . |
| 16 | The prices were £33,500 to £39,000 . |
| 17 | These hatches were openings to an underground stream running from Castle Street via Scots Lane and Bedwin Street then , after a right hand diversion via Rollestone Street , Brown Street and the Friary to join the River Avon again near Riverside Walk . |
| 18 | wrote that Woods 's sportsmanship was never questioned and that drawn games were anathema to him ; he was always out to win . |
| 19 | His views were anathema to me . |
| 20 | The results of the 1983 and 1987 general elections were pointers to this problem . |
| 21 | His only other commitments were visits to the Pritchetts . |
| 22 | Such claims were anathema to conservative thinkers , and a host of writers led by Adam Sedgwick and Hugh Miller fulminated against Vestiges and its influence . |
| 23 | The coat was capacious , a home to guns , and the boots were home to knives . |
| 24 | ABOVE Emil Du Bois-Reymond , the 19th-century German physiologist who showed that muscular nerve impulses were a–in to electricity . |
| 25 | Unions were anathema to him . |
| 26 | Central to these events were invitations to a number of Norseman operators and owners to bring their aircraft to Red Lake for the weekend and join in with the festivities . |