Example sentences of "[noun pl] were [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not surprisingly , mean concentrations of DDT and related compounds were up to seven times higher in the blubber of male common dolphins from the southern California area than from any species sampled elsewhere in the Pacific , including Japan . |
| 2 | Her legs were out to the side like that |
| 3 | I ca n't describe it , she had , her legs were out to the side , but they were pointing down like that |
| 4 | So , although the North Koreans were soon to be backed by 250,000 Communist Chinese troops , officially there was still no hot war — only a cold one , in two versions , foreign and domestic . |
| 5 | When he did encounter problems , remedies were easily to hand . |
| 6 | Syl 's mad little meannesses were not to be mentioned . |
| 7 | The substitution of the term " information " for the old " press and propaganda " , and its promotion to ministerial level seemed to indicate a more wide-ranging approach to questions of what the general public might know and think of the regime ; while the allocation of official attention to tourism suggested that , by contrast with the days of autarchy and isolationism , foreigners were henceforth to be encouraged to come to Spain . |
| 8 | These funds were only to be disbursed when the compact agreement had been signed . |
| 9 | I was tempted to curtsey in return but I was n't sure if my knees were up to it . |
| 10 | He pointed out that on 3 March 1942 , his original recruits were down to three officers and thirteen men , and if brought up to strength they could be far better employed as a raiding force than as instructors for the proposed Indian units . |
| 11 | The publicists , popularisers and ideologists were now to be found throughout the western world and wherever there was a local elite attracted by ‘ modernisation ’ . |
| 12 | Children , too , were rather expected to play , and to play quietly , behind the house no balls or tin trumpets were ever to be left on the gravel sweep . |
| 13 | An electoral code and a charter for political parties were also to be discussed . |
| 14 | An understanding monarch reflected that disobedient and violent subjects were also to be found much closer to home . |
| 15 | Naturally there were protests from some ILEA teachers of languages , history , geography , home economics and physical education that their subjects were not to be made compulsory in the fourth and fifth years : such subjects , it was held , were thereby accorded a lower status . |
| 16 | Foreign merchants were still to be permitted to enter the country , but Russian subjects were not to be allowed to leave and Russians living abroad were summoned home . |
| 17 | Her eyes were back to their natural shade of flint . |
| 18 | Whole peoples were now to be regenerated , not by the patient labours of obscure administrators toiling at their life 's work in obscure places , but by the brilliant schemes of brilliant people flitting about the corridors of power . |
| 19 | The corporate power-brokers who dominated Los Angeles a decade ago when the Olympics were about to be staged — the oil moguls , the aerospace kings , the old movie-studio emperors — have now mostly left the scene : their firms broken up , in the hands of bureaucratic managers or wholly owned by foreigners . |
| 20 | Er both got feet in just as goals were about to be shot and scored . |
| 21 | ‘ It all came to a head when we lost 3–0 to Derby and , if I 'm honest , all three goals were down to me . |
| 22 | If the risks were not to great Dr. Spackman would go again . |
| 23 | The remainder of the forest wastes was in most cases divided between the lords of the manors and the commoners , in proportion to the value of their interests : the allotments were then to be fenced at the expense of the proprietors . |
| 24 | The first meeting of the Governors was held on 12th August 1881 and the seven present decided to appoint Mr. Edward Walmsley to the Chair before proceeding to make arrangements for a Clerk , to deal with the accounts ( for which proper books were now to be kept ) , and to inspect the Deeds of the School with the Town Clerk . |
| 25 | It was an unwritten rule in the department that teaching sessions were not to be interrupted by phone calls , especially not private ones . |
| 26 | The dicta were not to be followed . |
| 27 | But family life and obligations were not to her liking , and she left home whenever she could afford to do so . |
| 28 | I ca n't remember them all now , but I know that no speaking was allowed in the class-rooms , corridors or on the stairs ; no running anywhere indoors ; no borrowing of any kind ; all long hair had to be plaited ; indoor shoes were never to be worn outside , nor outdoor shoes inside , and there were specific shoes for games , gym , hockey and so on ; school uniform was strictly enforced , and hats compulsory . |
| 29 | In the early 1950s an English visitor to Russia observed that beggars were still to be found around the terminals of Moscow , ‘ often young men with one or more limbs missing ’ . |
| 30 | Bodily functions were never to be acknowledged . |