Example sentences of "[noun pl] were [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Unlike casual labour , skilled workers were heir to a tradition of militancy . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | The days when teachers discouraged their pupils from reading Shelley and Tennyson , because these poets were anathema to Leavis , are now long gone . |
| 6 | In Japan the supreme virtues were loyalty to one 's ruler , one 's lord or one 's immediate superior , and filial piety . |
| 7 | Both departments were heir to the Chadwickian and Benthamite politics of the 1830s but each had crystallized a specific mode of social intervention . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | wrote that Woods 's sportsmanship was never questioned and that drawn games were anathema to him ; he was always out to win . |
| 10 | His views were anathema to me . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The coat was capacious , a home to guns , and the boots were home to knives . |
| 13 | ABOVE Emil Du Bois-Reymond , the 19th-century German physiologist who showed that muscular nerve impulses were a–in to electricity . |
| 14 | Unions were anathema to him . |