Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] to this " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this survey , replies were received to this effect from three such businesses . |
| 2 | On average , seven theses per year were assigned to this heading by Rolfe and Will . |
| 3 | Later , when the crankshaft 's centrifuge covers were removed , great wedges of thick black tar-like oil gave rise to grave doubts as to the authenticity of the engine records which showed that only 81–1/2 hours were booked to this engine . |
| 4 | Bowlers & brollies were added to this outfit — and in out-of-synch areas far from London , kids wore mixtures of suedehead hair , check shirts , Sta-Prests , boots , bowlers & brollies . |
| 5 | Roads from many directions were attracted to this point . |
| 6 | PETER MARSHALL 's double-handed style has carried him to the top of the British rankings , and many observers were looking to this week 's British Open Championship at Wembley Conference Centre to provide proof of his potential at world level . |
| 7 | Four or five horse-shoe buttons were sewn to this gusset as an extra decoration . |
| 8 | Most of the other mourners were listening to this with the same rapt attention they might have accorded a vaguely accurate account of Donald 's life . |
| 9 | Matthew waved his arm at his audience , who were listening to this exchange with come interest . |
| 10 | A star that is 1.4 times heavier than our Sun has a Schwarzschild radius of only 2 km , and if such a star were to shrink to this size it would attain a mean density of , far beyond the density of nuclei . |
| 11 | I thought you said you were going to this match ! : - ) |
| 12 | Did I tell you they were going to this hotel last week . |
| 13 | A smaller than usual proportion of members who had sat in the Good Parliament were re-elected to this parliament , but it is hard to find evidence that the government tried to ensure the election of their own supporters . |
| 14 | Police were called to this hotel in Northampton just before closing time last night . |
| 15 | Police were called to this house in Milton Keynes in the early hours . |
| 16 | We could not do the trip in and out of the town in time to catch the last plane that evening , so we were condemned to this place and an early flight . |
| 17 | Douglas was glad to acknowledge Miller 's help and told the Royal Society that he had received some coconuts ‘ germinated in this country by the industrious Mr. Miller , by whose care and skill they were brought to this perfection ; and besides he very freely communicated to me for the good of the publick his own methods in management in raising them which I here desire may be read in his words . ’ |
| 18 | So a couple of pairs were brought to this country to breed . |
| 19 | To prevent a rerun of problems encountered on ‘ The Keys of Marinus ’ , two Designers were allocated to this serial to even out its massive effects and sets workload . |
| 20 | They were driven to this by the obstructiveness that Stirling met with . |
| 21 | Rabbits were introduced to this country from France in the twelfth century . |
| 22 | ( The festivals marking the crucifixion and resurrection of Christ were adapted to this ancient scheme . ) |
| 23 | The camera was placed at 1.0m from a masked wall , and subjects were fixed to this wall in the case of cards , immediately in front of it for plants . |
| 24 | Few complete bodies were subjected to this treatment as it was a time-consuming and expensive exercise . |
| 25 | We were taken to this orphanage kind of place , separated , and put into little rooms . |
| 26 | Thirty seven black Kenyans aged 30–69 attending a hospital clinic for hypertension were admitted to this double blind crossover trial . |
| 27 | It 's like other day , we were talking to this bloke like , and he were on about businesses , says you ca n't underst , oh he said something about finances , how difficult it is to get finance to start a business up and er , he said , I know , he said you ca n't me , he said . |
| 28 | He worked at Underwood Pit when they were came to this district and then they came into the Newthorpe Common district and er and then er we moved from Newthorpe Common and he went to Williamthorpe for a short while , only from erm probably eighteen months to two years , that 's as much as did there . |
| 29 | He wore a sort of bonnet on his jet black hair , apparently dyed , and four great eagle feathers were clasped to this . |
| 30 | When the noises were recorded , it was found that much of the call was at frequencies too low for us to hear , and it seems likely that the females were responding to this infrasound . |