Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact he and his wife Rosemary were extremely kind to me when they lived in South Yorkshire and later when I stayed with then , in North Yorkshire whilst working in that area . |
| 2 | Kinloss was a pleasant environment and the locals were extremely kind to the alien invasion , but one felt so very much out of the hurly burly of wartime England , this was made particularly clear when pupils I had trained returned for their rest period , and one did get the message that my operational background was no longer valid or right to pass on to the crews coming forward for conversion to twin-engined aircraft . |
| 3 | A lot of Mickeys and Goofys recognized John 's condition and were especially kind to him . |
| 4 | She did n't mean — I think — that Richard and I were not kind to her , only that she did not ‘ come first ’ with either of us , and she was a woman who needed to be made much of and fussed over . |
| 5 | The Thatcher years were not kind to Lord Weinstock , GEC 's legendary managing director . |
| 6 | We are very willing to accept that those parts of the judges ' visitorial jurisdiction which were not incident to the administration of justice in the courts passed down through the routes suggested by Sir William and Professor Baker , but in the context of the present case , where the court has for the first time to inquire into the particular function which is being performed , we are not satisfied that the whole of the visitorial jurisdiction passed by this route . |
| 7 | But the appeal of the romantic movement does not explain why those who were not party to it , such as Michael Faraday , who was a visionary and wrote beautifully , have been completely written out of conventional histories of 19th century Britain , as if he ( and David Brewster and Thomas Henry Huxley and the rest ) were just peripheral figures , keeping things ticking along so that statesmen could make grand decisions and the widening of human understanding could be left to poets . |
| 8 | That was , Lord Jauncey said , a clear undertaking by TBL not to exercise its statutory powers for a period that could last for as long as any one of the parties to the agreement remained a shareholder and long after the control of TBL had passed to shareholders who were not party to the agreement . |
| 9 | In fact , the 1907 Hague Conventions were not formally applicable to that conflict , because several of the belligerents were not party to them , and under the so-called ‘ general participation clause ’ the Hague Conventions could not therefore apply even between those who were parties . |
| 10 | It is difficult to believe that the historians were not party to such constructions , although Goody might justifiably envisage that such honourable men as Thucydides would have been shocked if his material had been manipulated in this way by the politicians . |
| 11 | The incomer might not agree to any existing house rules or feel that they can ignore them because they were not party to them initially . |
| 12 | The House of Lords held that since the ship owners were not party to any contract with the tug owners ( the arrangements had been made by the charterers of the ship ) the secondary action was , again , illegal . |
| 13 | Having said that , the hon. and learned Member for Burton makes a good point : it would offend against the views of ordinary persons and would be a crying sense of injustice if people who were not party to the aggravated crime and who had sought to distance themselves from it were found guilty because the balance of probabilities had fallen on them to prove their innocence . |
| 14 | ‘ That , too , Father , I confess , though we were not party to it . |
| 15 | Now obviously the you could see the cars in that fast lane there , they were just nose to tail , nose to tail . |
| 16 | Also on the surge , they were quickly face to face with Mallachy and Rory . |
| 17 | Although the four of them were practically knee to knee , he made as if speaking in a vast auditorium . |
| 18 | ‘ They were really kind to me and they made me feel that they genuinely cared . ’ |
| 19 | We were now face to face with this man of diverse talent — poet , novelist , song-writer , performer — after following his career for nearly two decades , reading his books , playing his records , watching him sing , reading of him through the eyes of his critics — no easy feat when one is not inhibited by astigmatism ! |
| 20 | As Lady Romsey gently cradled Holly in her arms , the girl 's mother Julie said : ‘ Both the Romseys and their nanny were particularly kind to us when Leonora and Holly were receiving treatment . |
| 21 | The public gave it early notice : the critics were again kind to Burton . |
| 22 | That Jesus was personally kind to women there is no reason to doubt . |
| 23 | So she was especially kind to Janice . |
| 24 | This was obviously anathema to Ricardou , in particular , and a fairly acrimonious exchange erupted during the conference sessions surrounding this question of referentiality . |
| 25 | She was only half-committed to the new idea herself , not nearly as sure about it as she had made out to Nails — heaven knows how they would fit in all that training , teaching three boys to ride ! |
| 26 | She opened the door into the other life where there was only Nannie to be pleased , if not actively loved . |
| 27 | Aunt M. nags and nags , and Uncle John said outright that he did n't see why they should have to be responsible for me , when Mother was only half-sister to Aunt Millicent . |
| 28 | He was extremely kind to me . |
| 29 | Guido di Tella , the new Defence Minister , a liberal Peronist who had briefly been president of the Central Bank in 1982 , was hitherto ambassador to the United States . |
| 30 | I even remember it was a Sunday and thinking that this was not day to be flying your last mission . |