Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Orcadians were used to building wherever they liked since they never equated physical and social isolation . |
| 2 | They fanned out , their feet far stealthier on the undergrowth of smooth-skinned roots and tumbled vines than the animals they were used to stalking . |
| 3 | Small dogs were used to decoy the ducks , and large numbers were taken each winter . |
| 4 | But this did n't excite too much attention as by this time Halling folk were used to walking , and only used the railway over longer distances . |
| 5 | He said ‘ you would thing that people were used to elephants , but they love them and would come out and be blessed by her . |
| 6 | The nomes were used to humans with signs . |
| 7 | As with all farm workers during the last century , Dad 's family were used to poverty — never any sweets or treats and barely enough money to exist . |
| 8 | It was not a voice North Americans were used to hearing . |
| 9 | They calculated the energy , and costs , that would result if the wood were used to fuel highly efficient cogenerating power stations , where both the electric power generated by steam , and the waste heat , are used . |
| 10 | Families who were used to servants , but were now finding domestic staff hard to come by , took immediately to the idea of having a young refugee about the house . |
| 11 | The nurses were well trained in dealing with rich patients who were used to doing as they pleased and often disliked accepting the discipline of routine ; they knew that the very old , the alcoholics , and the more than slightly batty patients ( called ‘ eccentric ’ ) had to be carefully supervised . |
| 12 | The Sequenase Version 2.0 ( United States Biochemical ) and 35 S-dATP ( Amersham ) were used to sequence cDNA clones . |
| 13 | To confirm that the changes in pin activity were due to changes in the level of a characterized gene product of tomato , we followed changes in steady-state levels of pin 2 messenger RNA by northern analysis . |
| 14 | The effects of war , however , could also prove potentially damaging in a new way as England became more closely involved with the wider economy in western Europe ; a slump in exports , even if this were due to factors outside English control , could lead to domestic unemployment , and in the 1520s complaints were made about this in the textile areas of Suffolk ( Ch.4 ) . |
| 15 | Rockfall has been responsible for many of the accidents in the range this year , despite the predictable statement from the Chamonix Guides that most were due to incompetence — an inevitable trait of those not climbing with a guide ! |
| 16 | Bickerman argued that in antiquity big enterprises of translation were due to public , not private , initiative . |
| 17 | What is more interesting is to discover how far these were due to industrialisation , and used the same methods and technology as were transforming industry . |
| 18 | But since literacy was already present in early Greece , at a time when the ideal consequences of literacy ( such as logic , metaphysics and objectivity ) had not yet developed , it is impossible to test the extent to which these developments were due to literacy itself . |
| 19 | By the mid-1920s the universal result of the earlier shortage of equipment had become clear : 75 per cent of all cases of letting out land were due to lack of adequate tools . |
| 20 | He said the factory 's problems were due to lack of sales . |
| 21 | Only 14 were due to takeovers . |
| 22 | Special thanks were due to Chris Markham who had had overall responsibility for organising the day and her band of very efficient and hard-working helpers . |
| 23 | Nearly one third of all recorded crimes were due to thefts from or of motor vehicles . |
| 24 | Close inspection of the data showed that the context effects were due to inhibition : when preceded by an anomalous context , words took an average of 110 milliseconds longer to identify than when preceded by a row of Xs . |
| 25 | Using an analogy fashionable at the time the Gestalt psychologists maintained that these distortions were due to interactions between ‘ electric ’ fields induced in the visual cortex by the stimuli . |
| 26 | Mercurial changes in painted light were due to fog , not smoke signals . |
| 27 | Professor Ferguson and I said that a routine clinical history and examination ( preferably in private ) were essential in helping to establish the correct diagnosis and treatment of all patients , particularly in people who might be under the mistaken impression that their symptoms were due to allergy . |
| 28 | Gloucestershire 's road safety officer says the vast majority were due to driver error . |
| 29 | Nationwide , 17.6 per cent of all deaths in 1839 were due to TB according to the Registrar-General 's first national analysis of causes of death . |
| 30 | Many of the feasts , fasts and shortages were due to production scarcities caused by storage limitations . |