Example sentences of "[was/were] [det] [to-vb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is some evidence that it was Snowden who suggested the formula of the ‘ doctor 's mandate ’ , at a Cabinet meeting on 5 October , under which the component parts of the National Government were each to issue their own manifestos , with a separate personal appeal from the Prime Minister , According to Neville Chamberlain , ‘ Snowden … produced the suggestion that the Prime Minister should issue his own manifesto asking for a free hand [ i.e. on tariffs ] and the two Party leaders should each issue their own programmes and to our astonishment this was at once accepted by the Liberals , ' Amery , who perhaps got the information from Chamberlain , wrote in his diary on 6 October , ‘ Apparently when the deadlock seemed most complete Snowden suggested that the PM should issue his own manifesto , each of the other party leaders issuing theirs . ' |
| 2 | Language , literature , thought , art , politics and society become separate territories and are occupied by separate specialists , until it becomes increasingly hard to find any scholars with pretensions to competence over the whole field : K. O. Müller from Göttingen , active in the 1820 's and thirties , is one notable exception , but there were few to approach his breadth then or subsequently . |
| 3 | What kind of questions were these to ask her ? |
| 4 | Yet , if they were all to own them , some mechanism would have to emerge to inhibit their natural sexual rivalry . |
| 5 | Put like this it seems extremely cold and unfeeling , but it must be said that if we were all to make our own arrangements without any order or form then chaos would quickly result . |
| 6 | Lauda and Ferrari were supreme in 1975 and Lauda 's five wins , including three in succession , were enough to take him on to his first world title , a title he would surely have retained had it not been for his accident at the Nurburgring . |
| 7 | Conditions of work and accommodation were enough to drive anyone to drink . |
| 8 | Their accents alone were enough to drive anyone mad . |
| 9 | In addition the large and perfectly matched pearls outlining the margins of the mitre crown and the balas ruby of 414.3 carats mounted at its apex were enough to proclaim her ready access to the treasures of the orient . |
| 10 | One of the qualifications , according to Lord Lloyd , was polo , but he considered that this was not essential , but that my Cert A , my apparent taste for adventure , and , I suspect , Eliot 's backing , were enough to justify his appointing me . |
| 11 | In fact , she did n't just feel like groaning — the frustration and worry she felt at the moment were enough to make her want to scream blue murder ! |
| 12 | The words were enough to make him explode with anger , and , turning swiftly to grip her shoulders , he shook her with force , glaring down into her face . |
| 13 | The figures were enough to make her head spin . |
| 14 | Apart from their fair hair and strong features , there was little to label them as twins , she thought , wondering which was her father , and which her uncle . |
| 15 | Still , once in the mood and fortified by magnificent slices of roast beef and dollops of mashed potato from the Brazen Head , there was little to check our spirits . |
| 16 | There was little to indicate what a busy area this was to become , with buoyed channels for the large tankers , and the storage tanks and quays of Sullom Voe tucked away neatly out of sight amongst the low hills . |
| 17 | There was little , if any , evidence to substantiate the gossip and , by the same token , there was little to disprove it . |
| 18 | That night , there was little to mitigate his depression . |
| 19 | For there was little to differentiate them in the policies which they espoused during the campaign . |
| 20 | What was that to move her about ? |
| 21 | The industrial mass was then a drilled mass and what it also knew was that to survive you had to take no chances : the best thing to say was nothing . |
| 22 | What was that to help us ? |
| 23 | The great problem I faced , when I eventually obtained my degree in zoology , was that to convert my childhood fascination into an adult career I would have to carry out experiments on animals . |
| 24 | Fortunately for the young refugees , there was much to divert them from the risk they were taking . |
| 25 | This is not surprising as there was much to encourage them to do so . |
| 26 | It was enough to do it . |
| 27 | The stucco on the houses that rose like cliffs of grey stone in the rue de Sèvres was enough to depress me in itself , blotched as it was with building acne , let alone the drains blocked with refuse and the greasy pipes round which foaming suds slept fitfully . |
| 28 | Surprisingly little drink was enough to intoxicate him but it seemed as if the wine released the power in him . |
| 29 | The second act rather concentrates on Chaplin 's ‘ non American ’ activities ( nothing worse than having Socialist views and an interest in Russia ) but it was enough to drive him out of the country . |
| 30 | That was enough to set me weeping . |