Example sentences of "[was/were] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She gazed out of the window aware now of how close they were to the centre of the city and Rune 's apartment . |
| 2 | The authorities ' heavy-handed intervention showed just how sensitive they were to the question of the empire 's internal diversity , for the Brotherhood 's goals were in fact much less radical than St Petersburg supposed and Shevchenko and Kulish may not even have been members . |
| 3 | most injuries were to the head or the chest , so Alan 's were unusual . |
| 4 | Charles had forgotten how important these now were to the survival of a West End show . |
| 5 | God only knows how many lira there were to the deutschmark these days . |
| 6 | Despite its primitive agricultural methods , the peasantry was far from monolithic : above the significant numbers of outright slaves , beggars , and migrant workers , were the peasants on private and church lands suffering various degrees of bondage , military colonists on the frontiers , and peasants on the ‘ black ’ lands whose only obligations were to the State . |
| 7 | Among the non Jewish organisations responsible for hostels , the Christadelphians were to the fore . |
| 8 | ( c ) La Conspiration , written in 1937 and 1938 , was produced at a moment of co-operative cultural politics when the consequences of the Popular Front experiences in both France and Spain were to the fore . |
| 9 | This time local mothers were to the fore . |
| 10 | However , these processes — central though they were to the success of PNP were at first given little attention in the LEA 's in-service support programme . |
| 11 | The toilets and urinals were to the left of this section — the urinals being roofless and thus open to the elements . |
| 12 | The main labs were to the left , the voices louder now . |
| 13 | Now these and similar comments would require careful scrutiny if the thrust of the argument were to the effect that Parliament could not have intended to establish an inquisitorial régime of this kind in relation to serious or complex fraud alone . |
| 14 | Though consequently treated with some suspicion by the Marian regime , there is no evidence that he had strong Protestant convictions : his loyalties were to the City and other members of its élite . |
| 15 | As H. M. Colvin has observed ‘ what Reims and St Denis were to the house of Capet , Westminster should be to the house of Plantagenet ’ . |
| 16 | The American papers were an inspiration to people like John Lloyd , as they were to the group gathering 400 miles down the A1 . |
| 17 | Erm , we 're coming as it were to the end of the first part of the proceedings , er , but , I 'd like to give a brief thanks to the er , C R group , that 's the Charities Recruitment Group , for the part sponsorship of this A G M Conference . |
| 18 | The West German Social Democrats were hostile to the whole concept , as they were to the EDC and West German rearmament , while some French Socialists were unhappy about the proposals on how the new structure would relate to Britain . |
| 19 | This is very difficult because it means er it is a potential threat as it were to the countryside of the county . |
| 20 | Thus , 38% of Asahi Bank 's net new loans in the year to March were to the property sector . |
| 21 | your Lordship 's findings were to the age of nineteen a total of nine , three , six , five , O. From the age of nineteen , six , five , two , two , one , O and from the sum of those two figures |
| 22 | After a few questions and answers swap roles , and then discuss how convincing the Christian 's answers were to the non-Christian . |
| 23 | All eyes were to the front , and ears alerted to imminent commands . |
| 24 | Irony was to the fore when in 1925 he wrote of the Russian Revolution , but behind it was a more important urge leading him to the poem ‘ Le Voyage ’ of his favourite Baudelaire . |
| 25 | Charlie Wilson was to the fore again on the very next mission , another long haul to Sorau on April 11 . |
| 26 | Once again multimedia was to the fore as the computing industry tried to persuade punters that it 's the up and coming technology . |
| 27 | French aplomb was to the fore as Auguste handed the crab to them along with the hook , raised his new Panama hat and bade them a courteous farewell . |
| 28 | Its scientists were evacuated to Scotland on the outbreak of war , but German intelligence knew precisely how important Bawdsey still was to the defence of Britain . |
| 29 | One application was to the biscuit dough mixing process , the other to the weighing of packed biscuits . |
| 30 | If he had been wrong , it was to the honour of Greece . |