Example sentences of "[was/were] to a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It went quicker the closer you were to a clock . |
| 2 | Who time should go faster the closer you were to a clock , they did n't know , and none of the castle 's waiters and attendants had any explanation either . |
| 3 | Sometimes he wondered how many dead people there were to a cloud . |
| 4 | It is a potentially exempt transfer even though the original gift was to a settlement . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , and no doubt too slowly , illusions of grandeur were slowly given up and Britain 's incapacity to live with the superpowers was to a degree accepted . |
| 6 | Britain 's rescue drew it deeper into the American orbit , though with the introduction of Marshall Aid to promote the economic recovery of Europe by means of financing balance of payments deficits , this was to a degree common to western European countries [ Milward , 1984 ] . |
| 7 | If the doubled level of wartime was a more significant imposition , it was to a degree offset by greater farming profits . |
| 8 | His final marriage , in 1909 , was to a widow , Mrs Sophia Crofts , of Kensington , daughter of a wine merchant . |
| 9 | The responsibility for drawing the first furrow on a narrow stetch was one the head horseman could not afford to delegate , unless it was to a man equally skilled as himself ; for a stetch that did not come out , at every point , exactly to the inch would render ineffective the use of implements that had been designed specially for it ; again , a botched stetch was visible to all — to the casual passer-by and to the practised eye of his neighbour ; and the ‘ loss of face ’ a head horseman suffered through allowing the standard of his own work to be below that of the next farm 's was enough to make him ensure that every field was laid out and ploughed with as much care as patience and long-practised skill made possible . |
| 10 | One of today 's letterbombs was to a farmer with convictions for cruelty to animals , the other to a cat breeder . |
| 11 | The move to Bernard Ecclestone 's Brabham was to a team which had a lot going for it — it was owned by the man who was consolidating his hold on FI and had an outstanding engineer in Gordon Murray — and one serious defect . |
| 12 | There were no notices , no signs , nothing that could indicate where he was to a traveller , so that the clean worn wood of the country platform and the solid unadorned brick of the little building seemed very much a part of the wooded slope at the back of it . |
| 13 | Latterly it was to a flat in Eaton Square where the army of friends , constantly replenished , continued to gather . |
| 14 | The only reason I did this was I did n't want anyone to know where I really went which was to a flat in Park Town where I am ashamed to say I watched some sex videos with three other people . |
| 15 | Survival of the controls was to a median of 7.5 months ( range 1 to >16 ) ( Fig 3 ) which corresponds remarkably closely to that in cases ( 7.5 ; 1–23 ) . |
| 16 | Orwell in his notes offers only the ghost of an answer when he remarks that Waugh 's loyalty was to a form of society no longer viable , ‘ of which he must be aware ’ . |
| 17 | The second was to a number in Manchester . |
| 18 | Illness interrupted these plans , however , and when I next ventured out it was to a piece of woodland that was more local to where I live . |