Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [adv] [noun pl] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The USA was authorized both by international law and by UN sanctions to intercept shipping destined for Iraq in the wake of the Gulf war , but had no authority to divert shipments bound for Iran or Syria because Iran , North Korea and Syria were not signatories to the Missile Technology Control Regime . |
| 2 | Books were not possessions to be accumulated and , in this town without a library , reading really meant newspapers and magazines . |
| 3 | Marian already felt her captors were not strangers to her . |
| 4 | In the case of Esdaile v IRC 20 TC 700 , the taxpayer who received a number of sums from her trust sought to defeat assessments under Case III of Schedule D on the grounds that the payments were really loans to her . |
| 5 | Chapman insisted that his players were not slaves to a system , but merely followed the ‘ fundamental principles of teamwork ’ . |
| 6 | The argument was put before the Court that since all the Member States were already parties to the 1950 Convention , there could be no need for action by the Community under Article 235 , since all the Member States would , by definition , already be applying the same rules . |
| 7 | Merkur Island were not parties to any contract for the supply of towage services , so it was not possible to say that the purpose of the action was to prevent the supply of services between an employer who was party to the dispute ( Merkur Island ) and the employer under the contract of employment to which the secondary action related ( the tug owners ) . |
| 8 | The Catholic and especially Buddhist revivals were partially reactions to earlier activities of Protestant missionaries , who as part of their strategy to gain converts had produced polemical literature and established schools , including those which provided the best available English-language instruction . |
| 9 | But the fact that it eventually arrived in Germany was largely thanks to two German MPs , Ursula Seiler-Albring and Ina Albowitz . |
| 10 | My dolls were never babies to be fed and bathed and kissed but the protagonists of enormous adventures . |
| 11 | Most , however , felt that such practices were not topics to be made available for public scrutiny . |
| 12 | Although these facts were not matters to which any great weight could be attached , they were relevant . |
| 13 | In theory , the US prudential rules prevented banks from lending more than 15 ( later 10 ) per cent of their capital to any one borrower , But in practice these rules were not properly enforced , allowing banks to ‘ pretend ’ that loans to state-owned enterprises were not loans to a ‘ country ’ . |