Example sentences of "[noun pl] were [adj] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under his face , half overlaid by a crag shaped like a mushroom growth on a tree trunk , entirely obscured until his eyes were close up to it by the thick vegetation , was the open fissure which for thirty days they had searched for in vain . |
| 2 | Under identical circumstances antelopes were visible up to 200 yards away . |
| 3 | Later psychologists were cautious not to be too specific as to the exact nature of the local sign . |
| 4 | For as long as Lebanon 's economy grew , the dream years were credible even to the Lebanese themselves . |
| 5 | His later years were devoted largely to charitable work , to which he contributed much in an unostentatious manner . |
| 6 | Changes were significant up to 45 minutes after HCl stimulation . |
| 7 | ‘ Boy 's already explained what happened and that things were all back to normal since he did himself in . |
| 8 | Soon the chicks were big enough to be out and about , and once they had left their mother , they began to exhibit her wild characteristics , wandering recklessly far up the fields into territory frequented by foxes . |
| 9 | Of course , for Hitler himself — and for some of his oldest and most fanatical supporters — all these ills were reducible solely to the ‘ Jewish Question ’ , a point of dogma which was a fundamental premiss within the Nazi Movement . |
| 10 | But former executives and advisers to both companies told Esquire that the failures were due primarily to mismanagement and bad decision-making . |
| 11 | The particles were light enough to be deflected by the jostling of a swarm of unseen atoms in the fluid as these atoms sped about their business . |
| 12 | As in London , the civil authorities were anxious not to court unpopularity by exacting vengeance on the twelve seamen ultimately arrested . |
| 13 | I consider in the light of the foregoing that a reference to the objectives of the Community system of quotas can not be used to justify national rules on the registration of fishing vessels , even if those rules were applicable only to vessels intended to fish for species subject to quotas . |
| 14 | By 1856 his results were impressive enough to be shown by Brewster to the Académie des Sciences in Paris , and later in Florence and Rome , where it was reported that the pope showed considerable interest in them . |
| 15 | Her period then came early and flooded and the symptoms were severe enough to warrent a new prescription ( the Staphisagria was n't helping ) which came out to Millefolium . |
| 16 | Grants were available up to 20 per cent of capital costs or 50 per cent of the aid supplied nationally , and loans were available through funds directed via the EIB at reduced rates of interest ( 3 per cent below market rate ) . |
| 17 | However , some of these could be explained by the fact that the temporary workers were also part-timers ( who were , in any case , excluded from particular benefits ) , or that certain benefits were available only to workers with a minimum service record . |
| 18 | Although his energies were devoted primarily to the international dimension of the anti-fascist struggle , his uncompromising opposition to those individuals and institutions within France actively assisting the spread of the fascist menace can be graphically illustrated by two examples , the first from the year 1935 , the second from the year 1939 . |
| 19 | Mr Davies 's research has obviously been very thorough , for some of his photographs were unknown even to old BCR fans . |