Example sentences of "[noun pl] were [prep] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mothers were generally confident enough about the product not to show much spontaneous concern , but these characteristics were of significance to them . |
| 2 | As Paris et al performed their measurements by instant manometry using the solid or liquid bolus , the difference between their results and ours is entirely attributable to the positive effect of the arrival of the liquid or solid bolus in the segment of colon in their studies , while in our patients the propulsive waves were in response to the contents of the colonic segment at the time . |
| 3 | The route has also changed , for the first walks were from Bradford to York , the winner of the first race taking 7 hours , 7 minutes and 50 seconds to cover the thirty-nine and a half miles . |
| 4 | Several of the Feltham type cars were in use to the end and were driven to the demolition site at Penhall Road , temporarily , while awaiting transport to Leeds . |
| 5 | Too often the curriculum of the comprehensive school was that of the grammar , high status academic subjects were on offer to the academically able child and the rest suffered a watered down version of ‘ studies ’ : European for those judged not capable of sustaining a foreign language , classical for those not taking Latin and Greek , social for the non-geographers and historians , and rural for those not taking ‘ proper ’ science . |
| 6 | Increases in the OPV recipients were from 83% to 85% ( 2% ) for type 1 , from 91% to 94% for type 2 ( 3% ) , and no change ( 75% ) for type 3 . |
| 7 | Within three years the couple were established in London where Lillie became celebrated , not only as a ‘ professional beauty ’ — a society woman whose photographic likenesses were on sale to the public — but as the mistress of Albert Edward , Prince of Wales . |
| 8 | He was itching to get further inside and check on Ari , yet appreciated Quincx 's robots were like children to the man . |
| 9 | Similar feelings were at work to some extent in the later decades of the century in the Scottish Highlands , both a cause and a result of the growing prominence of Scottish regiments in the British army . |
| 10 | Not , of course , that such things were of interest to me . |
| 11 | This was in a generally low-waged county ; in 1794 in Durham their earnings were from £4 to £6 . |
| 12 | Sorry chair my comments were in relation to the West Yorkshire greenbelt of course . |
| 13 | She also had severe perceptual problems and found it hard to recognize the different parts of her body or to know where objects were in relation to herself . |
| 14 | He turned her hand over , palm uppermost , and she could n't help noticing how strong and tanned his fingers were in contrast to her own . |
| 15 | Those illustrations were like admission to someone else 's dreams — at times glowing with visionary fire , at others the pitchblende hallucinations of a tormented mind . |
| 16 | The recent merger proposals were in response to the Secretary of State 's consultation paper on the future of tourism in Scotland . |
| 17 | Some landowners were from time to time able to obtain , by favour or by purchase , a royal grant of the right to hunt the lesser beasts of the forest , such as fox , wild cat and hare , but rarely the deer ; the general prohibition remained . |
| 18 | It 's been estimated again that almost half of all Chinese peasants were in debt to the money lenders . |
| 19 | These Societies were in opposition to the differentiation and autonomization model of modernity that I am using in this paper . |
| 20 | The arrests were in response to these demands , the radio said . |
| 21 | The OPV recipients ' increases were from 76% to 85% ( 9% ) for type 1 , from 91% to 95% ( 4% ) for type 2 , and from 57% to 65% ( 8% ) for type 3 . |
| 22 | The Committee concluded , however , that whilst these factors were of relevance to sentencing , it was less clear that they could form an appropriate basis for distinguishing one offence from another . |
| 23 | Of course , our bodily forms and somewhat disorganized working systems were in contradiction to their understanding of the correct codes of policing . |
| 24 | Other wardens were from time to time granted leave by Henry III to postpone their accounts at the Exchequer , and he remitted the debts of others . |
| 25 | Presentments for breaches of these purlieu laws were from time to time made at the Essex swanimotes in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries . |
| 26 | The letters were in response to a decision by ambulance workers to refuse all calls from controllers for 24 hours on New Year 's Eve . |
| 27 | The two new prisons were in addition to the eight new ones opened since 1985 and another 18 at various stages of completion . |
| 28 | Former Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega ( on Jan. 8 ) , Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda ( on Jan. 10-11 ) , Japan Socialist Party leader Takako Doi ( on Jan. 13 ) and Yemeni and Libyan delegations were among visitors to Baghdad , while King Hussein of Jordan continued a series of meetings , including a visit to London in early January . |
| 29 | Announcing the figures , Environment Minister David Trippier claimed that heavy rains were in part to blame for overloading coastal sewage treatment systems , while the preceding drought meant that a higher density of sewage bacteria had been carried in rivers . |