Example sentences of "[noun pl] were [adv] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Books were not possessions to be accumulated and , in this town without a library , reading really meant newspapers and magazines . |
| 2 | Operating system revenues were up $1.8m to $61.7m , though revenue growth has not increased at the same rate as unit volumes shipped because of volume discount schedules . |
| 3 | The Thatcher years were not kind to Lord Weinstock , GEC 's legendary managing director . |
| 4 | Marian already felt her captors were not strangers to her . |
| 5 | The House of Lords held that since the ship owners were not party to any contract with the tug owners ( the arrangements had been made by the charterers of the ship ) the secondary action was , again , illegal . |
| 6 | In fact , the 1907 Hague Conventions were not formally applicable to that conflict , because several of the belligerents were not party to them , and under the so-called ‘ general participation clause ’ the Hague Conventions could not therefore apply even between those who were parties . |
| 7 | The company said fourth quarter orders were up 20% to a record $4,420m and highlighted excellent order growth for printers and mass-storage products . |
| 8 | Pre-tax profits were up 54% to £8m , further helped by the interest charge halved at £2.2m . |
| 9 | Kinloss was a pleasant environment and the locals were extremely kind to the alien invasion , but one felt so very much out of the hurly burly of wartime England , this was made particularly clear when pupils I had trained returned for their rest period , and one did get the message that my operational background was no longer valid or right to pass on to the crews coming forward for conversion to twin-engined aircraft . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The public gave it early notice : the critics were again kind to Burton . |
| 12 | Chapman insisted that his players were not slaves to a system , but merely followed the ‘ fundamental principles of teamwork ’ . |
| 13 | But their offers were around £400m to £450m , while Littlewoods clearly expected the price of more than £500m . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It is difficult to believe that the historians were not party to such constructions , although Goody might justifiably envisage that such honourable men as Thucydides would have been shocked if his material had been manipulated in this way by the politicians . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | My dolls were never babies to be fed and bathed and kissed but the protagonists of enormous adventures . |
| 18 | Most , however , felt that such practices were not topics to be made available for public scrutiny . |
| 19 | Although these facts were not matters to which any great weight could be attached , they were relevant . |
| 20 | 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 ’ . |