Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] were [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed it can be argued that the churches in such places were heir to a ‘ purer ’ tradition than Rome 's , because it was not diluted and distorted by Pauline thought ; it was something closer to what Jesus himself , James and the original Nazarean hierarchy would have propagated . |
| 2 | Such claims were anathema to conservative thinkers , and a host of writers led by Adam Sedgwick and Hugh Miller fulminated against Vestiges and its influence . |
| 3 | The days when teachers discouraged their pupils from reading Shelley and Tennyson , because these poets were anathema to Leavis , are now long gone . |
| 4 | These hatches were openings to an underground stream running from Castle Street via Scots Lane and Bedwin Street then , after a right hand diversion via Rollestone Street , Brown Street and the Friary to join the River Avon again near Riverside Walk . |
| 5 | Central to these events were invitations to a number of Norseman operators and owners to bring their aircraft to Red Lake for the weekend and join in with the festivities . |
| 6 | Both departments were heir to the Chadwickian and Benthamite politics of the 1830s but each had crystallized a specific mode of social intervention . |