Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [to-vb] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If these proportions were to continue to apply to the projected household population , the proportion of owner-occupier households would fall from 58 per cent in 1981 to 55 per cent in 2001 ( including allowance for difference in concepts of married male heads and married couple households ) . |
| 2 | Although former Neville men were predisposed to look to the duke , Gloucester still had to work at being a good lord in order to give substance to the relationship . |
| 3 | Although former Neville men were predisposed to look to the duke , Gloucester still had to work at being a good lord in order to give substance to the relationship . |
| 4 | Thousands of protesters were expected to take to the streets again today , angered by the jury 's verdict in the killing of physician and former guerrilla leader Hugo Spadafora . |
| 5 | It was the policy that residents were expected to contribute to the life of the community . |
| 6 | Interestingly , after September 1987 factory and mines inspectors were forbidden to speak to the press on pain of disciplinary action . |
| 7 | People were deemed to consent to the system of government they were born under when they came of age by virtue of the fact of their remaining within that particular society . |
| 8 | Just as the civic buildings in Moscow expressed the confident power of the Communist regime , so the new housing blocks were designed to conform to the new ideals of social life . |
| 9 | Major 's proposals , based on a paper presented in May by the British Invisible Exports Council , were designed to apply to the medium-term future , after completion of Stage 1 of the Delors plan . |
| 10 | Red Cross workers were banned from the military hospital where the wounded were being treated until interrogations were completed ; on Nov. 24 they were permitted to speak to the 89 wounded , but a request for private interviews with 47 other detainees was refused . |
| 11 | At Alfort , for instance , the professors were constrained to reply to the same charge as was levelled at Coleman — that of neglecting animals other than the horse . |
| 12 | Folk-song was a special case : here words were said to aspire to the condition of music . |
| 13 | During the follow up without any anti-ulcer treatment , patients were instructed to report to the study physicians with all symptoms related to their gastric ulcer disease , who suggested and performed repeat endoscopies . |
| 14 | The schemes for inclusion in Phase 2 were selected to contribute to the exploration of particular aspects of the Development Programme . |
| 15 | Volunteers from the billiard room were needed to move to the banqueting hall so that the new ladies , many of whom were elderly , might be installed in their places in comparative comfort . |
| 16 | In Vienna 10 of the 11 member countries present , but not Iran , were persuaded to subscribe to the Saudi viewpoint that production should be increased , with Saudi Arabia , the UAE and Venezuela raising their output by a total of about 3,000,000 bpd . |
| 17 | The mini-bus had already collected him and we were told to return to the start to meet the mini-bus and return to the lodge . |
| 18 | We were told to climb to the top of the mountain behind the farmhouse . |
| 19 | Of course , this can only be verified by a complete inventory , but the important point is that the sampling methods used , and the way in which the results were extrapolated to apply to the whole collection , are based on a sound mathematical theory which is widely used and tested in other fields , and therefore carried sufficient weight to satisfy the Museum and its auditors . |
| 20 | What makes it even more sweet is the fact that they crapped on about us only getting to the 2nd round last year and how they were going to get to the final . |
| 21 | The Simonova 's sensors were geared to respond to the presence in her path of any mass approaching planetary proportions . |
| 22 | Energetic visitors were invited to take to the dance floor and strut their stuff , quenching their thirst with a bottle of the new , macho mineral water , Thirsty Camel , afterwards ! |
| 23 | The " confrontation lines " were understood to refer to the Jordan Valley and the Golan Heights . |
| 24 | Deprived of the fertilisers so essential to the poor soil , German farms were beginning to conform to the law of diminishing returns . |
| 25 | It was also clear that the first of a number of PostScript clones , the language definition has always been in the public domain , were beginning to come to the market . |
| 26 | Twelve medium- to long-term visitors were scheduled to come to the Herbarium , and he would have to look at areas other than the Herbarium to accommodate them . |
| 27 | She was on an expedition where packhorses were hired to go to the camp at 10,000ft beside a mountain lake . |
| 28 | In subsequent proceedings for false imprisonment , it was admitted that the sole reason for arresting her was the constable 's opinion that ‘ police inquiries were more likely to be fruitful in clearing up the case if Mrs. Mohammed-Holgate were compelled to go to the police station to be questioned there ’ . |
| 29 | Sparks and flames were threatening to spread to the tyre . |
| 30 | In one case parietal cells were found to extend to the pylorus , in two they extended through 20 and 22% of the antrum respectively , and in the remaining two infant specimens no parietal cells were found in the antrum . |