Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But former executives and advisers to both companies told Esquire that the failures were due primarily to mismanagement and bad decision-making . |
| 2 | It is possible that the different results for dichotic recognition of melodies obtained by Kimura ( 1964 ) and Gordon ( 1970 ) were due not to stimulus differences in the two experiments but to differences in the musical experience of the subjects employed . |
| 3 | They were not er they were old enough to work , they were much older than me . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | While , for a time , they were available only to manufacturing companies or allied service industries , these restrictions have been relaxed to include most types of business . |
| 6 | As in London , the civil authorities were anxious not to court unpopularity by exacting vengeance on the twelve seamen ultimately arrested . |
| 7 | They were alright up to Christmas . |
| 8 | This was due largely to rationalization programmes which attempted to dispose of the smaller and unprofitable public houses , though these were offset by a continuing commitment to improving the appearance and amenities of the larger remaining houses . |
| 9 | The ultimate weakening of this unique ascendancy was due not to lack of outstanding operatic composers to continue the tradition , though vernacular opera — sometimes consciously national and therefore to some extent anti-Italian — produced more and more gifted rivals . |
| 10 | If a fish was receptive enough to electricity to pick up any tiny currents induced in its body , they would provide an additional guide to the Earth 's magnetic field . |
| 11 | I do n't think the snake had fully wakened up when I caught it , and I was careful not to jar it as I ran back to where my brothers and Blyth were lying on the grass . |
| 12 | The contrast with his radiant , vital young wife was blatant almost to embarrassment . |
| 13 | There was much here to interest New Scientist customers — in particular a vivid portrayal of the unprecedented butchery visited on academe by the Thatcher government . |
| 14 | Life makes the worst video you 've ever seen look like a masterpiece , and the episode I 'm about to relate was well down to par in this respect . |
| 15 | A spokesman for the actor , who was married before to actress Laura Johnson and has a son by Ursula Andress , says he is considering ‘ two major projects ’ . |
| 16 | It was all down to confidence , thought Lydia . |
| 17 | As a permanent secretary in the Department of the Environment I was an accounting officer , which meant as a civil servant I was responsible directly to parliament , which also meant I regularly had to go before the Public Accounts Committee . |
| 18 | Thus the high-modernist building was able simultaneously to enshrine a notion of pure rationality in systems-building , pure formalism in its opposition to ornament , pure functionality which was seen as the basis of its aesthetic value , and pure style . |
| 19 | There was no sign of either Ferdinando or Annunciata in the kitchen so she was bold enough to tip-toe towards the drawing room where she hesitated again and peered round the door . |
| 20 | And I did n't have time to cook so he went out , cos I broke it last night , well I was alright up to lunchtime . |
| 21 | What time there was free was devoted overwhelmingly to home and family life , including such home-based leisure pursuits as watching television . |
| 22 | At the end of April , however , it was near enough to completion for Nietzsche , at last , to send the first part of the manuscript to a publisher , Engelmann , in Leipzig . |