Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not all his arguments were entirely to the point , but he produced a confident and humorous speech . ’ |
| 2 | Abuse , suggestions of courses of action for me to follow that are physically and technologically impossible were much to the fore . |
| 3 | To dismiss what happened as the Labour Party merely showing its true colours , does not explain why Labour actually supported legislation which was immediately condemned by many who were considerably to the right of Labour 's quite-right-enough Deputy Leader , Roy Hattersley . |
| 4 | The position of the casualty was still uncertain , but she had reported that she was somewhere to the west of Burtonport so the lifeboat set course to the NW at full speed , adjusting as necessary for the large swell , and calling the casualty on the VHF radio . |
| 5 | She hung up on me , This was all to the good . |
| 6 | True , it was astonishingly heavy when one came to lift it , but — as the philosophical cook observed — that was all to the good , as one slice would be enough ! |
| 7 | João had been out with Fernando for most of the previous night and looked pale and tired , but Maria Iñes said this was all to the good , because it made him look older and readier to take on the responsibility of a wife . |
| 8 | Well , perhaps that was all to the good . |
| 9 | Even the photograph , she had to admit , was a good one : Hilda would never look attractive , Viola thought to herself , but at least she looked dignified , which was all to the good . |
| 10 | But that was all to the good . |
| 11 | Still , if he wanted to formally emphasise the gulf between them , it was all to the good . |
| 12 | Well , it was all to the good ; after he 'd finished skiing for the day they 'd return to the cottage , and she 'd set out for home . |
| 13 | It looked like somebody 's curtains cut up — which was what it probably was — and if it provided a talking-point — well , that was all to the good , was n't it ? |
| 14 | This meant all trains had to stop and , as Lydham Heath was our station , this was all to the good . |
| 15 | But men have had such experiences and done nothing further about them , either because they have decided that there was less to the experience than they at first supposed , or because they could not endure the ethical and spiritual demands which were implied in the unspoken , ineffable moment of divine knowledge . |
| 16 | True to the York principle his commitment was entirely to the person , sometimes causing exasperation to administrators . |
| 17 | It was greatly to the advantage of certain Gascon subjects of the king-duke to have a source of judicial appeal outside the duchy . |
| 18 | He says , ‘ My mind was much to the place as soon as it was described to me , because it was a full congregation … an ignorant , rude and revelling people for the greater part , who had need of preaching , and yet had among them a small company of converts , who were humble , godly and of good conversations , and not much hated by the rest , and therefore fitter to assist their teacher ; but above all , because they hardly ever had any lively , serious preaching among them . |
| 19 | This ambiguity was much to the taste of men whose drive was probably homosexual . |
| 20 | Their allegiance was thus to the king , who had appointed them and was the source of their power , and to their followers , for whom they sought offices , titles and pensions , rather than to their colleagues or to any leader amongst them . |
| 21 | In politics he was usually to the left of H. M. Hyndman , whom he much admired , but he accepted the latter 's scepticism towards trade unionism and its place in the socialist movement . |
| 22 | From then on , the idea of motion was always to the forefront of his mind and central to his philosophy . |
| 23 | Your father , Dermot told us a lot of course — I 'm sure your mother would have been none too pleased , if she knew , but his first loyalty was always to the cause . |
| 24 | Yesterday , that ‘ ordinariness ’ was still to the fore , as she pruned shrubs in her Norfolk garden and mused on the task ahead . |
| 25 | She was of the opinion there was more to the girl than might reasonably be expected . |
| 26 | Moreover , just as there are general references to Salic law in the Pactus Legis Salicae , so too there are broad allusions to Ripuarian law in the Lex Ribvaria , suggesting once again that there was more to the law than what is contained in the code . |
| 27 | It was the conviction that there was more to the affair than was capable of being explained upon the arrest of the fugitive Khans which now governed the tone of his response . |
| 28 | The Glasgow patriotism of the Arbiter was more to the taste of the employers than the employed , whose irritation showed itself within the STA . |
| 29 | What was more to the point was that socialism in power meant economic conservatism in practice . |
| 30 | What was more to the point he was not , or so it appeared , prepared to invite Mr Tebbit to oppose it . |