Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv prt] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now er I could make a point here that when they introduced one man operated buses , they thought they were on to a new thing but one man operated buses were in this town before the war . |
| 2 | The trick of public relations , Branson discovered , was not to pretend to be something you were not , but simply to project what you were on to a larger canvas . |
| 3 | but you can do it because you know you can go back home as it were in to the other area . |
| 4 | Even after Aulef , the only food I had with any meat content , the meat puddings , and beans and sausage , were down to a dozen tins each . |
| 5 | By the end of 1923 levels were down to the best pre-1921 records for Saratov . |
| 6 | Ross admits to being a little disappointed at the level of basic skills when he arrived , adding : ‘ A lot of the mistakes were down to the mental approach and lack of concentration , but , having said that , the attitude and determination of the players has been excellent throughout the season . ’ |
| 7 | If they were down to the last dregs of their confidence after their Hillsborough defeat it did not show and it took Kelly 's superb reflexes to deny Newell after only three minutes . |
| 8 | They were down to the last roll of flowered wrapping paper– The shop had the look of a battlefield the morning after . |
| 9 | With only two weeks to go they were down to the cosmetic touches . |
| 10 | Arsenal were through to the next round , and it was the turning point in the club 's history . |
| 11 | The RSM brought everyone to attention , ‘ By the right , quick march , ’ barked the Officer and we were off to a jaunty 6–8 time , Blue Bonnets Over the Border , as I got under way . |
| 12 | A headmaster friend told me recently that he had burst into a classroom mistakenly thinking some pupils were up to no good , only to discover it was drama ; and I recall one of my own students , in playing the role of a prisoner-of-war camp commandant berating the ‘ prisoners ’ and warning them that he had ways of finding out where the missing prisoner was if he did n't own up , was somewhat taken aback to hear the voice of the school caretaker call from the other end of the drama hall , ‘ There 's a boy here , Mr. Ainscough , skulking by this radiator ’ ! |
| 13 | yeah , it was , the bit I saw was that policeman when he goes although those two were up to no good |
| 14 | If it were up to the faithful in Blackpool , Margaret Thatcher would go ‘ on and on ’ . |
| 15 | No doubt many more boys were up to the same tricks , but convention ruled that they were better able to look after themselves . |
| 16 | Widnes were back to a full complement of players by the time Tony Thorniley scored Warrington 's second , again from an inspired Mackey pass , but the visitors were powerless to prevent the centre reaching the line from 25 yards . |
| 17 | Three grates and half a ton of jackdaw muck later , they were back to the colossal 17th-century hearth . |
| 18 | Nutty thought she was on to a good idea and went home happily , taking over from her mother in the shop as she usually did while her mother started to get the tea . |
| 19 | His senses told him he was on to a good thing and his senses were rarely wrong . |
| 20 | Maybe he thought he was on to a good thing . |
| 21 | Jean-Paul was in no doubt that he was on to a good deal . |
| 22 | Multiply that up by two or three hundred stores , and you will see he was on to a good thing . |
| 23 | Then it was on to a local botanical gardens to record the ‘ sound bites ’ . |
| 24 | Yet it was down to a collective lack of desire , which was the problem against Watford . ’ |
| 25 | They managed to average 28 mph ; that 's some going , down the hill towards Welland they touched 60 , up the hill into Great Malvern it was down to a running pace . |
| 26 | In February 1989 inflation was down to a monthly rate of 3.6 per cent compared with 28.8 per cent in December 1988 and 37 per cent in January 1989 , but accelerated sharply over the following months , reaching a monthly rate of 53.55 per cent by December . |
| 27 | Visibility was down to a few yards . |
| 28 | By the time he was 22 he was down to a 9 handicap and was off 2 when he turned professional at the start of last year . |
| 29 | That the Pendletons ' party ended up at Reading was down to a fair measure of fluke . |
| 30 | Being higher than the policemen on the ground , I could see that most of the action was down to a half-a-dozen women wearing anoraks with the hoods up . |