Example sentences of "they [was/were] to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The authorities ' heavy-handed intervention showed just how sensitive they were to the question of the empire 's internal diversity , for the Brotherhood 's goals were in fact much less radical than St Petersburg supposed and Shevchenko and Kulish may not even have been members . |
| 2 | She gazed out of the window aware now of how close they were to the centre of the city and Rune 's apartment . |
| 3 | However , these processes — central though they were to the success of PNP were at first given little attention in the LEA 's in-service support programme . |
| 4 | Accuracy of language was crucial when your life was at risk and each use of ‘ Loyalist ’ , when applied to the Protestant equivalents of the IRA , had been to Trent , a Catholic himself by birth , an insult to the Catholic community of whom the vast majority were as opposed to the evils of terrorism as they were to the injustices of long-practised prejudice on which Irish terrorism bred . |
| 5 | The West German Social Democrats were hostile to the whole concept , as they were to the EDC and West German rearmament , while some French Socialists were unhappy about the proposals on how the new structure would relate to Britain . |
| 6 | The American papers were an inspiration to people like John Lloyd , as they were to the group gathering 400 miles down the A1 . |