Example sentences of "was [verb] [art] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peter Wright , who missed Boroughmuir 's friendly against Hawick as he was resting a knock to his left shoulder which he had aggravated when he tripped at work , completed most of the session and is confident he will be 100 per cent for the heavy scrummaging routines on Wednesday night . |
| 2 | Secondly , it might arouse the hostility of some of his comrades in arms , on the grounds that he was using the war to further his own political ends . |
| 3 | Mr Stone argues that they have repelled both foreigners and foreign ideas ; that liberalism was junked before it was given a chance to work , socialism implanted without a bourgeoisie , communism introduced without a proletariat . |
| 4 | Moscow noted that the United States ‘ was given the right to further use of some sixty military facilities , including big air force bases , nuclear arms depots and radio surveillance centres located close to the southern borders of the USSR ’ . |
| 5 | One of the first acts of the coalition was to issue a challenge to the Prime Minister , John Major , to meet them . |
| 6 | The war was proving a windfall to Sharpe , as it was to so many other half-pay officers in both armies . |
| 7 | Their disruptive behaviour was proving a headache to Mr Jones until he discovered the elephants could be kept at bay if he fed them with their favourite fruit pears . |
| 8 | The high cost of housing in the north London area was proving a barrier to the recruitment of people with the rare technical skills it required . |
| 9 | ‘ Oh , yes , ’ said Loretta , realizing that her reaction was proving a disappointment to Bridget . |
| 10 | He did n't like the look of that rascal who was touching a taper to the base of the gun . |
| 11 | She was fanning her cheeks desultorily when she realised with a start that they were pulling off the road and Niall was bringing the car to a halt . |
| 12 | Trist also believed that the primary task of management was to relate the organisation to its environment . |
| 13 | Bellow supported Roth 's early work , and Roth 's work was to bear a resemblance to Bellow 's . |
| 14 | But , being a thorough architect , his first instinct was to find an objection to his client 's scheme . |
| 15 | The aim of the party was to provide an alternative to the existing coalition and opposition parties , to establish a " functional and participative democracy " and to convene a constitutional assembly to restructure the republic . |
| 16 | The intention was to provide an incentive to owners to sell their land at a price which took account of the developer 's liability to pay the ( reduced ) charge . |
| 17 | Celtic goalkeeper Pat Bonner was relishing the chance to officially qualify for the World Cup finals in front of a home crowd in Dublin this week . |
| 18 | The Tory campaign in this ward had begun by placing emphasis on everything that was deemed a threat to the mortgaged bliss of privatised nuclear family-life — gypsies , black muggers , Bernie Grant , the Lesbian and Gay Unit . |
| 19 | Well they , they had to do the , it had n't used to have very good drainage and far more of a slope , it , it 's far more level today than it used to be , it used to have a great slope towards the long end which was considered an advantage to Walsall and the water used to gather , but I believe the improved the drainage and had pipes put under which it , it does n't seem to gather water so much now down at the railway end . |
| 20 | N.T.A. was considered the alternative to phosphates in washing powders at the start of the 80's , but it is now banned in the USA because it combines with heavy metals , as does E.D.T.A. In this way carcinogenic substances such as lead , mercury etc. , which normally remain at the bottom of lakes and rivers , are reintroduced to the water supply . |
| 21 | Even now a Master Artificer was engraving a wall-tablet to be mounted in the Teuton Chapel . |
| 22 | He was applying a match to some kind of heater , and from a small counter in the far corner there was a distinct smell of coffee pervading the atmosphere . |
| 23 | ‘ I had arranged with Sister Stevens that on the next occasion that Len presented with either a hangover or a stomach upset I would refer him to the occupational health centre where they would suggest counselling , as I believed Len was becoming a danger to himself and everyone else . ’ |
| 24 | It was her duty to tell me — a ‘ mother 's duty ’ — that my obstinate refusal to comply with Jean-Claude 's wishes meant I was becoming a burden to him . |
| 25 | In 1966 Vietnam was becoming an irritant to the Labour government , but not a major one . |
| 26 | Because he was so old and feeble , Baxter 's imprisonment attracted a great deal of sympathy from many people , and was becoming an embarrassment to the authorities . |
| 27 | He was becoming an embarrassment to the Government . |
| 28 | At the time there were widespread rumours of an Establishment plot and stories circulated that the trial had been stopped because the protracted Guinness saga was becoming an embarrassment to the authorities . |
| 29 | Alas , he was detained in Paris where he was revealing the price to the French , accompanied by Pluto and Scrooge McDuck . |
| 30 | He opened his recruitment consultancy in January 1991 , just as the recession was revealing the depths to which it could sink . |