Example sentences of "was [noun] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | This weakness in Mancini 's argument has , however , gone unremarked , largely because most commentators have chosen to emphasize Mancini 's second point and argue that the real reason for what happened was Woodville hostility to Gloucester . |
| 2 | This weakness in Mancini 's argument has , however , gone unremarked , largely because most commentators have chosen to emphasize Mancini 's second point and argue that the real reason for what happened was Woodville hostility to Gloucester . |
| 3 | Lexandro 's father was Calculator Maximus to Lord Spinoza , whose clan owned lower hab factories that built Mammoth class land-trains to traverse the ash wastes on great cleated tracks , stoutly armoured to resist assault by nomads . |
| 4 | Not only , therefore , was William party to the decision to request continuation of the supervision order , but he now looks back and agrees it was the right decision . |
| 5 | He first saw active service under Frederick Augustus , Duke of York [ q.v. ] , in Flanders in 1794 , and in 1798 was brigade major to Major-General ( Sir ) George Nugent [ q.v. ] during the 1798 Irish rebellion . |
| 6 | Sir William Pickering was Knight Marshal to Henry VIII , and when he died in 1542 he left Oswaldkirk to his 24-year-old son , an extremely handsome and distinguished courtier and diplomat , brave and wise as well , and considered at one time as a suitor for Queen Elizabeth . |
| 7 | what was Mr attitude to spending on national advertising in so far as you could work it out ? |
| 8 | His final decision was possibly taken at the time of the war with Alaric , when he may have thought that there was propaganda value to be gained by standing as the defender of the catholic Church ; he was subsequently baptised , probably in 508 . |
| 9 | Similar procedures were carried out as described above except that the secondary antibody was rabbit antibody to human immunoglobulin conjugated with peroxidase ( DAKO , High Wycombe , UK ) instead of alkaline phosphatase . |
| 10 | The secondary antibody used was rabbit antibody to human immunoglobulin heavy chains conjugated with fluorescein isothiocynate isomer 1 ( FITC ) ( DAKO , High Wycombe , UK ) . |
| 11 | So , you know , it , it , it , never at any time was paper money to the fore , you did n't get very much . |
| 12 | By February 1764 Bach was music master to Queen Charlotte . |
| 13 | He was imported into Sweden in 1921 and was litter brother to winner Arco Torfwerk . |
| 14 | Nor was government aid to the landlord restricted to armed assistance . |
| 15 | Automatic vacuum brakes were fitted from new as was oil lighting to the compartments . |
| 16 | Some of them looked as if they had only just risen from their beds , as if this was breakfast time to them ; others had the look of people who had n't slept for a week . |
| 17 | William Clark , who was press adviser to Anthony Eden during his premiership , wrote , while under sentence of death from the cancer of which he died last year , a book of mémoires d'outre tombe in the unconventional yet quite literal sense of that description . |
| 18 | He was master mason to the prior and chapter of Canterbury by 1496 , but was also active in Cambridge , where he worked at King 's Hall and on Great St Mary 's church . |
| 19 | Edward Stanton 's elder son , William , who was master mason to the Mint , attempted to carry on the sculptors ' yard , but was declared bankrupt in 1735 . |
| 20 | Mr. Gordon was estate agent to Sir George Phillips , the owner of Longreen Manor . |