Example sentences of "was [verb] to [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mike was there every day , being nice to me and telling me not to worry about anything , he 'd found this flat and his mother was seeing to furnishing it and they were making arrangements for the wedding . |
| 2 | ‘ to the annoyance of the residents ( or passengers ) ’ 'Annoyance' can be proved by the person(s) who was exposed to including their feelings of annoyance in their evidence . |
| 3 | My catering was limited to brewing endless mugs of insipid coffee and opening packets of custard creams . |
| 4 | In 1628 , when his colleague , the senior revenue auditor of the Upper Exchequer , was savagely attacked , expelled from the House , and committed to the Tower , Pye 's defence of Buckingham was limited to assuring the Commons that it was the favourite 's mother and not his wife who was a recusant Catholic . |
| 5 | He was probably the sort of liberal , Dexter thought , who boasted of the number of blacks he knew but whose acquaintance was limited to inviting them round to show off at trendy drinks parties . |
| 6 | In some cases , such as Lower Framilode , steam was used to power everything in the mill , whereas in others , such as Stoke Orchard Mill , it was limited to providing the power for ancillary equipment . |
| 7 | East India affairs apart , Herne 's parliamentary career was limited to sitting on a number of committees ( the committee set up early in 1695 to prevent the clipping of the coin being probably the most notable ) . |
| 8 | The defendants denied liability , contending that an occupier 's duty of care to firemen attending his premises in the course of their work was limited to protecting the firemen from any special or exceptional risks over and above the ordinary risks necessarily incidental to a fireman 's job , and did not extend to protecting firemen from such ordinary risks which , on the facts , included an explosion of the kind which had taken place on the defendants ' premises . |
| 9 | She thought it was limited to securing £60,000 and would only continue in force for a few weeks . |
| 10 | The scope of our work for the purpose of this report was limited to confirming that the directors are entitled to deliver abbreviated accounts and that the abbreviated accounts have been properly prepared from the full financial statements . |
| 11 | For the plaintiffs it was submitted that in each case either the only relevant contract was between the borrower and the valuer or , if there was a contract to which the building society was a party , its obligation was limited to instructing a competent valuer . |
| 12 | The role of the human eye was limited to selecting , among randomly mutated progeny over many generations of cumulative evolution . |
| 13 | HIs Defence Fellowship thesis resulting from a year 's study at Brunel University was limited to surveying AI applications on flying stations . |
| 14 | Consideration was given to living there , but the thought of sixty bedrooms and only one bathroom was too much Legend has it that the place was once so deprived of modern conveniences that drinking water would sometimes be collected by a footman with a silver pitcher from a stream flowing in front of the main door which originally served as a moat . |
| 15 | The agricultural export economy was not regarded as needing a skilled workforce and little priority was given to schooling for the majority of the population . |
| 16 | Slater did a marvellous job , and I think this should be asserted firmly , now that both he and Britten are dead , since the composer was given to accusing his collaborator , in later days , of penning many solecisms in the text of Peter Grimes . |
| 17 | In foreign policy first priority was given to implementing that part of the Geneva accords which provided for elections throughout Vietnam , originally scheduled for July 1956 . |
| 18 | Scant consideration was given to getting the authors ' names or initials , or even their book titles , correct ! ) : |
| 19 | Some of the older drivers were not impressed , and one was given to shouting to drivers of passing modern cars , ‘ Get off yer backside and drive ! ’ |
| 20 | Reportedly , initial thought was given to trying to recover actual Japanese aircraft from various islands in the South Pacific . |
| 21 | Consideration was given to housing need in two Acts in 1919 . |
| 22 | Joyce was given to describing such events so that he should seem the hero — even the wounded hero — of a hair-breadth escape . |
| 23 | R. S. 's historical roots were in London and so careful consideration was given to remaining there . |
| 24 | While the highest priority was given to protecting visitors , further incidents ‘ must be expected ’ . |
| 25 | Too much attention , he added , was given to obtaining indentures and too little to the quality of the training . |
| 26 | She was given to playing with words in that way . |
| 27 | In the past , too high a priority was given to placating jail unions , he told the prison service annual conference in Blackpool . |
| 28 | Mid-thirties and Jay was given to Falling in Love . |
| 29 | A number of the male houses were little better ; the Benedictine house of Sele had a non-resident prior in the 1460s who was given to selling off the moveable goods to keep up his life style . |
| 30 | A high priority was given to attracting foreign investment , and an annual rate of inflation of 65 per cent was anticipated . |