Example sentences of "[was/were] to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes he wondered how many dead people there were to a cloud . |
| 2 | If I WERE to a take a bath I would not turn both taps fully on since this is bound to result in a freezing cold bath . |
| 3 | He failed always to understand that there was a large area of common ground in British public opinion on India which consisted in the belief that , with a few adjustments , British rule could be made , and remain , acceptable to Indians for ever , and that differences of opinion were to a considerable extent about how this was to be done . |
| 4 | In the merchant service wooden hulls were to a considerable extent replaced by composite and iron and steel construction after the middle of the century . |
| 5 | Hayling 's left-wing politics were to a large extent the result of his background . |
| 6 | As the constitutional reforms were to a very great degree imposed on the Japanese , the lead given by US authorities on interpreting the reforms was going to be crucial to post-Occupation Japan . |
| 7 | Anglo-French affairs were to a large degree regulated by personal connections , not only at the level of the ruling houses . |
| 8 | There were other problems which would remain because they were to a large extent independent of the problems caused by too restrictive a sexual morality . |
| 9 | What no one seems to have noticed is that if subliminal advertising worked , recall measures were to a significant extent irrelevant . |
| 10 | I advised , my opinion reinforced by Dennis Lloyd , that there was plainly a breach of copyright , since the reports published were to a substantial extent verbatim accounts of the meetings reproduced from the minutes , the copyright of which belonged to the National Executive , and that a judicial remedy should be sought as soon as possible . |
| 11 | He gave the impression that the agents were to a large extent out of DK 's strict control and that the agents were policed largely on the basis of responding to complaints and taking remedial action where appropriate or possible . |
| 12 | However , his action provoked significant comment from Treasury permanent secretaries , committed as they were to a Gladstonian ideology of ‘ cheap government ’ and to the subordination of the extravagant missionary zeal of medical reformers . |
| 13 | Coordinators themselves were to a greater or lesser extent sensitive to these anxieties : some fuelled them while others quickly or painstakingly dispelled them . |
| 14 | Wycliffe said that he did , which was something of a record , for Franks 's secretaries came and went with bewildering frequency , though all were to a common stamp . |
| 15 | It went quicker the closer you were to a clock . |
| 16 | Who time should go faster the closer you were to a clock , they did n't know , and none of the castle 's waiters and attendants had any explanation either . |
| 17 | The lower and even the middle ranks of the bureaucracy were to a considerable extent decentralized and independent of royal power . |
| 18 | The elections were to a 360-member House of Representatives as stipulated under the Constitution which had been drawn up by the military and promulgated in December 1991 [ see p. 38681 ] . |
| 19 | Those coal heavers , weavers , sailors , labourers and others of the lower orders who took to the streets in 1768 were to a large extent caught up in a political moment which coincided with longer-running economic grievances . |
| 20 | Latterly it was to a flat in Eaton Square where the army of friends , constantly replenished , continued to gather . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , and no doubt too slowly , illusions of grandeur were slowly given up and Britain 's incapacity to live with the superpowers was to a degree accepted . |
| 22 | And when he died of drink in 1957 it was to a strangely quiet Press , considering that only just before his fall he was supposed to have the support of fifty per cent of his countrymen , according to the polls , and a power almost greater than the President 's . |
| 23 | Late Victorian Nonconformity was to a considerable extent a man 's religion . |
| 24 | To no other , to no less divine a source can I trace the movement ’ , but as we have seen , other speakers , like Joseph Parker , were more perceptive while the 1897 National Council president admitted that ‘ perhaps it can scarcely be denied that in some of our earliest Nonconformist Councils … at first the inspiration was to a large extent political ’ . |
| 25 | Thereafter progress was to a real parachute descent . |
| 26 | Settled land in Roman law was to a considerable degree free from the depredations of creditors . |
| 27 | He was to a certain extent an enigma . |
| 28 | ‘ But it was important for us to play together as much as possible , whether it was to a new crowd or just the same old people . |
| 29 | As for the ‘ Serbian question ’ , it was to a large extent created and turned into the cause of war by Serbia 's President Milosevic and his Hitlerian policy of ‘ all Serbs in one state ’ . |
| 30 | The move to Bernard Ecclestone 's Brabham was to a team which had a lot going for it — it was owned by the man who was consolidating his hold on FI and had an outstanding engineer in Gordon Murray — and one serious defect . |