Example sentences of "[adj] [was/were] [adv] to [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some were up to an inch wide and ten or eleven inches long . |
| 2 | This was not to the liking of the Social Democrats , who took a more nationalist position , placing national unification above Western allegiance in their order of priorities , and advocating a spurious ‘ third way ’ between East and West , a kind of German ‘ special path ’ . |
| 3 | This was more to the Swedes ' liking , taking 5 of the first 8 places , including the top 3 . |
| 4 | She hung up on me , This was all to the good . |
| 5 | João had been out with Fernando for most of the previous night and looked pale and tired , but Maria Iñes said this was all to the good , because it made him look older and readier to take on the responsibility of a wife . |
| 6 | This meant all trains had to stop and , as Lydham Heath was our station , this was all to the good . |
| 7 | Abuse , suggestions of courses of action for me to follow that are physically and technologically impossible were much to the fore . |
| 8 | Not all were up to the standard of Miss Clarke , most were a lot older . |
| 9 | That was through to the end of September . |
| 10 | Er in the morning he would be in before any of them , sort of thing , getting a fire lit getting the rivets heat up before they come on the job and ah the the quicker he could the the rivets heat up and passed on to the the squad , then okay the more they could put in so , if he were a good rivet boy you could maybe get a good wage , but again that was up to the squad up to the riveter . |
| 11 | Whether that was down to the powers that be I do n't know ; perhaps they were teaching me a lesson for daring to complain about where I was put . |
| 12 | True , it was astonishingly heavy when one came to lift it , but — as the philosophical cook observed — that was all to the good , as one slice would be enough ! |
| 13 | Well , perhaps that was all to the good . |
| 14 | But that was all to the good . |
| 15 | It looked like somebody 's curtains cut up — which was what it probably was — and if it provided a talking-point — well , that was all to the good , was n't it ? |