Example sentences of "[unc] [noun sg] was [adj] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rourke 's growl was indecipherable to Lissa , but Adam seemed to take it in his stride . |
| 2 | Unlike Orwell and his fetish , coal , he suggests that women 's work was vital to life . |
| 3 | Professor Dudek 's name was familiar to Leonard beyond the academic sphere , in the ( to him ) much more important and fascinating area of poetry , in which Leonard was now inextricably enmeshed . |
| 4 | But the very mention of Greg Martin 's name was painful to Hugo . |
| 5 | As with all US Cabinet posts , Card 's appointment was subject to confirmation by the Senate . |
| 6 | While he did not exactly oppose this suggestion , he added , somewhat enigmatically , that he believed Liza 's trouble was due to circumstances quite beyond her control and that she needed the help not so much of a specialist but a sympathetic friend personally acquainted with her predicament . |
| 7 | There was , however , no evidence to suggest that the employee 's obligation was subject to exceptions in certain circumstances . |
| 8 | You could tell whether a horse 's misbehaviour was due to fear or plain stubbornness . |
| 9 | One glance at the letters heaped untidily beside her son 's plate was sufficient to identity them for what they were . |
| 10 | In particular , the international projection of nationally-headquartered firms ' corporate identity is a vexed issue : Siegel & Gale 's new survey of 50 leading Hungarian companies , for example , found that if all of them believed that a company 's image was important to building sales , most would also rather do business with German 's sharply-etched Volkswagen that with fuzzy French concerns . |
| 11 | But today 's hunt was close to home . |
| 12 | At the other end of the scale , none of the small libraries indicated that over a quarter of any individual 's time was devoted to training , although there was an overlap between small and medium sized libraries in other categories . |
| 13 | Not everything in the CNAA 's and the colleges ' procedure was conducive to innovation , but the ripple effect from groups of staff having ‘ to think out their own courses ’ was probably one of the most immediate invitations to innovation in the early years of the CNAA . |
| 14 | The sterling crisis was a natural consequence of trying to maintain domestic demand without import controls ; the investors ' strike was due to unease about the social changes , including the effects of rapid inflation , which it was feared would result from the government 's restoration of full employment . |