Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [subord] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | FOR many years the House of Commons regarded itself as a closed society whose proceedings were private except to the extent that the House itself decided to report them . |
| 2 | For example , a survey of just under 1,000 firms in the 1950s ( Industrial Welfare Society 1951 ) found that , even among the employers of skilled workers , a third were doubtful as to the worth of those over 45 , while 6 per cent considered such men ‘ too old ’ . |
| 3 | Fourth , the justices were undecided as to the degree of the father 's violence towards the children , but were satisfied that the relationship between the mother and father was violent . |
| 4 | Understandably , he was curious as to the reason for my enquiries , so I told him you were a distant relative , a spinster who had no other relatives and who might wish to get in touch with him . |
| 5 | The EPLF continued to demand a US-supervised referendum on independence from Ethiopia , but was flexible as to the timetable for this , he said . |
| 6 | She was uncertain as to the position of this girl whom she knew to be daughter to a washerwoman but whom the dowager-duchess , a lady of formal demeanour and rigid etiquette , none the less treated as one of higher status . |
| 7 | The unlawful act was arson , and he was reckless as to the risk of injury . |
| 8 | This depended upon the constitutive documentation of the Organisation , which was silent as to the liability of the member States , although Article 1 of the constitutive Treaty limited its personality to ‘ operational needs ’ . |
| 9 | Er , the only authority that was given was the authority to arm the officers by Mr which he would have put in to writing , er he was aware as to the method of entry to the of the flat but that no authority , no written authority was given for that . |