Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [adj] to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If discipline and religion were central to the BB philosophy , so too was friendship — it was the Trojan horse in which ‘ influence ’ hid , awaiting its opportunity . |
| 2 | The Prison Officers Association were hostile to the inquiry throughout . |
| 3 | Yet those elements you mention were true to the life most young people in particular knew at the time . |
| 4 | Catholicism as an ideology and the Church as an institution were central to the strength of Spanish conservatism both before and during the Republic , thanks to the power not only of school , pulpit and press , but also of a large and comprehensive network of church-sponsored social , professional and farmers ' organizations within which much of the Catholic population was enmeshed . |
| 5 | When the political dictatorships had been overthrown several alternative courses of action were open to the successor regimes . |
| 6 | The same line of reasoning was applicable to the admissibility of evidence relating to previous agreements . |
| 7 | From that quite informal meeting at the Air Ministry , and others subsequently , the idea of setting up a Target Finding/Marking Force was imperative to the saving of Bomber Command as a vital contribution to winning the war . |
| 8 | Monasticism was vital to the impact of the Christian church on society in our period . |
| 9 | I felt naked and horribly vulnerable , like a snail with its shell off ; every nerve was close to the surface ; I thought if anyone so much as touched me , I 'd scream . |
| 10 | One approach was to argue that the human memory loss was secondary to the failure of a more fundamental process , like the ability to inhibit inappropriate responses . |
| 11 | Cricket club president Brian Kneeshaw said the club was opposed to the development , whoever the bid came from . |
| 12 | Ib 's Club was similar to the others she 'd visited , but more so , Gina decided a few minutes later as wearily she followed Rune into its depths : deeper , darker , more packed , the music more rawly evocative . |
| 13 | That Vic Williams was a voluntary and not a conscripted soldier was irrelevant to the issue of conscientious objection , she added . |
| 14 | At Durham Priory , for example , less than half of the income assigned to each office in the monastery was devoted to the activity for which the office had been created ; the rest was absorbed in management costs ( 209 , p.255 ) . |
| 15 | This indication was helpful to the sub-editor as well as the type-setter . |
| 16 | The Inland Revenue eventually decided that this practice was contrary to the legislation on PRP schemes , and put an end to it in a Statement of Practice ( SP7/92 , see ACCOUNTANCY , October , p 103 ) . |
| 17 | That was just how the circuit bosses liked things , believing that the best way to hold on to their audience was through ‘ family entertainment ’ , and arguing through the Cinematograph Exhibitors Association ( CEA ) that filmmakers should avoid treating themes and incidents that ‘ were offensive to the reasonable taste and standards of those whose patronage was necessary to the health and future of the industry . ’ |
| 18 | She offered a new interpretation of the relationship between mono- and dictotyledons , suggesting that both evolved from a common ancestral stock , and that the single seed-leaf in the monocotyledon was homologous to the pair in the dicotyledon . |
| 19 | The confrontation was due to the ambiguity in Poland 's Constitution about whether supreme responsibility for security lay with the President or with the Cabinet . |
| 20 | ( 44 ) showed that the POU domains of Oct-1 , Oct-2A , Oct-6/SCIP/Tst-1 and Pit-1 induce DNA bending and that this effect was due to the POU S domain . |
| 21 | It was Mr. Newman 's submission that the matters to which regard should be had in the present case were ( 1 ) the lapse of time between the commission of the alleged offences and the request for extradition , and ( 2 ) the fact that the accusation against the applicant was contrary to the interests of justice , in that it would lead to the trial of the applicant in Sweden on the basis of the record of Price 's evidence , despite the fact that Price had subsequently retracted that evidence in this country in so far as it implicated the applicant . |
| 22 | 4.10 Medical expenses may be reasonably incurred even though a less expensive alternative was available to the plaintiff . |
| 23 | To confirm that the increased cytotoxicity was due to the interactions between the Fc portion of IgG and the Fc receptor on the effector cells , Staphylococcus aureus protein A was added to the ADCC assay . |
| 24 | The first Tay Bridge showed up the lack of expertise and foresight required for such a structure , no wind tunnels or sophisticated testing were available to the engineers in the late 1870s . |
| 25 | If the well had been in the centre of an ash grove ever since it was discovered , it is no wonder that it was deemed sacred , for ash was holy to the ancients . |
| 26 | The garda was entitled to the evidence on which the allegation was made . |
| 27 | The Chairman of the Bar was well to the fore in many issues continuing to practise a policy of openness with the press and media . |
| 28 | No detailed record of their activities has survived , but since the essence of the action was to prevent the entry of blacklegs , their work was central to the success of the strike . |
| 29 | If the household was identical to the register entry , the elector on whose account the address had been selected had effectively been selected at random , and was therefore nominated for interview . |
| 30 | The church 's vast wealth was accessible to the king on a scale denied even to the greatest of landed magnates . |