Example sentences of "[ex0] [was/were] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Hooker estimates that 12 years ago , when he paid £1.50 for his first grip , there were up to 100 collectors of whom he knew a couple of dozen . |
| 2 | As there were up to sixteen different taxes , the more ignorant , who were usually also the poorest , were compelled to run to their more fortunate fellows for advice on how to calculate , time , and pay ( or avoid paying ) these complex dues . |
| 3 | Before the death there were up to 15 dogs in the house , as the family 's bitch produced two litters which were both kept — one set in the kitchen , and the other in a bedroom . |
| 4 | Then , on Friday 29 October , inshore fishermen reported that there were up to 100 whales dead and alive , in the vicinity of Clay Hole ( see map ) . |
| 5 | At other times in action there were up to 630 men in a Commando . |
| 6 | Throughout the 1930s Hollywood was to make films condemning various abuses and malpractices in the American system and there were always to be films which clung to the conventions of the city film as they had emerged in the early part of the decade . |
| 7 | There were never to be any night shifts at a ‘ Laura Ashley ’ factory . |
| 8 | That was our experience under the previous Labour Government and would be the experience of Londoners if there were ever to be the misfortune of another Labour Government . |
| 9 | New constituencies would have to be devised , 325 in number if there were still to be 650 MPs . |
| 10 | There were still to be found on the roads a vagrant population of Celtic wanderers from Scotland or Ireland , and those who followed the travelling occupations like chapmen , pedlars and itinerant entertainers , as well as the true travelling people , the gypsies and tinkers . |
| 11 | There were now to be fewer and fewer Titfords in Frome as time went by ; many had died , some had left town for good . |
| 12 | There was equally to be a greater degree of attention , in schools and elsewhere , to Georgian history , archaeology and culture . |
| 13 | And when Rosa heard Caterina getting up next door , and coming towards the kitchen , she gave Sabina another hard pinch on the thin part of her arm , just to make sure she knew there was n't to be another word . |
| 14 | Very very very briefly Chairman , erm first of all you can see in paragraph two point three and you see the matter that 's being erm the subject of discussion previously erm there was n't to be an issues report as such , but er Stragg itself the advisory group did feel that it would be useful that er er a leaflet be prepared and distributed erm you I do n't think Chairman would have seen it , but hot off the presses is being erm with us this morning er an an and only delivered this morning are some copies of th the leaflet that we have now erm prepared er you will have seen that in draft form Chairman and members of Strang will have seen that draft form so er both Stragg members and other members of the Committee if they would like to take a copy away with them , that there are a number here , but they will be er given wide distribution later on . |
| 15 | They designed job descriptions , terms of employment and time sheets for support workers ; ( they were to be paid at a rate equivalent to home helps and care attendants , with increased payments for unsocial hours ; there was also to be a lower rate of payment for workers merely sleeping at a sufferer 's house , compared with providing active care ) . |
| 16 | There was also to be a small separate system in the Urban District of Penge , connecting the Croydon boundary at Selby Road with Beckenham and Lewisham . |
| 17 | There was also to be stricter supervision of polling stations , with opposition party representatives present at all stages of voting and ballot-counting . |
| 18 | There was also to be greater emphasis upon actions to promote indigenous growth using local resources , rather than a reliance upon large scale investments by private and public sectors . |
| 19 | Under the Ayyubids there was also to be another major development , the raising of a mercenary army of Turkish slave soldiers to protect the rulers . |
| 20 | It had become possible to demonstrate the causative organism of syphilis , Treponema pallidum , under the microscope ; there was soon to be available a blood test , the Wasserman Reaction ( WR ) , which enabled syphilis to be diagnosed in the absence of any signs of the disease ; and finally , a new syphilitic treatment , Salvarsan , an arsenic compound , had become available . |
| 21 | At least there was soon to be a bit of activity in the neighbourhood to distract the young lad 's attention : in June of 1797 Charles the Cheesemonger was to achieve the singular distinction of being mentioned , en passant , in an Act of Parliament . |
| 22 | And then , there was — or there was soon to be — Musset , Vigny , Champfleury . |
| 23 | Maybe he wintered in the area , attempting to ensure the loyalty of the West Saxon heartland where Æthelred 's son Eadwig the ætheling may have recently returned and died and where there was soon to be difficulty , for in 1019 one of his men , Agemund , received a Dorset estate by S 955 , and the dubious Exeter charter S 954 bears the same date . |
| 24 | But men have had such experiences and done nothing further about them , either because they have decided that there was less to the experience than they at first supposed , or because they could not endure the ethical and spiritual demands which were implied in the unspoken , ineffable moment of divine knowledge . |
| 25 | However , although there was less to be done , there were also fewer hours in which it could be accomplished . |
| 26 | She 'd been investigating one of her peculiar groups and she said there was about to be a break-through . |
| 27 | It is also possible to feel , and to be told in London , that there was more to be said about the mad love than he allowed himself , or was in a position , to come up with . |
| 28 | However , there was more to it than that . |
| 29 | But there was more to it than that as Swansea soared from Fourth Division to First with only a season 's rest . |
| 30 | There was more to it than that . |