Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [adv] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The doves were fluttering upwards to the music , and his Maria Filippa — an unusual diva , wearing spectacles — with Pericle on her arm in a lace bonnet and button boots , was greeting him under the olives . |
| 2 | the bank were prepared to pay for the business to be purchase only on condition that the home , that the family home was then sold and the proceeds were given straight to the bank , so with that eighty thousand pounds of equity in the property and the purchase fund for the business was about twenty five thousand pounds . |
| 3 | H 2 blockers ( ranitidine 150 mg or cimetidine 400 mg twice daily ) were given orally to every patient for at least two months at the outpatient department . |
| 4 | For many indigenes this meant that their once dependable resources were whittled away to the point of non-sustainability . |
| 5 | On May 7 the Executive Yuan lifted martial law on the offshore islands of Matsu and Chinmen ( Quemoy ) , both of which were situated close to the Chinese mainland . |
| 6 | If it was raining , a handbell rung at the door indicated that we were to go straight to the classrooms . |
| 7 | At the same time , new attitudes were formed both to the past and to the natural world . |
| 8 | They were drawing closer to the barrier now and Donna began looking for Julie , praying that her sister was waiting , hardly daring to contemplate what she would do if she was n't . |
| 9 | The work really began when Kaufman noticed that if mouse eggs were exposed briefly to a 7 per cent solution of alcohol a significant proportion ( up to 20 per cent ) of the embryos which developed were aneuploid ( Journal of Embryology and Experimental Morphology , vol 7 1 , p 139 ) . |
| 10 | His sleeves were rolled almost to the shoulder and the right one bore the three gold chevrons denoting his rank . |
| 11 | Two black Honda scramblers were parked close to the workbench and her first thought was to put them out of action , but she doubted whether she could get in a clear shot without exposing her head . |
| 12 | By July 1916 the contractors , Dawes and Bowler , reported that the building was ready for occupation and with the help of members of the Bedford Volunteer Red Cross Detachment , the patients were carried across to the new infirmary . |
| 13 | He bounced off towards Doone , who was writing in his notebook , and they were walking together to the big boatshed as I drove away . |
| 14 | Filters were added directly to a PCR reaction and amplification was with the M13 primers ( forward and reverse ) , and then with the nested set of primers T3 ( 5'-ATTAACCCTCACTAAAG-3 ’ ) and T7 ( 5'-AATACGACTCACTATAG-3' ) . |
| 15 | The major innovation — reaping , harvesting and mowing machines — were confined largely to the United States , where labour was short and fields were large . |
| 16 | Apart from a visit to Cherbourg in the 1780s to see the new harbour works there his movements were confined entirely to a group of royal châteaux in the neighbourhood of Paris . |
| 17 | Winnipeg was full of racegoing visitors who were contributing handsomely to the local economy . |
| 18 | By the time of its completion the company 's assets were climbing close to a billion dollars . |
| 19 | Extracts of 500 mg/ml of the flours of maize , rice , millet , and sorghum were applied directly to the nitrocellulose sheets irrespective of prolamin content . |
| 20 | Stimuli were presented either to the right or left of a fixation point which had a digit presentation for the same duration as the sign or word stimuli . |
| 21 | But whether they were related directly to the main body of the puzzle was not yet clear . |
| 22 | Since the earlier study , the team 's experience with the SSM had increased considerably , and any difficulties encountered at this stage were related more to the use of the FAOR package as an integrated whole than to the individual components themselves . |
| 23 | While the numbers of airborne micro-organisms were related more to the number of people in the room , low levels of Aspergillus Fumigatus ( proving a health risk only to immunocompromised individuals ) gave cause for concern . |
| 24 | When our 'plane touched down at Ibiza Airport , we were looking forward to a couple of weeks in the sun , hoping that the children would be amused and we could just relax . |
| 25 | EIGHTY factory workers were looking forward to a very merry Christmas — until their boss gave them just one bottle of whisky between them . |
| 26 | Young people were looking forward to a modern China in which they would play an active role . |
| 27 | I did , however , remember us asking the children if they were looking forward to a fortnight in Umbria . |
| 28 | We were looking forward to a meal and a quiet evening in Dover when a radio message via Dover Coastguards informed us that another suspect vessel had been spotted heading west through the Straits after sailing from Belgium where she had given the local customs a false destination in Sweden for a large consignment of spirits loaded . |
| 29 | ‘ We thought all our problems were behind us and were looking forward to a new life . |
| 30 | As the sun went down over the trees , everyone in the squadron had enjoyed a hard day 's military training and , after a good dinner and some well-deserved beers , they were very happy and were looking forward to the challenges of the next day . |