Example sentences of "were [verb] to some " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inevitably , follow up appointments were given to some extent on a subjective basis according to the laser endoscopist 's previous experience . |
| 2 | Around 500 lovers of nostalgia descended on Deal for the contest and were treated to some excellent golf on the course where the greens were in marvellous condition despite the recent drought . |
| 3 | But I am sure that we should get on better if we were to come to some terms with them " . |
| 4 | When the fish were ready to spawn , the same chemicals were added to some of the streams feeding the lake . |
| 5 | All the major parties were committed to some extent to discredited policies and persons . |
| 6 | Well the Ministry of Defence came into Harrogate just over fifty years ago and the jobs were done to some e to a large extent by people who might never have come to Harrogate if the Ministry of Defence had not er brought them in . |
| 7 | Therefore , our recommendations were tailored to some selective targeted measures which the Government could implement to avoid conceding increases across the board . |
| 8 | And they were wanting to Some of them anyway wanted to join the Portobello branch . |
| 9 | But the miners ' strike did not only reveal that èlite groups of police officers were operating to some extent under national co-ordination and control . |
| 10 | There seemed no stopping her and he felt as if he were listening to some of the most important information he had ever heard . |
| 11 | cos they were listening to some |
| 12 | Miracles were attributed to some saints and special powers to others . |
| 13 | Though he 'd never used it , the Bowl was reputedly the most accurate prophetic tool known in the worlds , and now — sitting amid his treasures , with a sense growing in him that events on Earth in the last few days were leading to some matter of moment — he brought the Bowl down from its place on the highest shelf , unwrapped it , and set it on the table . |
| 14 | Simon had n't inherited yet ; the house was entailed of course and as there was no direct male heir ( my being what I am ) it looked as if it were going to some cousin overseas , only later it became known that Mary had had a posthumous son : he 's still a minor — here 's another member of my family whom I have n't met , I seem to have an assortment . |
| 15 | These were based to some extent on the American experience of urban development action grants . |
| 16 | It showed 34 per cent of all trees were damaged to some degree . |
| 17 | In the south of England , Dorset , Hampshire and Surrey were affected to some extent — again much more in some parts than others — but the south-eastern corner of England owes little or nothing to the enclosure commissioners . |
| 18 | you know , how that change has taken place and I as I say we we were we were compared to some we were well off , we 'd got a tap in the house.So many people had n't even got a tap they were in the yard , and that tap was shared by a dozen families . |
| 19 | But I daresay , if you were speaking to some of the older men in the shipyard er who had worked in a shipyard before my time , that er a lot of riveters , a lot of tradesmen of all all kinds , found it hard to get employment once they were they were sacked you know . |
| 20 | Though the generals were brought to some sort of obedience by the Cortes and the Regency , in the provinces they used the ‘ egoism ’ of the Juntas and their endless disputes with the relics of the old administration in order to extend their own power . |
| 21 | The libraries were standardised to some degree . |
| 22 | The latter were mollified to some extent by the exclusion from the Treaty of anything that would bar some members from forming a smaller customs union ahead of the EEC schedule . |