Example sentences of "[noun] were to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the real losses in princely revenues were to secular lords , by a process of slow attrition . |
| 2 | A disproportionate number of visits in the late evening were to young children . |
| 3 | Well over half the sales were to private bidders . |
| 4 | Some of these sales were to existing publishers . |
| 5 | Some 53pc of sales were to overseas customers and 36pc of production came from overseas operations , cushioning the company from a depressed UK market . |
| 6 | Parents and pressure groups representing parents , were concerned that Social Services Departments were to ready to end parental contact with children in care , and thus pave the way for adoption . |
| 7 | Her early journeys were to various southern counties , Bath , London , and Oxford . |
| 8 | Mass mobilisations by the so-called ‘ pro-life ’ forces in Buffalo are designed to focus on an issue that puts liberals on the defensive : abortion is to the US Democratic Party what taxes were to Labour . |
| 9 | Important as hut and poll taxes were to colonized people , the more lucrative source of revenue for the colonizers was taxing exports — raw materials and cash crops . |