Example sentences of "[verb] was [det] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The power of the platform 's weapons and the threat they posed was enough to give anyone pause for thought , but now they appeared somehow more lethal because they were unseen — concealed behind gunports which had been engineered to such fine tolerances that Rostov could detect no hint of them anywhere on the curved metal skin . |
| 2 | ‘ The answer that we received was that to talk to us on film would be voyeurism at its worst . |
| 3 | ‘ The answer that we received was that to talk to us on film would be voyeurism at its worst . |
| 4 | ‘ The answer that we received was that to talk to us on film would be voyeurism at its worst . |
| 5 | Just to look at Dana fully clothed was enough to give me an erection . |
| 6 | There was a limit to what she could make out , given the angle and that she was trying to see the page upside-down , but what she saw was enough to confirm that this book , or perhaps its predecessor for the previous year , had the potential to tell her exactly what she most needed to know . |
| 7 | Merely the experience of being governed was enough to provide a political education . |
| 8 | The industrial mass was then a drilled mass and what it also knew was that to survive you had to take no chances : the best thing to say was nothing . |
| 9 | The firm 's owner said that the impression given was that to operate a business in West Belfast was to somehow be involved in some kind of seditious activity . |
| 10 | Once he 'd gone , I was approached by a woman who started rubbing my stomach and putting her hand down my trousers , which I must say was enough to make me say yes immediately . |