Example sentences of "[was/were] to [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It went quicker the closer you were to a clock . |
| 2 | Who time should go faster the closer you were to a clock , they did n't know , and none of the castle 's waiters and attendants had any explanation either . |
| 3 | Sometimes he wondered how many dead people there were to a cloud . |
| 4 | Complaints from the regional Propaganda Offices that neither press , nor radio , nor newsreels were reporting anything about the Führer any longer were to no avail . |
| 5 | All the techniques I knew of finding people were to no avail : the man with his gaunt face , grey hair and fur-collared parka was more invisible than myself . |
| 6 | But effort and reason were to no avail . |
| 7 | But such efforts were to no avail . |
| 8 | His pleas were to no avail . |
| 9 | But my words were to no avail . |
| 10 | Er as to existing policy , we 're elected to change policy , existing policies were to an extent rejected to a large extent rejected by the electorate here to , er so that the electorate should do . |
| 11 | The 1970s LP reissues came about through the vision and advocacy of Jerrold Northrop Moore , who knew how important Elgar 's recorded performances were to an understanding of the composer and his music . |
| 12 | She gazed out of the window aware now of how close they were to the centre of the city and Rune 's apartment . |
| 13 | The authorities ' heavy-handed intervention showed just how sensitive they were to the question of the empire 's internal diversity , for the Brotherhood 's goals were in fact much less radical than St Petersburg supposed and Shevchenko and Kulish may not even have been members . |
| 14 | most injuries were to the head or the chest , so Alan 's were unusual . |
| 15 | Charles had forgotten how important these now were to the survival of a West End show . |
| 16 | God only knows how many lira there were to the deutschmark these days . |
| 17 | His idea that the Jews were to the Syrians what the Brahmans were to the Indians gained favour ( F.Gr.H. 715 F.3 . |
| 18 | Despite its primitive agricultural methods , the peasantry was far from monolithic : above the significant numbers of outright slaves , beggars , and migrant workers , were the peasants on private and church lands suffering various degrees of bondage , military colonists on the frontiers , and peasants on the ‘ black ’ lands whose only obligations were to the State . |
| 19 | Among the non Jewish organisations responsible for hostels , the Christadelphians were to the fore . |
| 20 | ( c ) La Conspiration , written in 1937 and 1938 , was produced at a moment of co-operative cultural politics when the consequences of the Popular Front experiences in both France and Spain were to the fore . |
| 21 | This time local mothers were to the fore . |
| 22 | Stations were to the British what the motte and bailey and great stone keeps were to the Normans . |
| 23 | However , these processes — central though they were to the success of PNP were at first given little attention in the LEA 's in-service support programme . |
| 24 | The toilets and urinals were to the left of this section — the urinals being roofless and thus open to the elements . |
| 25 | The main labs were to the left , the voices louder now . |
| 26 | Now these and similar comments would require careful scrutiny if the thrust of the argument were to the effect that Parliament could not have intended to establish an inquisitorial régime of this kind in relation to serious or complex fraud alone . |
| 27 | Though consequently treated with some suspicion by the Marian regime , there is no evidence that he had strong Protestant convictions : his loyalties were to the City and other members of its élite . |
| 28 | As H. M. Colvin has observed ‘ what Reims and St Denis were to the house of Capet , Westminster should be to the house of Plantagenet ’ . |
| 29 | The American papers were an inspiration to people like John Lloyd , as they were to the group gathering 400 miles down the A1 . |
| 30 | Erm , we 're coming as it were to the end of the first part of the proceedings , er , but , I 'd like to give a brief thanks to the er , C R group , that 's the Charities Recruitment Group , for the part sponsorship of this A G M Conference . |