Example sentences of "[pron] were [noun] to [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were threats to his academic career , but they came from a different direction . |
| 2 | In addition to that great teacher of prayer , there were others to whom I owe a debt of gratitude . |
| 3 | He went on to say that the use of non-book resources was one aspect in which hoped-for developments had not taken place , and this is typical of the awareness that , despite general satisfaction with the project , there were limits to its success . |
| 4 | There were limits to what Karen would let you do . |
| 5 | While the USA would continue to sustain a world role , there were limits to what could be expected . |
| 6 | She shut her bedroom door , knowing fate had decreed that the book she was reading should be resting in the sitting-room , leaving her with nothing to do but make her bed , sit on it , lie on it , unmake it , jump on it , push it round the floor — there were limits to what you could do with a bed , and it was the only piece of furniture in the room . |
| 7 | He also saw the need to rewrite roles around the talents of the actors , as he did for Crawford , but there were limits to what he could do to make the most of the story for the cinema . |
| 8 | Yet there were limits to what the government could achieve . |
| 9 | Although it was always recognized that er there were limits to which a person could go . |
| 10 | The jackal de Guichet , they said , was bad enough , but there were limits to his powers ; but the old lion acknowledged no restrictions within his own honour , his rule was as absolute as plague . |
| 11 | There were answers to everything . |
| 12 | There were details to her description she could have known no other way . ’ |
| 13 | The footpath on the left bank of the burn was little better than a sheep track , but there were clues to its former importance as a droving road over the hills to Byrness in Redesdale . |
| 14 | The awful , abrupt finality of a man pitching forward , so easily , so arbitrarily terminated — the convenience of it to the killer : they were things to which I could never become habituated , however many times I saw it . |
| 15 | ‘ I would n't know that , they were strangers to me . ’ |
| 16 | Here , she took a step back and called on Ferdinando to discuss Garibaldi and his Red Shirts and the promises of Cavour — they were names to her and nothing more . |