Example sentences of "to were " in BNC.
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| 1 | For among the rather few objections by Pound that Eliot paid no attention to were one or two which would have required him to make consistent , in terms of locality and historical period , some of his references to London life . |
| 2 | The hospital staff I spoke to were almost without exception complacent on the subject of interpreters . |
| 3 | The women I spoke to were almost always subsidiary wage earners ; the money they brought in was essential for survival but was not the main wage of the family and their jobs were often far more unpleasant than their husband 's . |
| 4 | Only a minority of teachers I spoke to were interested in the way of life of their Asian pupils and an even smaller number knew anything about it . |
| 5 | The critical assets being referred to were the twelve M2D Amphibious Bridging and Ferrying Vehicles operated by the troop , which lay dispersed and camouflaged under the high oak and pine trees of this wooded harbour area , about thirty kilometres south-east of Hamburg . |
| 6 | The thing that perturbed him slightly , though , was that most of the men she talked to were young rather than old . |
| 7 | The rocks referred to were boulders that had come down off the moor in the flood . |
| 8 | Forrest 's desk was of cheap pine , and the chairs he gestured to were not upholstered . |
| 9 | The beebop era was just fading , Presley had not quite arrived and the advance guard of popular Fifties music that the kids in Neptune listened to were Johnnie Ray , Ray Charles and Chuck Berry . |
| 10 | Stirling felt this inferred that he had loosely prattled at a cocktail party , whereas the gatherings referred to were private dinner parties . |
| 11 | Most of the old prisoners were there because they personally had no wish to escape , and although their reasons for not wishing to were usually quite sensible and not always selfish it was difficult for a new prisoner to grasp them . |
| 12 | Those of the ground crews that we spoke to were not at all enthusiastic about this mode of travel — in fact a lot of them took an extremely dim view of it . |
| 13 | ‘ Groups like King Crimson were around when I was about 17 , and I suppose the earliest progressive British groups I would have listened to were Procol Harum , The Nice , et cetera . |
| 14 | Selmer used a well-known paint specialist called Derek Adams , who put finishes on much of the British guitar output of the time — Watkins , etc. — and the ‘ pink ’ Fenders you refer to were Derek Adams ' attempt at Fiesta Red . |
| 15 | The depths its members will sink to were illustrated by the attempted suppression of documents concerning arms sales to Iraq — to cover their own duplicity and allow innocent men to go to prison . |
| 16 | ‘ I got to were I was 17 or 18 and I decided I just wanted to live my life . |
| 17 | This catalogue of divisions , the ‘ erosion of cohesion and unity ’ and the questioning of society which it gave rise to were now important features of the British scene . |
| 18 | Virtually all the inmates I saw and spoke to were friendly , smiling and quite pleased to show me the work they were doing . |
| 19 | The result of these rules of practice was that the English set up colonies only in places where it was relatively easy to do so , at first because the places they went to were thinly populated , then because political disintegration in India enabled them to advance there , and because in the last phase of imperial expansion they had the sort of technological superiority needed for bringing most African rulers under their control . |
| 20 | Many of the Asian designers the US trade weekly talked to were worried about the 66MHz clock frequency , because at that speed , stray radiations become a serious problem and it is unlikely that garage operations are going to be able to knock up boards using the chip that will work . |
| 21 | ‘ Scientific ’ tests for cognition can be conducted not on social groups and individuals as such , with all the political implications that involves , but on a newly constructed , asocial category of ‘ literates ’ and ‘ non-literates ’ , as though the culture they belonged to were incidental . |
| 22 | No end to were I fall |
| 23 | I do not for my part find the objections in principle to be strong and I would certainly be prepared to agree the rule should no longer be adhered to were it not for the practical consideration to which I have referred and which my noble and learned friend agrees to be of real substance . |
| 24 | Although a superiority of the left visual field has not always been reported , this has been the common finding when the faces to be responded to were highly discriminable and/or unfamiliar ( Sergent and Bindra , 1981 ) . |
| 25 | The classes that Harriet in fact chose to go to were logic , history , English literature and Greek . |
| 26 | The subjects in one of the trials referred to were patients in whom pain control was inadequate or who had appreciable side effects , which is why the cerebrospinal fluid was accessed . |
| 27 | ‘ The terrible things you refer to were intended to ensure you could continue to live here — in the style you obviously do . ’ |
| 28 | Some of the places we went to were absolute tips — paper peeling off the walls , damp patches on the ceilings — and video just glosses over it all . ’ |
| 29 | The people at the farm he was hired to were very sympathetic but he still had all his work to do before he could get away . |
| 30 | The only people she spoke to were the Lady Prioress and Dame Agatha . ’ |