Example sentences of "were largely [verb] to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prior to the 1940s , although communities experienced severe air pollution , control measures were largely limited to the passing of local legislation or to private litigation claiming air pollution to be a common-law nuisance . |
| 2 | Be that as it may , there were still those in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who still continued to look on Siberia as an exploited colony whose population and resources were recklessly plundered and despoiled by the central government , whose merchantry continued to suffer under the ‘ economic yoke of Moscow ’ and the commercial interests of the centre , whose native peoples were many of them doomed to extinction , where such civil and political rights and modern judicial institutions as existed in tsarist Russia were largely denied to the population of Siberia , where the cultural and educational infrastructure was inadequate for the region 's needs , and which was still used as a distant dumping ground for the criminal sweepings of the rest of the empire . |
| 3 | Although the protests were largely confined to the student population , they went beyond the country 's usual " Spring protests " both in their size and the violence which accompanied them . |
| 4 | Thus political links were largely confined to the Comintern network which , notwithstanding this fact , was initially extremely weak . |
| 5 | Similarly , the relatively slow growth of labour productivity and high level of unit costs in the post-war period of growth ( between the crossroads of the 1930s/1940s and those of 1970s/1980s ) were largely attributed to the character of management and labour , employers and unions , within the UK and to the internal policies of the state . |