Example sentences of "[noun] [noun pl] [was/were] [verb] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The CARICOM heads of government meeting held at the same time issued an " unequivocal condemnation " of the events in Port of Spain and 300 troops from CARICOM states were flown to the island on Aug. 3 as a " precautionary move " to protect oil installations [ see p. 37648 ] . |
| 2 | A total of 3054 heart transplantations were reported to the registry of the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation in 1990 , and overall actuarial survival rates at 1 and 5 years have been reported at 90% and 68% respectively . |
| 3 | Much of the success in restoring aid flows was attributed to the debt-reduction scheme proposed in March 1989 by the US Treasury Secretary , James Brady [ see pp. 36541-42 ; 37016-17 ] . |
| 4 | The B53 matched cell lines were matched to the donors only for HLA-B53 ; the B53 mismatched line was matched to Z 16 ( HLA type A3 , A19 , B35 , B53 , Cw3 , Cw6 ) only for HLA-Cw3 . |
| 5 | The trade was sufficiently profitable for the Portuguese to take over Sofala in the early sixteenth century , and their written accounts confirm that the export cargoes were brought to the coast by African representatives of the Shona king or monomutapa . |
| 6 | Ambulance crews were tending to the injured . |
| 7 | Various linear , power and exponential models were supplied to the regression package BMDP . |
| 8 | The perfusion instrument was a plastic tube ( 16 mm in external diameter ) , which was 60 cm long and contained smaller channels in the tube wall and one large central channel ; five latex balloons were attached to the tube ( Fig 1 ) . |
| 9 | During the 1950s and 1960s high economic growth and government policies alleviated this problem , so that tariff and quota reductions were implemented to the benefit of all nations engaged in international trade . |
| 10 | Twenty or so fishing boats were moored to the pierside , fresh from a night 's work . |
| 11 | Later , German Defence Minister Gerhard Stoltenberg was quoted as saying that changes in NATO force structures were linked to the strengthening of Europe 's role in the alliance . |
| 12 | The side wings were raised to the height of the main block in 1769 by I. J. Palliardi , when the Lobkovic family owned the palace . |
| 13 | In Birmingham on Sept. 2 , shops in the Handsworth area were looted after a power cut , and some 200 riot police were sent to the area . |
| 14 | Under California law the stock dividends were attributed to the life tenant . |
| 15 | The crown of St Wenceslas and the sacred coronation oils were carried to the High Altar from here too . |
| 16 | The number of spells of sickness absence is a form of count data and therefore Poisson regression models were fitted to the data . |
| 17 | The activity of the wild type recombinant , containing 3,200 bp of the upstream promoter region , was taken as 100% ; CAT activities were compared to the wild type . |
| 18 | In the late 1980s a number of libel cases were taken to the Court of Appeal on pre-trial issues concerning technical points of pleading , and much criticism was levelled at the complexity , expense and delay which have become associated with libel actions . |
| 19 | Specialist officers were called to the scene including armed police and trained negotiators . |
| 20 | The other new Council members were appointed to the portfolios of Justice , Agriculture , Labour and Social Development , and at the Ministries-delegate for Economy , Territorial Administration , Health and Women 's Development . |
| 21 | Towards the end of the war separation allowances were extended to the families of commissioned officers . |
| 22 | The first of the major considerations by the Council Fathers was given to the Liturgy and its music , as well as sacred art . |
| 23 | To keep the Moldavians and Gagauzes apart two regiments of USSR Interior Ministry troops were despatched to the Gagauz districts at Snegur 's request on Oct. 28 . |
| 24 | Plasma prorenin concentrations were related to the degree of retinopathy before active treatment ( r '=0.51 , p=0.026 ; n=21 ) . |
| 25 | Campaign co-ordinator of Friends of the Earth , Andrew Lees , said the report confirmed that the government 's failure to control intensive farming practices was leading to the destruction of the Norfolk Broads . |
| 26 | Such discretion was granted on the understanding ( 1 ) that any changes made to the approved Course regulations were notified to the IFS Board for information ; ( 2 ) that all changes to the Course were monitored and evaluated for the purpose of informing the next submission for renewal of approval , and subsequent Course review visits ; and ( 3 ) that all changes to assessment requirements were agreed with the appropriate external examiner . |
| 27 | With the advent of affordable and easy to use video equipment in the early eighties , community access workshops burgeoned , and local authorities and education authorities were added to the Regional Arts Association and the British Film Institute as sources of funding . |
| 28 | Bone fragments were recorded to the nearest 25 per cent of the original unbroken element or part thereof , and this enabled distinctions to be drawn between some of the seven predator species compared . |
| 29 | The duration of the nadir of transient UOS relaxations was measured to the nearest second . |
| 30 | In 1849 , part of the mill containing the fulling stocks was leased to the local clothier , William Palling , yet in 1853 , Paul Savory is recorded as working a corn mill at Brookhouse . |