Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [adv] [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the collapse of their authoritarian dictatorships in the mid-1970s , Spain and Portugal were also admitted to membership . |
| 2 | The two girls who were travelling in the car were both taken to hospital . |
| 3 | There were reports in late 1989 of maltreatment of prisoners at the Yaoundé central prison , where in December two former Army officers imprisoned after the 1984 coup attempt were reportedly beaten to death . |
| 4 | The cars were massively constructed to railway standards ( above ) , and were well finished internally in attractive Alhambrinal panelling . |
| 5 | The pupils of the youth 's eyes were fully dilated to azure marbles . |
| 6 | In coeliac disease patients who had not been treated both total and nephrogenous cAMP urinary excretion were inversely related to serum calcium values ( r=-0.759 , p<0.05 ; r=-0.876 , p<0.01 ) . |
| 7 | Here we have the notion that as the system of technology ( the domestication of animals and the formation of herds ) develops , it becomes incompatible with the social system , especially the system of inheritance and familial authority , This growing incompatibility , or contradiction , then leads to a revolutionary change in the social system , in this case the change to father right , a system which according to Morgan and Engels was better adapted to pastoralism . |
| 8 | Preliminary analysis of these questions suggested that dissatisfaction with six of the organizations was importantly related to preparedness to break the law : the press , local government , the civil service , banks , the police and the local doctor . |
| 9 | Western observers commented that Gorbachev was apparently looking to religion to help provide the spiritual renewal which he saw as an essential part of perestroika . |
| 10 | Mellowed by two bottles of beer , he was convinced that Hank was telling the truth ; his mind was already going to work considering how to double that forty thousand . |
| 11 | Major 's partner in crime was later stabbed to death during another raid . |
| 12 | Though this term was originally applied to invasion of the visceral tissues of an animal by parasites whose natural hosts were other animals , it has now , in common usage , come to represent this type of invasion in humans alone and , in particular , by the larvae of Toxocara canis . |
| 13 | And so , during the holiday , Millie was again invited to tea , and on this visit she amused them , together with their other children , a twelve-year old son , and a five-year old daughter , when she gave them an imitation of the nuns , excelling herself when she touched on Sister Mary . |
| 14 | The wind was now gusting to Force 11 and visibility still poor . |
| 15 | The information contained on the questionnaires was then copied to computer input forms specially designed for this purpose . |
| 16 | These ratios were then applied to business-unit book values to obtain notional market values . |
| 17 | Although the inverted-U and the more specific Yerkes-Dodson law were initially related to task performance generally , they have frequently been assumed to predict the same pattern of results with performance in memory tasks . |
| 18 | Details of the peace plan were also communicated to coalition leaders and to Iran , but were not immediately made public . |
| 19 | This was not merely through the intrinsic loss but also because family status and honour were intimately linked to possession of land . |
| 20 | Some Polish judges were even appointed to district courts . |
| 21 | Upstairs the young postulants were now retiring to bed in the long dormitory . |
| 22 | That day , April 29 , twenty Spitfires were safely delivered to Renfrew with one each on April 30 and May 1 for a total of 52 aircraft which constituted 100% of the complement assigned for the second delivery to Malta . |
| 23 | Mrs. Dolman was well known to Mum through the Mothers ' Union , the only son Roger was a Standard Seven boy and he had four younger sisters including one who was about a year old . |
| 24 | When the weaving stage of manufacture was finally adapted to steam power , mills were erected in the hillside villages alongside the homes of the workforce . |
| 25 | An average of 75% of leavers was now proceeding to University . |
| 26 | The discovery of the usefulness of lead isotope ratios was quickly applied to archaeology and has proved highly successful in provenancing lead-containing objects from antiquity . |
| 27 | Gray 's long throw was headed clear but Turner was well placed to belt it straight back from 20 yards out . |
| 28 | Reference was earlier made to work of Abrams ( in Bulmer , 1986 ) whose findings and commentary on this issue are equally illuminating . |
| 29 | Suzi was never going to backpack round the world or become a rock star , and if she had been forced to go and live away from home — to study nursing , for instance — she 'd have mouldered away from homesickness . |
| 30 | Swinton 's idea for three companies was also presented to parliament in a White Paper , but the general election of July 1945 brought Labour to power before any of the wartime government 's plans could be implemented . |