Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [was/were] [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At that time few attempts were made to measure the effectiveness of such activity , and advertising agencies tended to branch out into sales promotions with the aim of offering an all-inclusive package to their clients in an attempt to combat competition from the emerging sales promotion agencies . |
| 2 | Foreign mercenaries were hired to officer new-formation regiments into which an increasing number of peasant recruits were drafted . |
| 3 | The classic French dishes were cooked to perfection by the Arab cook and served gracefully by Arab boys in white uniforms , the eldest of whom seemed about fifteen years old . |
| 4 | Five people were rescued from their burning flat and 30 others were led to safety after thick smoke spread through the building . |
| 5 | Once the route was resolved the Club found itself considering yet again , the prospects of building a new clubhouse at the top of Chalk Hill and serious attempts were made to interest Brewery companies into buying the existing clubhouse for a public house . |
| 6 | When the actual counts were converted to transition probabilities the results shown in Table 6.4 were obtained . |
| 7 | If similar figures were applied to man , then clearly an increase of only 43% in liver protein synthesis would not account for the reported increases in whole body protein synthesis . |
| 8 | Later , problems of the Arretine wares were brought to light when factories producing these wares well into the Claudian period were found in Central Gaul , and the terms ‘ provincial Arretine ’ or ‘ proto-South Gaulish ’ were invented . |
| 9 | On Oct. 4 six men were sentenced to death for trafficking in cannabis and on Nov. 9 five men , aged between 35 and 46 , were sentenced to hang for similar offences [ see also pp. 34485 ; 36557 ] . |
| 10 | Because schools rather than individual pupils were assigned to intervention groups responses of pupils within a school ( cluster ) tend to be correlated and hence the effective sample size is less than the number of students surveyed . |
| 11 | A BRITON escaped with a life sentence for drugs trafficking in Thailand , but his two Canadian colleagues were sentenced to death , the Thai Criminal court confirmed yesterday . |
| 12 | He then proved to his own satisfaction that all such endeavours were doomed to failure . |
| 13 | Together with our EC partners , on 13 November we condemned the violence against the people in East Timor and urged the Indonesian Government to ensure that the Indonesian armed forces and police stopped using violence and that those responsible for these acts were brought to trial . |
| 14 | These rules were to apply to property bequeathed unconditionally or else under a term ( dies ) . |
| 15 | Leading pacifists were drawn to Guild Socialism , and the ILP itself moved far towards endorsing the idea of self-government in industry . |
| 16 | THREE milkmen were taken to hospital with serious injuries after their delivery van overturned in Llanelli , Dyfed . |
| 17 | More than a dozen awards were presented to club members and guests of honour were group quality control executive Carl Moss , production director Roy Naylor , and estate manager Jim Lee . |
| 18 | These costs were attributed to job dissatisfaction caused by boring , repetitive work . |
| 19 | When highly decorated and very experienced operational pilots were posted to training units within Bomber Command , they invariably suffered some difficulty within these establishments . |
| 20 | It was considered that many of these problems were related to inexperience in the management of stones within a retained gall bladder . |
| 21 | White telephones were brought to night-club tables . |
| 22 | In the autumn of 1915 the Government had assumed powers to requisition at fixed prices all cereal products ; in 1916 these powers were extended to sugar , milk and eggs , but only limited use was made of them . |
| 23 | Western press reports from Xian on March 18 said that three intellectuals were sentenced to prison terms of three to five years , including Li Guiren , editor of the Shaanxi province Hua Yue Publishing House , which had published works by the dissident journalist Liu Binyan [ see also p. 37338 ] . |
| 24 | These manoeuvres were doomed to failure , for both Ruzski and Brusilov had been ordered to turn northwest , with the object of taking in rear all Austrian forces engaged with , or pursuing , Plehve . |
| 25 | While demesne rents and , in some cases , customary fines were related to acreage and profit , copyhold rents had long ceased to reflect market conditions , and freehold ones were notional . |
| 26 | Children presenting with acute respiratory infections were referred to the district hospital for chest radiography , and severely ill children were admitted to hospital , where they were treated by standard protocols , and monitored daily by the study physician . |
| 27 | Three men were crushed to death under seven thousand tonnes of rock . |
| 28 | At a separate trial ending on March 1 in Osh city three men were sentenced to prison terms of between 11 and 14 years for their involvement in the intercommunal violence . |
| 29 | Three men were sentenced to death during the French revolution . |
| 30 | In the continuing campaign against the Maoist Shining Path ( Sendero Luminoso ) guerrillas , 10 men and three women were sentenced to life imprisonment on Dec. 11 . |