Example sentences of "[conj] [was/were] [adv] [vb pp] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SuperCalc 5.5 has extended the use of fonts in printing spreadsheet ranges so that the facilities that were previously limited to laser printers now apply to most dot matrix printers . |
| 2 | The sky was a clear , pale dome , covered in the east by a flock of tiny clouds that were already turned to pink by the sun that was still concealed , that had not yet risen . |
| 3 | She was lifted bodily aboard by two sailors and carried down to a panelled cabin where she and Maria Candida were to live during the voyage ; and when she had been helped out of her clothes and into simpler garments that were more suited to life on board ship , she insisted upon going on deck to watch from the aftercastle as the mariners sang at the capstan and the anchors were weighed . |
| 4 | Its purpose was to provide art historians with examples of antique sculpture that were definitely known to Renaissance artists such as Donatello and Ghiberti and influenced their work . |
| 5 | Because philosophy and science now occupy the secondary position that was previously ascribed to literature , it makes no sense to speak of literature as a special kind of language . |
| 6 | And yet I risked everything I had worked towards , all the hope of what I might do in a position of real power , for something that was obviously doomed to failure from the start . |
| 7 | Stepwise regression analysis with stratification by age confirmed that colonic disease was the only variable that was significantly related to survival ( log likelihood=-132.894 , χ 2 4 <0.05 ) . |
| 8 | Nor does the issue of life and death rest only with your estate , as we have well seen in the fate of those earls lately in dispute with the king 's Grace who fell into the hands of certain lawless gatherings of commoners , and were shortly done to death . |
| 9 | They were , however , an all-White group , operating without directly involving parents and were generally committed to specialist care in the community . |
| 10 | The 1977 Porchester report published figures provided by MAFF to indicate the potential loss of agricultural production if 16,000 hectares of Exmoor stayed as rough sheep grazing and were not converted to grassland . |
| 11 | They had been shocked by the ‘ reality ’ they had come across and were more committed to action . |
| 12 | Jazz gave little away , and was not given to complaint . |
| 13 | As Mr Leslie had explained earlier he was completely sober and was not given to imagination , he screwed his eyes up looking for the reason for the footsteps ; he could n't see the feet but heard them quite distinctly passing him in the ballast below . |
| 14 | Her husband Mervyn worked at the Swindon railway workshops for 46 years and was frequently exposed to asbestos . |
| 15 | He began banging his head against the wall , vomiting up his food , lost a great deal of weight and was eventually taken to hospital . |
| 16 | She had an unhappy childhood in Weston-super-Mare , and was briefly sent to boarding-school in Devizes at the age of eight . |
| 17 | Tuesday , 23rd : After a brief meeting at the High Commission with the Education Adviser , I gave a second lecture on ‘ the Logic of Polite Conversation ’ at J.N.U. , and was afterwards invited to lunch by the English Department , in the company of the Vice-Chancellor and various members of staff . |
| 18 | This same levelling principle had been behind the creation of the Zaragoza Military Academy and was now applied to politics . |
| 19 | Hammond changed his status from professional to amateur partly through taking a directorship of a tyre company in 1938 — he liked to drive fast cars — and was then selected to captain England . |
| 20 | He did his basic training at Warrington and was then posted to officer training school at Grantham . |
| 21 | JUDITH CANNON has recently been promoted to operations director public sector , a new senior position that reflects the continued growth of our public sector division , which caters for schools and hospitals across the UK , Judith joined CCG in 1984 as senior area manager for the Earling schools and social service contract , and was then promoted to business development manager and latterly general manager . |
| 22 | They were treated by ambulancemen after suffering the effects of smoke but were not taken to hospital . |
| 23 | The Tudeh Party appears initially to have decided to try to work within the new system , but was later subjected to pressure , especially in 1984 . |
| 24 | Charles I 's commission on exacted fees and innovated offices was investigating Mynne and the Hanaper ( in effect the treasury of the Great Seal ) in 1630 ; he got off then but was finally brought to trial for extortion in 1634 . |
| 25 | If a person died of coronary heart disease but was never admitted to hospital we used the date of death as the incidence date . |
| 26 | The Whigs rejected Lord Lyndhurst 's bill of 1842 for a small debts court , and the Lords shelved Lord Cottenham 's bill which The Times called ‘ as masterly a measure as was ever submitted to Parliament ’ , in deference to a pet bill which Lord Brougham had drafted . |