Example sentences of "[was/were] added to the " in BNC.

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1 To offset the loss of Glasgow business , extra stops were added to the daytime service which was revamped to serve towns such as Warrington , Wigan , Lancaster , Oxenholme and Penrith which offered greater business prospects .
2 Two new engines were added to the 100 range — a 115bhp two-litre petrol and 82bhp 2.4-litre diesel .
3 Both the two-rig landing bays had moved into the banks on the centreline , and their combined crews , assisted by the ubiquitous bank support section , had connected the anchor ropes and the short ramp sections , Which were added to the main ramps to allow traffic easy access to the bridge .
4 Romance and mystery were added to the place when Meade Falkner wrote Moonfleet , the classic children 's adventure story which was loosely based on this family and hamlet , though set nearer to the sea .
5 A site was also secured just outside Hillsborough and thus two more congregations were added to the growing Church by the opposition to one .
6 At Wombwell Main , the banking locomotives were added to the rear to push trains up to West Silkstone Junction .
7 After a trawl through its shortlist , a further three prospective sites were added to the already chosen Elstow .
8 But in his lordship 's day , that room was regularly required , as was the long table that occupied it , to seat thirty or more guests for dinner ; in fact , the banqueting hall is so spacious that when necessity demanded it , further tables were added to the existing one to enable almost fifty to be seated .
9 The songs , pulled direct from the John Peel and Dave Jensen sessions , were added to the last two singles and B-sides scattered , with perfect pacing , across a 16-track LP which was to retail at no more than £3.99 ( providing the retailers kept the faith which , largely , they did ) .
10 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 .
11 If they were added to the registered job-seekers , the employment problem would appear to be even worse .
12 A further 1.21 million hectares were added to the LFA and approved by the EEC 's Council of Ministers in February 1984 .
13 A period of revival came also in 1817 when in two months 60 more members were added to the Society and the congregation in general more than doubled .
14 Both saints were subjected to the elaborate canonisation procedure before their names were added to the roll up yonder , and down yonder in the Vatican .
15 In 1983 two new MKIII sleeping cars numbered 2914 and 2915 were added to the Royal Train , part finished at Derby Litchurch Lane , with three compartments in each car left empty of berths .
16 In four polar summers nearly 4000 specimens were added to the world 's meteorite collections ( see Box I ) .
17 ‘ What would cause horror would be if chloroform or dichloromethane were added to the protocol .
18 In at least two areas of the city , voters were misdirected by official polling cards to the wrong polling stations — a clever way of discouraging them from voting without actually disenfranchising them — and when the final count was made , 1,000 votes were added to the Tory candidate 's total .
19 Three thousand were added to the Church on the day of Pentecost ( 2:41 ) , and before long the number of male believers grew to about 5,000 ( 4:4 ) .
20 Before Antony Licata styled the alternative look , dashes of golden copper lights were added to the longer areas at the top and sides .
21 In the enhanced programme of training , three new courses were added to the core of formal courses .
22 Between 1978 and 1982 , for example , 117 institutions were added to the tertiary sector , but as Cleverley writes , ‘ growth in higher education is still far from meeting national needs ’ ( Cleverley 1985 : 245 ) .
23 Well , it 's difficult to stop a fish eating completely in a mature planted tank , but normal feeding was stopped and small pieces of orange ( no peel ; tease out individual cells ) were added to the tank .
24 We shall probably never know what went on behind the scenes when these phrases were added to the documents .
25 Two wings were added to the infirmary in 1939 , with a new maternity department and an additional wing to the nurses ' home .
26 The membrane vesicles were added to the assay buffer containing 20mM HEPES/arginine , pH7.4 , 5% sucrose , 0.5mMDTT , 30μM neutral red , 1μM trifluoromethoxycarbonylcyanide phenylhydrazone and with or without 400nM calmodulin to make up a total volume of 2ml and a concentration of 0.5mg protein per ml .
27 51 Cr-labelled T cells and recombinant human MIP-1 β ( from M. Tsang ) were added to the plates , settled at 4°C for 60min and rapidly warmed to 37°C for 15min , after which non-adherent cells were washed off .
28 MIP-1 β ( 1:100 ) , control supernatant from SF9 cells infected with wild-type baculovirus ( 1:100 ) , GRO/MGSA ( 10ngml -1 ; from J.J. Oppenheim ) , or RANTES ( 10ngml -1 ; from J. J. Oppenheim ) were added to the wells and allowed to bind to plastic-immobilized heparin-BSA at 37°C for 60min .
29 Free cytokine was then removed by washing the plates 5 times in PBS ; 51 Cr-labelled CD8 + T cells were added to the plates and the number of cells binding was assayed as described in Fig. 1 legend .
30 Both commands were theatres of war in which many prizes were taken , some of which were added to the fleet and consequently required officers to command them .
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