Example sentences of "[was/were] originally [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | If your wheels are ‘ factory ’ red then they were originally fitted to a fire engine . |
| 2 | They were originally built to a Victorian design in the 1920s at Misarden Park near Cirencester , and now they urgently need restoring . |
| 3 | There is some evidence that these were originally connected to his grandson Frederick II , and that by the mysterious process of collective imagination and tradition , they became drawn to the more powerful figure of Barbarossa . |
| 4 | Such redemption annuities were originally intended to be payable till 1996 , but they were ended by the Finance Act 1977 , and the final payments ( of double the normal sum ) were made on 1 October 1977 . |
| 5 | It was also the realisation of the fundamental concept behind page description languages , in that they were originally intended to be used for creating displays rather than driving printers , and the beginning of Adobe 's attempt to create a standard for graphics systems , now known as Display PostScript . |
| 6 | Are these cells that were originally recruited to the CD45R0 pool by antigen , or do some enter this pool during non-antigen-driven cell division in order to maintain the size of the peripheral lymphocyte pool , an idea supported by the rat experiments ? |
| 7 | Naga symbols appear on third-century Buddhist monuments at Sanchi in the south of India , and Buddhist Sanctuaries such as Sarnath , near Varanasi , were originally dedicated to serpent worship . |
| 8 | In appropriate cases , depending on academic performance , students may transfer from the course to which they were originally admitted to a related course at a different level . |
| 9 | Those areas were originally considered to be unusually active . |
| 10 | He was also able to exact other taxes from them , notably the ‘ aids ’ ; these were originally considered to be ‘ free-will ’ offerings to help the lord in difficult situations , but like so many voluntary contributions , they rapidly became customary taxes in many parts of Europe . |
| 11 | Simulators were originally considered to be training devices but their use is now extending into other fields such as personnel assessment and as aids to the design of the information interfaces . |
| 12 | Since the framework gave no hint of the long periods of time during which tool types were in use , sites that were originally considered to be contemporary were subsequently found to be separated by hundreds or thousands of years . |
| 13 | The etymology of the medieval French word carries some suggestion of what the characteristic features of tales of this genre were originally considered to be , although nothing detailed enough to form a definition . |
| 14 | They were originally brought to Britain by Northampton schoolmaster Gerald Smith . |
| 15 | They were originally brought to Britain by Northampton schoolmaster Gerald Smith . |
| 16 | The building blocks of matter are the atoms which were originally thought to be indivisible . |
| 17 | Can you remember now who the shotguns were originally issued to ? |
| 18 | Its weights were originally set to small random values . |
| 19 | The island was originally joined to the circular portico by two small wooden bridges of a revolving , pulley type . |
| 20 | A rectangular plaque from the Phaistos temple shows , in relief , four animal-headed figures in long robes with tasselled belts ; it was originally fixed to a curving surface , probably of wood , by means of nails at the four corners ( Figure 49 ) . |
| 21 | The idea was originally given to the composer 's sometime partner , Tim Rice , pre-Evita ; he and Lloyd Webber made an early , unsuccessful stab at it . |
| 22 | Princess Coronation Class 46229 ‘ Duchess of Hamilton ’ which was originally hoped to be steamed between Carlisle and Perth later this year , has been withdrawn due to restrictions being imposed on the locomotive by ScotRail engineers . |
| 23 | It was originally applied to the open plains of northern Kola Peninsula ( Kol'skiy Poluostrov ) . |
| 24 | ‘ Aromatic ’ was originally applied to substances which had a sweet smell . |
| 25 | The term ‘ merchant adventurer ’ was originally applied to any merchant trading in cloth overseas ; there were groups of them from various towns including Newcastle and York , and others were drawn from several of the London companies , but gradually the term was limited to a group within the Mercers . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Where a sloping roof was originally erected to the correct pitch ( ie , the roof was not constructed at too shallow a slope , which would cause rain to penetrate its covering of slates or tiles ) defects are invariably owed to the deterioration of the roof covering or the breakdown of joints between materials , which in roofs usually means outworn metal valley-gutters , dislodged hip and ridge cappings and deformed or poorly repaired flashings . |
| 28 | The raw material came from such sources as Renaissance sketchbooks , engravings and travel guides and was originally limited to Antique works of art known between 1400 and the conquest of Rome by Charles V in 1527 . |
| 29 | The European Social Fund ( ESF ) was originally limited to localised retraining and resettlement , to providing financial support to the temporarily unemployed , and to issues associated with migrant workers . |
| 30 | Inside there are five courtyards , one of which contained the family apartments and was originally connected to the garden and the great sala terrena by a door in the wall facing you . |