Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] to [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Staff and resources allocated to it were redirected to a major project intended to regenerate east Glasgow . |
| 2 | Suddenly they met burnt chip contamination and had to shut down the production line , a major anxiety as they were producing to a tight schedule in a ‘ Just in time ’ situation . |
| 3 | His shirt hung open as he sat again , and Theda 's eyes were riveted to the long column of his neck , the golden glow of his chest below it . |
| 4 | There are a few works which I would have loved to have borrowed but which were simply too fragile to travel , and there were works which were prohibited by reasons of the terms under which they were given to a particular collection , the Barnes Foundation , for example . |
| 5 | Evaluation by pre-structured interviews Pre-structured telephone interviews were given to a random sample of students who had taken part in the undergraduate course in information retrieval . |
| 6 | Strange twists were given to the normal body of human nature , revealing that such freak developments are potentially in all of us all the time . |
| 7 | No details were given to the National Union or to the constituencies involved , so much hard work had to be done and much recrimination endured before the party could settle down to the campaign . |
| 8 | Some , mainly those of war time subjects and taken in the 30 's and 40's were given to the National Portrait Gallery , but the best were retained by the V. and A. |
| 9 | Like Leonard , they were given to the literary life . |
| 10 | TIPS on how to get the best all year round use from small greenhouses were given to the large audience attending a Bramshott , Liphook and District Horticultural Society evening . |
| 11 | At first starting on an ad hoc and ad hominem basis before the birth of the Romanov dynasty , the system of transporting the unwanted criminal detritus and the antisocial , nonconformist and subversive members of the Russian social and political order — both tsarist and Soviet — steadily generated a huge sprawling diaspora comprising millions of wretched human beings who were banished to the living purgatory of Siberian exile . |
| 12 | Such likely opponents of the economic strategy as Lord Carrington and Sir Ian Gilmour were banished to the Foreign Office while Francis Pym went to Defence . |
| 13 | This fairly low level of detection suggests that either K + channels were present at low density in the plasma membrane , or that K + channels were limited to a small subpopulation of cells withint the HGT-1 cell line . |
| 14 | It is true that there were first-class scientists at work in other countries but they were either greatly taken with large unprovable notions or were limited to a single field , whereas Galileo was original in dynamics , hydrostatics , mechanics ( strength of materials ) , optics and astronomy . |
| 15 | Only families whose own interests were limited to a single area of ducal or comital influence could afford to ignore the other lord . |
| 16 | Only families whose own interests were limited to a single area of ducal or comital influence could afford to ignore the other lord . |
| 17 | These changes , which were limited to the big club sides , will be examined later in relation to media interest in sport . |
| 18 | They have had to develop more detailed service costings than required by their main customers , the district health authorities , who were limited to the less information costly block contracts during the first year of the internal market . |
| 19 | Many nationalized industries , which long posed problems for governments , not least in pay negotiations , were floated to the private sector . |
| 20 | Reports on Jan. 22 said that the recently privatized Muslim Commercial Bank Ltd and the Agricultural Development Bank of Pakistan , a development finance organization , were to appeal to the Supreme Court against a ruling by an Islamic court banning bank interest [ see p. 38683-84 ] . |
| 21 | Female model crests were manipulated to a greater extent ( 24 mm ) than males ' ( 14mm ) because we suspected a priori that male mating preferences could be more difficult to detect . |
| 22 | This having been said , the consultation generated almost three times the volume correspondence as the last major consultation on the revision of the practice rules in 1990 , and roughly four times as many responses as were received in connection with the consultation on multi-disciplinary partnerships in 1987 ( although more local law society responses were received to the 1987 consultation ) . |
| 23 | Industrialized villages were naturally most numerous in the North and parts of the Midlands , but even in the South some nineteenth-century rural communities were sustained to a large extent by wages earned at a particular craft . |
| 24 | We were treated to a marvellous breakfast of bread , cheese and salami followed by ham and eggs and lashings of coffee … … … luxury ! |
| 25 | When the olive-skinned Valentino was seen kidnapping a white girl and taking her to his tent where he seduced her , cinema audiences were treated to a franker exposé of naked lust on the screen than they had ever seen before . |
| 26 | A flock of eight curlew rose and we were treated to a spectacular display flight of steep flapping rises , slow glides and bubbling trills . |
| 27 | We were treated to a pathetic song , whose sentiments we knew were real enough . |
| 28 | They were treated to a rare return to sparring in the middle of the street . |
| 29 | They were treated to a candlelit dinner , champagne , flowers and given £100 to spend . |
| 30 | THE children of Headley Playgroup were treated to a fancy dress Easter party on Friday of last week . |