Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [adv prt] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Twenty-five per cent of decisions reviewed were changed , 57% were referred back to the local office and in 18% of cases the original decision was confirmed . |
| 2 | In 1986 , 38 students were enrolled on to the parallel track , but during the next academic year something unexpected happened . |
| 3 | Fig. 3 showed that the clones of RAP74 whose C-terminal sequences were deleted up to the 171th amino acid residue ( lanes 2,3 and 4 ) stimulated the CAT activity to the same extent as the wild type clone , but further deletion of the C-terminal sequence up to the 128th residue resulted in a complete loss of the CAT activity ( lane 5 ) . |
| 4 | Debts were carried on to the next account ; there was certainly none of the easy attitude of the old 17th Century German masters who regularly wrote workers ' debts off . |
| 5 | The last two boxes were lifted on to the small boat , the men who strained under their weight cursing as they completed their task . |
| 6 | Most of their funds were lent back to the personal sector . |
| 7 | The rest were written off to the Chinese , who did not take kindly to violation of their air-space . |
| 8 | He and Mum were moved out to the new estate . |
| 9 | However , fourteenth-century people were sometimes buried with a purchased Indulgence , and there is at the Ashmolean Museum , Oxford , a small latten figure , not much more than four inches high , of a man in a winding-sheet which might have been enclosed within the folds of the shroud , in the same way that stamped leaden crosses were used up to the seventeenth century , to foil Satan 's attempts to claim the deceased 's soul as his own ; the date of manufacture of the Ashmolean item is indeterminate , but it seems doubtful that such an item would have been produced much after c.1550 . |
| 10 | The nails on the hand clutching the pen were bitten down to the quick — always a sign of savagery . |
| 11 | I remind the Minister that , when the National Bus Company subsidiaries were sold off to the private sector , the first thing that the private company did in many instances was to get rid of the management because of its dissatisfaction with it . |
| 12 | RECRUITS were bused in to the strike-hit Timex factory in Dundee yesterday , replacements for some of the 300 workers sacked during the dispute . |
| 13 | In the Fox case many people connected with the convicted man were hauled on to the national stage by the popular press . |
| 14 | According to a member of the Lebanese Security Services they were transferred to Libya , where the RCF had its headquarters , and on Jan. 8 the Phalangist Radio Free Lebanon reported that Walid Khaled , the RCF spokesman in Lebanon , said they had been " moved to a friendly country in preparation " ; on Jan. 12 Sa'id was paroled and sent to Libya , and the hostages were handed over to the Belgian government . |
| 15 | Mr. Mason remained with the Tramway companies , but the three electric-lighting offices and show rooms were handed over to the new authority . |
| 16 | The building and the organisation were handed over to the new body of Guardians of the Bedford Poor Law Union , on November 7th 1836 . |
| 17 | The transcripts were handed over to the Serious Fraud Office , and duly and properly given to the defendants in the criminal proceedings . |
| 18 | The six trains for which the LMS were responsible were handed over to the Military authorities in less than three weeks . |
| 19 | Two engines from Weeley and Clacton were called out to the reported barn fire just before 8 pm , but they soon realised they would need reinforcements , including the rescue tender from Colchester . |
| 20 | It was n't until the ninth week that orders finally came through and they were called back to the man-made square . |
| 21 | They were crossed over to the opposite treatment after a fourth assessment ; patients and investigators then chose blindly the more effective gas for the dyspnoea . |
| 22 | When the Dutch Texel × Welsh Mule females were crossed back to the Dutch Texel the E grade level increased to 60% . |
| 23 | One Monday night around midnight , some thirty-five vans had been brought up from New Clee sidings , pushed down Melhuish 's Jetty , loaded up , and were brought back to the middle road alongside Fish Dock Road . |
| 24 | Approximately one hour later , they were brought back to the same room and asked to retell the story again . |
| 25 | The Free Miners of the Forest of Dean were brought in to the general election campaign today , with a warning that their livelihoods could be ruined by imports of cheap foreign coal . |
| 26 | The C3 was built at Aeronca 's Lunken Airport , Cincinnati , plant , and in 1936 , 16 were shipped over to the delightfully- named Aeroplane Exchange & Mart Limited of Hanworth Air Park . |
| 27 | In this year the Japanese were driven on to the defensive , with the increasing damage to their shipping creating shortages in essential foodstuffs and vital petrol supplies . |
| 28 | In London every magistrates ' court and police station had a collecting box and proceeds were dealt out to the needy , often those appearing on charges . |
| 29 | Moreover , the SPOs — who were intended to be the key link between ‘ bottom-up ’ development and strategic planning — had large managerial responsibilities and were grafted on to the developmental CMHT model rather than being key initiators of it . |
| 30 | By 1975 the Worcester project was ‘ well under way ’ , and by 1979 all the beds and hospital places , which were provided up to the prescribed national levels proportional to the catchment population , had been opened . |