Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meager ( 1986 ) showed that in 1984 such employment strategies were widely applied in relation to personal service , office and manual workers and to some extent to the recruitment of managerial , technical and professional staff . |
| 2 | court of appeal decision : unfavourable medical reports obtained confidentially by a plaintiff for the purposes of personal injury litigation which were inadvertently disclosed on discovery to the defendant could be used by them at the trial . |
| 3 | As a general point banks in many countries were highly regulated in relation to deposits and lending conducted in their own domestic currency . |
| 4 | They suggested that by being out at night the young women had contributed in some way to their own rapes , even though they were merely returning by bus to their homes . |
| 5 | Some authorities were better organized in relation to UDG submissions , and some areas were simply not regarded as attractive to the market — even when UDG was taken into account . |
| 6 | On the whole , feminists throughout the period agreed that women were better suited by nature to home-related tasks than were men . |
| 7 | They all got totally zonkers and were like running from machine to machine making and Benguiat the , not Benguiat , Brillo , was yelling it should be like this all the time . |
| 8 | The Methodists were nonetheless going from strength to strength , and noting that they listened to ‘ hearty , racy , cutting and unctuous speeches which surely would never be forgotten . ’ |
| 9 | His mouth was wet and his eyes were still flicking from side to side . |
| 10 | The cattle that survived this vicious circle of pasture depletion were no doubt those that could make the most of small areas of rough grazing and it is likely that small , thrifty cattle were positively selected in preference to larger improved types which needed better feeding . |
| 11 | As a consequence , foreign ships were often chartered in preference to British . |
| 12 | The United Nations states that ‘ food supplies might be adequate if they were evenly distributed in relation to needs ’ . |
| 13 | Within each section of the company workers were now rotated from job to job automatically , regularly , and compulsorily , and this system covered a range of levels , not just the most de-skilled of the jobs . |
| 14 | The methods sections of the potentially relevant reports were then extracted with reference to results and identifying material ( authors , title , journal , institution , and country of origin ) removed . |
| 15 | Allen , the Vice President , stated that classifications as high , medium or low were then made with respect to each axis on the basis of collective judgement by corporate management . |
| 16 | The factors were then interpreted by reference to statements with loadings on them of 0·30 or more . |
| 17 | When I was a small boy , almost all cattle and sheep sold in the market were either transported by rail to Milford Goods Station or , if they came from farms within a six-mile or so radius , were driven on the hoof early in the morning . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's good for the American patrimony ’ , he says , explaining that when the tax advantage was removed , many important works that might have been donated were instead sold at auction to non-Americans whose countries have strict patrimony laws . |
| 19 | Meye et al reported that tight junctions in the canine gastric mucosa were significantly damaged by exposure to aspirin . |
| 20 | In addition , the Greek sculptures displayed in Rome had been removed from their intended context , and were therefore reproduced without reference to it . |
| 21 | Amina and Miriam were continually wandering from house to house in the compound , searching for something new to amuse themselves . |
| 22 | Arrested and interned by the Germans , Adair was eventually moved from Bayonne to Fresne . |
| 23 | As I shall explain in the next section , this earlier privileging of intellect was intimately connected with resistance to nominalism , and , in the seventeenth century nominalism triumphed . |
| 24 | Despite the obvious influence of Impressionism in the appearance of Walker 's pictures she also worked under the umbrella of ‘ decorative symbolism ’ — belonging more specifically to a tradition dominated by Puvis de Chavannes , which was authoritatively identified in relation to Augustus John by David Fraser Jenkins in his essay ‘ Slade School Symbolism ’ for the Barbican exhibition catalogue , the Last Romantics ( 1989 ) . |
| 25 | During the visit , which was highly publicized in contrast to previous visits [ for November 1989 visit see p. 37041 ] , Kim also toured cities and factories in Shandong and Jiangsu provinces . |
| 26 | It seems rather ironic that Stratford Mill , which was better placed for access to the transport system and a water supply , should be the first to go . |
| 27 | On the contrary , it was recognized that the system was divinely appointed from beginning to end . |
| 28 | The following method was used : ( a ) a date of interview ( nominated date ) was randomly selected from all 1096 days in the study period , ( b ) the control was then randomly allocated an age at which to be interviewed , ( c ) the date of birth was calculated from age and date of interview , ( d ) an obstetric hospital was randomly chosen in proportion to the number of births in 1986 , and ( e ) random numbers were used to select a particular infant from those born on the date of birth in the nominated obstetric hospital . |
| 29 | The moral gulf between the households was soon judged by Nana to be impassable . |
| 30 | The selection criteria used were the same for all patients — namely , each patient was individually assessed with respect to general fitness for function of the anal sphincter . |