Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] [noun sg] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | White settlers often objected to the reserves because they were thereby denied access to farming land , and in some areas the size of the reserves was scaled down to meet their demands . |
| 2 | But supposing X-rays were normally displayed back to front or the way one looked at the person ? |
| 3 | Below , in the mathematician 's trench , they were already fighting hand to hand . |
| 4 | Apples were also taken west to Greece and Italy , and Homer refers to them in The Odyssey , which was written between 900 and 800 BC . |
| 5 | But that is explained , partly , by the fact that Mike did the negotiations himself and they were often done face to face with Jefferson . |
| 6 | Gros Espiell , who was later named ambassador to France , denied that his decision was connected with the referendum result , but his departure was seen as a further blow to the government . |
| 7 | In the same period a peasant group calling itself the Union of the True was also advocating opposition to taxes . |
| 8 | In addition , this was at a time when Coenwulf , king of the Mercians , was also giving protection to opponents of Eardwulf . |