Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] to [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Phonological features were eventually assigned to variants in order to construct these subscales , but the first step was to quantify the data in order to compare the patterns which emerged in different data batches . |
| 2 | Two Dutchmen , Hans Guyt and Willem Beekman , were eventually sent to prison for six weeks over this protest . |
| 3 | This was not merely through the intrinsic loss but also because family status and honour were intimately linked to possession of land . |
| 4 | Studies of five individual multi-plant firms by Peck and Townsend ( 1984 , 1987 ) showed how their reductions in employment were fundamentally related to changes in fairly specific market niches , but how the effect of any one factor in the future of a factory was usually contingent upon others . |
| 5 | Rival militant groups which had co-operated with the Indian forces were effectively relegated to politics in exile . |
| 6 | Patients were randomly allocated to groups for each test substance . |
| 7 | The Labour Party environmental spokesperson argued ( Evening Standard 9.8.89 ) that 800,000 tons of industrial waste were annually brought to Britain to be disposed of . |
| 8 | In this context , the material before the board indicated — ( 1 ) that investors were persuaded by company representatives employed by the Winchester Group to cancel their existing policies and to ‘ switch ’ to Norwich Union without their best interests and any disadvantages attendant upon so doing necessarily being considered ; ( 2 ) that other undesirable selling practices — for instance ‘ overselling ’ whereby investors are persuaded to take out a range of policies which they may not be able to afford in the long term — have been employed by company representatives selling on behalf of the Winchester Group ; ( 3 ) that the fact find forms completed by the Winchester Group for forwarding to Norwich Union were inadequate for the purposes of ensuring that products were only sold to investors on a ‘ best advice ’ basis ; ( 4 ) that the connections between Mr. Tee and Mr. Kissane ( a former director of the Winchester Group now awaiting trial on charges of theft of client moneys ) and also between the Winchester Group and Mr. Randhir Singh were such as to call into question the extent to which the controllers , directors and senior managers of the Winchester Group could be regarded as being of good character and competent or otherwise suitable to manage the marketing of investment contracts on behalf of Norwich Union and also whether the Winchester Group could be safely regarded as a fit and proper person for the purposes of enjoying appointed representative status ; ( 5 ) that policies had been sold by eight persons engaged by the Winchester Group who had not been appointed as company representatives of Norwich Union or in any other way authorised to sell investment contracts on behalf of Norwich Union and that other individuals who had been appointed as company representatives had not been registered as such with Lautro ; ( 6 ) that certain company representatives engaged by the Winchester Group appeared to be channelling client moneys through their own personal bank accounts . |
| 9 | However , the rise in pensions relative to incomes which occurred in most countries also increased the cost of not working — for the farsighted , at least — since pensions were generally linked to contributions from pay . |
| 10 | Innocent did not associate Philip with the murder , but relentlessly sought the true murderers who were finally brought to justice in Rome in April 1203 and sent to the Holy Land . |
| 11 | The indigenous population , comprising Christian Armenians and Islamic tribesmen of mainly Central Asian , Turkish and Persian origin , were alternately subjected to periods of persecution and forced conversion ( or extermination ) , depending on whether Christian Russia or one of the Islamic countries was in control ; this culminated in the widespread slaughter and deportation of the Armenians by the Turks during the First World War . |
| 12 | The doubts of some pre-war Labour leaders that the civil service would actually co-operate with a radical Labour government were largely laid to rest by the experience of the Attlee government . |
| 13 | Waist-hip ratio , age and body mass index were separately related to probability of conception per cycle . |
| 14 | When Diana joined the Stewart-Richardsons they were just coming to terms with a family tragedy . |
| 15 | The sky was a clear , pale dome , covered in the east by a flock of tiny clouds that were already turned to pink by the sun that was still concealed , that had not yet risen . |
| 16 | The results show that variations in profit margins were directly related to fluctuations in the level of demand for architectural services between 1971 and 1988 but that the liberalisations which occurred after 1982 have also acted to reduce the size of profit margins . |
| 17 | Yes I mean th th th th the fact that you 've got a whole range of problems an an and you , you were bound to come up against those problems if you try and define Marxist in a strict sense , and therefore you , you were always seeking to sort of make . |
| 18 | One adviser and one professional development teacher questioned whether arts HMI were genuinely committed to cooperation across the arts implicit in the concept of an aesthetic domain within the curriculum . |
| 19 | She was lifted bodily aboard by two sailors and carried down to a panelled cabin where she and Maria Candida were to live during the voyage ; and when she had been helped out of her clothes and into simpler garments that were more suited to life on board ship , she insisted upon going on deck to watch from the aftercastle as the mariners sang at the capstan and the anchors were weighed . |
| 20 | Gibraltar and Minorca remained in British hands throughout the war , and were formally transferred to Britain by the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713 . |
| 21 | Today at an emergency meeting with Union Leaders to discuss their future , they were still coming to terms with the shock of redundancy . |
| 22 | Mrs Adams said her four sons — Richard , nine , Stuart , five , Mark , two , and Thomas , 11 months — were still coming to terms with the loss of their father , a former Royal Air Force engineer whom she described as a happy , family man . |
| 23 | What was the surname of the Tory mother and son who were both elected to Parliament in 1983 ? |
| 24 | Thai saw-mill operators were also turning to loggers in Laos , Cambodia , Indonesia and Malaysia to replace their lost supplies . |
| 25 | On Thursday , three other Saudis were also put to death for robbing a bank vehicle . |
| 26 | Prizes were also awarded to REM for best international group and Walkers Nirvana for best international newcomers . |
| 27 | The continuing negotiations with commercial bank creditors were also linked to discussions with the " Paris Club " of creditor countries and with the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) for a replacement to the 15-month standby arrangement which expired in April 1990 [ see also p. 37140 ] . |
| 28 | one woman and a police officer — were later taken to hospital in Belfast . |
| 29 | They were originally brought to Britain by Northampton schoolmaster Gerald Smith . |
| 30 | They were originally brought to Britain by Northampton schoolmaster Gerald Smith . |