Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [adv] [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two girls who were travelling in the car were both taken to hospital . |
| 2 | There were reports in late 1989 of maltreatment of prisoners at the Yaoundé central prison , where in December two former Army officers imprisoned after the 1984 coup attempt were reportedly beaten to death . |
| 3 | In coeliac disease patients who had not been treated both total and nephrogenous cAMP urinary excretion were inversely related to serum calcium values ( r=-0.759 , p<0.05 ; r=-0.876 , p<0.01 ) . |
| 4 | Mellowed by two bottles of beer , he was convinced that Hank was telling the truth ; his mind was already going to work considering how to double that forty thousand . |
| 5 | Major 's partner in crime was later stabbed to death during another raid . |
| 6 | Though this term was originally applied to invasion of the visceral tissues of an animal by parasites whose natural hosts were other animals , it has now , in common usage , come to represent this type of invasion in humans alone and , in particular , by the larvae of Toxocara canis . |
| 7 | The wind was now gusting to Force 11 and visibility still poor . |
| 8 | Although the inverted-U and the more specific Yerkes-Dodson law were initially related to task performance generally , they have frequently been assumed to predict the same pattern of results with performance in memory tasks . |
| 9 | Details of the peace plan were also communicated to coalition leaders and to Iran , but were not immediately made public . |
| 10 | This was not merely through the intrinsic loss but also because family status and honour were intimately linked to possession of land . |
| 11 | When the weaving stage of manufacture was finally adapted to steam power , mills were erected in the hillside villages alongside the homes of the workforce . |
| 12 | Reference was earlier made to work of Abrams ( in Bulmer , 1986 ) whose findings and commentary on this issue are equally illuminating . |
| 13 | If he countenanced a philosophy of sadism , it was the more dangerous in that its stimulus was closely allied to puritan susceptibilities . |
| 14 | The child was also taken to hospital but was later discharged . |
| 15 | The social historian can now fit this slump into the wider pattern of events that was to add up to the Great Depression but at the time motion-picture executives in production and distribution were more given to introspection than to socio-economic analysis . |
| 16 | In these 10 subjects , it was determined whether the non-deglutitive pressure waves in the oesophageal body were temporally related to phase 3 of the migrating motor complex . |
| 17 | He understood only too well why the marquis was so attracted to Topaz Chilcott . |
| 18 | The weapon was originally designed to arm submarines ; it is 53 cm in diameter , the dimensions of torpedo tubes . |
| 19 | Particular attention was also paid to user convenience . |
| 20 | Variation in peak expiratory flow was significantly related to number of discrepancies and number of missing days , and anxiety score was significantly related to number of missing days . |
| 21 | Starting as a mess orderly , Lore was eventually transferred to North Wales . |
| 22 | The community was now devoted to coffee growing , subsistence plots had disappeared and internal differentiation was taking place . |
| 23 | However , traffic on the line declined in the 20th century and both it and the Citadel Station were eventually closed to passenger services in 1947 , although the larger North Leith Station did not close to passengers until 1962 . |
| 24 | The adaptation was then dispatched to Sky Television . |
| 25 | Forney was then sold to Air Products Inc. , a Carlsbad , New Mexico corporation which produced a further ten examples , plus a one-off retractable version capable of 140 mph , before going bankrupt themselves ! |
| 26 | Rough speculation was rapidly converted to law . |
| 27 | Darwin at the end of one of his books wrote that according to the unchanging world of his critics , there had been the fall of man into sinfulness and mankind were forever doomed to hopelessness , whereas in his ( Darwin 's ) theory of evolution , man had come from an inferior form , and because of this continuous progress , he commands a limitless potential . |
| 28 | The exchange rate policy was highly damaging to manufacturing . |
| 29 | His 17 year-old brother who was not a miner was also sent to prison after the police claimed that he would ‘ support his brother ’ if released . |
| 30 | After Brunel 's death , and in more prosperous times , work was recommenced on a modified design , as a tribute to the great man whose career as an independent engineer had begun with this project , and the bridge was finally opened to traffic in 1864 . |