Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] were [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following incubation , the reactions were subjected to SDS-PAGE with subsequent autoradiography . |
| 2 | Despite cries for help and shouted warnings that some of the prisoners were suffocating to death , the cell door was not opened until two hours later . |
| 3 | The Scots were put to flight with heavy casualties , and Berwick surrendered . |
| 4 | The defendants were sentenced to prison terms ranging from one year ( suspended ) to life . |
| 5 | The immediate outcome of the failure of the Triple Alliance was that the miners were left to fight alone . |
| 6 | Our study has the strengths that the sample sizes were large , the measurements have been carefully standardised , the fieldworkers were trained to measure lung function in a standard manner , and a large number of possible confounding variables were included in the analyses . |
| 7 | Each of the antibodies were applied to tissue sections for one hour at room temperature , and the sites of bound antibody shown by the APAAP technique . |
| 8 | The visitors were treated to rice and betel . |
| 9 | However , these latest elections confirmed the existing schism between republics : the ruling communists were rejected in favour of nationalist parties in Bosnia-Hercegovina and Macedonia ( as in Slovenia and Croatia in April ) , but in Serbia ( with over 40 per cent of the country 's population ) and Montenegro the communists were returned to power with huge majorities . |
| 10 | Eventually he reached Kirwan and was assured that no South Africans would be involved and that the match has some sanctity as the proceeds were to go to child cancer research — not that that dissuaded some cynics from suggesting that some players may have taken their share . |
| 11 | I was not prepared to disrupt our rest day schedules for routine work , although when on a special operation or in an emergency we often had to do just this and all the crews were conditioned to flexibility in special circumstances . |
| 12 | This ‘ charter ’ was put in place shortly after the Conservatives were returned to power . |
| 13 | The Conservatives were returned to power for the fourth election in a row with 42 per cent or more of the popular vote . |
| 14 | Despite presiding over large-scale unemployment the Conservatives were returned to office by huge majorities . |
| 15 | A left-wing party outside government had , for some time , been calling for the workers to seize factories and , when they found themselves shut out by the closing of firms by management in the Bosses ' strike , the workers were prompted to action They seized firms and , having taken them over , set up a cordón in the area . |
| 16 | Last year an estimated 800 people from the slums built around the factories were burned to death when a pipe passing under their homes started spewing gasoline . |
| 17 | He said that last year £30,000 worth of produce had been lost in similar incidents and urged the Prime Minister to give an assurance that he would approach the French government to ensure that the culprits were brought to justice and that compensation was paid to all the British firms which had lost cash . |
| 18 | The taxpayers were assessed to income tax on the cash equivalent of an amount equal to the cost of the benefit less the amount made good by the employee under s 61(1) , FA 1976 . |
| 19 | The taxpayers were assessed to Schedule E income tax for the years from 1983–84 to 1985–86 on the basis that under the concessionary scheme they had received benefits that were to treated as ‘ emoluments ’ of their employment under section 61 of the Act of 1976 , the cash equivalent of such benefit being chargeable to income tax in accordance with the provisions of section 63 of the Act . |
| 20 | Finally the figures were related to type of preventive approach . |
| 21 | A substantial army marched on London , and although it was defeated and the leaders were put to death , to do so the King had to divert the force which was being prepared for the campaign in Scotland ( 73 , pp. 14–16 ) . |
| 22 | The single women who hitherto had been considered a good influence on the girls were relegated to obscurity whilst the married heterosexual women were left to emerge as the ( acceptable and healthy ) role models . |
| 23 | Senior members marked the competitors ' cards and the caddies were allowed to practice on the course beforehand ! |
| 24 | By the 1660s all the islands were committed to sugar and the white planters were taking drastic steps to prevent their white employees from leaving the islands and tilting the population balance still further towards the black slaves , but this of course made white employees all the more determined to avoid going to the West Indies . |
| 25 | On the one hand , while two-thirds of the females were introduced to heroin by their male partner , that is , husband or boyfriend , none of the males were introduced to it by their female partner . |
| 26 | After an international outcry , the sentences were commuted to life imprisonment , and the couple were adopted as prisoners of conscience by Amnesty International . |
| 27 | Before it was over , knuckle-dusters had been used and two of the combatants were taken to hospital . |
| 28 | The helicopter and a standby vessel spotted a flare set off by the crew and stayed in the vicinity until the men were winched to safety by an RAF helicopter . |
| 29 | The men were taken to hospital but none was in a serious condition . |
| 30 | Doug McCarthy had bagged a hat trick … the Wildcats … were reeling … the Kings were skating to success … |