Example sentences of "[noun pl] were [verb] [prep] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Regular Army units were despatched from Turkmenia to help restore order . |
| 2 | Concentrations were derived by reference to a standard curve ( Behring Diagnostics ) . |
| 3 | Education , moreover , was tending to reduce those differences that still remained ; the proportion of children receiving their education through Russian was steadily increasing , and Russian-speaking Tatars were found in turn to be more favourably disposed towards internationality contact in their home and workplace . |
| 4 | Between 1940 and 1944 some 76,000 Jews were deported from France to death camps ; 2,600 survived . |
| 5 | SIR — In early 1991 , about 15,000 Jews were airlifted from Ethiopia to Israel . |
| 6 | Two crates containing 1,000 Garter snakes were shipped from Miami to London . |
| 7 | In 1930 , all four cars were sent in turn to Hendon , where in addition to being brought into line with No. 32 , they were rebuilt similar to the six ‘ M Type ’ cars ( which see ) . |
| 8 | In part , these relationships were secured by appeal to the historical method . |
| 9 | TWO lorry drivers were stung from head to foot by thousands of angry bees yesterday . |
| 10 | Since confidence ratings were obtained in addition to Yes/No responses it is possible to plot ROC curves for either subjects or stimuli and hence calculate separate measures of recognition sensitivity ( i.e. the ability of subjects to discriminate targets from distractors ) and response criterion bias ( i.e. the tendency to give particular types of response independently of any knowledge a subject has as to whether a film was a target or distractor ) . |
| 11 | Even so their contribution to the mechanisms whereby the new images were translated from theory to practice needs to be recognized . |
| 12 | Disaffected Cantarero supporters were considered by observers to be a danger to future constitutional order . |
| 13 | Even though reactionary voices were raised in opposition to this , both in Parliament and by some campaigners , ( particularly the National Schizophrenia Fellowship , who wished to reverse the policy on the basis of the misguided notion that this would remove the problem of homeless , drifting , mentally disordered people ) , the disasters of the past thirty years of unplanned discharge can not be reversed by bolting the stable door now . |
| 14 | These barriers were identified by references to those outlined in the 1985 White Paper , " Completing the Internal Market " , and by a series of surveys of businesses in the EC . |
| 15 | However , on Jan. 17 Iran released 53 sick and wounded Iraqi PoWs , 50 of whom were returned to Iraq ( the remaining three seeking political asylum in Iran ) , and on Jan. 18 , 20 sick and wounded Iranian PoWs were returned by Iraq to Iran . |
| 16 | The trials were explained in detail to all the local , regional , and district authorities and paramount chiefs , who gave their approval . |
| 17 | The visitors were covered from head to foot in over-ripe whale bits . |
| 18 | Stalin 's argument was part of a broader one that he derived from Lenin : the right of national self-determination was valid only where countries were passing from feudalism to capitalism . |
| 19 | And in one experiment rats were exposed throughout infancy to the music of either Mozart or Schoenberg and then given musical preference tests in adulthood ( with the result that animals brought up on Mozart showed a definite preference for that music , whereas the Schoenberg-reared group gave no indication of a hankering after the familiar music ! ) . |
| 20 | Prisoners-of-war , wandering free men , peasants and natives were mobilized from time to time into detachments of foreign servicemen ( Litva ) or cossacks , and there were service gentry from European Russia stationed in the region for periods of several years . |
| 21 | Between 1975-85 , 82 sea eagles were imported from Norway to be reintroduced into Scotland . |
| 22 | IN the past , attention has been focused on the problems of the chronology of civil defences and less thought has been directed at the reasons for these defences and why some settlements were chosen in preference to others . |
| 23 | For the same reason , there was no obstruction of the highway — the miners were getting from home to colliery far more quickly than normal , thanks to the chauffeur and the VIP escort . |
| 24 | The wagons were taken by traverser to the Wagon Shop for final coats of paint and the completed wagons were taken to the Gravel Sidings where they were brake and steam tested ( if fitted with same ) . |
| 25 | Many patients from eight practices in two of the zones were referred for examination to an adjacent district because radiology facilities were nearer . |
| 26 | One should remember , however , that similar criticisms were levied at delegates to the Church Congresses of the period . |
| 27 | On March 4 representatives of the major domestic companies were summoned by Suharto to a special audience where he strongly reiterated his proposals . |
| 28 | Under a modified form of proportional representation , seats were allocated in proportion to votes won within each of these multi-member constituencies . |
| 29 | Stated briefly , these theories argued that employees would demonstrate high levels of effort and performance if their social and intellectual growth needs were met in addition to the desire for mere financial reward . |
| 30 | But he could also be dismayed if Christians were heard by pagans to be talking nonsense about nature . |