Example sentences of "[noun pl] were [verb] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Britain 's High Commissioner and ambassadors of the United States and other countries were called to the Foreign Ministry in Valletta to be told . |
| 32 | Antisera against C/EBP δ/NF-IL6; β and anti-IL6DBP antibodies were added to the binding reaction , as indicated in the Materials and Methods section . |
| 33 | Many young notables were attracted to the new ideologies then current in the Arab world , notably the Communist Party ( the only party of any significance to have opposed the erasure of ‘ Palestine ’ from the Jordanian maps ) , and the Ba'ath . |
| 34 | Certificates were awarded to the 63 girls who all passed at a variety of levels in the recent exams . |
| 35 | The upper tailplane featured the elevator , while trimming tabs were fitted to the lower shorter-span tailplane , the whole being well braced to the rear hull section . |
| 36 | Finance Minister Michael Wilson was forced to reveal full details of his 1989 budget a day early , on April 26 , 1989 , after major elements were leaked to the Global Television Network . |
| 37 | The Runefangs were presented to the ruling Emperor who divided them between the Elector counts . |
| 38 | This was no better reflected than in his creation of A Distant Drummer with its horrific theme of man 's inhumanity to man , where ritual warlike movements were applied to the jack-booted soldiers of Nazi Germany . |
| 39 | Another four mice were exposed to the same lamp with a glass cover on it . |
| 40 | Ambulance crews were tending to the injured . |
| 41 | Group directors and national directors were committed to the same goals . |
| 42 | The elections were conducted under a new electoral law passed by the NUP-controlled Assembly in October 1989 , under which additional seats were given to the larger parties , thus allowing them to gain the maximum number of seats with the minimum of votes . |
| 43 | In an attempt to preserve their authority , the Chiefs amended the Constitution — which was already heavily biased in favour of the rural rather than the urban population — so that only five of the 37 Melanesian lower chamber seats were allocated to the urban areas , where approximately one-third of the Melanesian population lived . |
| 44 | After the Dambusters raid on the Mona and Ida dams the photo- reconnaissance pilots were despatched to the dangerous airspace above them to assess the success of the mission . |
| 45 | One µl ( 25 pmoles ) of linkers were added to the double stranded cDNA together with 1 µl of 10 mM ATP and 1 Weiss unit of T4 DNA ligase . |
| 46 | New appointments were made to the key ministries of the Interior ( Abdellatif Rahal ) , Economy ( Hocine Benissad ) and Foreign Affairs ( Lakhdar Brahimi ) . |
| 47 | Lolium temulentum plants were grown to the full expansion of Leaf 5 under an 8-hour day-length regime . |
| 48 | When in the last quarter of the century , the natural history collections were moved to the new building in South Kensington , and had no longer to play second fiddle to the historical parts and the library , then the number of jobs increased and the scope for research improved . |
| 49 | This led to a public outcry , comparisons were made to the Nazi era and , in November , FDP ministers left the coalition . |
| 50 | I ca n't remember which days were allocated to the other rooms , but Friday , Kitchen-day , was unforgettable . |
| 51 | What happened during the years between circa 1880 and 1920 , was the beginning of a process whereby young workers were admitted to the public domain : their newly-defined significance meant that they required a new role , but one which had to be carefully circumscribed . |
| 52 | In July , for example , five Catholics were appointed to the Privy Council . |
| 53 | However , the Israeli High Court eventually endorsed the action and , in the early hours of Dec. 18 , the Palestinians were driven to the northern edge of Israel 's self-declared " security zone " in southern Lebanon and forced north into Lebanese-controlled territory . |
| 54 | The flight was from Paris to London , but because there was a strike in London affecting BEA 's Paris to London service a large number of British nationals were transferred to the Turkish DC-10 flight . |
| 55 | MNR officials disputed the government side 's assertion that all Zimbabwean troops were confined to the immediate area of the Beira and Limpopo corridors , a key provision of the Dec. 1 Rome agreement [ see p. 37909 ] . |
| 56 | The attacks were attributed to the banned Mouvement des forces démocratiques de la Casamance ( MFDC ) . |
| 57 | In an operation co-ordinated by the UN , four ferry boats were sent to the Albanian port of Durres and took the refugees to Brindisi in Italy , where special trains were waiting to take the majority to West Germany . |
| 58 | Boats were moored to the main bank , mostly small powerboats with a few dinghies . |
| 59 | Mattocks were taken to the ice-bound troughs . |
| 60 | Would it be better or worse for democracy if significant powers were transferred to the European level , away from national parliamentary control ? |