Example sentences of "[noun pl] were [verb] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government in January 1990 gave up its attempt to join the Union monétaire ouest africaine ( UMOA ) , whose members ' currencies were linked to the French franc , and decided to turn to Portugal for help to make its currency convertible . |
| 2 | In the 17-month period from March 1980 to August 1981 alone , 15 units were connected to the national grid . |
| 3 | While £2,200 of the project funds were allocated to the main theme , £300 was reserved for use by the science department , whose pioneering work in integrating study skills within lower-school science teaching was acknowledged as an important base to build upon . |
| 4 | Thanks were expressed to the retiring Executive Committee members Mrs. Vi Billington , Miss Jean Glass and Mrs. Cicely Harris and a warm welcome extended to the new committee members : |
| 5 | Thanks were expressed to the Diocesan Liturgy Commission who arranged the day . |
| 6 | In brief , subjects were admitted to the metabolic unit on the evening before study and overnight glucose control was achieved by monitored intravenous insulin infusion . |
| 7 | His shirt hung open as he sat again , and Theda 's eyes were riveted to the long column of his neck , the golden glow of his chest below it . |
| 8 | Despite a flaring anger at this impertinence her eyes were drawn to the strong column of his throat as he swallowed . |
| 9 | Jimmy 's eyes were drawn to the garish reflection of neon on the pavement outside a working-men 's club . |
| 10 | I saw white wool carpets on the gleaming floor and also glimpsed clothing of the costliest taffeta , lace and cambric , but my eyes were drawn to the great silk-draped four-poster bed . |
| 11 | All eyes were glued to the swinging schoolbag . |
| 12 | Our eyes were glued to the large plate into which she was placing the cooked ones . |
| 13 | His gallops have always impressed me but after a couple of disappointing runs on the flat his attentions were turned to the all-weather surfaces . |
| 14 | Last night , he must have done about three grams of the white stuff , plus cognac to stop the shakes , plus not going to bed all night , plus having to behave like a serious grown-up with his trainer and make sure his homes were going to the right races in the right countries at the right time , plus a screaming anxiety attack about his father and Butler and the mess his life was in , plus the horrific combined effects of the morning and the country air . |
| 15 | ( It is interesting to note that freshwater pearls were known to the Chinese by the beginning of the first millennium B.C. ) |
| 16 | Developments in recent months were reported to the General Assembly by UNTCOK . |
| 17 | In 1991/92 questionnaires were sent to the general practitioners . |
| 18 | Questionnaires were sent to the general practitioners of all these patients in 1991/1992 . |
| 19 | The Bosnians were taken to the old terminal , on a little used part of the airport , and then transferred by coach to centres in Surrey , West London and a new centre in Dewsbury , Yorkshire , which took 60 from the latest flight . |
| 20 | Cabinet posts were given to the centre-right Haitian Christian Democratic Party ( PDCH ) and the right-wing Mobilization for National Development ( MDN ) party , as well as to Panpra , to strengthen Bazin 's claim that he headed a genuine coalition government . |
| 21 | However , four smaller parties were also represented , and six posts were allocated to the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola ( UNITA ) , including one of Cabinet rank and the post of Deputy Minister of Defence . |
| 22 | Britain 's High Commissioner and ambassadors of the United States and other countries were called to the Foreign Ministry in Valletta to be told . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The Runefangs were presented to the ruling Emperor who divided them between the Elector counts . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Ambulance crews were tending to the injured . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |