Example sentences of "[det] [was/were] [verb] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reasons for this were linked to the financial relationship between central and local government . |
| 2 | Many of the vehicles found their way back to the West , some were delivered to the Middle East and some to the Soviet Union . |
| 3 | Young people approaching the age when they would no longer be the formal responsibility of the local authorities became the primary consumers of residential care for several reasons : first , many had been placed with a family and temporary readmission to residential care was needed when such placements broke down ; second , some did not wish to join a new family and preferred group living amongst other young people and appointed caregivers ; and third , some were admitted to a residential setting for help with specific problems or as part of a strategy to prepare them for independent living . |
| 4 | There had always been bad blood between Robert and Edward Bruce ; now this was transmitted to the next generation apparently . |
| 5 | This was announced to the waiting press and supporters by Dr Helen Martini , who was to play an important role in the fight to get the children home in the weeks that followed . |
| 6 | This was given to the DC-10 as ‘ 51 , you are cleared to FL180 ’ but was miss-heard by the Concorde as ‘ 01 , you are cleared to FL180 ’ . |
| 7 | But this was limited to the eastern half of the county since the Lord Lieutenant , the Duke of Richmond , felt that it would interfere with the traditional authority of the magnates , and local opinion in the west deferred to this view until 1856 . |
| 8 | In intact experimental animals prostacyclin has a vasodepressor effect and this was observed to an equal degree when injected intravenously or intra-arterially ( Armstrong et al , 1978 ) . |
| 9 | Beset with cooling and undercarriage problems , the Keiun made one flight only , on May 8 , 1945 and this was brought to a premature close by high engine temperatures . |
| 10 | The ribbon is 1¼″ wide and was originally of violet and white alternate horizontal stripes , although as with the AFC this was changed to a diagonal format in July 1919 . |
| 11 | None of this was known to the British at the time . |
| 12 | This was attributed to a growing realization of the extent of the economic malaise and the need for painful measures . |
| 13 | This was preferred to the normal process of simply making the hair greyer , and the stars did not like the set of wigs that was originally intended to be used . |
| 14 | Another was attachéd to the French embassy in Madrid in 1841 ; and there is some record of a corresponding Spanish appointment in Paris three years later . |
| 15 | Another was attached to a high pressure gas cylinder . |
| 16 | Much was owed to the small Radical party , which collected the necessary 500,000 signatures to obtain a referendum on the issue . |
| 17 | Pickups are Höfner 's ‘ Super Response ’ double-pole types , with their slightly ‘ art deco ’ look ; these were fitted to the early versions only , and were subsequently changed around 1961 to the DeLuxe versions , which resembled the generic American humbucker … |
| 18 | These were committed to a balanced or cross-bench political outlook and have been uneasy with the Prime Minister 's zeal , certainty , and forcefulness . |
| 19 | These were submitted to the Central Insecticides Board , Faridabad , upon the authority 's request . |
| 20 | There was little individual choice of coffin , linings or handles ; all was left to the aesthetic judgement of the undertaker , and the client was rarely asked to express his views . |
| 21 | Algeria on May 9 , 1989 , expelled nine ETA members to Cape Verde , and several more were flown to the Dominican Republic in September [ for April 1989 expulsions see p. 36597 ; for November 1986 agreement by Algeria to accept ETA members see p. 35800 ] . |
| 22 | ISAAC NEWTON , Franz Kafka and Winston Churchill were , as infants , united in common misfortune : physically puny and starved of parental love , each was condemned to a lifelong wrestle with potentially annihilating depression . |
| 23 | In December 1942 an Inspectorate of Eastern Troops was set up to supervise the formation and training of the proliferating military units ; but each was subordinated to a German unit ; and although an officer 's academy was established at Mariumpol , Lithuania ( later Conflans , France ) , the units were never assembled into tactical formations , and were largely posted on occupation duties to Western and Southern Europe . |
| 24 | But when his second wife Wendy became ill , incurring extra expenses , that was cut to a nominal five pence a year . |
| 25 | All that was added to the loose intergovernmental structure of Brussels was a Consultative Assembly , whose function would be performed by the relevant national delegates to the Common Assembly of the Council of Europe . |
| 26 | Neither was listening to the other talk and I thought it would be a good moment to fetch the rhubarb tart . |
| 27 | Financial reformers were divided between the monetarists and distributionists , and both were relegated to the economic underworld in terms of their influence on the political establishment . |
| 28 | And , with its disintegration , both were driven to an increasing identification with German nationalism and the proposal for a merger of Austria and Germany . |