Example sentences of "and [noun pl] [be] [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had fasted and prayed , desperately seeking the answer to why men such as Implexion succeeded in life , at the expense of others , and noble men such as Dauntless 's peers and superiors were doomed to failure . |
| 2 | This Act was repealed by the new Labour government in 1974 and in legislation in 1975 and 1976 , further rights and immunities were granted to trade unions . |
| 3 | Political activity was banned and Koreans were subordinated to Japanese at all levels of administrative activity . |
| 4 | Investigators and subjects were blinded to insulin type and the insulins were given in random order . |
| 5 | Freehold and long leasehold land and buildings are revalued to market value at intervals not exceeding five years . |
| 6 | Output is accordingly lower than it would have been under conditions of perfect competition , and resources are diverted to alternative , less valuable uses . |
| 7 | Some 22 demonstrators and activists were brought to trial at the Beijing municipal intermediate court on Jan. 5 and 26 , in connection with the pro-democracy demonstrations which ended in the government crackdown in Tiananmen Square on June 4 , 1989 [ see pp. 36720-22 ] . |
| 8 | Oxides of nitrogen are reduced to harmless nitrogen , and the carbon monoxide and hydrocarbons are oxidized to carbon dioxide and water , as before . |
| 9 | Burning oil which had leaked from the tanker , the Agip Abruzzo , engulfed the ferry and all except one of the ferry 's crew and passengers were burned to death or drowned . |
| 10 | The general principle of the Government 's policy is clear : we will ensure that people who commit fraud and swindles are brought to book through the courts . |
| 11 | For example , Friedan ( 1983 ) believed that it was the ‘ feminine mystique ’ which prevented women from leading successful public lives ; the education system was partly to blame for the ideology of the feminine mystique , but equally the solution for women who were trapped in their roles as wives and mothers was to return to college to obtain an education . |
| 12 | Born in Canada , but now spending most of his time charging around the world getting into trouble , Watson is a young radical determined to stop animals such as whales and seals being hunted to extinction . |
| 13 | A take note was issued allowing exploration to start at once and men were set to work in December of 1823 . |
| 14 | The troubled relations between the Serbian and the majority ethnic Albanian populations in the autonomous province of Kosovo suffered a further setback in late March , after an incident on March 22 in which some 400 students and schoolchildren were rushed to hospital with symptoms thought to be consistent with poisoning . |