Example sentences of "and were [adv] [verb] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor does the issue of life and death rest only with your estate , as we have well seen in the fate of those earls lately in dispute with the king 's Grace who fell into the hands of certain lawless gatherings of commoners , and were shortly done to death . |
| 2 | They were , however , an all-White group , operating without directly involving parents and were generally committed to specialist care in the community . |
| 3 | The 1977 Porchester report published figures provided by MAFF to indicate the potential loss of agricultural production if 16,000 hectares of Exmoor stayed as rough sheep grazing and were not converted to grassland . |
| 4 | Checking their activities to see that they were confining themselves to local products , and were not turning to smuggling was very difficult until improvements in transport and in the structure of government meant that the vast majority of imports paid duty . |
| 5 | Gibraltar and Minorca remained in British hands throughout the war , and were formally transferred to Britain by the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713 . |
| 6 | Their numbers have dropped noticeably in the last five years and very dramatically since the 1880s , when 70 per cent of all cattle in the Netherlands were Groningens while Friesians represented only 18 per cent and were mainly restricted to Friesland and Drenthe . |
| 7 | They had been shocked by the ‘ reality ’ they had come across and were more committed to action . |
| 8 | Phages from plaques that gave rise to identical signals on both filters were purified by another round of plating and screening and were then subcloned to Bluescript plasmids according to the manufacturer 's ( Stratagene ) instructions . |