Example sentences of "they were [vb pp] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their chances of success were far less where they were relegated to the position of enactor or mere facilitator , as some were . |
| 2 | Revealingly , its opening section was devoted to foreign affairs ; in all three Thatcher manifestos , including the one in 1983 following the Falklands war , they were relegated to the back , and domestic policy took pride of place . |
| 3 | So both boys went to the state school in spite of Father Michael at St Oswald 's , but it was a hollow victory because twice a week , once after school , once on Saturdays , they were sent to the Convent to learn catechism off the nuns so they would grow up good Catholics after all . |
| 4 | Then they were sent to the camp at Drancy , and from there they were put on trains and sent to Auschwitz to be gassed . |
| 5 | Court dress was the particular form of costume worn by ladies when they were presented to the monarch . |
| 6 | The two countries would be fighting each other , on and off , for 22 years ; and there were those , like Benjamin Titford , born in 1786 , who lived through nothing but wars and rumours of wars from the day they were born to the day they died . |
| 7 | In the latest they were called to the home of a man in his early 20s in Frenchgate , Richmond , but found they needed more equipment so took him back to the Richmond Fire Station and released the cuffs with a hacksaw and vice . |
| 8 | Hampshire Police confirmed yesterday that they were called to the scene of a fight outside the Captain 's Corner nightspot in Southampton around midnight . |
| 9 | Now , in the Middle Minoan , they were geared to the production of surpluses . |
| 10 | They were referred to the clinic by their doctors in Greece or the Middle East , and looked horrified when I said there was no lift and they had to walk down seventeen stairs to the basement . |
| 11 | Joanne began to focus on what she could see as the positive aspects of the new approach , and while she did not specifically identify them as such , they were related to the process objectives within the scheme of work . |
| 12 | At the head of the left transept is a very early Christian sarcophagus which held the remains of San Celso until , in 1935 , they were transferred to the Crucifixion chapel . |
| 13 | The aircraft was requested by coastguards after they were alerted to the drama off the coast of the Isle of Man . |
| 14 | Indeed , none of these statements , apart from two short but damning extracts from Zaidie 's statement which the prosecution put into evidence , came to light at all ( and consequently were not available to the Court of Appeal ) until 20 July 1990 , three days before the presentation of the petition for special leave to appeal , when they were furnished to the defendant 's advisers at the insistence of Mr. Guthrie who had by then been instructed on behalf of the Crown . |
| 15 | That authority arranged for them to be temporarily fostered by a local doctor and three months later , in December 1984 , they were moved to the home of their first permanent foster parents . |
| 16 | They were tied to the land , but their daughter would n't be . |
| 17 | It highlights any modules outside LIFESPAN which are at a lower version than currently held within LIFESPAN i.e. modules which have been updated in LIFESPAN since they were withdrawn to the directory of interest . |
| 18 | The cartoons caused outrage when they were leaked to the press last week . |
| 19 | You know we could 've We limited They were limited to the intake , but we could have er increased I think . |
| 20 | Overall he used the phrase in nine letters between 1101 and 1106 , always in relation to papal policy : they were written to the pope and cardinals , to Hugh of Lyons , to the count of Flanders , to the king of Jerusalem , to Henry I , and to the prior of Canterbury in describing the condition on which the pope had agreed to give absolution to the count of Meulan . |
| 21 | Evidently Jordan could not trust even its old clients , unless they were bound to the East Bank by powerful economic considerations . |
| 22 | This in fact transpired , and the Naval crew were further fortunate in being picked up safely after ditching in the sea ; they were transported to the island . |
| 23 | Only , hers were so bad they were consigned to the back of the sideboard behind the huge glittery cards that came through the post . |
| 24 | He did not wear them : they were nailed to the scenery above where he sat , like an immense butterfly impaled against the wood . |
| 25 | Rather like the three-headed CERBERUS who guarded HADES , the Devourer attended MAAT , the Egyptian goddess of Truth , who assessed the dead before they were admitted to the afterlife . |
| 26 | She and her two companions worked half the night in trying to come up with an answer , but as Dino 's car was working perfectly they were forced to the conclusion that the problem did not lie in their department , even though this was fiercely disputed by the rest of the Carlisle Flint team . |
| 27 | They were driven to the party in Peckham at about midnight . |
| 28 | It was natural that the original biological positivists should focus exclusively on the criminal , since they were committed to the view that the causes of crime were to be found in the individual 's biological make-up . |
| 29 | They were delivered to the woman concerned by Edouard de Chavigny 's English manservant , without any accompanying message . |
| 30 | Whether or not they were promoted to the level of policy disagreement , everyone knows precisely what differences of opinion exist between Number 10 and Number 11 . |