Example sentences of "were [verb] to the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Strange twists were given to the normal body of human nature , revealing that such freak developments are potentially in all of us all the time . |
| 3 | No details were given to the National Union or to the constituencies involved , so much hard work had to be done and much recrimination endured before the party could settle down to the campaign . |
| 4 | Some , mainly those of war time subjects and taken in the 30 's and 40's were given to the National Portrait Gallery , but the best were retained by the V. and A. |
| 5 | Like Leonard , they were given to the literary life . |
| 6 | TIPS on how to get the best all year round use from small greenhouses were given to the large audience attending a Bramshott , Liphook and District Horticultural Society evening . |
| 7 | At first starting on an ad hoc and ad hominem basis before the birth of the Romanov dynasty , the system of transporting the unwanted criminal detritus and the antisocial , nonconformist and subversive members of the Russian social and political order — both tsarist and Soviet — steadily generated a huge sprawling diaspora comprising millions of wretched human beings who were banished to the living purgatory of Siberian exile . |
| 8 | Such likely opponents of the economic strategy as Lord Carrington and Sir Ian Gilmour were banished to the Foreign Office while Francis Pym went to Defence . |
| 9 | These changes , which were limited to the big club sides , will be examined later in relation to media interest in sport . |
| 10 | They have had to develop more detailed service costings than required by their main customers , the district health authorities , who were limited to the less information costly block contracts during the first year of the internal market . |
| 11 | Many nationalized industries , which long posed problems for governments , not least in pay negotiations , were floated to the private sector . |
| 12 | Reports on Jan. 22 said that the recently privatized Muslim Commercial Bank Ltd and the Agricultural Development Bank of Pakistan , a development finance organization , were to appeal to the Supreme Court against a ruling by an Islamic court banning bank interest [ see p. 38683-84 ] . |
| 13 | This having been said , the consultation generated almost three times the volume correspondence as the last major consultation on the revision of the practice rules in 1990 , and roughly four times as many responses as were received in connection with the consultation on multi-disciplinary partnerships in 1987 ( although more local law society responses were received to the 1987 consultation ) . |
| 14 | Unless your doctor were to go to the additional trouble of writing on the prescription that he meant exactly what he had written , and was forbidding the chemist to substitute , you would get the cheapest product . |
| 15 | Finally we were referred to the recent decision of the House of Lords in Roy v. Kensington and Chelsea and Westminster Family Practitioner Committee [ 1992 ] 1 A.C. 624 . |
| 16 | Many undiagnosed patients with prostatic obstruction were referred to the renal unit . |
| 17 | All 18 appeared before magistrates in Kampala on May 7 and were referred to the High Court . |
| 18 | It was not appropriate for the son to care for her but it became too much for the daughter-in-law , who was admitted to psychiatric hospital with a nervous breakdown , and the problems were referred to the local area social service office . |
| 19 | In December 1982 Jim 's family started squatting in council housing and were referred to the social work department by the housing department . |
| 20 | Any of the casuals who showed signs of being genuinely ill were referred to the medical officer and were treated in the infirmary . |
| 21 | Once recruited they were marched to the nearest railway station , entrained on a variety of wagons , and transported to recruiting reception centres and on to the mines . |
| 22 | The formality of the occasion slightly spoiled as Sadat and about thirty Egyptian officials waved goodbye ; the Shah turned the 707 too soon and his hosts were exposed to the full blast of it taxiing engines . |
| 23 | Another four mice were exposed to the same lamp with a glass cover on it . |
| 24 | If the absurdity of the present position of the Death Grant were exposed to the public gaze , would not reform become easier ? |
| 25 | The canal plans were not included in Japan 's report to the convention , but details were leaked to the Japanese press . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 ] . |
| 28 | He was a keen astronomer , and two of his observations were communicated to the Royal Society by Edmund Halley [ q.v . ] . |
| 29 | There had always been a radical element in the local Labour parties and this was now augmented by former members of the ILP who were returning to the Labour Party in large numbers . |
| 30 | It was Diane who proposed that they should go over and take a look at the labs where Jenner had worked and Reynolds agreed , more than a little relieved that they were returning to the main subject ; he was made uncomfortable by Diane 's self revelation and the way in which it had begun to erode his easy preconceptions of her and her ‘ type ’ . |