Example sentences of "were [adv] [verb] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Undoubtedly , the alkylated rosanilines ( eg Hofmann violent , 6 ) came out of this cooperation , and were duly added to the firm 's product list . |
| 2 | By 1901 worker activists were overwhelmingly committed to the need for political revolution . |
| 3 | Though scientists were highly critical of the aristocratic amateurishness of many senior army administrators , they were keenly attracted to the image of a militarily organized society . |
| 4 | They were eventually escorted to the airport from where they returned to Bangkok . |
| 5 | The university authorities encouraged this novel development and three students were eventually elected to the county congress . |
| 6 | Those whose careers were wholly tied to the Prison Service looked on the generalist civil servants at headquarters as lacking in commitment to the service . |
| 7 | This has to be more traumatic than if we were slowly introduced to the idea . |
| 8 | When the General Commissioners reviewed the facts , they had regarded three matters as important : first , that the storage racking was bolted to the floor for safety purposes — the Commissioners took the view that there was no distinction between the racking ( which was plant ) and the platform ; second , that members of the public were rarely admitted to the platform which was essentially for storage ; and , third , that , although the platforms were large , there were cases where very large structures had been deemed to be plant . |
| 9 | Meanwhile , the Department said later that the documents were not illegally leaked but were inadvertently sent to the Press Association because the two fax numbers were similar and the operator had mistakenly hit a wrong key . |
| 10 | For this study 160 women at risk of premature delivery were randomly allocated to the trial drug or placebo ( 80 each ) . |
| 11 | Firstly , although patients were randomly admitted to the study on the basis of severity of liver disease , patients with ulcerative volitis in the placebo and cyclosporin treated groups had similar characteristics , including mean age , sex ratio , mean duration of colitis , extent of colitis , concomitant therapy , and ulcerative volitis disease severity ( Tables I-II ) . |
| 12 | The structural design , details and choice of materials were entirely subordinated to the design and viewed in a symbolic context : |
| 13 | But , they do seem to stress the way the changes in democratic practices were merely responding to the need to adapt the US model to Japanese values as though there were a collectively agreed set of values to call upon . |
| 14 | Some analysts were gloomily looking to the FT-SE 100 index to fall below the 2,200 level if the 15 per cent base rate is maintained for any length of time . |
| 15 | Monteverdi 's Vespers were of course quite exceptional , yet common Venetian and North Italian practices were better adapted to the expression of human emotion than of transcendental faith . |
| 16 | With all this technology literally at our fingertips , many people insist on using the computer keyboard as if it were mechanically connected to the printer . |
| 17 | Since the normal , non-mutant gene does not cause the cultured mouse cells to become cancerous , the cancer-causing properties of the bladder tumour gene were naturally attributed to the mutation . |
| 18 | They were obviously attracted to the boat by the number of ‘ gulls-in-waiting ’ , and at one time there were fourteen of these handsome pirates flying around . |
| 19 | The bushy ones ( Order Dendroidea-dendroid graptolites ) are the more primitive , and were generally rooted to the sea floor . |
| 20 | Winners of the Treble Chance swooned at the sight of the cheque and were generally paraded to the Press and public as examples of how , at any minute , any humble citizen who had never had more than a day out at Blackpool could strike gold . |
| 21 | These plans were not sent to the Parish Council or the local residents for comment . |
| 22 | ‘ It is obvious to me that you were not born to the position you now occupy . ’ |
| 23 | These haematological and biochemical parameters , however , were not related to the presence of perinuclear antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody reactivity , except for a negative correlation between the presence of perinuclear antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies and serum albumin concentration ( r=-0.215 ; p=0.031 ) . |
| 24 | They were not related to the duration of gestation . |
| 25 | In their study maternal age , the length of time from birth , and maternal education were not related to the accuracy of reported birth weight . |
| 26 | TWO researchers at the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Cambridge were impressed , as I was , by the experiments at Yale which showed that the smell of chocolate helped subjects to remember words more efficiently than those who were not exposed to the smell . |
| 27 | He argued that in some markets the lumpy nature of demand made it essential that contracts be shared out , to ensure that the competitors were not exposed to the risk of alternating ‘ feast and famine ’ in their order books . |
| 28 | If the amp head were not connected to the speaker when switched on would it damage the amp ? |
| 29 | Did any towns thrive which were not connected to the railway system ? |
| 30 | In the colonial courts payments were not made to the judge , but to witnesses , court officials and lawyers whose task it was to manipulate the evidence placed before the judge in order to produce an outcome favourable to the client . |