Example sentences of "were [adv] [verb] [v-ing] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the other half supported the society 's worthy aims ; one wealthy admirer even offered a donation of $400,000 , which had to be declined as outside donations were apparently prohibited according to the terms under which SINA had been established . |
| 2 | The areas were also ranked according to the deterioration of their position in three constituent parts of the period 1971–84 ; Liverpool , Sunderland , Belfast and Glasgow appear in the bottom ten in all sub-periods . |
| 3 | The coeliac patients were originally diagnosed according to the procedure recommended by the European Society for Paediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition and had all been on a complete gluten free diet for at least five years and did not present symptoms indicative of active disease . |
| 4 | The transcripts were then coded according to the detail of the scene to which individual comments referred . |
| 5 | The data were then grouped according to the mean value . |