Example sentences of "were [adv] [verb] to [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two Dutchmen , Hans Guyt and Willem Beekman , were eventually sent to prison for six weeks over this protest . |
| 2 | This was not merely through the intrinsic loss but also because family status and honour were intimately linked to possession of land . |
| 3 | Rival militant groups which had co-operated with the Indian forces were effectively relegated to politics in exile . |
| 4 | Innocent did not associate Philip with the murder , but relentlessly sought the true murderers who were finally brought to justice in Rome in April 1203 and sent to the Holy Land . |
| 5 | The doubts of some pre-war Labour leaders that the civil service would actually co-operate with a radical Labour government were largely laid to rest by the experience of the Attlee government . |
| 6 | Waist-hip ratio , age and body mass index were separately related to probability of conception per cycle . |
| 7 | The sky was a clear , pale dome , covered in the east by a flock of tiny clouds that were already turned to pink by the sun that was still concealed , that had not yet risen . |
| 8 | Yes I mean th th th th the fact that you 've got a whole range of problems an an and you , you were bound to come up against those problems if you try and define Marxist in a strict sense , and therefore you , you were always seeking to sort of make . |
| 9 | One adviser and one professional development teacher questioned whether arts HMI were genuinely committed to cooperation across the arts implicit in the concept of an aesthetic domain within the curriculum . |
| 10 | She was lifted bodily aboard by two sailors and carried down to a panelled cabin where she and Maria Candida were to live during the voyage ; and when she had been helped out of her clothes and into simpler garments that were more suited to life on board ship , she insisted upon going on deck to watch from the aftercastle as the mariners sang at the capstan and the anchors were weighed . |
| 11 | What was the surname of the Tory mother and son who were both elected to Parliament in 1983 ? |
| 12 | On Thursday , three other Saudis were also put to death for robbing a bank vehicle . |
| 13 | Prizes were also awarded to REM for best international group and Walkers Nirvana for best international newcomers . |
| 14 | one woman and a police officer — were later taken to hospital in Belfast . |
| 15 | Upstairs the young postulants were now retiring to bed in the long dormitory . |
| 16 | This was true in so far as RCM workers were frequently driven to distraction by what they saw as unreasonable demands by orthodox children and their elders . |
| 17 | It would seem that in Capadocea they were even converted to Christianity for , in that region , St Christopher is often depicted with a dog 's head . |
| 18 | In 1968 Gow and Page followed up their first volume by bringing out Hellenistic Epigrams : the Garland of Philip , again in two volumes ; this time Gow was primarily responsible for the 650 epigrams which were either attributed to Antipater of Thessalonica or left over as being either his work or that of Antipater of Sidon . |
| 19 | ‘ The Midlands tried back moves that were never going to work against international opposition . ’ |
| 20 | That day , April 29 , twenty Spitfires were safely delivered to Renfrew with one each on April 30 and May 1 for a total of 52 aircraft which constituted 100% of the complement assigned for the second delivery to Malta . |