Example sentences of "were [adv] [verb] to the [noun] " 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 | Toraja warriors had to die in their own " Rante " , or village circle , if their souls were successfully to return to the stars . |
| 4 | Commissioned in 1914 and attached to the Royal Naval Air Service , he designed two rotary aero-engines , BR1 and BR2 , which were successfully fitted to the Sopwith Camel and Snipe respectively . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | They were eventually escorted to the airport from where they returned to Bangkok . |
| 7 | The next year brought the first indications of the troubles which were eventually to lead to the Goldsmiths ' abandonment of the School a decade later . |
| 8 | The university authorities encouraged this novel development and three students were eventually elected to the county congress . |
| 9 | It was from Holkham that the first Devons were commercially exported to the USA , though in fact the Pilgrim Fathers , who set sail from Plymouth , took some Devons with them in the seventeenth century . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | This has to be more traumatic than if we were slowly introduced to the idea . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Those tasks were mostly left to the Justices of the Peace and other commissioners , or to such lesser men as constables and overseers of the poor . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | In this case , a simulated prison was created and twenty-four volunteers were randomly assigned to the roles of ‘ guard ’ or ‘ prisoner ’ . |
| 16 | For this study 160 women at risk of premature delivery were randomly allocated to the trial drug or placebo ( 80 each ) . |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | The structural design , details and choice of materials were entirely subordinated to the design and viewed in a symbolic context : |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Women who could carry a child under each arm on a day 's shopping trip were told they were not strong enough to do men 's work ; that lifting and lugging were better left to the lads after all . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | It is a relief to know that the police , at least , were sufficiently attuned to the realities of contemporary social research to drop charges even if a nagging doubt remains as to how or by whom they were set on to the investigators . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The bushy ones ( Order Dendroidea-dendroid graptolites ) are the more primitive , and were generally rooted to the sea floor . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | They were soon relegated to the emigrants ' cars , and when even the emigrants complained they were forced to travel on baggage wagons or on the boarding steps . |
| 30 | They were soon denounced to the authorities but escaped with the printed sheets up the Rhine to Worms , where the New Testament was published in 1526 . |