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 | The Conference is the forum where Resolutions which were submitted last December and which were discussed at over 50 District Meetings around the country since then were finally put to the vote of the delegates and , if passed , thereby became a cornerstone of Association policy . |
| 22 | Recovery operations continued and hundreds of items were finally brought to the surface so that the plane could be painstakingly pieced back together again . |
| 23 | The alterations to the National Executive report , Socialism and the Condition of the People which he advocated were finally left to the Executive to consider , and were moved again at the Southport Conference of 1934 . |
| 24 | Prior to the 1940s , although communities experienced severe air pollution , control measures were largely limited to the passing of local legislation or to private litigation claiming air pollution to be a common-law nuisance . |
| 25 | Be that as it may , there were still those in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who still continued to look on Siberia as an exploited colony whose population and resources were recklessly plundered and despoiled by the central government , whose merchantry continued to suffer under the ‘ economic yoke of Moscow ’ and the commercial interests of the centre , whose native peoples were many of them doomed to extinction , where such civil and political rights and modern judicial institutions as existed in tsarist Russia were largely denied to the population of Siberia , where the cultural and educational infrastructure was inadequate for the region 's needs , and which was still used as a distant dumping ground for the criminal sweepings of the rest of the empire . |
| 26 | Although the protests were largely confined to the student population , they went beyond the country 's usual " Spring protests " both in their size and the violence which accompanied them . |
| 27 | Thus political links were largely confined to the Comintern network which , notwithstanding this fact , was initially extremely weak . |
| 28 | Similarly , the relatively slow growth of labour productivity and high level of unit costs in the post-war period of growth ( between the crossroads of the 1930s/1940s and those of 1970s/1980s ) were largely attributed to the character of management and labour , employers and unions , within the UK and to the internal policies of the state . |
| 29 | But I know that er the one or two people who told me that they 're going , er we were just going to the service in the church and then |
| 30 | Rose , whose own profits were already cut to the bone to get the order , knew that she was on trial . |