Example sentences of "were [adv] [verb] to [art] [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 | Moreover , some studies suggested that the crucial floating voters were not characterised by a high degree of interest , involvement , and knowledge , but by ignorance and indifference , and they were less involved in following the election campaign than were those who were keenly attached to a party . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | They were eventually escorted to the airport from where they returned to Bangkok . |
| 6 | The university authorities encouraged this novel development and three students were eventually elected to the county congress . |
| 7 | These debates were eventually brought to a close by Williams , but by this time his fame had spread throughout the islands and had given him a mass following , especially among the lower Creole class . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | This has to be more traumatic than if we were slowly introduced to the idea . |
| 10 | They were little loves to a dog , but whether they were , as billed , the cream of British dogdom , well , all owners would like to think their dogs were . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | For this study 160 women at risk of premature delivery were randomly allocated to the trial drug or placebo ( 80 each ) . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | We left the Legation as the sun rose and our cars were constantly brought to a standstill in the crowded streets . |
| 16 | The structural design , details and choice of materials were entirely subordinated to the design and viewed in a symbolic context : |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | I were only saying to a lady this morning about ee aye our Emma used to come to Leyland with a a wad of ten shilling notes new and we 'd go to er Southport would n't we ? |
| 23 | In the S.pombe cosmid library , some probes were only hybridised to a subset of 1500 clones , resulting in missing data . |
| 24 | And then another lunch was estimated at two hundred and eighty and forty-five came , and it kept swinging like that all week and they never knew what the hell was going to happen so they got really aggravated and then we had , you know , some of the kids , the Ban-the-Bezier group were wandering around with their face masks and their Type ninety bags over their heads and were saying crude things over a megaphone in Tom Quad , right and then these bowler hatted policemen , whoever they are , were patiently explaining to a number of girls who were sunbathing on the lawn that this was n't done quite that way here . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The bushy ones ( Order Dendroidea-dendroid graptolites ) are the more primitive , and were generally rooted to the sea floor . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | But in grazing country these larger fields were soon reduced to a number of smaller fields of round about ten acres apiece . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Recovery operations continued and hundreds of items were finally brought to the surface so that the plane could be painstakingly pieced back together again . |