Example sentences of "were [vb pp] [adv] to a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The anti-aircraft rockets I fired were propelled up to a height of 1,000 yards . |
| 2 | Following the end of cloth-making , the mill buildings were let out to a number of tenants , providing some employment . |
| 3 | We dropped anchor offshore , and passengers and baggage were off-loaded on to a barge . |
| 4 | Apart from a visit to Cherbourg in the 1780s to see the new harbour works there his movements were confined entirely to a group of royal châteaux in the neighbourhood of Paris . |
| 5 | While the threat of wholesale destruction failed to materialize , the cathedrals were turned over to a variety of secular uses . |
| 6 | Following a further five minute incubation , the contents of the cuvette were transferred directly to a culture flask containing 4 mls of SDM-79 or Cunningham 's medium . |
| 7 | At that point then you were airlifted back to a hospital in Aberdeen . |
| 8 | Temperatures were measured down to a depth of 5 kilometres , where seasonal fluctuations have no effect . |
| 9 | One minute the firm was having a few financial problems and hoping for some helpful investment advice , the next their premises were sold off to a factory development corporation , their directors sacked , the workforce were redundant . |
| 10 | ‘ Calcraft , and on another occasion Warnham , were invited down to a meeting in some tavern by the riverside where Mistress Rachel was waiting to talk to them . |
| 11 | Subservience was expected by all levels of employer , titled or otherwise , and Marie Thwaites was one of a number of young men and women who were packed off to a life which was not only unacceptable by today 's standards , but hardly believable . |
| 12 | TWO exorcists were called in to a drive a ghost from a hospital ward after frightened nurses refused to work there . |
| 13 | They were , which was , well it was quite useful really because er you , you know you had to be , you were called out to a case suddenly er there was always somebody just to make sure you had n't left any food you know in the kitchen that was going to grow whiskers until you got back . |
| 14 | Capital grants Under Irish GAAP , capital grants received prior to 1974 were credited directly to a capital grants reserve account included in other reserves . |
| 15 | The ‘ brown paper bags ’ were dumped on to a table and the accounts prepared , sent to the client and signed off , very often without even meeting the client . |
| 16 | Data were entered on to a microcomputer with the database management system FOXPRO , and tabulations were produced with the statistical program SPSS . |
| 17 | Those times were reduced now to a swirl of unchronological slides — images of a room , a street , a skyline — some with accompanying sound . |
| 18 | The Halflings were cut down to a man , and only a few Knights Panther escaped to warn the Emperor Sigismund of the impending approach of the Orc horde . |
| 19 | I think mostly erm , I think that the audits have gone erm , very well actually erm , people are following the procedures and they are at times , they are a little bit slipping up erm , enquiries seem to be an area and filling in the enquiry form properly and making sure that it is copied to the divisional enquiry file erm , a few people fell down on that erm , but in most cases the procedures were followed virtually to a letter . |
| 20 | At clipping time the sheep were driven in and penned , and as they were clipped , the fleeces were thrown up to a helper standing on the gallery and put at once into the wool store . |
| 21 | Volunteers were wired up to an EEG ( electroencephalograph ) machine called a ‘ Mind Mirror ’ which records brainwave patterns . |
| 22 | Volunteers were wired up to an EEG machine which records skin responses as well as brainwave patterns . |
| 23 | ‘ In this way ’ he declared in 1895 , ‘ they would do a thousand times more good than by denouncing Roman Catholics , Unitarians or anyone else. , There were united missionary services and neighbourhood ‘ visitations ’ after which the names of those visited were passed on to a minister of their denomination . |
| 24 | Both the boys and the videos were passed on to a network of men which included school teachers and youth workers in Birmingham , Stoke on Trent , Holland and Belgium . |
| 25 | They were constructed up to a height of 50 feet in three or four storeys ( height of buildings was limited by Roman law ) . |
| 26 | But the background is that of fifty letters were sent out to a variety of people er , lay and ordained whatever that means ! |
| 27 | The bursts were recorded up to a distance of 15–20 cm above the lower oesophageal sphincter . |
| 28 | After a struggle with the wind we managed to get the meadow looking neat and tidy , tables were loaded on to a dumper and the villagers made for home with their booty . |
| 29 | After the reception , the guests were piped in to a buffet dinner . |