Example sentences of "were [vb pp] [noun sg] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Harvard Securities were paid to make a market in Towerbell Records , but as Tom Wilmot has pointed out , the dealer who sent that letter would not have known of the pending disaster since dealers were forbidden access to the firm 's corporate finance department by the so-called " Chinese walls " However Wilmot has sometimes blamed his dealers for breaching dealing regulations . |
| 2 | In return , Blackpool trams were granted access to the Company tracks as far as Lytham , but rarely exercised the privilege . |
| 3 | Dr David Tregoning , who led the probe , said : ‘ Patients were refused admission to the unit but it is difficult to attribute the deaths to that directly . |
| 4 | In Foca , 50 miles south of the Bosnian capital , Sarajevo , residents sought refuge in schools and hospitals and European Community monitors were refused access to the town as the Serbian-dominated federal army mopped up Muslim opposition . |
| 5 | Some of the demonstrators were denied access to the Diamond by police tenders drawn up across Shipquay Street but after a time the RUC withdrew altogether and the Diamond was filed by the vast crowd . |
| 6 | This was the plea of a young Eritrean boy as he was being dragged back to the plane that had just brought him to the UK , when in September 1990 , he and his sister were denied access to the asylum procedure . |