Example sentences of "[noun pl] was [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The short-run inability to unscramble market signals was presumed to be the particular affliction of suppliers , i.e. the suppliers of commodities and the suppliers of factor services . |
| 2 | Another thing that cut me off from the other kids was going to the grammar school — and having to wear a bright green blazer every day . |
| 3 | It is possible that the earlier opposition of Chramn to his father , Chlothar , and to his brothers was linked to the fact that he alone was the son of Chunsina . |
| 4 | After April 1989 the tax relief on life assurance premiums was reduced to 12.5 per cent . |
| 5 | There the teaching of various trades was added to the curriculum and the number of pupils housed and taught in the school soon rose to some two hundred . |
| 6 | A hard-pressed villager could hope that numerous sons would increase the household 's income , especially since the allocation of land in most communes was related to the size of the household . |
| 7 | This conflict between tariff reformers and free traders was to lead to the ‘ agreement to differ ’ convention in January 1932 , and the resignation of the Liberals from the government in September 1932 ; but , until they resigned , the National Government was a genuine coalition in the sense in which that term is used on the continent : a government comprising independent yet conflicting elements allied together , a government within which party conflict was not superseded but rather contained — in short , a power-sharing government , albeit a seriously unbalanced one . |
| 8 | A a lad that wore pyjamas was considered to be a bit of a a sissy type of a lad you see . |
| 9 | An elderly herder in white pyjamas was sitting to one side . |
| 10 | Elsewhere , multi-party systems proliferated , though in some states the technique of organizing mass parties was beginning to be seen as the key to political power . |
| 11 | Chain began working in the summer of 1938 on penicillin and pyocyanase , though by January 1939 , when an application for funds was made to the Medical Research Council , penicillin and ‘ actinomycetin ’ , an antibiotic which Waksman was studying , were mentioned . |
| 12 | During the early 1980s , expenditure on the grands projets in Paris was so large that from 1980 to 1983 less than one-fifth of central government funds was going to the provinces . |
| 13 | Under this , expenditure from the structural funds was to rise to ECU 27,400 million yearly by 1999 and a new cohesion fund would be formed to provide funding of ECU 2,600 million yearly by 1999 . |
| 14 | Professor Jack Shaw , the SHEFC 's chairman , said the system for allocating funds was meant to be predictable and would allow clear budgeting and stability at a time when student numbers have been growing rapidly , some fee levels have been cut sharply , and large efficiency gains expected . |
| 15 | But there is some duplication in the figures of government revenues , because in the years covered by the table about half of the gross revenues of the republics and provinces was transferred to the federation ( where it again appears as revenue ) . |
| 16 | However , others have been content to accept the message in Problems of Social Policy : for example , Peter Gosden , in his detailed study of education in the war , cites Titmuss as the authoritative source on the social consequences of evacuation ; likewise , Raynes Minns concludes that the revelations of the children 's condition ‘ made headlines , and once again , as in 1914 , when the physical condition of army recruits was found to be so poor , war forced a British government to recognise the extremes of poverty and neglect that survived in our cities , and eventually to act by expanding our welfare services ’ . |
| 17 | A petition signed by the thousands of supporters was handed to Chelmsford Borough Council leader Tony Sadler . |
| 18 | Agreement in July 1906 , this batch of ten cars was transferred to the new South Metropolitan Company , who over the years carried out a number of modifications on them . |
| 19 | Nos. 345 , 346 and 347 ( 1E-3E ) survived until the Crystal Palace route closed and were delicensed on 14 February 1936. 349 ( 5E or 17E ? ) remained available for service at Erith and with that system 's own cars was transferred to Abbey Wood depôt , where it was delicensed on 28 March 1935 . |
| 20 | Like Nos. 17–26 , this batch of cars was transferred to South Metropolitan tracks in 1906 , having been built for ‘ Croydon District Tramways ’ in 1902 , and run as Croydon Corporation Nos. 56–60 . |
| 21 | She woke in the half-gloom of early morning to find her body slicked with sweat and all the bedclothes flung off , her nightdress in such a tangle that the soft creamy skin of her thighs was exposed to anyone who cared to look . |
| 22 | The whole tangled web of each other 's relationships was getting to breaking-point . |
| 23 | Even our analysis has had to distinguish between two forms of mass production , and the use of batch methods was applied to small and medium sized lots , which omits the possibility of large batches . |
| 24 | She argued , therefore , that since a good proportion of the non-words actually looked like words and could be pronounced without difficulty , the RVF superiority obtained with real words was related to their semantic aspect . |
| 25 | The battles in Russia , Africa and Normandy became mere words , to be heard punctually from the loudspeaker at three or four o'clock , from the English news-reader if German security was sufficiently relaxed , or from anybody who thought he knew what the next allotment of words was going to be about . |
| 26 | The evolutionary and thermoregulatory relationship between birds and dinosaurs was seen to be strengthened in 1989 after an examination of the best preserved fossils of a pterosaur 's wings . |
| 27 | Second , governments became increasingly convinced that the commitment to meet any residual losses was leading to sloppiness and a failure to minimize costs . |
| 28 | He bewildered his audience for a moment , and then moved them , when he suddenly turned a political invective about government 's neglect of the environment into a lament that one of the sad losses was going to be the poetry of the countryside , the pastorals of a Vergil or a Theocritus . |
| 29 | Earlier that day we had been in the yard of a house near the front line , among groves of frost-damaged mandarins , where a unit of some 50 Georgians was preparing to ‘ clean ’ a group of Abkhazians ( or Russians , as the Georgians claimed ) from their side of the river . |
| 30 | Intake of the first winter barleys was expected to be ‘ some time this week ’ , at the Woodchurch Farmers Supplies co-op not far from Mr Maylam . |