Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [adv prt] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The anti-aircraft rockets I fired were propelled up to a height of 1,000 yards . |
| 2 | Or maybe a process of natural selection had winnowed out the overworked and discontented , the theoretical and jaded and left the few who were propelled back to the school by the same affection , curiosity and remembered enthusiasm that had drawn us . |
| 3 | Two boys were remanded in to the care of the local authority by Leeds youth court last night . |
| 4 | Had he gone out with the schedule the results would have been chaotic , yet he himself had not seen these double questions until they were pointed out to him at the internal testing stage . |
| 5 | Even the tracks smelt like pythons , over and above the surrounding stench , and football-sized bundles of bones were pointed out to us as the regurgitated remains of their meals . |
| 6 | Darwin 's finches , for example , could be seen to be extremely interesting only when their affinities were pointed out to him by a taxonomist . |
| 7 | Naval vessels were also contributed by Belgium and Italy ( which both on Aug. 21 confirmed that minesweepers sent initially to the eastern Mediterranean were to proceed on to the Gulf ) ; Greece announced on Aug. 20 that a frigate would join the naval forces in the Gulf , and Spain made a similar announcement the following day . |
| 8 | In its critique of the project , known as Nina , the Science Policy Research Unit ( SPRU ) of the University of Sussex , says : I Only six papers a year were produced from research using the machine , whereas similar devices abroad were producing up to twice as many |
| 9 | Dinner parties were given over to discussion of the choices before customers . |
| 10 | At their 1988 conference , four keynote sessions were given over to what was entitled ‘ Church Planting — Our Future Hope ’ , which just about sums it up . |
| 11 | And as more and more of these areas were given over to cultivation , crop-raiding increased and so did the toll of human lives . |
| 12 | And so its lower acres were given over to recreational pursuits . |
| 13 | Afternoons were given over to village leave , organised games , set walks , leisure periods and detention . |
| 14 | Data were downloaded on to magnetic tape for long term storage . |
| 15 | As this subject could well come up again during the current academic year , the pages were downloaded on to disk , so that they could be consulted off-line without incurring further expense . |
| 16 | At Eton , the Southern trialists were whittled down to a 16-man squad to face Essex at Forest on 5 November . |
| 17 | They were building up to a strong finish with ‘ The Skater 's Waltz ’ and Noreen knew her number would go up next . |
| 18 | The 18+ examinations were seen , as the Secretary of State himself recognized , again partly as another such certificate for those who had stayed the next voluntary two years at school , partly as an aptitude test for those who were to go on to higher education , partly as a still more specific entry requirement for admission to specified courses in institutions of higher education . |
| 19 | If one of these groups were to go over to the other side — as the army did in Romania — the balance of forces would be altered . |
| 20 | Off you go , ’ and I gathered we were to go back to the beginning and start again . |
| 21 | Twenty-five per cent of decisions reviewed were changed , 57% were referred back to the local office and in 18% of cases the original decision was confirmed . |
| 22 | When process of care measures were reanalysed after excluding the 21 patients who were referred back to the hospital clinic other than through the prompting system , all process of care measures in table IV remained more frequent in the prompted subgroup ( n=65 prompted subjects ) . |
| 23 | Mr Clarke said he understood his staff were referred back to that meeting when they contacted Mrs Shephard 's office . |
| 24 | Jail sentences of eighteen months each were meted out to five of them , with the sixth ( the only woman ) receiving twelve months . |
| 25 | He snatched it back hastily and then looked up to where Cardiff and Barbara were hanging on to each other under the storm 's onslaught , coughing and choking in the shower of plaster . |
| 26 | The way they were hanging on to each other when I caught them , it 's very easy to believe . ’ |
| 27 | And Rob and John and Liz were hanging on to it somebody was going to pick it up were n't they ? |
| 28 | Black boxes the size of video-cassettes were welded on to 3,000 cars and hundreds of loops were buried in the roads . |
| 29 | The police soon banned these as offensive weapons , especially when steel spikes were welded on to the toecaps , and more subtle weapons had to be found . |
| 30 | To make the car secure , railway sleepers were built into the cliff edge and joints were welded on to the bottom of the vehicle , acting as hinges . |