Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] to [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One could hardly wear garments that were ripped to shreds and spattered with blood . |
| 2 | On two evenings there were demonstration experiments , in electricity , optics , magnetism and gyroscopes , with an exhibition of photographs of the Moon ; and on the last evening was a meeting where the proceedings of the General Committee and the allocation of grants were explained to members . |
| 3 | When the court 's judgement was reviewed by the Armed Forces Ruling Council ( AFRC ) , Nigeria 's principal decision-making body , on Oct. 31 , however , the death sentences were commuted to terms of life imprisonment . |
| 4 | Since it preferred to sulk in its residences in the Faubourg Saint-Germain , it was inevitable that the posts at court were given to descendants of the Imperial nobility , either civil or military . |
| 5 | During a recent promotion , the Great Central Railway has undertaken the 1992 visitors survey and questionnaires were given to visitors and passengers arrival with a closing date of August 7 . |
| 6 | But in the commanding heights of the First Division with huge crowds and ambitious directors , there is no doubt that incentives were given to players . |
| 7 | Special instructions were given to stationmasters that should the trains stop at any station no one was to be allowed to board them . " |
| 8 | Further formal controls over clinicians were given to managers , but in addition the impersonal incentives of the market would , it was hoped , make doctors more cost-conscious and efficient . |
| 9 | Initially , presentations were given to personnel sections both at Head Office and at the airports . |
| 10 | Other indications of a swing towards nuclear power were given to delegates . |
| 11 | The report also called for sweeping changes in the way medicines were given to children . |
| 12 | When political considerations took primacy over whether qualifications it is not surprising that some of the appointments were given to candidates ill-suited to the duties they were called upon to perform , such as the Lanarkshire freeholder appointed macer of the Court of Session who , according to James Boswell , ‘ had a constant hoarseness , so that he could scarcely be heard when he called the causes and the lawyers , and was indeed as unfit for a crier of court as a man could be . |
| 13 | Under that system budgets were given to hospitals . |
| 14 | The numbered vouchers were given to fans who attended Sunderland 's games against Ipswich , Plymouth and Middlesbrough . |
| 15 | When they were given to patients with high blood pressure , the immediate results were encouraging . |
| 16 | They were all expected to have similar properties , but , prudently , in some clinics the new substances were given to patients with conditions other than those in which chlorpromazine and its allies were usually effective . |
| 17 | A third of all prescriptions for cimetidine were given to patients with unproven peptic ulceration , and furthermore , half of these had used the drug for more than five years . |
| 18 | Similarly , of 16 species of Chitonomyces on an aquatic beetle ( gyrinid beetles ) six were seen only on males and nine were limited to females . |
| 19 | Withdrawals were limited to amounts between the equivalent of US$10 and US$15 . |
| 20 | Commercial banks were given authority to issue unlimited letters of credit to fund imports , but individual Kuwaitis were limited to withdrawals of KD4,000 per person per month until June . |
| 21 | These methods , together with the Seven Points to Remember , were taught to mothers in a field study . |
| 22 | This was also the heyday of the pleasure garden , where in the pleasantly pastoral atmosphere of Marylebone , Vauxhall and Ranelagh , the public were treated to promenades , food , firework displays and all manner of other entertainments , naturally including music — such as the works of the best Continental symphonists , songs , little theatrical performances , and organ concertos . |
| 23 | Local family doctor committees throughout Scotland advised that most , if not all , such patients were referred to specialists . |
| 24 | In a second study , Kennedy ( 1972 ) found that repetition after 1 year was less common in patients admitted to the Edinburgh Regional Poisoning Treatment Centre ( 12 per cent ) than in those who made attempts and were not referred to the Centre , irrespective of whether the latter were referred to psychiatrists elsewhere ( 38 per cent repeated ) or not ( 37 per cent repeated ) . |
| 25 | Women are either absent , or present fulfilling for the most part the roles which were assigned to women in that society . |
| 26 | Cases were assigned to areas according to their residence address at diagnosis as defined for the national cancer registration scheme . |
| 27 | Small farms were assigned to sons of noblemen and promising warriors , on condition they reported annually for military service . |
| 28 | Starting with the categories of information used in this form individual comments from both the description and potential risks condition were assigned to categories . |
| 29 | Old-style Falangists occupied the ministries associated with social and political control ( Interior , Army , Labour and the Party Secretariat ) , but portfolios connected with the external image of the regime and the assurance of its future ( such as Justice , Foreign Affairs , Education and Public Works ) were assigned to men guided less by rigid ideological concepts than by their awareness that the world had changed since 1945 and that Spain needed to adapt if it was to be counted among the leading nations in the post-war world . |
| 30 | They were assigned to police stations with slight training to undertake chores for the regular police and caused an all-round dilution of competence . |