Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] to one " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every member of a household down to the youngest child will be eligible for perks , whereas for British Telecom and British Gas they were limited to one set per metered outlet . |
| 2 | At first potential jurors were classified by ethnic group and caste , but after the 1840s they were assigned to one of three lists which were drawn up on the basis of language capability . |
| 3 | Table VI compares the occupations of fathers of cases and controls who were assigned to one of seven occupational groups where potentially hazardous exposures might have occurred . |
| 4 | Subjects were assigned to one of four different conditions with three subjects from each annual mileage group assigned to each condition . |
| 5 | The patients with adenomatous polyps were assigned to one of four study groups using the random sampling quota technique allowing for 10 subjects in each study group . |
| 6 | But his views were dismaying to one of the readers of his discourses , the poet and artist William Blake . |
| 7 | Michel Gbagbo , son of the IPF leader , and 44 others were sentenced to one year 's imprisonment . |
| 8 | The early miners at Keswick and Coniston shared a mutual respect for the ungodly denizens ; most incidents in the dark of the underground workings were attributed to one form or other of " Bergeist " — of which there were six different types . |
| 9 | The machine tools were housed to one end , the aeroplane assembled at the other , whilst the draftsmen lived in the loft . |
| 10 | No one then had time to utter what he dreaded ; but afterwards , though those about the king held their peace doggedly , and spoke only of phenomenally bad weather against which no man could guard , in the ranks men were saying to one another that this was no natural storm , that there had never been known so strange and violent a tempest , that it was sent out of malice against them , either by Owen himself , or by those stiff-necked Franciscans of Llanfaes whose house the king had burned , and who were allies of Owen and the devil to the last man . |
| 11 | Schools were allocated to one of four groups to receive the family smoking education project ( FSE ) ; the smoking and me project ( SAM ) ; both projects in sequence ( FSE/SAM ) ; or no intervention at all . |
| 12 | Adults were allocated to one of these two groups by a pair of tests which determined both GPC familiarity and spelling ability before they were asked to pronounce lists of regular or irregular words . |
| 13 | Cirrhotic patients ( Child 's A or B grade ) with documented bleeding oesophageal varices were treated initially with emergency sclerotherapy , and after five days stability ; were allocated to one of the two treatment regimes . |
| 14 | The children entered a randomised controlled trial and were allocated to one of two groups as follows : |
| 15 | They were introduced to one another by a woman friend who thought they should get on well in London as Margaret came of a better family and knew the people , and Ivy had the money . |
| 16 | Until the late 1980s , flights between two European capitals were restricted to one national carrier from each of the two countries ( e.g. British Airways and Sabena on the London-Brussels route ) . |
| 17 | If the difficulties were restricted to one sector then the implications for future historical study could be placed within a restricted perspective , but this is not the case . |
| 18 | accepted that if the subsequent appeal to the House of Lords were set to one side , there might be grounds for a relisting on the basis that the Court of Appeal had departed from well-established practice in resolving but one of the grounds of appeal , leaving outstanding points of appeal on which submissions had been made . |
| 19 | Tillie won the day , dues were reduced to one shilling for English ships , two shillings for foreigners . |
| 20 | In September the log-jam thwarting the ‘ mighty stream ’ gave way : throughout that month London publishers of the book were furnishing to one distribution house alone some 10,000 copies a day . |
| 21 | And then the drawbridge was falling , with a clanking and a whirring of machinery and the light was pouring into the courtyard and the Gnomes were cheering and the giants were nodding to one another , and there was nothing for it but to ride away with Snodgrass , with Balor loping along at their side , with Fenella behind in the hands of the Gruagach . |
| 22 | In a way Wim Van Leer served a similar purpose , for a great diversity of individuals were reconciled to one another through their common affection for him . |
| 23 | The Duke of Gloucester and four of his staff were taken to one of the palaces , while the rest of us were accommodated in tents in the spacious Legation grounds . |
| 24 | Mm some people decided they were going to work as a , as a group on their table , to gather information and when you were doing the tallies last week , you helped each other did n't you , some of you helped , you were talking to one another to help make sure that you got the right number of tallies , if you worked with some other people to get the survey questions and do the tallies , sign it , if you did everything on your own , leave it blank is anyone not sure what to do there ? |
| 25 | The social significance of this ( and one linking it to the theorists we have discussed earlier ) lay in the fact that large numbers of individuals , uprooted from their established communities and families were adapting to one another and to the existing Chicago population . |
| 26 | Whatever personal problems she and Charles had were put to one side and they gave the people of Wales a visit to remember . |
| 27 | Occasionally , some bottles from a particularly fine vintage were put to one side . |
| 28 | Erm there were new passageways , erm the management er er applied their thoughts to it and altered the , the layout and certain machines were , were put to one side of the machine shop and , and milling machines to the other side you know . |
| 29 | Some obvious and important matters were left to one side for years because I could n't see a way forward , or had no time to do the experiments — or could n't find the funds to buy the equipment or chemicals needed . |
| 30 | Some very wide wheels 16 inch diameter were fitted to One Ten and Forward Control vehicles and 15 inch diameter were an option with sand tyres and were fitted to the Pink Panthers . |