Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | These , built as defences against the Viking invaders , are accredited to the Iron Age and were skilfully constructed to a circular plan , with a double wall enclosing a stairway and a circular paddock for cattle . |
| 2 | What was even worse , the women were unofficially said to be better at it . |
| 3 | ‘ Are n't you and Charles due to go off on holiday soon ? ’ she queried , when tea and biscuits were duly dispensed to Lucy and she could sit down on a wicker-backed chair and sip her own . |
| 4 | Encouraged by Drew , Daisy applied for a Pony Club scholarship for Perdita , and they were duly summoned to Kirtlington to meet the Committee in early July . |
| 5 | Undoubtedly , the alkylated rosanilines ( eg Hofmann violent , 6 ) came out of this cooperation , and were duly added to the firm 's product list . |
| 6 | By 1901 worker activists were overwhelmingly committed to the need for political revolution . |
| 7 | Strong representations were successfully made to the ITAC Committee both to preempt this and to ensure that a monopoly situation did not arise . |
| 8 | The system was therefore a microscopic fibre-reinforced composite and the methods given above were successfully applied to it . |
| 9 | Toraja warriors had to die in their own " Rante " , or village circle , if their souls were successfully to return to the stars . |
| 10 | Commissioned in 1914 and attached to the Royal Naval Air Service , he designed two rotary aero-engines , BR1 and BR2 , which were successfully fitted to the Sopwith Camel and Snipe respectively . |
| 11 | Dilatation was resumed after a gap of three to four weeks and the strictures were successfully dilated to 45 FG in all without further complication . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , the attitudes which Wordsworth adopted towards industrialization were successfully transmitted to the later nineteenth century , and ultimately down to our own day , where they have sometimes been incorporated into the law of the land . |
| 13 | Moreover , some studies suggested that the crucial floating voters were not characterised by a high degree of interest , involvement , and knowledge , but by ignorance and indifference , and they were less involved in following the election campaign than were those who were keenly attached to a party . |
| 14 | Though scientists were highly critical of the aristocratic amateurishness of many senior army administrators , they were keenly attracted to the image of a militarily organized society . |
| 15 | They were eventually escorted to the airport from where they returned to Bangkok . |
| 16 | Phonological features were eventually assigned to variants in order to construct these subscales , but the first step was to quantify the data in order to compare the patterns which emerged in different data batches . |
| 17 | Two Dutchmen , Hans Guyt and Willem Beekman , were eventually sent to prison for six weeks over this protest . |
| 18 | The next year brought the first indications of the troubles which were eventually to lead to the Goldsmiths ' abandonment of the School a decade later . |
| 19 | At first Mwangaza was sold only in Dar es Salaam , but sales were eventually extended to Tanga , the country 's second town . |
| 20 | A week 's filming at a sandpit near Leighton Buzzard , in Bedfordshire , where the Victors tried to destroy the Bats ' car , was beset with difficulties when strong winds constantly filled actors ' and technicians ' eyes with sand , but the scenes were eventually completed to everyone 's satisfaction . |
| 21 | The university authorities encouraged this novel development and three students were eventually elected to the county congress . |
| 22 | However , traffic on the line declined in the 20th century and both it and the Citadel Station were eventually closed to passenger services in 1947 , although the larger North Leith Station did not close to passengers until 1962 . |
| 23 | During the terrible siege of Leningrad in the last war supplies were eventually conveyed to the starving thousands on carts from Finland across the Baltic Sea and the Gulf of Finland ( it was fortunately an exceptionally cold winter ) — what must have been a fearsome journey . |
| 24 | When they were eventually brought to trial , the most revealing thing that came out was that thousands of women were seeking , by a variety of means , to terminate their pregnancies . |
| 25 | These debates were eventually brought to a close by Williams , but by this time his fame had spread throughout the islands and had given him a mass following , especially among the lower Creole class . |
| 26 | Conditions laid down by Haussmann along the lines of those set out by the Monopoly Commission , that the companies divest themselves of certain divisions which , if merged , would be against German interests in the arms industry , were eventually agreed to by both MBB and Daimler . |
| 27 | It was from Holkham that the first Devons were commercially exported to the USA , though in fact the Pilgrim Fathers , who set sail from Plymouth , took some Devons with them in the seventeenth century . |
| 28 | UKCCCR guidelines n the handling of animals for laboratory studies were rigorously adhered to throughout these investigations . |
| 29 | Those whose careers were wholly tied to the Prison Service looked on the generalist civil servants at headquarters as lacking in commitment to the service . |
| 30 | Our thanks were properly offered to Vince , Geoff , Carol and Sue for their expert demonstration and we shall never see either Kevin or Phil in the same light again . |