Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] attach to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mainly because Brothers were attached to the shipbuilding industry , and the making of ships catapults , er arresting gears , er submarine work , erm telemeters for ships . |
| 2 | A tail rope passing round underwater pulleys at the bottom of the incline was attached to the centres of the trailing edge of the tanks through eye bolts ( figures 8 and 9 ) . |
| 3 | Some Scottish politicians were major stockholders or directors of the East India Company , and important patronage was attached to the office of director . |
| 4 | The berries were poisonous and a notice to this effect was attached to the bush . |
| 5 | In German action without escapement , the hammer was attached to the key and so it would have been logical to add an escapement that was independent of the key . |
| 6 | The bug was attached to the back of the TV set . |
| 7 | Instead of being directed to Platform Number One , the mighty Riddles designed 4-6-2 engine was attached to the front of the humble BR workhorse and shunted the shunter into another siding . |
| 8 | Imitation white cuffs were attached to the ends of the jacket sleeves .. |
| 9 | These harness decorations were attached to the snaffle bit or the band below the horses ear . |
| 10 | The perfusion instrument was a plastic tube ( 16 mm in external diameter ) , which was 60 cm long and contained smaller channels in the tube wall and one large central channel ; five latex balloons were attached to the tube ( Fig 1 ) . |
| 11 | In line with the general emphasis on blood in the exilic Priestly tradition , tremendous importance was attached to the actual blood of the circumcision , and unless several drops of blood were seen to issue from the wound , the operation was deemed invalid and valueless . |
| 12 | The utmost importance was attached to the rituals and paraphernalia of government and not least to the artefacts that made visually explicit the status of the leading actors . |
| 13 | As Robins ' and Cohen 's ( 1978 ) study of Arsenal supporters shows , great importance was attached to the defending or taking of ends . |
| 14 | From a television point of view I was slightly disappointed that not enough importance was attached to the match . |
| 15 | Importance was attached to the legitimate interest which the English public would have in information which could throw light on a major " unsolved " crime . |
| 16 | A reference electrode was attached to the patient 's forearm and both the electrodes were connected to a recording device ( Digitrapper , Synectics ) . |
| 17 | An antimony pH probe ( Synectics Ltd ) was positioned 5 cm above the upper border of the lower oesophageal sphincter and a reference electrode was attached to the chest . |
| 18 | A silver-silver chloride reference electrode was attached to the skin on the chest wall . |
| 19 | The stunts became more daring and , in one episode , Crawford found himself literally playing with fire , when what looked like fireworks were attached to the back of his jacket and suddenly had to start exploding . |
| 20 | It is hoped that appropriate qualifiers were attached to the data . |
| 21 | My agent said Tweed was attached to the European Commission and often travelled incognito — under a different name . |
| 22 | The diary was attached to the underside with sellotape . |
| 23 | A hosepipe was attached to the exhaust pipe leading into the interior of the van and the engine was still running . |
| 24 | But as the child could not in the very nature of things acquire rights correlative to a duty until it became by birth a living person , and as it was not until then that it could sustain injuries as a living person , it was , we think , at that stage that the duty arising out of the relationship was attached to the defendant , and it was at that stage that the defendant was , on the assumption that his act or omission in the driving of the car constituted a failure to take reasonable care , in breach of the duty to take reasonable care to avoid injury to the child . |
| 25 | But as the child could not in the very nature of things acquire rights correlative to a duty until it became by birth a living person , and as it was not until then that it could sustain injuries as a living person , it was , we think , at that stage that the duty arising out of the relationship was attached to the defendant , and it was at that stage that the defendant was , on the assumption that his act or omission in the driving of the car constituted a failure to take reasonable care , in breach of the duty to take reasonable care to avoid injury to the child . |
| 26 | The DCs were attached to the package under the name of the senior programmer , and became ‘ active ’ , thereby allowing the modification to proceed . |
| 27 | He would have understood the principle of the escapement in relation to the hammer by studying Johann Heinrich Silbermann 's version of Cristofori 's action in which the hammer was independent of the key and the escapement was attached to the key . |
| 28 | Next , the rim was attached to the body of the pot by casting-on more metal . |
| 29 | In any event , the plaintiff , as I have found , knew that 24-hour operation was anticipated and no condition curtailing such use was attached to the permission . |
| 30 | A notice was attached to the printed annual report for July 18th , 1807 , informing the public that the physicians and surgeons attended the infirmary every Saturday morning from 11 o'clock to two in order to admit patients . |