Example sentences of "[adv] were [verb] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not until the following Monday that the affidavits on which Julia had worked so hard and for so long were presented to the court . |
| 2 | A happy , approachable Oliver Stone is a new phenomenon indeed — he is no a man known for his relaxed attitude on set , and the actors in Platoon especially were pushed to the limit . |
| 3 | In the symbolic construction of this community ( Cohen 1985 ) boundary images of inside and outside were elaborated to an intensity , making us crucially aware and ‘ conscious … of dirt that has ambiguously got onto the wrong side of the frontier ’ ( Leach 1976 : 61 ) . |
| 4 | After the cells had adhered , the histamine and cimetidine concentrations described above were added to the wells giving a final well volume of 200 µl . |
| 5 | Some Nonjurors , though never implicated in Jacobite intrigue , nevertheless were committed to the principle of a Stuart restoration — for example the cleric , Jeremy Collier , or the lawyer , Roger North , who had been attorney-general to the Queen in James II 's reign . |
| 6 | Clients once opened up were handed to the Senior Account Executives ( SAEs ) who would squeeze them like lemons out of their very last pennies . |
| 7 | Only 48pc of the ballot papers sent out were returned to the Electoral Reform Society and , despite a 72pc vote against independence , the law requires at least half of all parents to take part before the result can stand . |
| 8 | One by one , the blooms Luke Hunter had sent her so unthinkingly were reduced to a green herbal mulch and flushed down the drain . |
| 9 | Only then was his black cat ( a participant in many of the rites ) ceremonially informed of his death , and his body reorientated towards the south-west — the " land of souls " — initiating a whole symphony of rituals which only now were coming to a head . |
| 10 | One morning in 1959 viewers to the American television show Today were introduced to a man with a remarkable mission . |
| 11 | Fredericton , New Brunswick , Canada Crowds at a small airshow here were treated to a formation of three TBM Avengers of the resident Forest Protection Ltd . |
| 12 | . Erm but then we slept under every hedge , I think , along the south coast , till we lost our machine guns , collected anti-tank guns , and eventually were transferred to the Royal Artillery , but still with this county pride of Devon , which I 'd never met before . |
| 13 | Half the people asked if they had sex with the radio on were listening to the Radio 1 star , just voted Britain 's top DJ . |
| 14 | Relatives of the family who live nearby were escorted to the house by detectives before Mrs Schofield 's body was taken to Cheltenham mortuary for a post-mortem examination by a home office pathologist . |
| 15 | During the period of industrial calm which followed 1906 , SRs and Social Democrats alike were reduced to a rump , party membership of the latter falling from the probably inflated figure of 150,000 to some 10,000 . |
| 16 | Communists and socialists alike were committed to a strategy of co-operation aimed at combating reactionary government policies at home and stifling the threat of international fascism abroad . |
| 17 | Those people who innocently came to my house this evening , expecting a pleasant dinner , good wine , enjoyable conversation — and instead were treated to a vulgar display ? ’ |
| 18 | They , I think like everybody else were succumbed to the fact that readers do like to know what 's going on in the Royal Family . |
| 19 | On 10 February 1992 , at the Snaresbrook Crown Court , the appellant pleaded not guilty to an indictment containing four counts which ultimately were left to the jury . |
| 20 | He handed over the keys to Angoulême and Montignac and their walls too were razed to the ground . |