Example sentences of "[noun] were [adv] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fen moved closer , to stand at her shoulder , and his words were almost lost to her in the rush of feeling his nearness engendered . |
| 2 | Maxwell Fyfe 's guidelines were never meant to be taken seriously but were merely a piece of bureaucratic window-dressing . |
| 3 | Although the inland wonders of the North American continent were well known to hunters and fishermen , it was the railroad which brought areas of the Rocky Mountains and the Sierra Nevada within reach of people of more moderate means . |
| 4 | The activities of the NL were primarily restricted to private meetings in 1938 , although it was connected with the Militant Christian Patriots at the end of the Munich Crisis when it urged Chamberlain not to get Britain involved in Jewish designs for a world war . |
| 5 | Then I began to realize that my hands were tied behind my back and my legs were also secured to something . |
| 6 | I was lying on my back and my whole body , my arms and legs were strongly fastened to the ground . |
| 7 | After the collapse of their authoritarian dictatorships in the mid-1970s , Spain and Portugal were also admitted to membership . |
| 8 | In these conditions the weaknesses of British industry were rawly exposed to international competition . |
| 9 | The early steps in their relationship were not easy , and a few in the industry were never reconciled to his leadership , though all recognised that he was acquiring a strong sense of identity with the industry 's interests . |
| 10 | Since debris contaminated by the Purex was found to have washed ashore , twenty-five miles of beaches along the Cumbrian coast were officially closed to the public . |
| 11 | War-risk premiums were repeatedly reported to be on the rise for both hulls and cargoes . |
| 12 | Cuvier noticed that the most recently extinct creatures such as the mammoth were closely related to living species . |
| 13 | The consequences of successive devaluations of the ‘ green ’ pound were also referred to by Mr Ramsay , who said ‘ With the compensation calculated at 80p per ecu as it was last September a high-yielding arable farm of 1,000 acres would have been over £48,000 worse off between 1993 and 1995 but now , with the rate at 98p per ecu that same farm 's cross margin will drop by just under £2,000 . |
| 14 | The political allies of the Popular Television Association were initially limited to a handful of young Conservative backbenchers like John Profumo and Selwyn Lloyd , but they ran a public-relations campaign on a scale , and of a sophistication , which had not been seen before in Britain . |
| 15 | Chilton Taylor of Casson Beckman said clients were mainly attracted to the high profile , assured tenancy issues , although the BES was a useful source of equity finance from friends of directors or customers for private companies . |
| 16 | Alongside demands for increased professional autonomy for teachers , their professional organizations were also pressing to be included in the education decision-making processes . |
| 17 | The two girls who were travelling in the car were both taken to hospital . |
| 18 | The survivors were then transferred to one of the helicopters at 2015 and both then left . |
| 19 | These anxieties were shortly to lead to his mental collapse . |
| 20 | In the 1960s increasing ozone concentrations were largely restricted to the major cities of the world , but now widespread areas of Europe and North America are experiencing elevated ozone levels which add to the global greenhouse effect . |
| 21 | Kids were humiliatingly forced to ‘ kiss the sidewalk ’ or spreadeagle against police cruisers while officers checked their names against computerized files of gang members . |
| 22 | whether that means anything to people who live in Bishop 's Stortford but I 've always lived in Chelmsford and people who wore their hat sort of at a flaunty angle on the back of their heads were always seem to wearing their hats in the Hollywood fashion . |
| 23 | Empirical evidence also began to build up , and Spooner ( 1972 ) , in a study of employers who had moved to the southwest found that more of them cited the attractive environment of Devon and Cornwall as reasons for moving to the area , than its labour supply , and Lonsdale and Browning ( 1971 , 267 ) found that manufacturing plants in 10 southern USA States were more orientated to rural than urban areas and that : ‘ manufacturing firms appear to be placing increased emphasis on rural and small town sites ’ . |
| 24 | In the S.pombe cosmid library , some probes were only hybridised to a subset of 1500 clones , resulting in missing data . |
| 25 | ( One of the cruellest ironies of the death camps is that Jews were never meant to be thin . ) |
| 26 | The Mesopotamian Jews were still united to the Palestinian Jews by a common language , though the Aramaic spoken by Palestinian Jews must have presented considerable differences from the Aramaic spoken by Mesopotamian Jews . |
| 27 | More Jews were now emigrating to Israel because of US restrictions on their immigration [ see p. 37094 ; for controversy over increased Soviet Jewish immigration to Israel in early 1990 see p. 37304 ] . |
| 28 | The press release also pronounced Christmas trading to be ‘ excellent ’ , and said that both Waterstones and Harrods were now committed to a long and successful relationship . |
| 29 | Any number of concessions were apparently made to Intel 's sensibilities including Intel ownership through completely parallel structures , offering Intel ownership of the specification and completely equal access . |
| 30 | According to a slightly modified method described by Deschner and Lipkin , the mucosal fragments were then transferred to sterile septum fitted vials containing 2 ml of Eagle 's basic salt solution supplemented with 10% calf serum ( GIBCO , Paisley , Scotland ) and 5 µCi H-thymidine/ml ( specific activity , 25 Ci/mmol ) ( Amersham , Buckinghamshire , UK ) . |