Example sentences of "[conj] were [verb] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is true that there were first-class scientists at work in other countries but they were either greatly taken with large unprovable notions or were limited to a single field , whereas Galileo was original in dynamics , hydrostatics , mechanics ( strength of materials ) , optics and astronomy . |
| 2 | The cattle were either ‘ walked ’ down to the marshes direct from market or were brought to the nearest point by train : today they are transported by motor-lorries , and in recent years a rough road has been built right across the marshes to enable lorries to have direct access . |
| 3 | IBM is believed to be working on a much less radical plan to copy General Motors Corp and issue different classes of common shares , each standing pari passu all the others in the event of a break-up , but each paying dividends that were tied to the performance of a single IBM unit , be it AdStar , Application Business Systems or Pennant Systems . |
| 4 | Beneath the outward appearance of self-assurance and scholarly success , deep-seated psychological tensions were being set up in Nizan 's personality , tensions exacerbated by changes in Nizan 's family and educational situation , tensions that were to lead to a personal crisis . |
| 5 | Built as a Mk II by Blackburn , HS554 was one of 99 ( plus an additional six Mk IIIs ) that were assigned to the Royal Canadian Navy ( RCN ) . |
| 6 | After all the overtures that were made to the FA to get the game switched from Leeds to Wembley the demand for tickets has vindicated that decision . |
| 7 | Putting aside the postcards that were sent to the Secretary of State , how many of the 226 written submissions were of the quality that he desired ? |
| 8 | : Mb This scheme has been designed to overcome many of the objections that were raised to the earlier scheme , particularly in relation to the car parking that is now in excess of that which was originally required . |
| 9 | Struggles that were limited to the workplace or the neighbourhood brought real , if limited gains , up to the 1970s . |
| 10 | A comprehensive report of the actual meteorological conditions must be drawn up and copies of the weather forecast that were given to the crew will be included . |
| 11 | Prior to this measurement they used an enzyme to remove viruses that were bound to the outside of the cells . |
| 12 | In some cases that were drawn to the attention of the Juridical and Human Rights Commission of the main Protestant organization ( CEPAD ) , people had been held for as long as three months without being interrogated . |
| 13 | This is mirrored in the huge crowds that were drawn to the special exhibition of books staged by the Educational Publishers Council in London this autumn . |
| 14 | Overall , it could by the end of the transitional phase claim that it had changed the basis of economic competition by removing many restrictive practices and that it had eased some of the pain of economic decline by its policies towards those aging coal and steel plants that were coming to the end of a useful life . |
| 15 | Schaffer paused to look at some of the bright crayon drawings that were pinned to the foremost partition . |
| 16 | She gestured to the papers that were anchored to the rock by a heavy stone . |
| 17 | Subsequent checks of the coral sand revealed minute particles that were attracted to the algae magnets — even though they did n't look metallic . |
| 18 | The miniature faience robes are almost certainly votives standing for full-sized ceremonial robes that were offered to a goddess , either to dress an idol or to dress a priestess for a ceremony in which she somehow became the goddess . |
| 19 | This is where the spectacular forms of regeneration that characterised the 1980s ( Harvey , 1989 ) were not so much a postmodern discontinuity as a logical extension of the tradition of symbolically rich , effectively marginal , policy palliatives that were offered to the urban crisis from the 1960s onwards . |
| 20 | I realize that the forty-nine cows that were offered to the district officer 's relatives was a huge sum , however you measure it . |
| 21 | What was taking place was much more complex , and the working-class patterns of family and sexual life that were brought to the twentieth century were as much the product of working-class adaptation to rapid change in the context of a ruling set of ideas as a successful colonisation . |
| 22 | The ‘ society-as-parent ’ school is further illustrated by quoting from respondents interviewed by the author , though fewer of these took this position than were committed to a ‘ defence of kinship ’ view and their views tended to be less strongly and less explicitly-stated . |
| 23 | Birth weights had been recorded in pounds ( 2.2 lb=1 kg ) and were converted to the nearest gram . |
| 24 | Those writers who travelled from Los Angeles had a twenty-four-hour journey and were called to a Peter Sellers press conference less than three hours after they arrived in Britain . |
| 25 | Both boys faced South Sefton Youth Court in Bootle on Monday and were remanded to the care of Liverpool City Council . |
| 26 | These contrasted the Western models with the sorts of restrictions that could and were applied to the media in other political systems : the media were not free to publish , the expression of opinion was controlled , the Party/government could dictate the content of the media , and the essential freedoms associated with the Western models were obviously absent . |
| 27 | We were ushered into the boardroom at the back of the building and were treated to a few welcoming remarks from Derek Jefferson , in his familiar , cheerful and very effective style . |
| 28 | Around 50 retired employees attended the party and were treated to a three course dinner served up by committee volunteers . |
| 29 | The liquid emptying plots were all straight lines and were fitted to a single exponential function by an iterative least squares method . |
| 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 . |