Example sentences of "[coord] were [vb pp] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pilgrims , 680 of whom were later identified as Indonesian and some 600 as Turkish , died of suffocation or were trampled to death in a frantic attempt to escape , as an estimated 50,000 worshippers converged simultaneously on the 500-metre long al-Mu'aysam tunnel connecting Mecca to the pilgrim tent city of Mina , below Mount Arafat . |
| 2 | The Croats first settled in their present homeland in the seventh century and were converted to Christianity in the first half of the ninth century , shortly after they accepted the suzerainty of the Holy Roman Emperor , Charlemagne , in 803 . |
| 3 | Despite their initial ferocity the victorious Agaw were eventually assimilated into the civilization they had sought to destroy , and were converted to Christianity . |
| 4 | The idea was certainly sensible as the club gained valuable experience , finished bottom , and were relegated to Division One . |
| 5 | Patients in one group were given Reflotron machines ( Boehringer Mannheim , Germany ) and were asked to measure their triglyceride concentrations at home , before meals and before going to bed , twice a week and to record the results in diaries . |
| 6 | Most of the mothers were nurses who worked in a civilian hospital , but were part-time reservists in the US Army and were posted to Saudi Arabia at short notice in the run-up to the war . |
| 7 | Once again we received a warm welcome at Cresswell and were treated to coffee and some rather nice chocky biscuits in the Board Room . |
| 8 | Visiting women , on the other hand , were always welcome and were treated to leg-rubbing and purring with as much friendship as was shown to its new owner . |
| 9 | His widow , Fatima Oufkir , 56 , his six children ( now aged between 21 and 37 ) and his cousin had been imprisoned in southern Morocco in December 1972 , and were moved to Marrakesh in 1987 . |
| 10 | Passenger services began in 1879 and were extended to Barnton in 1894 . |
| 11 | Gladstone Murray and party , which included his newly-appointed Programme Director , Ernie Bushnell , and CBC Western representative , Horace Stovin , arrived in Moose Jaw during the afternoon and were escorted to suites of rooms in the Grant Hall Hotel . |
| 12 | Two Young Republicans , Carlin and O'Donnell , refused to enter bail and were sent to Belfast 's Crumlin Road jail for one month , receiving a hero 's welcome on their return . |
| 13 | Unfavourable events brought about extinction of species and were lost to evolution , and so provided no ‘ goodness ’ . |
| 14 | On the following day , under a temporary amnesty , a group of 167 wounded guerrillas was allowed to leave El Salvador for medical treatment and were flown to Cuba via Mexico . |
| 15 | As thousands of troops and vehicles , many loaded with looted goods , struggled north on the main road to Basra , they became caught in a congested and disorganized column many kilometres in length , and were subjected to hours of ruthless attack from the air with cluster bombs and , possibly , incendiary weapons . |
| 16 | ‘ I think of all the boys that came after , all the ones that went before too and were subjected to Gilly 's approach to education . ’ |
| 17 | In all , 1738 ( 96% ) patients in the survey were seen initially by their general practitioner ; 41 ( 2% ) referred themselves and were admitted to hospital , and 26 ( 1% ) referred themselves and were managed and discharged by an accident and emergency department . |
| 18 | Those Right-Ons who had written off the Labour Party for ever now began to chew humble pie , and were drawn to Livingstone 's GLC as though to a magnet . |
| 19 | Potatoes were first grown in Peru and were brought to Britain by Sir Walter Raleigh . |
| 20 | Soviet security concerns with respect to Latin America were obviously minimal and were confined to Mexico and the River plate nations . |
| 21 | Of Glenelg they saw little ; after breakfast on Thursday , 2 September , having parted company with their guides John Hay and Laughland Vass , they walked down to the shore and were ferried to Skye . |
| 22 | Women were first recruited into the RUC in 1944 , and were restricted to Belfast and Londonderry , where they dealt exclusively with offences against children and women . |
| 23 | The Prince and Princess had both been on particularly good form throughout that Gulf tour , and were reduced to giggles on several occasions , none more so than during a desert picnic . |
| 24 | Mr Green and his wife Dorothy suffered chest injuries and were taken to Hereford General Hospital . |
| 25 | Three passengers in one car , Joan Birkett , 67 , and Phillip Birkett , 72 , both of Wayside , South Shields , and Denise Birkett , 39 , from Surrey , suffered injuries and were taken to hospital . |
| 26 | The people were pagan , but were converted to Christianity by Theodolinda the daughter of a Bavarian duke who married the Lombard king . |
| 27 | At first , the British intended to carry on regardless with that year 's dump , but were forced to back down after a concerted blacking of the cargo by trade unions . |
| 28 | Tradition says the original three large bells should have gone to Driffield but were delivered to Hutton by mistake . |
| 29 | Both were able to walk away from the wreckage but were taken to hospital by ambulance for treatment . |