Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [noun pl] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The request was politely refused , although we were given directions to the Avila headquarters . |
| 2 | Friends of Allonby and Bere Forest were given byes to the semi finals . |
| 3 | The carts had been moved to one side , and now slaves were attaching torches to the arched wooden frames . |
| 4 | There were mixed reactions to the strike . |
| 5 | There were also persistent reports that Czechoslovak arms manufacturers were selling weapons to the Yugoslav federal forces , in contravention of UN policy . |
| 6 | In all schools studied , there was a greater voluntary use by pupils , and more teachers were directing pupils to the library for purposes of retrieval and research , and in all schools , informants acknowledged an increased awareness of county library services with the use of the County Topic Loan Service also increasing since project involvement . |
| 7 | But he took off his jacket and went round the back to work with the sawyers who were cutting joists to a length . |
| 8 | There were threatening calls to the Templemans and — ’ Kelly decided to spare Kinane details of the death of her cat ‘ — to me . |
| 9 | They were giving guns to the witdoeke and the witdoeke were shooting . ’ |
| 10 | Far more seismic events were giving shocks to the Communist world . |
| 11 | The solicitor said the newly formed Solicitors Criminal Bar Association were making representations to the Lord Chancellor 's office to scrap the legal aid changes and would specifically complain about last week 's hearing . |
| 12 | The republic 's 245,000 registered voters were to elect deputies to the 42-seat Federal Assembly from 320 candidates representing 21 parties . |
| 13 | Chaired by the head of English , and consisting of the librarian and heads of all departments or their representatives , its terms of reference were to make recommendations to the head on the best ways to spend the money , to formulate a project proposal , and to oversee all subsequent matters of library policy . |
| 14 | Here were the two developments , the use of the longbow and the adaptation of the traditional use of cavalry , which were to bring victories to the English in a number of foreign fields in the coming century or so . |
| 15 | When man himself started to make decisions which were to become contributions to the substance of the Created God , there arose individuals who could not accept the decisions which were designated ‘ good ’ by the majority , and who therefore started moving towards behaviour which was specifically harmful to others . |
| 16 | The government was to issue vouchers to every citizen to enable them to buy shares in factories and enterprises . |
| 17 | Then he remembered a woman he 'd met once on a train , she was singing hymns to the window , he 'd been embarrassed at first , half her fringe was missing as if someone had taken a bite out of it , only he knew she 'd done it because she caught him staring and laughed and said , ‘ I always cut it when I 'm loaded , ’ and he remembered something about a house , and because there was nothing left to cling to , because it was the only piece of wreckage left afloat , he remembered how to get there too , it was either remember or die . |
| 18 | Ursula pointed towards the Cookham bank , where an unremarkable middle-aged man in a brown anorak was tossing crumbs to a quacking and splashing circle of waterfowl . |
| 19 | As the object of our study was to identify clues to the aetiology of epidermoid anal cancer , we included only invasive non-adenocarcinoma and non-melanoma anorectal cancers . |
| 20 | In the former exhibition , George Mackie , DFC , RDI , RSW , one of this century 's leading graphic artists , confronts the challenge of explaining to layman and bibliophile alike the nature of his ‘ invisible ’ craft and the intellectual and emotional considerations which underline it , and this theme is further elaborated in the accompanying catalogue , Books , mostly scholarly and some Ephemera , designed by George Mackie , which was produced thanks to the generosity of The Stinehour Press , who printed it . |
| 21 | reports that Iraq was sending arms to the Arabic-speaking minority in Khuzestan . |
| 22 | Wearing a duffel coat over yesterday 's military outfit , he was feeding hazelnuts to a squirrel . |
| 23 | New Zealand 's Russ Thomas , chairman of the RWC board , said last night it was considering adjustments to the schedule announced — without prior notification to the SRU — in Cape Town in January . |
| 24 | Well apparently rumour has it that the doctor at the hospital who dealt with these last cases was saying words to the effect that er Jonathan just put Jonathan in a situation and he 'd keep the hospital in business for evermore . |
| 25 | Meanwhile , Lancashire County Council announced it was to send representatives to the Netherlands in a bid to rescue the Leyland truck plant and the Chorley parts warehouse , where together more than 900 jobs were lost on Friday . |
| 26 | Instead of keeping watch on the street , he was giving directions to a young woman tourist . |
| 27 | At the turn of the century it was appointed watchmakers to the Admiralty and in 1908 the firm was awarded the Grand Prix in the horological section of the Franco-British Exhibition in London . |
| 28 | The spokesman said that China was making representations to the UK over the meeting . |
| 29 | Bill Craig 's cognomen Jas was elected thanks to the accumulation , in fourteen successive stages of the count after the first , of 1,246.83 votes plus 297.25 plus 4.75 plus 1.75 plus 111.25 plus 15.47 plus 13.79 plus 975.73 plus 15.26 plus 219.03 plus 2.39 plus 2.00 plus 305.65 plus 747.00 . |
| 30 | And so when Lacuna was screaming instructions to the androids , and the Doctor was almost hopping from foot to foot with anxiety , and the pale young man and the little girl were staring open-mouthed at the screens , Britta omitted to speak . |