Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] to [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THREE young canoeists are lucky to be alive this morning after they were plucked to safety minutes before being swept to sea . |
| 2 | After an international outcry , the sentences were commuted to life imprisonment , and the couple were adopted as prisoners of conscience by Amnesty International . |
| 3 | Patients were taught to selfadminister interferon subcutaneously . |
| 4 | Investigators and subjects were blinded to insulin type and the insulins were given in random order . |
| 5 | Eventually he reached Kirwan and was assured that no South Africans would be involved and that the match has some sanctity as the proceeds were to go to child cancer research — not that that dissuaded some cynics from suggesting that some players may have taken their share . |
| 6 | At 14 days all patients were reassessed , and if improving were assigned to treatment option A : prednisolone 20 mg daily for week three and 10 mg daily for week four . |
| 7 | Based on the microscopic review , each case was assigned to one of five histological categories : cases representing definite ulcerative colitis were assigned to category A , cases representing definite Crohn 's disease to category E , and cases containing overlapping features to indefinite categories B , C , or D , depending on the prominence and diagnostic significance of these features ( Table III ) . |
| 8 | Nine Cabinet places were assigned to opposition parties . |
| 9 | Because schools rather than individual pupils were assigned to intervention groups responses of pupils within a school ( cluster ) tend to be correlated and hence the effective sample size is less than the number of students surveyed . |
| 10 | When highly decorated and very experienced operational pilots were posted to training units within Bomber Command , they invariably suffered some difficulty within these establishments . |
| 11 | Six hundred thousand ducats were to be brought ashore at Saltash , while at Fowey the Spanish sailors themselves helped to unload two pinnaces of twenty thousand gold reals , which were carried to Place House before forwarding to London . |
| 12 | The ‘ Chelsea Diagnostic Mathematics Tests ’ ( Hart et al. , 1984 ) , which are based on this research , were designed to measure pupils ' levels of understanding and identify particular errors which each of them make . |
| 13 | Stead 's crusade against child harlotry or the press onslaught on Wilde were designed to fuel outrage and orchestrate the demand for moral action . |
| 14 | Unless otherwise stated , whenever FGFs were added to culture medium , heparan sulphate ( 10–100ngml -1 ; Sigma ) was also added for protein stabilization . |
| 15 | Several thousand people , including tourists who left seafront hotels in Havana flooded by sea water , were evacuated to emergency accommodation . |
| 16 | At Virgin , over and above establishing more centralised management functions ‘ my role was to ensure we were informal but not casual , to the extent that Richard had a limited number of objectives we were committed to spending money on , based on a view of ; the company and the things we had to do well ’ , he said . |
| 17 | They were confined to assessment schemes specifically designed for lower attainers or specially adapted for them for example , restricted grade CSE examinations were included . |
| 18 | At Pilkingtons and Ford , benchmarking exercises were confined to manufacturing costs and work organization , whereas RX instigated a more profound organizational benchmarking , isolating competitive gaps in all aspects of organization not simply as a sporadic trigger exercise to prioritize change areas but as an on-going process . |
| 19 | Each of the antibodies were applied to tissue sections for one hour at room temperature , and the sites of bound antibody shown by the APAAP technique . |
| 20 | Purified VCAM-1 ( 35ng per well ) , BSA-heparin conjugates ( 20ng per well ; from D. Roberts ) and/or control BSA in PBS were applied to plastic plates at 4°C overnight and the plastic binding sites subsequently blocked with BSA . |
| 21 | Initially they were applied to facilities working on the development of new medicinal products but fairly quickly they were applied to safety development work for most environmentally important chemicals . |
| 22 | The six condemned to death , with another six who were sentenced to life imprisonment , went to the Supreme Court , whose five judges unanimously dismissed their appeals . |
| 23 | On June 29 André Olivier , the ideological leader , Max Frérot , the explosives expert , and Emile Ballandras were sentenced to life imprisonment . |
| 24 | Luther Custodio , and 15 others including a captain and a lieutenant , were sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of Benigno Aquino and of his alleged assassin Rolando Galman . |
| 25 | Both were sentenced to life imprisonment . |
| 26 | In June 1990 nine members of the Red Brigades ( Brigate Rosse — BR ) were sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder in April 1988 of DC senator Roberto Ruffili [ see p. 35989 ] . |
| 27 | Two other leaders who were sentenced to life imprisonment were in detention in Tunis : Sadok Chourou and Habib Ellouz . |
| 28 | In the continuing campaign against the Maoist Shining Path ( Sendero Luminoso ) guerrillas , 10 men and three women were sentenced to life imprisonment on Dec. 11 . |
| 29 | In a trial held on Oct. 10-13 in Hanoi , 38 members of a Vietnamese resistance movement were sentenced to prison terms of between three years and life , having been found guilty of " traitorous activities " . |
| 30 | The defendants were sentenced to prison terms ranging from one year ( suspended ) to life . |