Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Staff and resources allocated to it were redirected to a major project intended to regenerate east Glasgow . |
| 2 | We had a good meeting today , the problems were explained to the interested parties and now we are in the hands of the Football League . ’ |
| 3 | Suddenly they met burnt chip contamination and had to shut down the production line , a major anxiety as they were producing to a tight schedule in a ‘ Just in time ’ situation . |
| 4 | His shirt hung open as he sat again , and Theda 's eyes were riveted to the long column of his neck , the golden glow of his chest below it . |
| 5 | There are a few works which I would have loved to have borrowed but which were simply too fragile to travel , and there were works which were prohibited by reasons of the terms under which they were given to a particular collection , the Barnes Foundation , for example . |
| 6 | Evaluation by pre-structured interviews Pre-structured telephone interviews were given to a random sample of students who had taken part in the undergraduate course in information retrieval . |
| 7 | The movies were ‘ for the millions ’ but they were given to the millions by showmen . |
| 8 | Strange twists were given to the normal body of human nature , revealing that such freak developments are potentially in all of us all the time . |
| 9 | Some , mainly those of war time subjects and taken in the 30 's and 40's were given to the National Portrait Gallery , but the best were retained by the V. and A. |
| 10 | No details were given to the National Union or to the constituencies involved , so much hard work had to be done and much recrimination endured before the party could settle down to the campaign . |
| 11 | The elections were conducted under a new electoral law passed by the NUP-controlled Assembly in October 1989 , under which additional seats were given to the larger parties , thus allowing them to gain the maximum number of seats with the minimum of votes . |
| 12 | Cabinet posts were given to the centre-right Haitian Christian Democratic Party ( PDCH ) and the right-wing Mobilization for National Development ( MDN ) party , as well as to Panpra , to strengthen Bazin 's claim that he headed a genuine coalition government . |
| 13 | Like Leonard , they were given to the literary life . |
| 14 | In the six largest industrial conurbations outside London , the metropolitan counties , education and social welfare were given to the second-tier authorities : elsewhere , in the more rural shire counties , the provision of education and welfare services was allocated to the counties . |
| 15 | TIPS on how to get the best all year round use from small greenhouses were given to the large audience attending a Bramshott , Liphook and District Horticultural Society evening . |
| 16 | At first starting on an ad hoc and ad hominem basis before the birth of the Romanov dynasty , the system of transporting the unwanted criminal detritus and the antisocial , nonconformist and subversive members of the Russian social and political order — both tsarist and Soviet — steadily generated a huge sprawling diaspora comprising millions of wretched human beings who were banished to the living purgatory of Siberian exile . |
| 17 | At filling stations they were banished to the far-flung corners of the forecourt , away from the well-lit protection of covered petrol pumps , to battle 32-tonners for a turn at the diesel pump . |
| 18 | Such likely opponents of the economic strategy as Lord Carrington and Sir Ian Gilmour were banished to the Foreign Office while Francis Pym went to Defence . |
| 19 | This fairly low level of detection suggests that either K + channels were present at low density in the plasma membrane , or that K + channels were limited to a small subpopulation of cells withint the HGT-1 cell line . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Only families whose own interests were limited to a single area of ducal or comital influence could afford to ignore the other lord . |
| 22 | Only families whose own interests were limited to a single area of ducal or comital influence could afford to ignore the other lord . |
| 23 | However , in order to take advantage of such guarantees , the customer would have to sign and return a portion of the guarantee form or certificate to signify that , in consideration of the granting of the guarantee , he would accept that his legal remedies against the manufacturer were limited to the express ones contained in the guarantee . |
| 24 | These changes , which were limited to the big club sides , will be examined later in relation to media interest in sport . |
| 25 | They have had to develop more detailed service costings than required by their main customers , the district health authorities , who were limited to the less information costly block contracts during the first year of the internal market . |
| 26 | Many nationalized industries , which long posed problems for governments , not least in pay negotiations , were floated to the private sector . |
| 27 | Reports on Jan. 22 said that the recently privatized Muslim Commercial Bank Ltd and the Agricultural Development Bank of Pakistan , a development finance organization , were to appeal to the Supreme Court against a ruling by an Islamic court banning bank interest [ see p. 38683-84 ] . |
| 28 | Female model crests were manipulated to a greater extent ( 24 mm ) than males ' ( 14mm ) because we suspected a priori that male mating preferences could be more difficult to detect . |
| 29 | This having been said , the consultation generated almost three times the volume correspondence as the last major consultation on the revision of the practice rules in 1990 , and roughly four times as many responses as were received in connection with the consultation on multi-disciplinary partnerships in 1987 ( although more local law society responses were received to the 1987 consultation ) . |
| 30 | Industrialized villages were naturally most numerous in the North and parts of the Midlands , but even in the South some nineteenth-century rural communities were sustained to a large extent by wages earned at a particular craft . |