Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] to [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Conditions laid down by Haussmann along the lines of those set out by the Monopoly Commission , that the companies divest themselves of certain divisions which , if merged , would be against German interests in the arms industry , were eventually agreed to by both MBB and Daimler . |
| 2 | UKCCCR guidelines n the handling of animals for laboratory studies were rigorously adhered to throughout these investigations . |
| 3 | The documents obtained in this way were stored in an archive in Salamanca ( where they remain to this day ) and , after the end of the war , were constantly referred to by the military courts trying suspected Republicans . |
| 4 | The tiny samples of lacquer were progressively heated to about 350o C , ionised and their decomposition products analysed in a quadrupole mass spectrometer . |
| 5 | These were perceived as tools of management , [ who ] were only interested in productivity and in milking as much as possible out of their work force and were thus responded to by a work force who were determined to ensure that their rewards were as high as possible , and thus there was a perceived necessity to fool the time and motion man . |
| 6 | THE hands were once referred to as forks , hence to fork out . |
| 7 | Mustafa ( Bostanzade ) , later to become Multi of Istanbul , Muidzade prevailed in the argument and , according to Ata'i , his fetvas on the subject were preserved in the court registers and were still referred to in Ata'i 's own day . " |
| 8 | They all had permits and the rules were strictly adhered to with a heavy fine for intruders . |
| 9 | The closing dates were strictly adhered to by the Office of Works . |
| 10 | An inquiry is now underway to find out if the rules were strictly adhered to in Mrs Allen 's case . |
| 11 | The consequences of successive devaluations of the ‘ green ’ pound were also referred to by Mr Ramsay , who said ‘ With the compensation calculated at 80p per ecu as it was last September a high-yielding arable farm of 1,000 acres would have been over £48,000 worse off between 1993 and 1995 but now , with the rate at 98p per ecu that same farm 's cross margin will drop by just under £2,000 . |
| 12 | Although these were obliquely referred to under the article dealing with confidence-building measures , the longstanding Northern demand that the South renounce the US nuclear weapons based on its soil was not addressed , nor was the more recent Western demand that North Korea allow international inspection of its nuclear facilities . |
| 13 | This phenomenon was noted in the central press , where the lenders were often referred to as ‘ beglye ’ ( unstable ) : however the shaky nature of their new-found prosperity , like the uncertain fits and starts of NEP in economic terms , was soon to turn into solid gains which looked like becoming permanent . |
| 14 | But whether Höfner would admit to it or not , the lead was surely taken from the USA , and Höfners were often referred to as the ‘ Gibsons of Europe ’ , such was Kalamazoo 's influence on Bubenreuth . |
| 15 | The sick wards were now referred to as the workhouse infirmary , a new block was built in 1916 , and by the twenties , it was this section of the Bedford Union which became St. Peter 's Hospital . |
| 16 | Aggregate demand shocks ( alterations in the stance of monetary and fiscal policies were increasingly referred to as ‘ shocks ’ ) only affected real variables such as output and employment to the extent that they produced a state of confusion in the minds of agents regarding the behaviour of relative prices . |
| 17 | Thousands were later imported as furnishings for the rapidly expanding middle class , and were simply referred to as Smyrna carpets , because the coastal town of Smyrna ( now Izmir ) was the main collection and distribution centre for goods woven in the interior . |
| 18 | About six members of the Town Boys were consistently referred to as people with reputations for fighting . |
| 19 | Less formal matters were then attended to by Doncaster . |
| 20 | In both countries the Fomors were defeated by warriors of a brave new race armed with golden spears and helmets , who were variously referred to as the Partholan or the TUATHA DE DANAAN . |
| 21 | Both groups contained a number of fans who were scathingly referred to as ‘ part-time ’ supporters by those in the Rowdies and the Town Boys groups . |
| 22 | This clause was expressly agreed to by the shipper-consignor and the carrier at the moment of issuance of the CKR and to be effective had to be noted in the original or master bill of lading . |
| 23 | He was presumably known to at least some of his fellow members — who themselves became foundation members of the Veterinary College — in particular the Duke of Northumberland , first president of the College ; Granville Penn , active in the establishment of the College , who became a member of the Society of Arts in 1788 and was in 1791 a steward ; the Earl of Morton ( one of Vial 's patrons ) ; Thomas Pitt FSA , subsequently to be one of the most assiduous attenders of meetings of the College governors , and last , but not least , Arthur Young , a member of the Society of Arts since 1769 . |
| 24 | It would n't surprise me to hear it was locally referred to as the sugar sifter ( a metaphor at last ! ) , one of those useless gadgets dispensing too little or too much in cheap cafés . |
| 25 | The Soviet Union decided to endorse the expulsion of Escalante : Castro was henceforth referred to as ‘ comrade ’ and Cuba 's place in the Soviet bloc was officially acknowledged when it was listed along with the other ’ socialist' states in the traditional May Day slogans . |
| 26 | When the County School had moved to the Oxford side of the town in 1930 , generous provision of land had been made and that was prudently added to over the years . |
| 27 | In themselves they were by no means new — they were indeed centuries old — but they constituted a direct challenge to the rather abstract and clear-cut penal theory which was much subscribed to on both sides of the Atlantic , and to this extent also reflected something of the atmosphere of the new age . |
| 28 | Lhote , who had already established a certain independent reputation , mixed cautiously in Cubist circles , but from 1911 onwards was generally referred to as a Cubist , although his somewhat academic style often gained him exemption from the unfavourable criticism directed at the other painters . |
| 29 | In Bedfordshire , the earlier agreement over the Board 's assumption of providing powers for Chapter III courses in the rural areas was undeviatingly adhered to by Plaskitt , the university 's resident tutor . |
| 30 | It was what would be shown on the screens of the new theatres that would ultimately determine what was always referred to as ‘ the tone ’ of the movies as a social custom . |