Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [prep] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Calls made from it were traced by police to the homes of witnesses due to give evidence in trials on Tyneside . |
| 2 | The new line includes the first air-cooled machines in the C90 series , a two-processor C92A and a four-processor C94A , which it says were developed in response to demand from Japanese commercial users . |
| 3 | The new line includes the first air-cooled machines in the C90 series , a two-processor C92A and a four-processor C94A , which it says were developed in response to demand from Japanese commercial users . |
| 4 | Results were calculated by reference to a standard curve . |
| 5 | Short courses , for teachers already in post , were arranged from time to time , though they assumed nothing like the significance that in-service provision was to have later . |
| 6 | The trials were explained in detail to all the local , regional , and district authorities and paramount chiefs , who gave their approval . |
| 7 | They are adjusted so that if the project were completed on time to specification the contractor would realize a reasonable profit . |
| 8 | These reasons were given in response to an open question and more than one reason was allowed . |
| 9 | This offer was not accepted , the three weeks expired and instructions were given by GFT to their company solicitors to commence winding-up proceedings . |
| 10 | All the Jewish laws are derived from the first five books of the Old Testament , or what Jewish people refer to as the Torah , or the five books of Moses ; we believe that these laws were given by God to the Jewish people . |
| 11 | The voices of churchmen were heard from time to time , perhaps frequently , complaining of the enslavement of Christians , or of the treatment of slaves ; but there was no radical attack on the institution as such . |
| 12 | But he could also be dismayed if Christians were heard by pagans to be talking nonsense about nature . |
| 13 | Long drives were undertaken from town to town , even country to country . |
| 14 | Finally , before leaving the harmful insects , mention must be made of horrid little blighters that for long were regarded as exceptions to the normal methods of control . |
| 15 | Though circumstances are so changed it is relevant to remember that in their heyday syllabubs were regarded as refreshments to be offered at card parties , ball suppers and at public entertainments , rather than just as a pudding for lunches and dinners , although they did quite often figure as part of the dessert in the days when a choice of sweetmeats , fruits , jellies , confectionery and creams was set out in a formal symmetrical array in the centre of the table . |
| 16 | The likes of Naomi Campbell and Linda Evangelista were clad from head to toe in leather , rubber , latex and PVC . |
| 17 | The waters were layered from October to May while ice was present , with temperatures close to freezing point near the surface but at 1–1.25°C near the bottom in 26 m . |
| 18 | Three petitions containing more than 2,200 signatures were received in opposition to the proposals for Dixon 's Bank , Marton . |
| 19 | Around 650 responses of this kind were received in time to be included in the analysis . |
| 20 | They were treated for burns to their hands and arms at Raigmore Hospital , Inverness . |
| 21 | The race itself was very well organised but I was absolutely amazed at the way in which the winning women were treated in comparison to the winning men during the prize giving ceremony later on . |
| 22 | Most of the patients were referred for investigation to the Department of Gastroenterology of Kyoto Second Red Cross Hospital , and the remainder were seen at the Third Department of Internal Medicine , Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine . |
| 23 | Many patients from eight practices in two of the zones were referred for examination to an adjacent district because radiology facilities were nearer . |
| 24 | Two opposition groups were formed in response to the constitutional changes . |
| 25 | Other evidence suggests that many of these were marched towards Maribor to the east or Celje to the south and that subsequently the mass-slaughter of many thousands of Croats took place . |
| 26 | And in one experiment rats were exposed throughout infancy to the music of either Mozart or Schoenberg and then given musical preference tests in adulthood ( with the result that animals brought up on Mozart showed a definite preference for that music , whereas the Schoenberg-reared group gave no indication of a hankering after the familiar music ! ) . |
| 27 | We could suggest that there could be beliefs of type 1 if there were beliefs which were justified by appeal to the facts and that a belief could be so justified if it was caused by the facts . |
| 28 | Inspectors , some of them Englishmen , were dismissed from time to time for accepting bribes or for other dubious practices . |
| 29 | The ‘ Vyborg Manifesto ’ elicited little response and those who took part were debarred from election to the next Duma . |
| 30 | Four Minilab Sovereign detectors which were intended for export to Belgium were stolen from the premises of Search Technology on 30 August 1991 . |