Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [to-vb] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In March , a judicial inquest into the death of 42 people in Sebokeng township in September 1990 concluded with the presiding judge finding members of the South African Defence Force criminally responsible for the deaths of four people and rejected claims that the concerned were provoked to shoot in self-defence . |
| 2 | Visitors were expected to pay in advance but credit was always given to favourites like Modigliani and Leon Trotsky the Russian revolutionary . |
| 3 | The tags , stuck on with tape , were expected to stay in position for up to three months . |
| 4 | Between 20 and 60 people were said to remain in detention following what was described as a failed coup attempt on Jan. 8-9 by Afar politician Ali Aref Bourhan . |
| 5 | ( It must be remembered it was still another nine years before women were franchised to vote in Government Elections , and then had to be over 30 ) . |
| 6 | All were bailed to appear in court to face public order charges . |
| 7 | Subjects were instructed to breathe in synchrony to the imaging frequency of 20 frames per min . |
| 8 | At least two independent witnesses were needed to agree in evidence ; if they did not agree , the trial was stopped and the accused found ‘ not guilty ’ ( Mark 14:59 ) . |
| 9 | Despite opposition from the Social Democrats ( SPD ) , a law designed to change aspects of the tax system was approved by the Bundesrat ( upper house of the federal parliament ) on Feb. 14 by 35 votes to 33 , after delegations from two Länder in which the SPD participated in government — Brandenburg and Berlin — were persuaded to vote in favour of the package . |
| 10 | This order , from which our modern days of the week derive ( e.g. iii French ) , appears at first sight to be devoid of sense , since it does not accord in an obvious way with the order in which ( according to pre-Copernican cosmology ) the ‘ planets ’ were thought to lie in relation to the earth : Saturn , Jupiter , Mars , the sun , Venus , Mercury , the moon . |
| 11 | It is often difficult to assess the colour vision of mammals , and some which were thought to see in monochrome have been shown to have sensitivity to colour . |
| 12 | Television crews were invited to stand in front of the US Embassy and film a senior member of the staff , in black tie and dark suit , as he slowly wound up the folding door of an inconspicuous , metal-framed garage . |
| 13 | Similarly , his idea that contact between different cultures merely led to decay and that Magian Jews and Faustian Europeans were bound to live in friction with each other , was to be an important intellectual influence on Mosley 's cultural anti-semitism and to re-inforce his later views on apartheid . |
| 14 | Today the hunt was for blackberries , which were known to grow in profusion on the high banks of the fields beyond the woods . |
| 15 | In addition a future crop substitution programme was expected to be seriously hampered by the July 6 murder of Walter Tocas , the leader of the Upper Huallaga Defence Front , a 150,000-strong organization of coca growers in the country 's principal coca growing region , by either drug traffickers or Shining Path ( Sendero Luminoso ) guerrillas , who were known to work in tandem in the region . |
| 16 | By such means their position and power were enhanced and the material means were provided to set in motion community activities . |
| 17 | The term was originally used by Hader and Lindeman to refer to work done in industrial consultation committees where some members of the committee were trained to observe in detail what happened at meetings and were then questioned afterwards by research workers — rather like an intelligence officer might question the crew of an aircraft after a raid . |
| 18 | They , like the enclave-protectors , would run the risk of becoming targets for Serb sanctions-busters , especially if they were allowed to fight in order to do their job properly . |
| 19 | Nor did such sentences mean that the wrongdoers were allowed to rot in peace . |
| 20 | After the hearing Willcock issued a statement saying that the action had been symbolic : ‘ They could not move the hovels in which hundreds of decent men and women were forced to live in deprivation and degradation , or they would . ' |
| 21 | When the clothes were wet and were put to dry in front of the household 's fire , they polluted the whole atmosphere with sulphurous fumes . |
| 22 | ‘ We were required to sit in court as a guard duty , ’ he says , ‘ and therefore listened to many of the charges brought against the accused , who were mostly senior Japanese officers , although some of the lesser ranks were involved . |
| 23 | SALT I , the most important of these , placed limits on the further construction of intercontinental nuclear weapon systems by both sides ; it was intended to remain in force for five years or until superseded by a more comprehensive agreement , and it was the first real fruit of negotiations that had been proceeding since the late 1960s . |
| 24 | It is a penalty if it was not a genuine attempt by the parties to pre-estimate the likely damages but was intended to hang in terror over one party to ensure that he carried out the contract . |
| 25 | On the last day of the Sale one senior elder was heard to say in response to another 's query as to how he was faring , ‘ Well , I 've just make 40p which I 'm very pleased about ’ . |
| 26 | Sister Cooney looked sympathetically at Jack , but was constrained to nod in agreement . |
| 27 | They particularly liked the way it was designed to rotate in response to different wind directions . |
| 28 | She was expected to join in class work , but her pain and spasticity increased because of the physical efforts she was making , and because of her stress . |
| 29 | Louth , out of the room where Eileen was expected to lie in bed with her son . |
| 30 | Consisting of eighty-five lots of modern Chinese paintings , it was expected to realize in excess of $2million ( NT$50million ) . |