Example sentences of "they were [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The jury were satisfied and they were sentenced to hanging . |
| 2 | The evidence against them was inconclusive but they were sentenced to death . |
| 3 | And most of you are probably aware that last year the the company tried to renege on their P L C P L C status and buy out existing shareholders erm and the furore surrounding that erm the price that they were trying to repurchase the shares from the existing shareholders er caused a lot of discontentment er surrounding that scenario . |
| 4 | When Ako Adjei , Adamafio and Crabbe were given a second trial they were condemned to death : but the sentence was commuted by Nkrumah to life imprisonment . |
| 5 | The party 's spin-doctors had remained sceptical about the polls , but they were expecting to be able to argue that the Conservatives had lost their mandate , even if they were clinging to power in a hung parliament . |
| 6 | The Sikhs , ignoring him , had been digging steadily for hours ; now they were beginning to shovel up wet earth . |
| 7 | Although the military were used more sparingly than in period one — the government intervened to prevent their use in the South Wales coal dispute of 1910 , for example — they were despatched to South Wales during the national railway strike of 1911 , when fears of imminent revolution were rife . |
| 8 | Too late , they were rushed to hospital . |
| 9 | Not only did women earn less than male officers but they were kept to shoplifting , domestic violence , child cruelty and sexual crime . |
| 10 | Moreover it is true that in one or two specific minor ways the express tried positively to limit serfdom — by ordering in 1781 that war prisoners were in future to become free men if they were converted to Orthodoxy ; and by reducing the possibilities which had hitherto existed of enserfment by marriage . |
| 11 | They were flown to hospital in Aberdeen but released after a check-up . |
| 12 | Unable to resolve the conflicts within the legal political arena they were pushed to violence and war , with the united right-wing army regaining its traditional power over Spanish politics . |
| 13 | Those who 's homes were damaged , were just thankful to be alive , for many , there was nothing left at all , and they were moved to emergency shelters . |
| 14 | And they netted £10,000 from generous customers who believed they were donating to charity . |
| 15 | They were made to wartime restrictions , wooden seats and erm mass produced really , erm there was none of the erm cushioned seats at all , that were a part of the feature during th before the war . |
| 16 | THREE young canoeists are lucky to be alive this morning after they were plucked to safety minutes before being swept to sea . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | They were invited to court to perform for the Empress Maria Theresa and Emperor Francis I. |
| 19 | After their 10km walk they were invited to Backnong for a special lunch that had been laid on by the Canal Dignitaries of the town . |
| 20 | Then , one by one , they were stoned to death . |
| 21 | They were ordered to camp in a swampy depression beside the Missouri which one observer suggested had been selected ‘ for the express purpose of putting an end to Chief Joseph and his band ’ . |
| 22 | The Wedding Present approach his ‘ Cumberland Gap ’ but must have known they were doomed to failure . |
| 23 | Patients in the fluticasone propionate group received 5 mg four times daily throughout the trial , regardless of whether they were allocated to group A or group B at 14 days . |
| 24 | Several Air France planes were cancelled owing to bad weather and they were forced to book seats with a private line . |
| 25 | They were hacked to death as they sunbathed at Sodwana Bay , Zululand . |
| 26 | They were donated to charity by a descendant of one of the Queen 's ladies-in-waiting . |
| 27 | Leavisites , of course , claimed that they were committed to discussion , argument , the free play of mind ; in so far as they were , it was contained within the enclosing form of life , not directed against it , rather like arguments within Marxist-Leninist ideology . |
| 28 | In later years when they were reduced to penury , she displayed great moral heroism in preserving intact the framework of a family and a household , which alone enabled her husband to continue his work . |
| 29 | More than 500 weavers went on strike in defence of this " ancient custom " , staying out through the winter from November to February before they were reduced to acceptance of the threepence compensation . |
| 30 | But the message went further for it was felt that the lesson to be learned was that living standards could be maintained if unity prevailed : ‘ With the help of the Trade Union Movement , mobilized by the TUC General Council , they were enabled to secure a victory which they could not have won if they were left to fight alone . ’ |