Example sentences of "they [was/were] [adv] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were invariably attached to a two-storey building of more conventional shape . |
| 2 | Companies were asked whether or not they were already selling to the Japanese market . |
| 3 | There was no doubt that he was the first of an avalanche of Swedish players who might do to the golf circuits of the world what they were already doing to the tennis circuit . |
| 4 | Whether , however , their precise significance in the late fifteenth century is as described in the Kanunname — that is , whether at this early stage of the development of the medrese system they were already confined to two classes of 50-akce medreses — is perhaps more open to question , though the very real possibility that the geographical sense and the designation of rank were once conterminous should not be overlooked in this connection . |
| 5 | They were little loves to a dog , but whether they were , as billed , the cream of British dogdom , well , all owners would like to think their dogs were . |
| 6 | RAWP first used the treatment rates in various categories of disease , but later dropped this since they were strongly related to the availability of the treatment in the region , and thus risked confusing supply factors with need . |
| 7 | Whilst Rowe and Lambert took exception to the then prevailing view that children should , and more important could , be returned to their own families , they were strongly committed to family care as the main form of substitute care for those children who could not return home . |
| 8 | As they neared the small shop they were nearly knocked to the ground by a young man fleeing from the same direction . |
| 9 | They , they were probably given to them secondhand an'all |
| 10 | Encouraged by Drew , Daisy applied for a Pony Club scholarship for Perdita , and they were duly summoned to Kirtlington to meet the Committee in early July . |
| 11 | Their case is that they were effectively forced to er complete unwillingly without the or the finance to make a go of the business and they suffered the losses which are claimed er set out in heading form initially on page sixty two of the pleadings bundle in further and better particulars . |
| 12 | They were increasingly subjected to a programme of enforced cultural ‘ Japanization ’ . |
| 13 | In November 1985 North shipped out of America two Boeing 707-loads of Hawk anti-aircraft missiles , ostensibly for Israel although by now the pretence was wearing thin and they were simply transferred to Israeli cargo aircraft and flown straight on to Iran . |
| 14 | Within seconds they were both drenched to the skin . |
| 15 | So far as he was concerned they were both promised to other people . |
| 16 | Both systems were termed revolutionary in that they were both expected to radically influence the financial decision-making of government . |
| 17 | After they were finally discovered to be there , the minister pleaded for them to be allowed to stay the night , and guaranteed they would be at the Children 's Panel Hearing in Kirkwall the next day . |
| 18 | Already , they have appeared with great acclaim for five years in succession on the Fringe of the Edinburgh Festival — so successfully , that they were finally invited to the ‘ official ’ Edinburgh International Festival — the first cabaret artists since Marlene Dietrich to be so invited ! |
| 19 | Though scientists were highly critical of the aristocratic amateurishness of many senior army administrators , they were keenly attracted to the image of a militarily organized society . |
| 20 | They were eventually escorted to the airport from where they returned to Bangkok . |
| 21 | When they were eventually brought to trial , the most revealing thing that came out was that thousands of women were seeking , by a variety of means , to terminate their pregnancies . |
| 22 | But they were well adapted to the insecure lives of poorer workers ; if due to unemployment or other crisis they had to cease contributions they could lose no more than one year 's contributions . |
| 23 | During the years of their operations , however , they were frequently referred to as Lestai ( Brigands ) or as Sicarii ( Daggermen ) , the name deriving from the sica , a small curved dagger especially favoured by the Zealots for political assassinations . |
| 24 | Although concentrations of colonic platelet activating factor content were higher ( p<0.01 ) when colonic mucosa displayed cell infiltration , they were neither related to the severity nor the type of inflammatory cells . |
| 25 | Previously , Questions had been replied to in the Commons by one of the Law Officers , although they were neither attached to the Lord Chancellor 's Department nor directly subordinate to him . |
| 26 | Thus , reading right-wing papers had most effect upon increasing Thatcher 's ratings on the ‘ soft ’ virtues and depressing Kinnock 's ratings on the ‘ hard ’ virtues — that is , on those aspects of each politician 's image where they were generally considered to be at their weakest . |
| 27 | Reading right-wing papers had most effect upon improving Thatcher 's image on the ‘ soft ’ virtues and damaging Kinnock 's image on the ‘ hard ’ virtues — that is , on those aspects of each politician 's image where they were generally considered to be at their weakest . |
| 28 | So when the Indians used the phrase ‘ passive resistance ’ in South Africa they were immediately considered to be a threat to person and property in the same way as the suffragettes were a threat . |
| 29 | Unfortunately , they were soon moved to different duties , but before doing so they were able to train a third person , a Sergeant , who has since carried on the work . |
| 30 | They were soon relegated to the emigrants ' cars , and when even the emigrants complained they were forced to travel on baggage wagons or on the boarding steps . |