Example sentences of "were [verb] to [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The scalding flood swamped hundreds of homes and many people were plucked to safety by helicopter . |
| 2 | With seconds to spare the two girls were plucked to safety by firemen wearing breathing apparatus . |
| 3 | In April 1989 , hundreds of Liverpool fans were crushed to death on the terraces of Sheffield 's Hillsborough Stadium before the FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest . |
| 4 | In that case the personal representatives of persons who were crushed to death at the Hillsborough Stadium claimed damages under the Law Reform ( Miscellaneous Provisions ) Act 1934 for pain and suffering alleged to have been sustained prior to their death . |
| 5 | Huxley was , after all , writing at a time when medical horizons were limited to digoxin for heart failure , morphine for pain and a handful of other remedies . |
| 6 | A PRIVATE member 's bill to introduce payments for Crown servants who were exposed to radiation during nuclear weapons tests and have since contracted leukaemia and other cancers , and to the dependants of those who have died , was presented to the Commons by Mr Bob Clay ( Lab . |
| 7 | They were flown to hospital in Aberdeen but released after a check-up . |
| 8 | But often the- when they were in small houses where they had to do everything , erm they tended to find that they were they were expected to sort of skivvy much more . |
| 9 | At the worst , if hard-liners were to come to power in Moscow , Ukraine could be a buffer for the young democracies of Eastern Europe . |
| 10 | For this reason , Edwards ' indicators were designed to measure in various ways the extent to which speakers have contact with black friends and neighbours and participate in black social activities . |
| 11 | Perhaps of greater importance than those who were attracted to fascism for irrational or emotive reasons were those who were ideologically committed to the form of radicalism which BUF doctrine and propaganda promulgated . |
| 12 | When , in late 1709 , a Dissenting minister set up a conventicle in Monmouth without taking out a licence , he and some sixteen of his congregation were committed to prison by the mayor for failing to meet the provisions of the Toleration Act . |
| 13 | The Amoco Corporation has just agreed to pay compensation of 2.5 million francs to a syndicate of fishermen , who lost earnings when six boats from the port of Sibiril in northern Brittany were confined to port for a month . |
| 14 | Thus when biological ideas were applied to society by Spencer and by social Darwinists , they were allied to the powerful notion of human progress , which was not a part of Darwin 's evolutionary theory . |
| 15 | Seven members of the Maguire family were sentenced to prison in 1976 on terrorism charges because a forensic scientist said his tests had shown traces of nitroglycerine on their hands . |
| 16 | Two illiterate Zulu youths , Zakhele Mbatha and Nicholas Dlamini , were sentenced to death for the murder . |
| 17 | On Oct. 4 six men were sentenced to death for trafficking in cannabis and on Nov. 9 five men , aged between 35 and 46 , were sentenced to hang for similar offences [ see also pp. 34485 ; 36557 ] . |
| 18 | Five people were sentenced to death for drug trafficking in Hunan province on June 24 ; two days later , in Yunnan province , 21 traffickers were executed . |
| 19 | Three men were sentenced to death during the French revolution . |
| 20 | The four ringleaders were sentenced to death on the gibbet and their bodies were hung in chains at various crossroads on the moor . |
| 21 | Eight members of a group called The Prophet Mohammed 's Army were sentenced to death on Nov. 25 by a special tribunal composed of three military judges for crimes " against state security " [ see also p. 38457 ] . |
| 22 | Two Iraqis , aged 29 and 49 , were sentenced to death on May 5 for informing on and torturing Kuwaitis who had formed part of the resistance to the Iraqi occupation of 1990-91 . |
| 23 | Three more people were sentenced to death by a military court at Blida , 50 km south-west of Algiers , on May 6 in connection with an attempt in mid-February to seize arms from a naval dry dock in Algiers . |
| 24 | Eight Islamic activists were sentenced to death by a special military court in Alexandria on Dec. 3 , seven in absentia . |
| 25 | On Dec. 8 two men were sentenced to death in Beijing for the murder of an armed policeman on June 4 . |
| 26 | Deng Tianshun and Zhu Xiuying were sentenced to death in Guangzhou , China , for selling three giant panda skins between April 1988 and May 1989 . |
| 27 | Although initially encouraging , the approach proved to be fruitless and both bodies made independent arrangements within separately developed policies which were to lead to disagreement over the Cambridge Board 's RAC scheme for liberal adult education throughout the region , and which is considered in the next section of this chapter . |
| 28 | Given no avenues to think for ourselves , we could at least say ‘ No ’ to what others were seeking to foist upon us . |
| 29 | It was considered that many of these problems were related to inexperience in the management of stones within a retained gall bladder . |
| 30 | It proved a complex process to eliminate variables that were related to intelligence without removing any that might be directly related to lead . |