Example sentences of "were [verb] to [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each head of faculty 's final report was duplicated and copies were given to each faculty member , the headteacher , and the appropriate deputy head . |
| 2 | Inevitably , follow up appointments were given to some extent on a subjective basis according to the laser endoscopist 's previous experience . |
| 3 | Arrangements were also made for two firemen to take it in turns to sleep on the premises and instructions were given to these men to go all round the shops after the Works are closed and ‘ inspect every hole and corner to see if there is any sign of fire and afterwards to sleep on the premises so as to be ready in case of accident ’ . |
| 4 | In this survey , replies were received to this effect from three such businesses . |
| 5 | They also wanted to talk about Mr Lee 's policy for dealing with the action group , and asked that a meeting should take place as quickly as possible ; no replies were received to these letters , and the requests were made repeatedly . |
| 6 | But on the Friday Evening we were treated to another dinner , this one so splendid that it was designated a ‘ banquet ’ , and was held at the Peking Duck Restaurant , an eating place of great fame , specialising , like Mrs Hogg , in duck . |
| 7 | In Sacred Heart School , the non-fiction section of the lower school was catalogued first and subject codes were assigned to each item . |
| 8 | On the following Saturday two car trains were assigned to both destinations . |
| 9 | On average , seven theses per year were assigned to this heading by Rolfe and Will . |
| 10 | Health and safety inspectors had visited the site after an anonymous phone call from a woman expressing her concern that ‘ people in this day and age were exposed to such dangers . ’ |
| 11 | She also dialled 999 but police were diverted to another emergency . |
| 12 | Some of her Papers , a little time before her Death were communicated to several Persons of Rank and of distinguished Taste and Judgement , who were pleased to express a great Satisfaction in the View they had of promoting a Subscription … |
| 13 | when I was a boy of fifteen you were expected to half acre of neeps in the day . |
| 14 | But I am sure that we should get on better if we were to come to some terms with them " . |
| 15 | Later , when the crankshaft 's centrifuge covers were removed , great wedges of thick black tar-like oil gave rise to grave doubts as to the authenticity of the engine records which showed that only 81–1/2 hours were booked to this engine . |
| 16 | In most experiments , 30 nCi ( 45 fmol ) of 1 2 5 I-IFN γ were added to each tube . |
| 17 | Approximately 80 to 100 TCID 5 of each vaccine virus and serial dilutions of serum ( from 1:8 to 1:1024 ) were incubated at 35.8C for 2.5 h , and then 7.5×10 HeLa cells were added to each well . |
| 18 | It might arise if one additional record were added to each group of consecutive records ; for example , a group of stores might begin to open on a Saturday , and require an extra record for each store to record transactions . |
| 19 | Bowlers & brollies were added to this outfit — and in out-of-synch areas far from London , kids wore mixtures of suedehead hair , check shirts , Sta-Prests , boots , bowlers & brollies . |
| 20 | Roads from many directions were attracted to this point . |
| 21 | Workers were attracted to these industries and to the docks and so the city grew rapidly . |
| 22 | From the beginning of the century the young were attracted to these activities , and membership became increasingly dominated by individuals in their late teens and early twenties who , released from Victorian preoccupation with moral standards and propriety , rejected the values and fashions of the previous generation . |
| 23 | Thus from mid-1962 the Soviet Union and Cuba were committed to each other to an extent which made it extremely difficult for either party to renounce the relationship . |
| 24 | All the major parties were committed to some extent to discredited policies and persons . |
| 25 | The object was to give them a sense of purpose and once they were harnessed to that proposition , they policed themselves , so to speak . |
| 26 | In the nineteen ! h century they were applied to all types of administrative bodies such as public boards and local authorities and to decisions such as licensing , dismissals from office or compulsory purchase . |
| 27 | These criteria and a Hachinski score were applied to each record as described previously . |
| 28 | The Augmentations structure of local receivers and auditors was preserved for certain branches of the revenue ; and very much more modern and efficient methods of accountancy were applied to most operations . |
| 29 | Certificates were presented to each member of staff and a crate of wine was cracked open so they could celebrate . |
| 30 | Many of these categories were related to each other . |