Example sentences of "were [adv] [verb] to [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Phonological features were eventually assigned to variants in order to construct these subscales , but the first step was to quantify the data in order to compare the patterns which emerged in different data batches . |
| 2 | The results , and in particular the significant losses incurred by the PvdA , were widely attributed to voters ' dissatisfaction with a lack of new policies introduced by the new centre-left government . |
| 3 | Studies of five individual multi-plant firms by Peck and Townsend ( 1984 , 1987 ) showed how their reductions in employment were fundamentally related to changes in fairly specific market niches , but how the effect of any one factor in the future of a factory was usually contingent upon others . |
| 4 | The benefits of education were rarely extended to women . |
| 5 | Patients were randomly allocated to groups for each test substance . |
| 6 | In this context , the material before the board indicated — ( 1 ) that investors were persuaded by company representatives employed by the Winchester Group to cancel their existing policies and to ‘ switch ’ to Norwich Union without their best interests and any disadvantages attendant upon so doing necessarily being considered ; ( 2 ) that other undesirable selling practices — for instance ‘ overselling ’ whereby investors are persuaded to take out a range of policies which they may not be able to afford in the long term — have been employed by company representatives selling on behalf of the Winchester Group ; ( 3 ) that the fact find forms completed by the Winchester Group for forwarding to Norwich Union were inadequate for the purposes of ensuring that products were only sold to investors on a ‘ best advice ’ basis ; ( 4 ) that the connections between Mr. Tee and Mr. Kissane ( a former director of the Winchester Group now awaiting trial on charges of theft of client moneys ) and also between the Winchester Group and Mr. Randhir Singh were such as to call into question the extent to which the controllers , directors and senior managers of the Winchester Group could be regarded as being of good character and competent or otherwise suitable to manage the marketing of investment contracts on behalf of Norwich Union and also whether the Winchester Group could be safely regarded as a fit and proper person for the purposes of enjoying appointed representative status ; ( 5 ) that policies had been sold by eight persons engaged by the Winchester Group who had not been appointed as company representatives of Norwich Union or in any other way authorised to sell investment contracts on behalf of Norwich Union and that other individuals who had been appointed as company representatives had not been registered as such with Lautro ; ( 6 ) that certain company representatives engaged by the Winchester Group appeared to be channelling client moneys through their own personal bank accounts . |
| 7 | However , the rise in pensions relative to incomes which occurred in most countries also increased the cost of not working — for the farsighted , at least — since pensions were generally linked to contributions from pay . |
| 8 | Although , strictly speaking , the bearers were not assigned to individuals and worked as a pool , carrying messages for anybody in the building , in practice they identified themselves with particular people . |
| 9 | The following year , 1926 the Ministry of Health issued draft proposals for reform of the Poor Law but copies were not sent to Boards of Guardians , and it was decided that a letter of protest about the omission should be sent . |
| 10 | It was interesting , moreover , to see that Conductive Education groups at the Institute were not limited to children with severe motor problems . |
| 11 | However , such tax credits were not granted to agencies or branches of insurance companies which were not registered in France . |
| 12 | Elevenses were not given to clerks then . |
| 13 | The end of the cylinder box had to suffice ( 27 ) , and paper labels were not attached to discs until 1901 ( 28 , left ) . |
| 14 | The indigenous population , comprising Christian Armenians and Islamic tribesmen of mainly Central Asian , Turkish and Persian origin , were alternately subjected to periods of persecution and forced conversion ( or extermination ) , depending on whether Christian Russia or one of the Islamic countries was in control ; this culminated in the widespread slaughter and deportation of the Armenians by the Turks during the First World War . |
| 15 | You were just pandering to prejudices — ‘ |
| 16 | When Diana joined the Stewart-Richardsons they were just coming to terms with a family tragedy . |
| 17 | Pushers were already selling to children and crime would soar as addicts sought money for drugs . |
| 18 | The results show that variations in profit margins were directly related to fluctuations in the level of demand for architectural services between 1971 and 1988 but that the liberalisations which occurred after 1982 have also acted to reduce the size of profit margins . |
| 19 | In Victorian times children were always taken to funerals but nowadays most people would not feel it was appropriate . |
| 20 | I thought it was a big world , for we were always going to conventions and special meetings where , so it seemed then , there were thousands of others like myself . |
| 21 | For many years it had been thought that high fever had certain curative properties , and some patients were deliberately exposed to mosquitoes which were known to be carrying the malarial parasite in the hope that the resulting infection and high temperature would have a beneficial effect on the disease process . |
| 22 | Its success is partly explained by the fact that the intra-EMS exchange rate realignments that have been effected were deliberately confined to magnitudes which did not fully offset inflation rate differentials . |
| 23 | Today at an emergency meeting with Union Leaders to discuss their future , they were still coming to terms with the shock of redundancy . |
| 24 | Mrs Adams said her four sons — Richard , nine , Stuart , five , Mark , two , and Thomas , 11 months — were still coming to terms with the loss of their father , a former Royal Air Force engineer whom she described as a happy , family man . |
| 25 | Again the higher values were measured by Robertson Research , and suggest that these strata were formerly buried to depths and temperatures sufficient to generate oil under a thick blanket of Permo-Triassic rocks that has since been removed . |
| 26 | Too many titles contained terms which were clearly related to terms contained in thesis titles , such as common geographical and stratigraphical names ; or regional studies including narrower geographical areas previously studied , but whose precise relationships to the Ph D research became more and more uncertain . |
| 27 | Too many titles contained terms which were clearly related to terms contained in thesis titles , such as common geographical and stratigraphical names ; or regional studies including narrower geographical areas previously studied , but whose precise relationships to the Ph D research became more and more uncertain . |
| 28 | Questionnaires were also given to students to allow individual opinions to be expressed outside of the group discussions . |
| 29 | Thai saw-mill operators were also turning to loggers in Laos , Cambodia , Indonesia and Malaysia to replace their lost supplies . |
| 30 | The continuing negotiations with commercial bank creditors were also linked to discussions with the " Paris Club " of creditor countries and with the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) for a replacement to the 15-month standby arrangement which expired in April 1990 [ see also p. 37140 ] . |