Example sentences of "were [adv] [vb pp] [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the other half supported the society 's worthy aims ; one wealthy admirer even offered a donation of $400,000 , which had to be declined as outside donations were apparently prohibited according to the terms under which SINA had been established . |
| 2 | For this reason , the patients were also stratified according to stone free intervals of > , or < , two years and biased randomisation performed as described above . |
| 3 | The areas were also ranked according to the deterioration of their position in three constituent parts of the period 1971–84 ; Liverpool , Sunderland , Belfast and Glasgow appear in the bottom ten in all sub-periods . |
| 4 | The coeliac patients were originally diagnosed according to the procedure recommended by the European Society for Paediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition and had all been on a complete gluten free diet for at least five years and did not present symptoms indicative of active disease . |
| 5 | All subjects were well nourished according to previously described criteria . |
| 6 | In the 10 subjects in whom antral-duodenal , and jejunal motilities were monitored simultaneously with the oesophageal recording , the different phases of the migrating motor complex were visually identified according to accepted criteria . |
| 7 | The scientific achievements of the past were crudely evaluated according to their contribution to later knowledge . |
| 8 | Each sector and the separate segments were then analysed according to performance — pre-tax and turnover — and market valuation . |
| 9 | The transcripts were then coded according to the detail of the scene to which individual comments referred . |
| 10 | The data were then grouped according to the mean value . |
| 11 | These were then classified according to impact on the business and ease of solution . |
| 12 | Women 's increasing commitment to the labour market does not appear to pay off in the way that would be expected if people were actually rewarded according to their ability and effort . |