Example sentences of "were [adv] [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two Dutchmen , Hans Guyt and Willem Beekman , were eventually sent to prison for six weeks over this protest . |
| 2 | However , traffic on the line declined in the 20th century and both it and the Citadel Station were eventually closed to passenger services in 1947 , although the larger North Leith Station did not close to passengers until 1962 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | This was not merely through the intrinsic loss but also because family status and honour were intimately linked to possession of land . |
| 5 | Rival militant groups which had co-operated with the Indian forces were effectively relegated to politics in exile . |
| 6 | These patients were randomly assigned to placebo or captopril ( SAVE ) or enalapril ( SOLVD prevention ) . |
| 7 | Children were randomly allocated to adenotonsillectomy , adenoidectomy , or neither procedure . |
| 8 | The profit from mining was so immense that owners could afford to treat slaves their only major capital investment — as expendable ; the treatment of slaves in these mines was brutal in the extreme , and many were literally worked to death . |
| 9 | By degrees the British came to dominate this trade , partly because they were so committed to sugar that they were bound to make large purchases of slaves on their own account , partly because their increasingly dominant position at sea meant that they could take the place of the Dutch as general suppliers of slaves for planters in other European colonies who wanted to buy them . |
| 10 | Of course , the situation would be greatly eased if our political leaders were less addicted to secrecy . |
| 11 | They were , however , an all-White group , operating without directly involving parents and were generally committed to specialist care in the community . |
| 12 | Innocent did not associate Philip with the murder , but relentlessly sought the true murderers who were finally brought to justice in Rome in April 1203 and sent to the Holy Land . |
| 13 | The doubts of some pre-war Labour leaders that the civil service would actually co-operate with a radical Labour government were largely laid to rest by the experience of the Attlee government . |
| 14 | Waist-hip ratio , age and body mass index were separately related to probability of conception per cycle . |
| 15 | The three resulting duplex DNA molecules were separately subjected to reaction conditions that lead to covalent DNA / protein crosslinking as demonstrated above . |
| 16 | The cars were massively constructed to railway standards ( above ) , and were well finished internally in attractive Alhambrinal panelling . |
| 17 | He probably realised we were just going to sea . |
| 18 | I thought they were just going to X-ray me back , but they X-rayed everything . |
| 19 | Lights were already beginning to diamond out of the shadowed pine woods on the lower slopes . |
| 20 | Our spirits were already beginning to flag when I received a letter from Eliot dated 2 June : |
| 21 | The sky was a clear , pale dome , covered in the east by a flock of tiny clouds that were already turned to pink by the sun that was still concealed , that had not yet risen . |
| 22 | Left with no choice but to accept the responsibility or to pursue its own independent inquiries , the airline instructed Windels , Marx , Davies & Ives to prepare its defence and to investigate the suggestions of government complicity that were already coming to light . |
| 23 | Air quality manager Peter Shawcross said the results were currently being examined and evaluated and that interesting facts were already coming to light . |
| 24 | The remainder of these unfortunates were already contributing to family incomes as labourers , shop boys , glovers , house-servants , rag collectors and so on . |
| 25 | Nor does the issue of life and death rest only with your estate , as we have well seen in the fate of those earls lately in dispute with the king 's Grace who fell into the hands of certain lawless gatherings of commoners , and were shortly done to death . |
| 26 | In this patient symptoms were directly related to anaemia . |
| 27 | Not surprisingly , part-time women were usually left to management 's mercies and when recession struck they were usually the first to go . |
| 28 | Owen had seen it done during his time in Alexandria , where hysterical prostitutes were quickly restored to life and reason by an experienced old Austrian police officer of the Labban Red Light quarter . |
| 29 | Yes I mean th th th th the fact that you 've got a whole range of problems an an and you , you were bound to come up against those problems if you try and define Marxist in a strict sense , and therefore you , you were always seeking to sort of make . |
| 30 | Madonna and Jackson never have mixed — even professionally , though they were once set to work together on a duet . |