Example sentences of "were [vb pp] [to-vb] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The result was that all New York fares could now be reduced , bringing them to a level only slightly above that of Virgin 's competing New York fare , and fares on the Boston route were adjusted to match the New York level . |
| 2 | The September changes were intended to make the EMS less vulnerable to external influences , and to this end further agreement on foreign exchange intervention policies and interest rate policies was made with the particular objective of reducing incentives for short-term capital movements . |
| 3 | So , according to the laws of Leviticus , women were forbidden to enter the Temple or touch any hallowed thing during their times of menstrual uncleanness , whilst with regard to childbirth they were similarly removed from cultic activity , this time for forty days following delivery of a boy and significantly eighty days after that of a girl . |
| 4 | The changes , which were designed to bring the Hong Kong exchange into line with international practice , were opposed mainly by the smaller Chinese brokers , and supported by the larger international institutions which had moved increasingly into the Hong Kong exchange in the 1980s . |
| 5 | The WWF spokesman said that canoeing was not a problem but until the law is changed ‘ a canoe must be treated in the same way as the QE2 ’ and if one were permitted to use the Derwent then so would the other . |
| 6 | The three types of codons UGA , AUA , and CUN were modified to fit the E.coli genetic code and the corresponding ORF , cloned in the bacterial expression vector pDR540 ( Pharmacia-PL ) , was expressed under the control of the tac promoter . |
| 7 | SDI officials were said to want the USA to buy prototypes and to hire about 1,000 scientists and engineers . |
| 8 | Where necessary , new bridges , such as the Pont Saint-Michel , were built to cross the Seine , whose quays were developed at the same time as arteries for traffic . |
| 9 | The West Midlands Force were instructed to investigate the South Yorkshire Police , ironically , at a time when their own Serious Crimes Squad was the subject of an investigation . |
| 10 | Similar results were obtained when a rabbit anti-ribophorin I antiserum or immunoadsorbant-purified rat IgG2a monoclonal antibodies against the KDEL tetra- peptide were used to label the ER in double-labelling experiments with anti-Bcl-2 antibody ( not shown ) . |
| 11 | Both words were used to push the Morrissey vision of men 's liberation ; not , as it may sound , a freedom given to the Penthouse reading hordes but a glimpse of Morrissey 's ideal world where gender barriers are entirely dispensed with . |
| 12 | Like Pandora 's box , from it came a screw driver , a Stanley knife , scissors and an adjustable spanner , all of which were used to keep the Stoddard Templeton units in tip top condition . |
| 13 | Blast incendiaries were used to attack the SDLP homes in Banbridge . |
| 14 | Only the ship 's personae , through some elusive twist of code deep in the programming , were enabled to master the Capellan drive . |
| 15 | Individuals serving abroad who were found to have the HIV virus were sent home for tests and then restricted to bases within the U.S. |
| 16 | Commissioners to make the new perambulations were appointed — for example in Somerset , Dorset , Devon and in Rutland , but it is doubtful how far they proceeded : no perambulation had been made in Devon by November 13 18 , and fresh commissioners were appointed to perambulate the Devon and Nottinghamshire forests before Whitsun 1319 . |
| 17 | Thanks were extended to the Surrey group who provided the tea and Inner Kent teachers were asked to organize the June teas to be co-ordinated by Marion Nalder . |
| 18 | From Madras my wife and I were taken to see the Shore Temples at Mahabalipuram and beside this is ( or was ) a very large boulder resting on the hillside . |
| 19 | Some of the smaller cars were delivered to work the Crystal Palace route as soon as possible . |
| 20 | A Dr R. Knox writes that the two men were allowed to view the Leonardo collection for medical studies . |
| 21 | From the Russian perspective , it seemed that the Rada increasingly favoured the Whites ; Cossacks deserting from the Russian armies were allowed to cross the Ukraine to join Kaledin , whereas the Red Army was refused permission to pursue them and confront the Whites . |
| 22 | The pope , the chapter at York , and ( more reluctantly ) the archbishop of York , were determined to defeat the Canterbury claim to which Anselm was committed . |
| 23 | In July 1945 the boundaries of Mountbatten 's South East Asia Command were extended to include the Netherlands East Indies and the southern part of Indochina as well as the original Burma , Siam , Malaya , Singapore , and Sumatra . |
| 24 | A battalion of the 7th Light Infantry Division and a battalion of the 82nd Airborne , being used as ground troops , were deployed to seize the Atlantic Ocean end of the canal at Colon . |
| 25 | This would protect the holdings against a future decline of the dollar , but at the cost of pushing the risk on to the United States if it were required to compensate the IMF ( which would take over these dollar holdings ) for any losses . |