Example sentences of "were [vb pp] [to-vb] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Four alleged militants of the FIS were paraded on television on Oct. 1 and were heard to confess at length to the bomb attack at Algiers airport on Aug. 26 which killed 10 people [ see pp. 39072 ; 39118 ] . |
| 2 | She found that domestic life imposed more constraints upon girls than upon boys , for they were expected to stay at home and help with housework . |
| 3 | Women were forbidden to work at night in any industry ( a move opposed by some feminists ) . |
| 4 | The South Africans were made to feel at home from the moment they entered Jamaica and they were clearly bewildered by the irony of their having been applauded out on to Sabina Park while Richie Richardson , the West Indies captain , was booed throughout the game . |
| 5 | The families were told to attend at half-hour intervals from ten o'clock onwards . |
| 6 | More than 300 children , aged seven to 11 were told to stay at home . |
| 7 | More than 300 children , aged seven to 11 were told to stay at home . |
| 8 | Commanders were selected at top level of course , after which they were invited to attend at HQ where they would sift through the applications from prospective crew members , discuss them with the administrating Inspector and eventually come to a mutual agreement on the crewing of each cutter for the following year . |
| 9 | They were allowed to drink at work ? |
| 10 | Other concessions , however , were more serious ; both Henry VII and Henry VIII were allowed to nominate at will to the English episcopal bench , to translate bishops from see to see , and to obstruct the collection of papal taxes . |
| 11 | During the last phase of the scheme 's existence , when storage problems became increasingly pressing and the scheme 's abolition imminent , artists were encouraged to keep at home the works of art they had officially sold to the government . |
| 12 | The score is sacrosanct ( yes , even early scores where performers were left to improvise at will , since the original performing tradition is now lost to us ) , and except in relatively extreme cases normally gives a clear indication of exactly which notes should be played and when . |
| 13 | The fact that the Phillips curve had appeared on the scene over thirty years after the publication of the General Theory , and that , in the interim , Keynesianism had managed to flourish without it , made little impression on those critics who were determined to strike at Keynesianism with any weapon which was to hand . |