Example sentences of "were [vb pp] to [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The scalding flood swamped hundreds of homes and many people were plucked to safety by helicopter . |
| 2 | With seconds to spare the two girls were plucked to safety by firemen wearing breathing apparatus . |
| 3 | When the court 's judgement was reviewed by the Armed Forces Ruling Council ( AFRC ) , Nigeria 's principal decision-making body , on Oct. 31 , however , the death sentences were commuted to terms of life imprisonment . |
| 4 | In April 1989 , hundreds of Liverpool fans were crushed to death on the terraces of Sheffield 's Hillsborough Stadium before the FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest . |
| 5 | In that case the personal representatives of persons who were crushed to death at the Hillsborough Stadium claimed damages under the Law Reform ( Miscellaneous Provisions ) Act 1934 for pain and suffering alleged to have been sustained prior to their death . |
| 6 | Since it preferred to sulk in its residences in the Faubourg Saint-Germain , it was inevitable that the posts at court were given to descendants of the Imperial nobility , either civil or military . |
| 7 | The saint 's relics were given to Vukovar by Pope Benedict XIV and brought from Rome in 1754 . |
| 8 | When they were given to patients with high blood pressure , the immediate results were encouraging . |
| 9 | They were all expected to have similar properties , but , prudently , in some clinics the new substances were given to patients with conditions other than those in which chlorpromazine and its allies were usually effective . |
| 10 | A third of all prescriptions for cimetidine were given to patients with unproven peptic ulceration , and furthermore , half of these had used the drug for more than five years . |
| 11 | All samples were heated to 95°C for 3 minutes prior to electrophoresis . |
| 12 | Hick and Hughes were extradited to Germany on July 16 to face charges connected with the bombing of barracks at Langenhagen , near Hannover in May 1990 , and with the murder of a British army major in Dortmund four days after the Roermond shootings [ see p. 37537 ] . |
| 13 | Apart from the thousands of common criminals who proved to be such a bane for Siberian society , the nineteenth century also witnessed a steady increase in the number of people who , either by judicial or administrative process , were banished to Siberia for political crimes — committed or suspected — against the state . |
| 14 | Withdrawals were limited to amounts between the equivalent of US$10 and US$15 . |
| 15 | Huxley was , after all , writing at a time when medical horizons were limited to digoxin for heart failure , morphine for pain and a handful of other remedies . |
| 16 | Fees in elementary schools were limited to 9d per week . |
| 17 | Commercial banks were given authority to issue unlimited letters of credit to fund imports , but individual Kuwaitis were limited to withdrawals of KD4,000 per person per month until June . |
| 18 | These methods , together with the Seven Points to Remember , were taught to mothers in a field study . |
| 19 | Just before Christmas all troops were recalled to barracks for 24 hours . |
| 20 | Women are either absent , or present fulfilling for the most part the roles which were assigned to women in that society . |
| 21 | Small farms were assigned to sons of noblemen and promising warriors , on condition they reported annually for military service . |
| 22 | Trees were exposed to mixtures of heavy metals , acids , over-doses of nutrients and soil stresses including the leaching of important ions such as calcium and magnesium . |
| 23 | As rapid rapair ( restitution ) of injured gastric mucosa takes place only if the damage is non-haemorrhagical , the stomachs were exposed to concentrations of ethanol that caused haemorrhagical damage in less than 10% of the glandular mucosa . |
| 24 | A PRIVATE member 's bill to introduce payments for Crown servants who were exposed to radiation during nuclear weapons tests and have since contracted leukaemia and other cancers , and to the dependants of those who have died , was presented to the Commons by Mr Bob Clay ( Lab . |
| 25 | Two employees were exposed to doses of up to 12 per cent of the annual limit during the decommissioning of a reactor . |
| 26 | These relative numbers indicate that the three planets were exposed to populations of small bodies in which there were the same relative numbers of bodies with various masses . |
| 27 | Although the coup attempt was finally crushed on Aug. 1 , the troops were flown to Trinidad on Aug. 3 , at the request of the Robinson government , as a " precautionary " move to protect oil installations . |
| 28 | On the following day , under a temporary amnesty , a group of 167 wounded guerrillas was allowed to leave El Salvador for medical treatment and were flown to Cuba via Mexico . |
| 29 | They were flown to hospital in Aberdeen but released after a check-up . |
| 30 | But often the- when they were in small houses where they had to do everything , erm they tended to find that they were they were expected to sort of skivvy much more . |