Example sentences of "who were [verb] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where was the concern for the thousands not coming anywhere near the church and not caring about its ethos either , but who were bound to an eternity without God ? |
| 2 | They have had to develop more detailed service costings than required by their main customers , the district health authorities , who were limited to the less information costly block contracts during the first year of the internal market . |
| 3 | The action project began on 1 April 1984 and any people aged 65 or over who were referred to the hospital psychogeriatric service during the 12 months to the end of March 1985 and who were diagnosed as suffering from dementia , became members of the action sample if they lived in the action area , and of the control sample if their home was in the control area ( so long as they were not living permanently in an institution at the time of referral and they or their carers gave consent for their inclusion ) . |
| 4 | This apparent failure to improve housing outcome is mitigated by the fact that a number of this group who were referred to the Homeless Persons Unit , together with others who went to Bed and Breakfast accommodation , would ‘ presumably in due course ’ have found their way to independent accommodation . |
| 5 | Blindcraft employs 85 registered blind or disabled people who were referred to the firm by disability employment advisors in local Jobcentres . |
| 6 | In a limited sense and for a fortunate few who were related to the adult mule spinners with whom they worked , this may have been true . |
| 7 | At first starting on an ad hoc and ad hominem basis before the birth of the Romanov dynasty , the system of transporting the unwanted criminal detritus and the antisocial , nonconformist and subversive members of the Russian social and political order — both tsarist and Soviet — steadily generated a huge sprawling diaspora comprising millions of wretched human beings who were banished to the living purgatory of Siberian exile . |
| 8 | Since at heart these men were friendly to the Slav cause , Allied propaganda claimed that those who were posted to the east were always stationed in the most exposed positions , and at the slightest sign of wavering , or what might be termed ‘ treason ’ , were shot at from the rear . |
| 9 | And he started thumping the sand and wailing at the seagulls — real Play for Today stuff — and an elderly couple who were listening to a radio behind a wind-break looked quite alarmed . |
| 10 | ‘ What colour was the wolf ? ’ asked the children , who were listening to the story with great interest . |
| 11 | The men of No. 1 Troop , all volunteers , included Territorials ( men who had been civilians doing part-time army training ) , some regulars , and reservists like Lance-Corporal Weatherall who were recalled to the colours . |
| 12 | Police who were called to the Lion Tavern in Moorfields found her body on a settee but there was no sign of her 20month-old son Gareth who was believed to have been in the pub when his mother was killed . |
| 13 | The aisles were full of people who were coming to the front . |
| 14 | The small number of us who were attached to the building itself either retired or were offered work elsewhere with the authority . |
| 15 | The very minimum I think these justices should have had was a psychiatric report from one of the psychiatrists who were attached to the secure unit . |
| 16 | A different , and more primitive , form of reindeer culture existed among the Samoed people of the Taimyr Peninsula who were known to the Russians in the seventeenth century as Tavgi ( today 's Nganasan ) , and the Yukagirs who at that time occupied a very large area of arctic Siberia east of the river Lena . |
| 17 | After counting the remaining rupees carefully , I spent the last free day in the company of a couple of young Seychellois who were going to an offshore reef to lift their fish-traps . |
| 18 | The sort of people who were attracted to the militant populist Protestantism of Protestant Action can be clearly seen from the occupations of the candidates . |
| 19 | The fact that the major period of growth for the Church was a result of the political conflict with liberal unionism meant that most of those who were attracted to the Church were aware of its high political profile and either positively endorsed it , or at least did not find it offensive . |
| 20 | Mosley tried to recruit from Conservatives and from those who were affiliated to no party . |
| 21 | There had always been a radical element in the local Labour parties and this was now augmented by former members of the ILP who were returning to the Labour Party in large numbers . |
| 22 | Born 56 years ago into a moderately well-to-do family in the village of Konyi in southern Hungary , Mr Pozsgay had no personal motivation to espouse revolution , unlike many of his contemporaries who were driven to the party by abject poverty . |
| 23 | The present prospective study was designed to evaluate all patients with symptoms of gastrooesophageal reflux , who were submitted to a clinical assessment over a period of time . |
| 24 | For more than 30 years Brooklands was the home of hundreds of races , the scene of many record attempts , and the testing ground for manufacturers who were restricted to the 20mph speed limit on Britain 's roads at the time . |
| 25 | Those who were admitted to the meeting had been vetted and no trouble was expected . |
| 26 | While this suited some people with mild conditions , it became clear that those who attended as outpatients frequently had quite different characteristics from those who were admitted to the mental hospitals as in-patients . |
| 27 | The Scouts had rushed skiddingly from one pod to the next , annihilating languid swanky drugsters , warbling liquorites , squirming orgiasts who were responding to the war in their own indulgent style , if they even heeded it at all . |
| 28 | In later rastrellamenti the Germans were helped by the Mongols , who were acclimatized to the winter cold . |
| 29 | But when we talked directly with them , they refused to confirm this , they refused to put us in touch with the ship , they refused to confirm whether or not er the four activists who were walking to the test site had been apprehended , whether they 're safe , whether they 're being held separately , and so on . |
| 30 | Argyle ( 1987 ) concluded that the effects were worst for people who were committed to the work ethic . |