Example sentences of "[noun pl] [was/were] attached to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mainly because Brothers were attached to the shipbuilding industry , and the making of ships catapults , er arresting gears , er submarine work , erm telemeters for ships . |
| 2 | Imitation white cuffs were attached to the ends of the jacket sleeves .. |
| 3 | These harness decorations were attached to the snaffle bit or the band below the horses ear . |
| 4 | The perfusion instrument was a plastic tube ( 16 mm in external diameter ) , which was 60 cm long and contained smaller channels in the tube wall and one large central channel ; five latex balloons were attached to the tube ( Fig 1 ) . |
| 5 | The stunts became more daring and , in one episode , Crawford found himself literally playing with fire , when what looked like fireworks were attached to the back of his jacket and suddenly had to start exploding . |
| 6 | It is hoped that appropriate qualifiers were attached to the data . |
| 7 | The electrodes were attached to the chart recorder via an amplifier ( Gould Electronic Ltd , Ilford , Essex , UK ) . |
| 8 | For most of the eighteenth century a translator of oriental languages was attached to the office of one of the secretaries of state ; but to obtain an English version of a letter in Turkish or Arabic was often far from easy . |
| 9 | Research by other scientists showed that birds spent more time on the nest and laid more eggs when peckable objects were attached to the wall beside it . |
| 10 | On either side of the bed , ornate brass oil lamps were attached to the wall , and there were two more on the opposite wall of the room . |
| 11 | These hauling and balance ropes were attached to the tanks through ‘ cataract ’ cylinders which were hydraulically interconnected . |
| 12 | The two bombs were attached to the hull of the Rainbow Warrior , berthed at Marsden Wharf , at around 8.30 p.m. and at about 9.30 p.m. a man wearing a red woollen hat was seen abandoning a Zodiac dinghy near the Outboard Boating Club in Hobson 's Bay and then climbing up the embankment to Tamaki Drive where he was picked up and driven off in a camper van . |
| 13 | The busy galleries were attached to the ribs of the leviathan . |
| 14 | The time of Godunov has already begun , when the peasants were attached to the landowners . |
| 15 | Most brachiopods were attached to the substrate by a stalk , and the hole through which the stalk entered the shell can often be seen on the fossils . |
| 16 | The bright red benches were attached to the ground by bolts set in concrete . |