Example sentences of "[was/were] attach to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The small number of us who were attached to the building itself either retired or were offered work elsewhere with the authority . |
| 2 | They said they were attached to the Ministry of Defence — that 's what you usually say , is n't it ? ’ |
| 3 | Many of the grisliest stories about Nicu 's alleged brutal debauchery were attached to the gymnast , Nadia Comanecj , whom rumour had it that he claimed was ‘ state property ’ and that he even ripped out her nails for refusing his attentions . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The electrodes were attached to the chart recorder via an amplifier ( Gould Electronic Ltd , Ilford , Essex , UK ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The bright red benches were attached to the ground by bolts set in concrete . |
| 10 | These harness decorations were attached to the snaffle bit or the band below the horses ear . |
| 11 | The DCs were attached to the package under the name of the senior programmer , and became ‘ active ’ , thereby allowing the modification to proceed . |
| 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 | Strictly they were attached to the governor 's staff as equerries or grooms , but as with singulares their duties may have taken them outside his immediate entourage . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | A series of explosions tore at the stem of the plate-district where it was attached to the rest of the city . |
| 17 | This laterality effect was also obtained when the cursor for tracking the target was attached to the jaw ( Sussman and MacNeilage , 1975b ) but not if the jaw was used to track lateralised visual input ( MacNeilage , Sussman and Stolz , 1975 ) nor if it was the right hand that was used to track auditory input ( Sussman 1971 ) . |
| 18 | A reference electrode was attached to the patient 's forearm and both the electrodes were connected to a recording device ( Digitrapper , Synectics ) . |
| 19 | An antimony pH probe ( Synectics Ltd ) was positioned 5 cm above the upper border of the lower oesophageal sphincter and a reference electrode was attached to the chest . |
| 20 | The rope was attached to the tree , the crew set up on the bank , and we got ready to do three or four runs past the camera with Matt and me so busy arguing about baptising the Indians that we could n't see the danger behind us which the audience could see for themselves . |
| 21 | A riding-house was attached to the school for use of government-financed pupils intended for the army . |
| 22 | His little tape-recorder was attached to the earpiece of the phone with a rubber sucker . |
| 23 | Finally , the leaden seal , the bulla , was attached to the document by the bullator ( normally a lay-brother from the abbey of Fossanova ) . |
| 24 | The bug was attached to the back of the TV set . |
| 25 | If my deception worked , she 'd still think she was attached to the creance and fly straight to me as usual when I showed her the chick . |
| 26 | No special secrecy was attached to the cruiser — indeed , Khrushchev told the disconcerted Admiralty that he would be glad to sell it to them because cruisers had been out-dated by missiles . |
| 27 | A silver-silver chloride reference electrode was attached to the skin on the chest wall . |
| 28 | One journalist has written that during the Grunwick dispute of the late 1970s a tap was attached to the telephone used by the strike committee in the Brent Trades ' Council offices in Willesden Lane . |
| 29 | A tape recorder was attached to the telephone . |
| 30 | The diary was attached to the underside with sellotape . |