Example sentences of "were [verb] to [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whites were referred to as ‘ all American apple pie ’ or ‘ your lily white blonde American w-a [ with-a ] brain . ’ |
| 2 | Mug up on a few details : whether they called the masters ‘ beaks ’ or ‘ dons ’ ; whether sweets were referred to as ‘ tuck ’ or ‘ sock ’ ; where you would have slept , in a ‘ house ’ or ‘ dorm ’ ; what barmy school game was played on them once a year . |
| 3 | The commodities themselves were referred to as ‘ patented Articles of Underclothing . |
| 4 | The specialist 's bully-boy tactics were referred to as a ‘ hobby horse ’ . |
| 5 | These cultures , viewed as being more outward-looking and less insular because they had very early on been maritime powers , were referred to as ‘ blue ’ cultures . |
| 6 | These were referred to as the sentence completion condition and the open-ended condition respectively . |
| 7 | Europe and America were referred to as examples of strong disability lobbies . |
| 8 | By custom they sat in private and not in court , and they were referred to as a domestic tribunal whatever part of their visitorial functions they were performing . |
| 9 | They saw some ‘ family homes ’ which looked like ordinary mental hospital wards and although patients in some wards were referred to as ‘ guests , ’ this did not prevent them from being confined by locked doors . |
| 10 | The differences in male and female secondary characteristics listed by Darwin shaded into intellect ; women were referred to as more intuitive and more ‘ capable of rapid perception and perhaps of imitation ’ . |
| 11 | A mine truck was always known as a waggon — horse drawn carts were referred to as carts , so Sarah was obviously in the mine — quite a different thing from being at , or on , the mine . |
| 12 | Mechanisms such as nitrogen quotas and a carbon tax were referred to as actual ways of introducing more environmentally friendly practices , while land zoning linked with conservation incentives , and subsidised organic farming , were seen as ways of encouraging farmers to diversify their income in a way which was more socially acceptable than set-aside . |
| 13 | There were through Workman 's tickets to other lines , but for internal use these were referred to as Early Morning Returns . |
| 14 | Those clerics and politicians remaining closer to the rhetoric of the immediate post-revolutionary years — emphasizing opposition to the USA , the struggle against " Zionism " , the export of the Islamic revolution , centralized control of the economy and consumer subsidies to protect the poorer classes — were referred to as the Rouhanyoun ( translated as the Combatant Ulema Association ) . |
| 15 | Before we learned the boys ' names they were referred to as the fair boy ; a positive attribute , and the fat boy ; a physical defect . |
| 16 | If somebody 's been abused erm typically in the past they were referred to as victims . |
| 17 | Site Inscrit and Site Classe were referred to in Chapter 4 . |
| 18 | Soon nine seats in the House of Commons were in his gift : his M.P.s were referred to in Parliament as ‘ Sir James 's ninepins ’ . |
| 19 | The mother of one of the victims maintained that although the girls were referred to in court only by their first names to protect them from reprisals , she was particularly worried that people in the court 's public gallery knew who the girl was . |
| 20 | The purpose of this provision for what were referred to in discussion as ‘ subsidiary authorities ’ was to cater for the needs of composite States such as the United Kingdom , where different systems of law are to be found within the same State . |
| 21 | The ceramics particularly impressed her and she found that they were referred to in the catalogue as " agitational chinaware " . |
| 22 | The following additional cases , although not cited , were referred to in the skeleton argument : |
| 23 | The following cases , although not cited , were referred to in the skeleton argument : |
| 24 | The following cases , although not cited , were referred to in the skeleton arguments : |
| 25 | The following additional cases , although not cited , were referred to in the skeleton arguments : |
| 26 | The following additional cases , although not cited , were referred to in the skeleton arguments in the Court of Appeal : |
| 27 | The following additional cases , although not cited , were referred to in the skeleton arguments : |
| 28 | The following cases , although not cited , were referred to in the skeleton arguments : |
| 29 | The following additional cases , although not cited , were referred to in the skeleton arguments : |
| 30 | The following additional cases , although not cited , were referred to in the skeleton arguments : |