Example sentences of "were [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other villages linked with Young Farmers ' Clubs for joint activities and the social purpose of the WEA was exemplified through course-linked visits to theatres in Cambridge and Oxford while other visits were arranged to Parliament . |
| 2 | The house , their chamber , the food were arranged to perfection , and after the brutish clangour of Famagusta they should have been in a state of bewildered gratitude . |
| 3 | The scalding flood swamped hundreds of homes and many people were plucked to safety by helicopter . |
| 4 | With seconds to spare the two girls were plucked to safety by firemen wearing breathing apparatus . |
| 5 | Four youngsters were plucked to safety yesterday after becoming trapped on a cliff ledge at Seaham after the tide cut them off . |
| 6 | THREE young canoeists are lucky to be alive this morning after they were plucked to safety minutes before being swept to sea . |
| 7 | After an international outcry , the sentences were commuted to life imprisonment , and the couple were adopted as prisoners of conscience by Amnesty International . |
| 8 | A British tourist , Mr Edward Gait , and a West German were crushed to death and 12 other foreigners were injured when a restaurant roof collapsed in Arona , Tenerife , police said yesterday . |
| 9 | The victims were crushed to death when the coach turned over in the air and smashed into the ground roof downwards . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Three men were crushed to death under seven thousand tonnes of rock . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Then , one by one , they were stoned to death . |
| 14 | Conscious of their position as women artists operating within a patriarchal society none of the women I spoke to believed their concerns were limited to gender ; factors of race and class , in addition to those of gender , informed the work . |
| 15 | For example , the hospital treatments that GPs can purchase were limited to standard relatively inexpensive procedures which the GP could easily diagnose and cost ; the costs a practice would bear for any one patient were limited to a maximum of £5,000 ( after this the DHA picks up the bill ) , and finally entry to the scheme was limited to large , well-managed practices . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Patients were taught to selfadminister interferon subcutaneously . |
| 18 | Investigators and subjects were blinded to insulin type and the insulins were given in random order . |
| 19 | The visitors were treated to rice and betel . |
| 20 | Visiting women , on the other hand , were always welcome and were treated to leg-rubbing and purring with as much friendship as was shown to its new owner . |
| 21 | Once again we received a warm welcome at Cresswell and were treated to coffee and some rather nice chocky biscuits in the Board Room . |
| 22 | Eventually he reached Kirwan and was assured that no South Africans would be involved and that the match has some sanctity as the proceeds were to go to child cancer research — not that that dissuaded some cynics from suggesting that some players may have taken their share . |
| 23 | The day came when we were to go to court to legalise the situation . |
| 24 | At 14 days all patients were reassessed , and if improving were assigned to treatment option A : prednisolone 20 mg daily for week three and 10 mg daily for week four . |
| 25 | Based on the microscopic review , each case was assigned to one of five histological categories : cases representing definite ulcerative colitis were assigned to category A , cases representing definite Crohn 's disease to category E , and cases containing overlapping features to indefinite categories B , C , or D , depending on the prominence and diagnostic significance of these features ( Table III ) . |
| 26 | Nine Cabinet places were assigned to opposition parties . |
| 27 | Because schools rather than individual pupils were assigned to intervention groups responses of pupils within a school ( cluster ) tend to be correlated and hence the effective sample size is less than the number of students surveyed . |
| 28 | Evidence on the risk for one organ , the thyroid gland , can also be derived from the occurrence of cancers on this gland in populations of two Pacific islands , who were exposed to irradiation and radioiodine concentration in the gland from fallout from a weapon test in 1954 . |
| 29 | Table 1 ) were exposed to weathering early in 1979 . |
| 30 | In its Philip Morris decision in November 1987 , the Court held that all agreements for a merger where a cartel situation already existed , or might be created by the merger , were exposed to Article 85 . |