Example sentences of "were [vb pp] to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the images were traced to an account by an author on Kashmir , and some to another one of Florida by a different author . |
| 2 | Staff and resources allocated to it were redirected to a major project intended to regenerate east Glasgow . |
| 3 | THE advantages of two Royal Bank services — Electronic Data Interchange and Royline — were explained to a group of solicitors and accountants during an evening presentation at Walsall Branch . |
| 4 | Petitions were fastened to a statue of Julius Caesar set up in the Roman Forum , and appeals for justice were made to statues of emperors in later antiquity . |
| 5 | In Somerset , public roads were usually forty feet wide , of which — in 1795 — twelve feet were stoned to a depth of a foot in the middle and nine inches at the sides . |
| 6 | When mealworms were given to a group of meerkats by means of a cleverly designed dispenser their activity increased enormously and the pattern was on a par with that of the wild populations ; without such a dispenser they showed more lethargic , passive and atypical behaviour patterns . |
| 7 | Evaluation by pre-structured interviews Pre-structured telephone interviews were given to a random sample of students who had taken part in the undergraduate course in information retrieval . |
| 8 | There are a few works which I would have loved to have borrowed but which were simply too fragile to travel , and there were works which were prohibited by reasons of the terms under which they were given to a particular collection , the Barnes Foundation , for example . |
| 9 | Although Meyer remained Minister of Communications , his responsibilities for Defence were given to a Gene Louw , hitherto Home Affairs Minister , who was also named as Minister of Public Works . |
| 10 | The others were given to an arts group , a sports individual and a sports group . |
| 11 | Civil-law bequests , however , were limited to a very small number of wordings : do lego for the legacy per vindicationem ; damnas esto dare or dato for the legacy per damnationem , and so on . |
| 12 | It is true that there were first-class scientists at work in other countries but they were either greatly taken with large unprovable notions or were limited to a single field , whereas Galileo was original in dynamics , hydrostatics , mechanics ( strength of materials ) , optics and astronomy . |
| 13 | Doubtless it included rent from Garsington as well as from the Whitchurch glebe , which must have been let to farm seeing that his own agricultural interests were limited to a couple of dozen sheep and some poultry . |
| 14 | Only families whose own interests were limited to a single area of ducal or comital influence could afford to ignore the other lord . |
| 15 | She sat for maybe ten minutes staring gloomily out at the rain , which gave no sign of abating , knowing her options were limited to a choice of one . |
| 16 | Prison terms were limited to a maximum of 15 years . |
| 17 | This fairly low level of detection suggests that either K + channels were present at low density in the plasma membrane , or that K + channels were limited to a small subpopulation of cells withint the HGT-1 cell line . |
| 18 | Only families whose own interests were limited to a single area of ducal or comital influence could afford to ignore the other lord . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The ITA was given tight control over the number , duration , placing and content of TV ads , which for most of the period were limited to an average of six minutes an hour . |
| 21 | Female model crests were manipulated to a greater extent ( 24 mm ) than males ' ( 14mm ) because we suspected a priori that male mating preferences could be more difficult to detect . |
| 22 | However , double standards were used ind attacks on the ‘ alien menace ’ in the fascist press used many anti-semitic stereotypes long before it was accepted as an official weapon ; for instance in Blackshirt in October 1933 those Jews who attacked fascism were likened to a cancer in the body politic . |
| 23 | Industrialized villages were naturally most numerous in the North and parts of the Midlands , but even in the South some nineteenth-century rural communities were sustained to a large extent by wages earned at a particular craft . |
| 24 | While the crowds at the Broadgate arena were treated to a medley of Disney hits , including ‘ Zip-a-dee-doo-dah ’ and ‘ Whistle While You Work ’ , the obligatory Disney characters were wheeled out hand in hand with the company 's key executives . |
| 25 | In one cave that supposedly served as a backdrop for one of Morrison 's legendary acid trips , ancient Indian paintings were treated to a touch-up job . |
| 26 | After three weeks ’ hard pounding , both administered and received , the melancholy of the Conservative campaign ‘ A-team ’ suddenly lifted and journalists attending their morning news conference were treated to a double act worthy of The Two Ronnies . |
| 27 | In the evening , after a superb meal in the à la carte restaurant , we were treated to a Sunwing show followed by dancing to the latest sounds — only for those who were n't too tired after a hard day 's sunbathing ! |
| 28 | The Haren guests were treated to a round of events which may sound rather unexciting and unsophisticated to us in 1992 in the week that Euro Disney opens , but were good wholesome fun in a post war Britain still on rationing . |
| 29 | THE children of Headley Playgroup were treated to a fancy dress Easter party on Friday of last week . |
| 30 | Meantime , back at the Bourne , the crowd were treated to a display of power tennis from Duncan Knight who had come down from the David Lloyd Centre with Onny Parun . |