Example sentences of "[conj] [was/were] [verb] to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They also had to accept that attacks on the USSR by weapons launched from American bases other than in Britain might still bring down nuclear strikes on this country as long as it remained a member of Nato or was linked to the United States in some way or other . |
| 2 | IBM is believed to be working on a much less radical plan to copy General Motors Corp and issue different classes of common shares , each standing pari passu all the others in the event of a break-up , but each paying dividends that were tied to the performance of a single IBM unit , be it AdStar , Application Business Systems or Pennant Systems . |
| 3 | After all the overtures that were made to the FA to get the game switched from Leeds to Wembley the demand for tickets has vindicated that decision . |
| 4 | Putting aside the postcards that were sent to the Secretary of State , how many of the 226 written submissions were of the quality that he desired ? |
| 5 | Struggles that were limited to the workplace or the neighbourhood brought real , if limited gains , up to the 1970s . |
| 6 | A comprehensive report of the actual meteorological conditions must be drawn up and copies of the weather forecast that were given to the crew will be included . |
| 7 | In some cases that were drawn to the attention of the Juridical and Human Rights Commission of the main Protestant organization ( CEPAD ) , people had been held for as long as three months without being interrogated . |
| 8 | Overall , it could by the end of the transitional phase claim that it had changed the basis of economic competition by removing many restrictive practices and that it had eased some of the pain of economic decline by its policies towards those aging coal and steel plants that were coming to the end of a useful life . |
| 9 | She gestured to the papers that were anchored to the rock by a heavy stone . |
| 10 | Subsequent checks of the coral sand revealed minute particles that were attracted to the algae magnets — even though they did n't look metallic . |
| 11 | I realize that the forty-nine cows that were offered to the district officer 's relatives was a huge sum , however you measure it . |
| 12 | The amount of ocean heat that was lost to the atmosphere during the Widdell polenier events in the mid nineteen seventies was absolutely enormous . |
| 13 | Charles and ken ( 1986 ) found that food consumption differed significantly between lone-mother and two-parent families in a way that was related to the presence of male partner . |
| 14 | This assessment took the form of a standard preconstructed quality of life questionnaire that was presented to the patients a median of 12 ( three to 24 ) months after operation . |
| 15 | He secured the flat cardboard box on the carrier of his bicycle with a piece of string that was tied to the carrier for such a purpose . |
| 16 | The institute has now published an abridged version , edited by Pauline Weetman of the University of Stirling , of the detailed report that was sent to the ASB in June . |
| 17 | The yellow metal box that was fixed to the brickwork on the greengrocer 's shop reminded Lee Sorvino of his infant son . |
| 18 | Peter was showing him the large white sheet that was fixed to the fence . |
| 19 | Yeah , so we let the whole thing there that was raised to the power be equal to something . |
| 20 | The group that was introduced to the sounds of individual letters was better at spelling than the group trained only to pick out sounds in words . |
| 21 | By the 18th Century , ‘ monkey ’ had come to mean the full five-gallon rum ration that was issued to the mess on a man-of-war . |
| 22 | Aggie turned her head slightly away , took up the knife that was lying to the side of her plate , cut a piece of meat in two , then picked it up with her fingers and ate it ; then she turned to the child and said , ‘ What 's your second name ? ’ |
| 23 | They turned away and she walked up the street , past the baker 's , past the shoemaker 's , and the hat shop , and she rang the bell that was attached to the wall at the side of the door leading into the sweet shop . |
| 24 | AN in-depth report on the Government 's major skills training scheme that was delivered to the Department of Employment three weeks ago will remain unpublished , it was confirmed last night . |
| 25 | It formed the basis of the ten-year development programme that was submitted to the government in 1973 . |
| 26 | The above poem describes the challenge that was allocated to the JM team very early on that rainy March morning . |
| 27 | The first part dealt with unmixed foil and stated that ownership in the foil would transfer to the buyers only when they had paid all that was owing to the sellers . |
| 28 | It was this comforting idea that was put to the test by the Mikulić government . |
| 29 | Both boys faced South Sefton Youth Court in Bootle on Monday and were remanded to the care of Liverpool City Council . |
| 30 | These contrasted the Western models with the sorts of restrictions that could and were applied to the media in other political systems : the media were not free to publish , the expression of opinion was controlled , the Party/government could dictate the content of the media , and the essential freedoms associated with the Western models were obviously absent . |