Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] attached to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , some studies suggested that the crucial floating voters were not characterised by a high degree of interest , involvement , and knowledge , but by ignorance and indifference , and they were less involved in following the election campaign than were those who were keenly attached to a party . |
| 2 | Few historians would now wish to dissent from the view that the vast majority of the laity of fifteenth-century England were deeply attached to the beliefs and practices of the Roman Catholic church , or to deny that that church exercised an unrivalled influence over the shaping of late medieval popular mentality . |
| 3 | But he and , after his death , his sister were genuinely attached to Joyce , through whom they had contributed to Mosley 's organisation as a bulwark against Communism . |
| 4 | They could n't be allowed to do this , because they were still attached to the creance and might get themselves caught up round the perch . |
| 5 | The illustration shows the head and trunk of a young boy wearing a number of bracelets and many beads , most of which were probably attached to clothing . |
| 6 | In origin such legislation is likely to have been similar to the Pactus pro tenore pacis , the edict of Chilperic I and the Decretio Childeberti , which were later attached to the Pactus Legis Salicae . |
| 7 | From its rear chassis , two heavy chains were securely attached to the steel bars of the gates . |
| 8 | That winter there was another sinister addition to the Germans and the Repubblichini in Fontanellato : Mongols — a people we had heard of but had never seen — who had been taken prisoner on the Russian front and were now attached to the German army . |
| 9 | Many of the patients were now attached to drips and drainage bags , and nurses flitted to and fro . |
| 10 | They were invariably attached to a two-storey building of more conventional shape . |
| 11 | In an attempt to try to contain the pressure for such changes donors adopted in the 1970s a strategy of establishing semi-autonomous project units , which were nominally attached to national ministries , but in fact were more or less independent of them . |
| 12 | An example of Wimsatt 's ( 1958 : 147 — 8 ) is what he calls the metaphor , and many would call the simile , in the last line of this passage from Donne 's ‘ A Valediction : forbidding mourning ’ ( like Eliot , the New Critics were particularly attached to the Metaphysical poets ) : The comparison between the lovers ' separation and the hammering of gold into leaf-form brings together two terms which are clearly quite different and therefore might justifiably be described as opposites ; and the conjunction of meanings thus established creates a series of connections ( the relationship between the separated lovers is like gold leaf in that it is ethereal ( ‘ ayery ’ ) , delicate , easily damaged , but at the same time precious , pure , bright , etc. ) , which when related to real experience possesses considerable illuminating force . |
| 13 | The solebars were then attached to this assembly ( the solebars already having the axleguards fitted and riveted by a hydraulic riveting machine adjacent to this position ) . |
| 14 | Previously , Questions had been replied to in the Commons by one of the Law Officers , although they were neither attached to the Lord Chancellor 's Department nor directly subordinate to him . |
| 15 | That was Sir James Campbell 's undoing in this section of his county , for he had undertaken to get the presentation for Bruce in order to oblige one of his friends who had accepted a nominal vote from him , but the friend , David Gourlay , was only a small heritor , and the bulk of the landed property in the parish together with the kirk session were firmly attached to Mr. Ure . |
| 16 | Their views are readily recognizable in a world where the fuss about the Turin Shroud has reminded us of a time when high hopes and claims of miracle were commonly attached to pieces of the true cross or heads of John the Baptist , where much Christian literature promises believers great success in life if only they have enough faith in God , and where men and women of political power still try to have God and his Church on their side , and to use their authority to enhance their own . |
| 17 | The scrambler device was duly attached to the standard telephone and the first details emerged of Prince Charles 's dismissal of his private secretary , Major-General Sir Christopher Airey . |
| 18 | He was run down and killed , but he was so attached to his job that he still wants to keep his eye on his old work place . |
| 19 | In fixed location , notation was physically attached to certain places on the shelves and books were always filed in the same place . |
| 20 | Indeed , the prehistoric forest of the Vallee de Marai on Praslin has long been suspected as being the original Garden of Eden , and the granite substance of the isles proves that India was once attached to the African mainland . |
| 21 | The visit to Scotland , which reinforced both his affection for the beauty of that country and his interest in her history ( for he was always attached to small countries or communities which had clung to their traditions ) had produced the poem ‘ Rannoch , by Glencoe ’ , published in the New English Weekly , 17 October 1935 . |
| 22 | Mike went down to assist Dave Lister in sorting out the rope which was still attached to him , and Dave moved along and up the bergschrund to aid Steve in routefinding as he downclimbed , diagonally to the right , towards a narrower slot which he might cross unroped . |
| 23 | The flag was still attached to its pin , which was buried in the sole of Prentice 's shoe . |
| 24 | Only a short piece was still attached to the bell , and the rat was still hanging onto it . |
| 25 | Place Barn , Wilmington , Polegate , East Sussex Place Barn , Wilmington , is flint-walled barn which was formerly attached to Priory Farm at the head of the hill that leads out of the village to the South Downs . |
| 26 | It was probably attached to another item , as your find is decorated only on one side . |
| 27 | The old man straightened his back after making sure the trailer was securely attached to the rear of the minibus . |
| 28 | Everything was down to the last detail on this loco , including the small ladder which was originally attached to the ‘ A ’ end of the engine . |
| 29 | Mrs Grogan , Edwards decided , was strongly attached to the past . |
| 30 | Anderson , the Clerk to the meeting , who was strongly attached to Sir John Anstruther , when he was called upon to attach the seal to the commission returning Alexander ‘ pretended that it had been abstracted from him ’ . |