Example sentences of "[noun sg] were [adj] to [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I had started to examine pensions , many in the industry were opposed to any change in SERPS and almost everyone was opposed to personal pensions . |
| 2 | A minority of the Committee were opposed to this proposal . |
| 3 | To reflect this , the Consultative Paper proposed that such centres could be offered the opportunity to accept devolved responsibility for quality elements normally administered by SCOTVEC , provided that the internal quality systems in place were appropriate to each element for which devolved responsibility was being sought . |
| 4 | The consensus is that although conditions at flowering were similar to those years which triggered the Moulin saga , a repeat with any particular variety this season is unlikely . |
| 5 | Both forms of diversity were subject to either displacement or condensation . |
| 6 | But he mentioned in an essay the degree to which certain forms of anaemia were conducive to such creation ; and , in our conversation that day , he described how , when he was working on The Waste Land in Switzerland in 1921 ( ‘ by the waters of Leman ’ ) , he felt at one moment that his brain was going to burst . |
| 7 | Of concern , a third of the patients in whom we reached a diagnosis were subject to some form of child abuse : suffocation in 18 and fabrication of the history and physiological data in seven . |
| 8 | Because expensive capital equipment and the attainment of a rapid through-put of production were central to this development , ‘ the craft skill and judgement of the workers had to be as much as possible superseded , as did the control of workers over the pace of work ’ ( Lazonick , 1983 , p. 112 ) . |