Example sentences of "[coord] [noun sg] were [adv] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bureaucratization and centralization were also tied to the growth of liberal democracy and socialism in intended and unintended ways . |
| 2 | Women who could carry a child under each arm on a day 's shopping trip were told they were not strong enough to do men 's work ; that lifting and lugging were better left to the lads after all . |
| 3 | This was not merely through the intrinsic loss but also because family status and honour were intimately linked to possession of land . |
| 4 | contracts for machinery and equipment were primarily awarded to foreign firms at overvalued prices , even when the items were available in Nigeria , and that the training of the Nigerian staff in the project was insufficient to enable it to take over the project ( p.71 ) |
| 5 | But her clothes , make-up and hairstyle were not designed to please , but to impress . |
| 6 | The social historian can now fit this slump into the wider pattern of events that was to add up to the Great Depression but at the time motion-picture executives in production and distribution were more given to introspection than to socio-economic analysis . |
| 7 | In some cases the process of unwinding overlapped into the weekend and it was Saturday afternoon before mind and body were fully attuned to the less hectic pace . |
| 8 | In the nineteenth century , the effects of economic development , colonialism and capitalism were widely thought to be wholly favourable to women . |
| 9 | The accident happened at about 4pm and the driver and passenger were both taken to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital at Gateshead for treatment . |
| 10 | Darwin at the end of one of his books wrote that according to the unchanging world of his critics , there had been the fall of man into sinfulness and mankind were forever doomed to hopelessness , whereas in his ( Darwin 's ) theory of evolution , man had come from an inferior form , and because of this continuous progress , he commands a limitless potential . |
| 11 | Sport and recreation were strictly confined to the amphitheatre . |
| 12 | City : Property without solid foundations Bricks and mortar were once thought to be be as good as money in the bank . |
| 13 | Certainly , the sort of rumours and gossip which were common about his sister and brother were not attached to him . |