Example sentences of "[noun] were [verb] to an " in BNC.
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| 1 | After dinner , all six finalists were treated to an evening at the West End award-winning musical The Forbidden Planet and each of them took home a Supersoft goodie bag , full of luxurious styling and finishing products from the range . |
| 2 | It would be astonishing if the Director 's powers to require relevant information about suspected offences from third parties were brought to an end by the bringing of a charge against the person under investigation . |
| 3 | Through their work , the fruits of biblical scholarship were disseminated to an ever-widening audience . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | After his death many were given away or sold for a few pounds , and he was largely ignored as a painter until in 1987 six examples of his work were loaned to an exhibition entitled ‘ A Paradise Lost ’ at the Barbican Art Gallery , devoted to the neo-Romantic movement . |
| 6 | The visitors were invited to an RAFA Battle of Britain banquet organised by the Sud-Ouest Branch . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Most newly independent governments were attracted to an agricultural strategy which thrust aside the supposed limitations of the existing agricultural system and adopted various forms of ‘ transformation ’ approach . |
| 9 | The amount of RNA was measured by using a RNase protection kit produced by AMBION ( Austin , TX ) according to the manufacturer 's specifications ; 25 µg of RNA were hybridized to an aliquot of 3 10 5 cpm of labelled probe . |
| 10 | Laser treatment was considered to be successful if symptoms caused by intraluminal tumour were reduced to an extent that enabled the patient to lead a lifestule appropriate to his or her age and general condition without constant concern for bowel function . |
| 11 | On the evening of the second day delegates were treated to an authentic Indonesian dinner and traditional dance performances . |
| 12 | The 1 km successes were to come to an end this afternoon . |
| 13 | The damages were awarded to an electrical engineer who paid £1 to become a member of the National House Owners Association and £6 for a survey , which stated that there were no serious defects . |
| 14 | It 's all going wrong for Forest just when Frank Clark thought his problems were coming to an end . |
| 15 | But , going into last week 's championships in her home state of California , she had signed no new commercial deals since the Olympics and her advertising endorsements were restricted to an appearance on a cereal box . |
| 16 | The championships were reduced to an all-English affair when Adrian Davies , the Welsh No 1 , joined Nicol as a first day exit . |
| 17 | The guinea pigs were sensitized to an antigen by having it injected into them , and they were simultaneously exposed to a strong odour . |
| 18 | So , it was in the ordinary conduct of party politics by men in pursuit of power that expectations , aspirations and objectives were reduced to an apparent simplicity , to a crudity of choice for which all that could be said was that it represented the national will . |
| 19 | Well because I thought that the hits were coming to an end and I did n't want to become an all-round entertainer , I was n't suited to it , I w I did n't have any feeling for all-round entertaining . |
| 20 | The profession had a vocabulary of euphemisms ; it had a training programme ; its most successful operatives were promoted to an ‘ elite ’ , which enjoyed a high standard of living . |
| 21 | And so the way to counteract the disease was to rid the body of its ill-balanced humours by means of blood-letting , laxatives or emetics — the three standard methods by which patients were hastened to an early death . |
| 22 | Patients were admitted to an epilepsy unit for assessment , where scalp electroencephalogram and audiovisual behaviour were continually monitored during at least three typical seizures . |
| 23 | STRANDED airline passengers were entertained to an impromptu carol concert by an airport 's staff choir after fog closed the runways yesterday . |
| 24 | Prior to the Tektronix announcement , such users were confined to an IBM system using the PS/2 board or waiting for the Network Computing Devices Inc plug-in board option that is announced but not yet available . |
| 25 | KIRSTY HAY and her Scottish junior champions were taken to an extra end by Manuella Kormann 's Swiss quartet at the world junior championships in Grindelwald yesterday . |
| 26 | A further 144 full members and 59 candidate members were elected to the party 's central council ( Shura-e Markazi ) , and 33 members were elected to an Executive Board ( Hay'at-e Nezar ) . |
| 27 | Five additional members were added to an existing committee entrusted with monitoring , fighting and controlling oil fires . |
| 28 | Margaret Thorburn , Assistant Secretary , Staff Club ( Scotland ) writes : The tournament got underway on Good Friday but because of the weather that day 's matches were switched to an all-weather pitch at Strathclyde University . |
| 29 | In the Late Minoan period ( after 1600 BC ) carved stone seals were replaced to an extent by metal signet rings . |
| 30 | As he looked out over the familiar landscape that spring day , the poetic miracles which had begun in the lime-tree bower were coming to an end . |