Example sentences of "[conj] [noun pl] [was/were] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | solo performers or groups were signed to major record companies . |
| 2 | The situation is more encouraging in the Netherlands , where parents were found to be involved in the care process ‘ to some extent ’ at least in 90 per cent of cases ; intensive involvement is , however , limited to 39 per cent of cases ( Ploeg and Scholte , 1988 ) . |
| 3 | Bowlers & brollies were added to this outfit — and in out-of-synch areas far from London , kids wore mixtures of suedehead hair , check shirts , Sta-Prests , boots , bowlers & brollies . |
| 4 | The public appears unaware that departments have moved over the years from a production orientation , where individuals were matched to available services , to a marketing orientation where departments seek to establish customers ' needs through individual assessment and meet them individually by care management . |
| 5 | Where libraries were seen to be furthering school purposes there was a strong case for supporting them adequately , in both financial and wider terms . |
| 6 | At this point various drugs or vehicles were added to the incubation media . |
| 7 | Opposition was likely to be stronger where children were transferred to another small school rather than to a larger school . |
| 8 | It was thought ( wrongly at it turns out ) prior to the case of Vestey v IRC discussed below , that where assets were transferred to a non-resident discretionary trust with a number of beneficiaries ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom , each and every beneficiary could be taxed upon the income of the trust ( see s742(2) ( d ) ; Lord Howard de Walden v IRC ( 1941 ) 25 TC 121 ( CA ) ; Congreve v IRC ( 1948 ) 30 TC 163 ( HL ) ) . |
| 9 | She kept her eye on things generally , such as : tactfully suggesting to an under-housemaid ( caught out bypassing Lizzie 's careful instructions ) that pos were meant to be scrubbed till their inner china gleamed , as well as being emptied every morning . |
| 10 | It was not just that degenerates were thought to be intelligent and gifted ; their intelligence manifested one of the most disturbing paradoxes of the perverse : a vitiating regression to the primitive from within an advanced cultural sophistication . |
| 11 | Just as drugs were often used , even when their properties were poorly understood , to investigate physiological processes which they evidently modified , so X-rays were found to be a valuable tool in certain fields of study . |
| 12 | However , since representations of satyrs are often given negroid features , there is a suggestion that negroes were considered to be in some sense monstrous . |
| 13 | Whatever the problem , there is always a solution , so long as you are prepared to use your ingenuity , be flexible and remember that rules were made to be broken — or at least bent a little . |
| 14 | It was not only that animals were suffering to their detriment , but their abusers were themselves brutalised in the process . |
| 15 | The multiplication of life tenures , the scramble for reversions , and the attempt to make posts hereditary are all indications that offices were coming to be regarded as forms of property rather than as jobs to be done . |
| 16 | The German offensive in March 1918 had swung public opinion so solidly behind the war that pacifists were reduced to morose inactivity and bitter post-mortems on the missed opportunities of the winter . |
| 17 | This ensured that errors were localised to the definition in which they occurred . |
| 18 | He commented : ‘ We were woken up with a jolt when we found out that Spinneys were going to be bought out by some ‘ jocks from over the border ’ . |
| 19 | This produced double sets of office-bearers in the same burgh , with the result that commissions were given to two different persons as commissioners for electing the burgess to represent the District in Parliament . |
| 20 | Constables know that all radio messages are taped and that the time they take to arrive at calls is recorded , which is often unnecessary , given the competition to beat other stations and colleagues by getting there first , although stories were told to us of instances where people were transferred for failing to respond to a call . |
| 21 | The first enlistments to the Macedonian army were reported on April 13 , although Albanians were said to be refusing to obey the call-up . |
| 22 | Benton and his Assistant Editor managed to keep the New Times of Burma going and we could still use the radio , but it was obvious that things were moving to a climax , and I was desperately afraid that violence would develop throughout the country . |
| 23 | She had evidently decided that things were going to be all right . |
| 24 | As a result we had a demoralised and demotivated workforce and needed a completely fresh start — a sign that things were going to work differently . |
| 25 | It was not until 1913 that powers were provided to compulsorily prevent the damage or destruction of monuments . |
| 26 | It is very common to find that mills were adapted to a variety of different purposes during the nineteenth century . |
| 27 | The High Court in Edinburgh heard that an investment analyst with the stockbrokers Bell Lawrie White had received information from the chairman of the waste management and construction group , Shanks&McEwan , that profits were going to be lower than City expectations . |
| 28 | In determining whether such a seizure was reasonable the court had to balance , on the one hand , the freedom of the individual and his rights which protected against undue invasion of his property , and on the other hand , the interests of society in ensuring that valuable evidence was not destroyed and that wrongdoers were brought to justice . |
| 29 | John Barton , the Islands ' Director of Fisheries , agreed to participate provided that negotiations were limited to technical matters ( such as the conservation of squid stocks ) and did not touch on areas of sovereignty over the Falklands or the resumption of direct links with the Argentinian mainland . |
| 30 | In the text James Mill writes that it is ‘ obvious , and certain , that men were led to class solely for the purpose of economizing in the use of names ’ : |