Example sentences of "[noun pl] [was/were] [adj] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a debate on green issues , the MPs singled out the Commission 's failure to ensure that projects receiving support from regional and structure funds were subject to environmental assessments . |
| 2 | Wages fell rapidly and the unions , despite their involvement in many long and protracted disputes were unable to staunch the outward flow of members and funds or to stave off the savage monetary wage cuts which occurred . |
| 3 | This target was revised to 60 500 ( to be achieved by 1984 ) in 1966 and the area of the CDA was extended to 6010 acres , of which 2520 acres were subject to compulsory purchase , if necessary . |
| 4 | and a further 2,500 acres were subject to compulsory purchase at March 1970 . |
| 5 | Remarkable new pictures from the Anglo-Australian Observatory in New South Wales show how some familiar objects would look if our eyes were sensitive to infrared radiation IN MODERN astronomy , researchers investigate the sky at all wavelengths from gamma-rays and X-rays to radio waves . |
| 6 | Criticism of SLORC during the election campaign was banned , as were meetings of more than five people , and all speeches were subject to official vetting . |
| 7 | Opinion on certain aspects of party and leader images was more polarized , on others more homogeneous ; and different aspects of images were subject to different influences . |
| 8 | Rod claimed the growth in the use of knives was closely-linked to drugs-related crime and protection rackets . |
| 9 | Both the maximum daily amount paid and the limits of discretion in defining approved duties were subject to central government advice or regulation . |
| 10 | In part , of course , the problem was simply that the Soviet archives were inaccessible to western scholars , while during the Stalin era the documents and memoirs published in the Soviet Union were sparse and manifestly tendentious . |
| 11 | ‘ Of the 15 companies in which offences were attributable to organizational defects , nine made significant changes designed to reduce the likelihood of recidivism . |
| 12 | He also complained that the consistent use of the word Pomerellen in German texts was offensive to Polish residents of the Corridor . |
| 13 | It used to be called the ‘ self-build movement ’ , and the wearing of beards and open-toed sandals was close to compulsory . |
| 14 | The USA was in the opposite camp , fighting for complete free enterprise for airlines ( except in situations in which US airlines were subject to foreign discrimination ) and open access to all countries . |
| 15 | Well aware that most workers were indifferent to foreign affairs , he fully expected the majority of them to be swept into fratricide by patriotic propaganda if war actually came . |
| 16 | In many cases there was no doubt at all : the glass had been in contact with some other solid and the cracks were due to simple scratching or scraping . |
| 17 | Racial discrimination was not observable , though proportionately slightly more Blacks and Asians were subject to harsh treatment . |
| 18 | While some filmmakers were making expensive films positioned in a European never-never-land , believing that placeless films were preferable to British films , the documentarists and , to some extent , the makers of quota pictures , were dealing with a more everyday level of life . |
| 19 | ( Several alternatives were subject to possible subsidence due to previous iron-ore mining . ) |
| 20 | But the dealers were alert to new traces , if only because a single coin — the bronze ears of barley on the local currency of Rubi , with Demeter 's garlanded head on the obverse — might lead , like a broken twig , a crackle of a dry leaf , to greater treasure ; the boys could earn a lustrous fizzy drink from the new carbonator , or a cigarette in the cafe , with a promise to show the location of the trivial find . |
| 21 | In 1989–90 45 per cent of NAO direct costs were devoted to financial audit and 53 per cent to VFM audit work . |
| 22 | Even where it was possible to draw up useful statistics , local officials were reluctant to forward information which might increase the demands made upon them by their superiors in St Petersburg . |
| 23 | UK banks were subject to special and supplementary deposits at the Bank of England during the period of the ‘ corset ’ . |
| 24 | By the end of the 1980s it was clear that many UK banks were overexposed to overseas lending risks , especially in less developed countries ( LDCs ) . |
| 25 | Far from possessing similar freedoms , sanctions and incentives as their private sector colleagues , managers were subject to strong bureaucratic controls and examples of perverse incentives penalising good managerial or clinical performance were legion . |
| 26 | If firms were entitled to automatic interest in the event of late payment , it would help alleviate the stresses they faced . |
| 27 | Other lower intensity blockages were prior to 5'-CT sequences at 61 , 94 and 98 . |
| 28 | In fact both networks were subject to heavy political intervention . |
| 29 | In both Alcoa and United Shoe the courts acknowledged that the defendants had built their market shares by legal means , but none the less found them guilty because their respective dominant positions were due to conscious choice . |
| 30 | Thus , inter-war English studies was devoted to professional scholarship , research , and publishing rather than a programme of cultural intervention . |