Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun pl] was [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | A set of phonological reduction rules was applied to this lexicon to derive fast speech forms , which were stored together with the citation form under the corresponding orthographic entry . |
| 2 | Much of the success in restoring aid flows was attributed to the debt-reduction scheme proposed in March 1989 by the US Treasury Secretary , James Brady [ see pp. 36541-42 ; 37016-17 ] . |
| 3 | Even our analysis has had to distinguish between two forms of mass production , and the use of batch methods was applied to small and medium sized lots , which omits the possibility of large batches . |
| 4 | An ounce of coral beads was reckoned to be worth ten large jars of oil . |
| 5 | As a result , the range of permissible accounting treatments was seen to be amazingly broad . |
| 6 | The pattern of cell divisions was found to be invariant , every normal worm going through exactly the same pattern of cleavages to form the body . |
| 7 | The pattern of recognition results was compared to that from Study 2 . |
| 8 | In inflammatory bowel disease an increased expression of ICAM-1 on mucosal mononuclear phagocytes on colonic biopsy specimens was shown to be associated with the maintenance of chronic inflammation and the induction of ICAM-1 expression has been seen on bile duct epithelium , endotheoium , and hepatocytes of liver allografts undergoing acute rejection . |
| 9 | The administration of the legal advice and assistance and civil legal aid schemes was transferred to a new Legal Aid Board , whose remit included that of considering fundamental changes in the administration of the schemes . |
| 10 | The variance within subjects and within biopsy samples was found to be higher for the BrdU method than the PCNA method , but the variance within crypts was equal ( Table II ) . |
| 11 | The prescribing unit for the two study practices was calculated to be 3.3 based on cost for patients over 65 years ( men 4.1 , women 2.8 ) and 3.9 for items ( men 4.7 and women 3.3 ) . |
| 12 | Intake of the first winter barleys was expected to be ‘ some time this week ’ , at the Woodchurch Farmers Supplies co-op not far from Mr Maylam . |
| 13 | At the same time Bosnia-Hercegovina came under Austro-Hungarian occupation , and Turkey 's waning power in the lands of the South Slavs was confined to Macedonia . |
| 14 | The first of the major considerations by the Council Fathers was given to the Liturgy and its music , as well as sacred art . |
| 15 | The band 's interest in American noise bands was taken to its logical conclusion when Steve Albini of Big Black produced ‘ Brassneck ’ , their second single on RCA . |
| 16 | Responsibility for commodity negotiations was entrusted to Guy-Alain Gauze , formerly delegate to the International Coffee Organization in London , with the rank of Minister-Delegate in the President 's Office . |
| 17 | However , it was reported on May 7 that 35 leading officials in the newly established intelligence service department of the Interior Ministry had been removed following leaks of secret information , and the screening of various sections of the security services was reported to be well advanced or completed by early May . |
| 18 | The test for remoteness of damage in negligence actions was stated to be whether the damage was a direct consequence of the breach of duty . |
| 19 | The concentration of YCV-309 reducing by 50% platelet activating factor induced aggregation of human or rabbit platelets was found to be 10 - 7 M and this concentration was used in the in vitro studies on the dispersed pancreatic acini . |
| 20 | In 1849 , part of the mill containing the fulling stocks was leased to the local clothier , William Palling , yet in 1853 , Paul Savory is recorded as working a corn mill at Brookhouse . |
| 21 | The Solomon Islands health ministry has declared a water disaster in Honiara , the capital , after the tap water supplied by one of the city 's four water sources was found to be highly contaminated . |
| 22 | In the six largest industrial conurbations outside London , the metropolitan counties , education and social welfare were given to the second-tier authorities : elsewhere , in the more rural shire counties , the provision of education and welfare services was allocated to the counties . |
| 23 | AN appeal for Liss tree wardens was made to residents at the parish council 's annual general meeting by parish councillor Jim Duckham . |
| 24 | The public , however , has a right to know , so a team of Punch researchers was set to work , quizzing fashion experts about the men whose very arrival at a wardrobe signals sartorial disaster . |
| 25 | To offset the effects of disproportionate increases , the Government implemented as an interim measure a scheme whereby two thirds of the medical rate of MDO subscriptions was reimbursed to those practitioners employed full time in the NHS . |
| 26 | Last Friday , Meat Trade Suppliers was taken to task for ‘ seriously misleading ’ shareholders over a hostile offer . |
| 27 | They did , however , note that the disturbances of 1811 – 12 were distinguished by a new level of planning and organisation , but still insisted that the involvement of " proper " trade unionists was limited to sympathy . |
| 28 | We demonstrated this statistically ( J. Milroy and Harris , 1980 ) : the data in table 5.5 , were subjected to the chi-squared test , and the difference between the distributions of meat items and mate items was found to be very highly significant . |
| 29 | Percentage loss of prey from tawny owl pellets was found to be greater in summer than in winter ( Lowe , 1980 ) , and this could relate both to the greater numbers of immature rodents taken as prey , the bones of which are less mineralized and therefore easier to digest ( Lowe , 1980 ) , and to the likelihood of the birds producing the pellets being themselves immature In the case of the great horned owl it has been found that the stomach pH in immature birds is lower than that of adults ( Grimm & Whitehouse , 1963 ) and there is therefore greater destruction of bone and loss of prey . |
| 30 | However , others have been content to accept the message in Problems of Social Policy : for example , Peter Gosden , in his detailed study of education in the war , cites Titmuss as the authoritative source on the social consequences of evacuation ; likewise , Raynes Minns concludes that the revelations of the children 's condition ‘ made headlines , and once again , as in 1914 , when the physical condition of army recruits was found to be so poor , war forced a British government to recognise the extremes of poverty and neglect that survived in our cities , and eventually to act by expanding our welfare services ’ . |