Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Are n't you and Charles due to go off on holiday soon ? ’ she queried , when tea and biscuits were duly dispensed to Lucy and she could sit down on a wicker-backed chair and sip her own . |
| 2 | Encouraged by Drew , Daisy applied for a Pony Club scholarship for Perdita , and they were duly summoned to Kirtlington to meet the Committee in early July . |
| 3 | Phonological features were eventually assigned to variants in order to construct these subscales , but the first step was to quantify the data in order to compare the patterns which emerged in different data batches . |
| 4 | Two Dutchmen , Hans Guyt and Willem Beekman , were eventually sent to prison for six weeks over this protest . |
| 5 | At first Mwangaza was sold only in Dar es Salaam , but sales were eventually extended to Tanga , the country 's second town . |
| 6 | However , traffic on the line declined in the 20th century and both it and the Citadel Station were eventually closed to passenger services in 1947 , although the larger North Leith Station did not close to passengers until 1962 . |
| 7 | When they were eventually brought to trial , the most revealing thing that came out was that thousands of women were seeking , by a variety of means , to terminate their pregnancies . |
| 8 | Our thanks were properly offered to Vince , Geoff , Carol and Sue for their expert demonstration and we shall never see either Kevin or Phil in the same light again . |
| 9 | This was not merely through the intrinsic loss but also because family status and honour were intimately linked to possession of land . |
| 10 | The results , and in particular the significant losses incurred by the PvdA , were widely attributed to voters ' dissatisfaction with a lack of new policies introduced by the new centre-left government . |
| 11 | Studies of five individual multi-plant firms by Peck and Townsend ( 1984 , 1987 ) showed how their reductions in employment were fundamentally related to changes in fairly specific market niches , but how the effect of any one factor in the future of a factory was usually contingent upon others . |
| 12 | The benefits of education were rarely extended to women . |
| 13 | Rival militant groups which had co-operated with the Indian forces were effectively relegated to politics in exile . |
| 14 | In Rutland there were very few assessments at £50 in 1522 , and all were prudently reduced to £40 ( more or less ) for the subsidy ; men on £60 or more could not so plausibly shed their surtax liability . |
| 15 | These patients were randomly assigned to placebo or captopril ( SAVE ) or enalapril ( SOLVD prevention ) . |
| 16 | Children were randomly allocated to adenotonsillectomy , adenoidectomy , or neither procedure . |
| 17 | Patients were randomly allocated to groups for each test substance . |
| 18 | The Labour Party environmental spokesperson argued ( Evening Standard 9.8.89 ) that 800,000 tons of industrial waste were annually brought to Britain to be disposed of . |
| 19 | The profit from mining was so immense that owners could afford to treat slaves their only major capital investment — as expendable ; the treatment of slaves in these mines was brutal in the extreme , and many were literally worked to death . |
| 20 | They admit arranging for 5,000 dollars to be handed over in envelopes but say they were merely responding to UEFA instructions to cover the officials ' expenses . |
| 21 | By 1483 some at least of the royal servants were sufficiently committed to Gloucester to play an active role in his coup . |
| 22 | By 1483 some at least of the royal servants were sufficiently committed to Gloucester to play an active role in his coup . |
| 23 | Any number of concessions were apparently made to Intel 's sensibilities including Intel ownership through completely parallel structures , offering Intel ownership of the specification and completely equal access . |
| 24 | Shortly after the invasion US troops , backed up by forces from various European , Arab and Asian countries , were swiftly dispatched to Saudi Arabia . |
| 25 | In this context , the material before the board indicated — ( 1 ) that investors were persuaded by company representatives employed by the Winchester Group to cancel their existing policies and to ‘ switch ’ to Norwich Union without their best interests and any disadvantages attendant upon so doing necessarily being considered ; ( 2 ) that other undesirable selling practices — for instance ‘ overselling ’ whereby investors are persuaded to take out a range of policies which they may not be able to afford in the long term — have been employed by company representatives selling on behalf of the Winchester Group ; ( 3 ) that the fact find forms completed by the Winchester Group for forwarding to Norwich Union were inadequate for the purposes of ensuring that products were only sold to investors on a ‘ best advice ’ basis ; ( 4 ) that the connections between Mr. Tee and Mr. Kissane ( a former director of the Winchester Group now awaiting trial on charges of theft of client moneys ) and also between the Winchester Group and Mr. Randhir Singh were such as to call into question the extent to which the controllers , directors and senior managers of the Winchester Group could be regarded as being of good character and competent or otherwise suitable to manage the marketing of investment contracts on behalf of Norwich Union and also whether the Winchester Group could be safely regarded as a fit and proper person for the purposes of enjoying appointed representative status ; ( 5 ) that policies had been sold by eight persons engaged by the Winchester Group who had not been appointed as company representatives of Norwich Union or in any other way authorised to sell investment contracts on behalf of Norwich Union and that other individuals who had been appointed as company representatives had not been registered as such with Lautro ; ( 6 ) that certain company representatives engaged by the Winchester Group appeared to be channelling client moneys through their own personal bank accounts . |
| 26 | By degrees the British came to dominate this trade , partly because they were so committed to sugar that they were bound to make large purchases of slaves on their own account , partly because their increasingly dominant position at sea meant that they could take the place of the Dutch as general suppliers of slaves for planters in other European colonies who wanted to buy them . |
| 27 | Of course , the situation would be greatly eased if our political leaders were less addicted to secrecy . |
| 28 | On Wednesday 20 March , three weeks after the dawn raids , Mr and Mrs H , the fourth family whose children had been removed , were suddenly taken to Kirkwall Police Station for questioning . |
| 29 | After its opening Archbishop Melton of York demanded that the king should be brought before parliament ; Bishops Stratford and Orleton were thereupon sent to Kenilworth , where the king was imprisoned , to request his attendance but they came back to report with some zest his offensive words of refusal . |
| 30 | They were , however , an all-White group , operating without directly involving parents and were generally committed to specialist care in the community . |