Example sentences of "the [noun pl] was [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Salaries were not keeping up with the rate of inflation , which in the cities was estimated to be running at 20 per cent . |
| 2 | Day-to-day management of the groups was expected to be in the hands of experienced Western managers , with board chairmen being Polish nationals . |
| 3 | In retrospect , it seems that genuine concern on the part of the experimenters was communicated to the subjects to provide a potent source of suggestion that they should suffer symptoms of paranoia and hallucinations , and a cumulative sleep loss over the six days of the experiment combined to provide a fertile ground for the production of these symptoms . |
| 4 | That farewell to the coaches was going to be ‘ Hello ’ until a few minutes ago when the British Olympic Association suddenly cancelled a meet-the-press day . |
| 5 | We find the reference in section 12 to duties , etc. , ‘ not incident to the administration of justice in any court ’ particularly compelling as a pointer to the conclusion that the disciplinary jurisdiction of the visitors was transferred to the High Court pursuant to section 16 . |
| 6 | The collection was returned after negotiations between the Kuwait and Iraqi governments and the UN ; following these a representative of the al-Sabahs was sent to Baghdad in September 1991 to arrange the return of the collection and also that of the Kuwait National Museum . |
| 7 | The writer of the Psalms was believed to be King David . |
| 8 | As work in the mountains was restricted to the summer , the field seasons were arranged so that lower ground was surveyed during spring and autumn . |
| 9 | Another of the casualties was believed to be a boy of nine . |
| 10 | Thus no virtue was made of complexity , and the sense of touch and feel and shape and form of the workers was utilised to the full and resulted in a process in which it was possible to democratise decision-making processes in design involving masses of people . |
| 11 | The sound quality of the tapes was found to be unexpectedly high . |
| 12 | THE MOST important Khmer and Thai sculptures were withdrawn from Sotheby 's major sale of Asian art yesterday after one of the pieces was found to be a fake . |
| 13 | But , as Mates ( 1986 ) has pointed out , there is considerable doubt as to whether the banks have a legal right to such large claims against enterprises , since much of the foreign exchange supplied to enterprises by the banks was sold to them , not given on credit . |
| 14 | As the constitutional reforms were to a very great degree imposed on the Japanese , the lead given by US authorities on interpreting the reforms was going to be crucial to post-Occupation Japan . |
| 15 | As The Lord of the Rings was coming to the end of its gestation it became possible for the first time for political leaders to say they wanted nothing and make it come true . |
| 16 | Until a few years ago , the DMS was awarded to students satisfactorily completing a course at a college approved by the DES Committee to offer the Diploma in Management Studies or , in Scotland , by the Scottish Committee . |
| 17 | The case for the third , fourth and fifth defendants before this court , as before Sir Nicolas Browne-Wilkinson , is based upon the undisputed fact that none of the payments made by the investors was made to these defendants . |
| 18 | One of the batteries was sent to Chloride Ltd which cleaned it , filled it with electrolyte and recharged it . |
| 19 | The blinds of the houses were always drawn to different levels , since each of the rooms was let to a different lodger , and their times of getting up and going to bed were different . |
| 20 | In so far as the assistance of the Americans was seen to be desirable or even imperative against Nazi Germany , he feared that they would exact a heavy price at the expense of Britain 's trade and her links with the Empire . |
| 21 | I said that the best thing he could do for the whites was to demonstrate to the blacks that they fully supported the widest possible franchise , and that if he did that he would emerge as a statesman , with a statesman 's view of his responsibilities . |
| 22 | Efforts to control whaling between the wars was said to be for the purposes of resource conservation ; that they were really concerned with managing the flow of whale oil through international markets . |
| 23 | In 1768 the statutory day for the tailors was cut to thirteen hours . |
| 24 | In that case the making of a television series by the defendants based on a concept communicated in confidence by the plaintiffs was held to be a breach of confidence . |
| 25 | Traditional management of the marshes was tuned to the finest nuances of the local water-table . |
| 26 | One of the men was pinned to the ceiling of the building by an ejected control rod . |
| 27 | The incentive for the NPA to participate in the negotiations was thought to be the possibility of gaining the release of some of the many hundreds of its members and supporters currently in prison . |
| 28 | By this time , fortunately for the British , the alarm over the advance of the aggressors was spreading to the United States . |
| 29 | It was also important to establish whether adults would use deductive markers in these contexts , and so a written version of the tasks was given to a group of undergraduates . |
| 30 | The loss of support for the Greens was attributed to their critical stance on unification , their internal divisions , and the espousal of environmental causes by the other parties . |