Example sentences of "was [verb] to [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Approval was given to further professional publications : a professional brief on Food colours , a new edition of Directory of consulting practices in chemistry and related subjects , and a report on the 1990 Pension survey . |
| 2 | The possibility of a functional justification of the rights of shareholders was referred to earlier . |
| 3 | That role was assigned to older children , not always with their approval . |
| 4 | The government was committed to further major reductions in defence spending . |
| 5 | Yet this behaviour was related to wider trends than simply social class ; it concerned the balance between closeness and distance , and the nature of support networks . |
| 6 | In other words , the educational qualification was related to further educational needs , not to the needs of jobs as such . |
| 7 | Can you play us that recording I was listening to earlier ? ’ |
| 8 | As the republican system began to be associated with right-wing policies , the left was pushed to greater political extremism as it was very difficult for them to effect political change within the Cortes . |
| 9 | The fact that the 1991 figure was more than 2 percentage points higher than this figure was attributed to higher personnel costs and to contracts scheduled to be paid during fiscal 1991 . |
| 10 | He was used to heavier controls than this , but an hour 's practice would make all the difference . |
| 11 | Zvi could n't remember how long it was since he had last found it necessary to advertise , but with Wine telling the Cork Examiner 's readers for the last three weeks that ‘ owing to the great increase of my practice ’ he was moving to larger premises Zvi felt he had no alternative . |
| 12 | Although sure they had been seen , he thought that their only chance of escape was to run to better cover . |
| 13 | The overall loss of reading time , and even the loss of the reading habit as it was known to earlier generations , should not be underestimated . |
| 14 | My actual intervention was linked to wider attempts to combat these influences by developing a new cultural politics of antiracism based around ‘ two tone music ’ . |
| 15 | Reports in the Western media claimed that the visit was linked to wider negotiations aimed at achieving a comprehensive settlement of the hostage crisis [ see p. 38454 ] . |
| 16 | It was taken to deeper water and detonated in a controlled explosion at about 6pm . |
| 17 | Erm , and then I just thought I 'd finally conclude a bright , cos I think it , it 's like how I see myself at work , erm with showing you where our work comes from erm and basically you 've got all these arrows coming in and er sometimes you do have a sense of feeling quite bombarded with requests for work , but the main , I mean the main formal source of our work is the local government sub committee , which is erm , like Mary was referring to earlier , every department or unit in our in the Council have to formally report and get it 's work through by a Council committee , our committee is the local government sub committee and it formally sets our work programme once a year , and I our priorities , it also comes up with other things it would like us to do by the way , during the course of the year , so erm , that includes Mary as well . . |
| 18 | Little specific attention was paid to older people in the White Paper , Working for Patients , nor to the effect on them of changes in the GP contract , but the implications of the changes for the care of older patients may be significant . |
| 19 | It was felt at that meeting that another bolt debate was required to further air the views of all parties active in the Clwyd arena . |