Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [vb pp] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Even more than French , Italian Romanesque architecture was subjected to varied influences in different parts of the peninsula . |
| 32 | By the scale and regularity of taxation , both of the laity and of the clergy , and through the growth of machinery which it necessitated , a new dimension was added to clergy-laity relations . |
| 33 | A major change was made in 1980 when the policy of the Department of Health and Social Security in administering supplementary benefit was reduced to detailed secondary legislation , so that the supplementary benefit scheme is now as rooted in statutory provisions as the national insurance benefits . |
| 34 | H pylori infection has also been shown to increase the serum concentrations of gastrin and pepsinogen I. Levi et al proposed that the hypergastrinaemia was related to bacterial ammonia production which raised the antral surface pH , but studies from our own group do not support this . |
| 35 | ( 7 ) In the report of the guardian ad litem reference was made to psychiatric assessments of the child . |
| 36 | In the report of the guardian ad litem reference was made to psychiatric assessments of the child . |
| 37 | The first playing was dedicated to various charitable purposes . |
| 38 | It is made clear that the boy was exposed to serious danger by his father 's irresponsibility and by his sisters ' departure : but his sisters had been exposed to this father too , and had had to defend themselves . |
| 39 | In the meantime his lady was exposed to public gaze seated in her chair at a great open window . |
| 40 | Considering Franco 's lifelong and obsessive involvement with Morocco and his equally characteristic reluctance to relinquish territorial gains , the speed with which independence was granted to Spanish Morocco was extraordinary . |
| 41 | When Queenie talks about the increased expenditure on recreation from nineteen eighty to now , that 's quite right , there has been a huge increase in spending , and that 's because the Labour Council was committed to improving recreation facilities in the City , and it did n't continue the appalling record that the Conservative administration had had before of virtually no recreational facilities , it invested in recreation facilities — you listed them yourself — and of course those facilities have to be paid for and on when we have stood for election we 've always made it clear that we want to provide quality services , but of course that they have to be paid for , and so the second point that you then made was that , you know , our budget 's gone up beyond belief , well I mean this year it 's being cut by two million pounds , last year it was a standstill budget , and erm that has been done at a time when in fact Central Government has been transferring responsibilities from Central Government onto Local Government without increasing , indeed at the same time decreasing the amount of Central Government grant that 's gone to local councils . |
| 42 | Furthermore , as I have tried to show in my book Evangelism in the Early Church , there was considerable flexibility in the way the gospel was preached to different audiences in different circumstances , coupled with great unity in presenting men with the person of Jesus , the offer of forgiveness through his death on the cross , the promise of the Holy Spirit , and the challenge to repent and believe and be baptised . |
| 43 | Treaty did not of itself prevent a member state from imposing an ownership residence requirement as a condition for exemption from the compulsory acquisition of land , could not be followed in the present case for three reasons : ( a ) in the Fearon case , the owners ' residence requirement was not coupled with any nationality requirement and the court indicated in paragraph 10 of the judgment , at pp. 3685–3686 , that its decision would have been different if it had been ; ( b ) in the Fearon case , the residence requirement was limited to legal owners of the land and did not extend to peripheral persons , such as those who had lent the owners money in order to buy the land ; and ( c ) from the point of view of its geographical scope , the residence requirement at issue in the Fearon case was framed in local rather than national terms . |
| 44 | The case was brought under the old law and it was alleged that the child in question was exposed to moral danger . |
| 45 | And the Public NME team were reduced to hysteric this week by the news that IRON MAIDEN — forerunners in the Live Fast , Die Young And Leave A Foul Looking Corpse rock community — have made a seatbelt commercial currently screening in the States . |
| 46 | Time-limited exemptions for high aluminium , iron and manganese were granted to Northumbrian and Southern Water under the ‘ nature and structure of the ground ’ clause . |
| 47 | So it was when the Germans over-ran Holland in 1940 and within three days had rounded up large numbers of Jews — the Dutch population records which included religious affiliation were put to sinister use , promptly and efficiently even without the aid of modern technology . |
| 48 | Not all coffins of this period were put to funerary use . |
| 49 | This highlights another paradox of Soviet experience — the fact that the main elements of the growing economic crisis were known to Soviet officials and Western specialists long before they became part of the public political agenda on either side of the iron curtain . |
| 50 | FINAL details of the £700 million relief scheme aimed at helping former ratepayers in the transition to poll tax were sent to local authorities yesterday , Mr Chris Patten , Environment Secretary , announced in a written answer . |
| 51 | FINAL details of the £700 million relief scheme aimed at helping former ratepayers in the transition to poll tax were sent to local authorities yesterday , Mr Chris Patten , Environment Secretary , announced in a written answer . |
| 52 | Griffith was transferred to other work and became a very famous engine designer . |
| 53 | The team was taken to away matches by horse-drawn transport — ‘ Hiring horse and wagonette to carry team to match 4/ — , for stabling horse 3d . ’ |
| 54 | The announcement was made to Downtown Radio shortly after three more shootings . |
| 55 | All 31 people aboard a CN-235 aircraft operated by the Indonesian-based Merpati Airlines were killed on Oct. 19 when it hit a mountain near Bandung on a flight from — Semarang in central Java ; the accident was attributed to bad weather , according to analysis of the cockpit voice recorder . |
| 56 | This study found that intermittent buzzing reminded the child to go to the lavatory and so avoided wetting in 68 per cent , but in the group when the buzzer was related to actual wetting there was a bigger improvement rate of 80 per cent . |
| 57 | The reliability of the developed approach was further confirmed by the fact that no protected bases were observed when an identical binding reaction was subjected to various DMS treatments in solution ( prior to electrophoresis ) , presumably due to the kinetic instability of the Jun-AP-1-binding site complex ( 7 ) which DNase I being a bulky molecule is unable to sense . |
| 58 | Excessive oil temperature caused a problem with the Pegasus engines on early Londons , and the prototype was subjected to numerous tests and experiments to iron it out . |
| 59 | In May , conscription was extended to married men . |
| 60 | Eventually they were found out , and you can just imagine what a fuss that caused , all those years ago when Victoria was on the throne , and even the sight of a petticoat was forbidden to young men . |