Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [vb pp] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the 1680s the old-fashioned cavalry of the pomeshchiks had disappeared as an independent force , the streltsy were restricted to internal policing duties , and Muscovy had gone a long way towards establishing a professional army . |
| 2 | Thus for example the questions about domestic routines and husband 's participation in the division of labour were geared to specific activities and time periods rather than to the more attitudinal or normative dimension of who ‘ usually ’ does what at what time . |
| 3 | The principles of the electronic valve were applied to magnetic recording in the late 1920s , so the BBC used steel-tape recorders for repeating programmes for the Empire broadcasting service ( 21 ) . |
| 4 | What he did not , of course , add was that he intended to exacerbate that instability by every means in his power while making certain that external isolation was added to internal dysfunction . |
| 5 | The association was closed to new members from the time that this project became public , but now membership will be opened again : I imagine there will be considerably more interest in membership than prior to the event . |
| 6 | By the time that the deal was presented to Unionist MPs on 12 November , two important developments had taken place . |
| 7 | A MAN with a compulsion to drive cars at high speed was sent to young offenders institution for a year . |
| 8 | I could sympathise with his feelings , but in fact the principal ridicule was addressed to poor Roy Jenkins , who was shown in the film floating through the air while engaged in a game of tennis — at which he is quite a competent player . |
| 9 | At Holnicote in Selworthy parish in Somerset , a modified plough was kept to clean out the gutters of the water leats , while the Knight family , who reclaimed Exmoor forest in the nineteenth century , kept records of water temperatures , showing clearly the effect of slightly warmer spring water on the growth of the grass . |
| 10 | On this occasion Chatichai was forced to relent and Chalerm was demoted , although he remained in the government as Deputy Education Minister [ see p. 37857 ] . |
| 11 | Use of the single stroke was limited to specific circumstances not all of which signified gracing , while the double stroke constituted a sign of embellishment largely at the discretion of the player — a discretion tempered by harmonic and rhythmic context and , it is to be hoped , good taste . |
| 12 | The aqueduct was designed to British Waterways Board specification by Messrs Scott , Wilson , Kirkpatrick and Partners . |
| 13 | Jonadab was used to implicit obedience . |
| 14 | The study was confined to white men . |
| 15 | However , the fact that the study was restricted to institutionalised delinquents limits the validity of the association between body build and crime and delinquency . |
| 16 | However , the fact that Labour was committed to Polish independence , as well as non-intervention in the Soviet Union , suggests its opposition to a war to defend Poland , would have been rather less unanimous than the bold statements of early August seemed to promise . |
| 17 | In a statement Mr Gould said Labour was committed to unitary authorities . |
| 18 | Consensus was of a rather passive kind and policy tended to rely on very general financial guidelines operated by the Bank of England and the Treasury ; financial aid to industry was confined to regional development aid . |
| 19 | It is harder to measure how far the campaigns of the civil wars affected the great mass of the population or the country 's internal economy , but the damage may not have been particularly great , as much of the fighting was confined to limited areas . |
| 20 | The preoccupation with violence was taken to absurd lengths in discussions of why disorder failed to reach its anticipated level . |
| 21 | The Air Force assigned 42–108777 to the Santa Maria Air Base where her two-seat capability was put to good use . |
| 22 | The rule had been amended so that nominations for the Committee were restricted to full male or female members of five years standing , and where ladies are concerned , were not to exceed in number the direct ratio to the numerical strength of their respective section . |
| 23 | They were highly skilled , exceptionally well paid , often drawn from non-peasant and non-worker backgrounds , and by the nature of their work were exposed to liberal literature and enjoyed a relatively close relationship with liberal intelligenty . |
| 24 | Repeated trials in patients with bleeding varices confirmed that the complications of medical management were related to recurrent bleeding whereas surgical treatment was followed by liver failure and encephalopathy . |
| 25 | Their place did not , however , become central to disputes about the essential nature of secondary education until the secondary schools themselves established under the Act were subjected to dramatic change ( see Chapter 6 ) . |
| 26 | Seeds from the faeces of three species of mammal were subjected to various light treatments and it was found that passage through two of them reduced the effectiveness with which exposure to far-red light overcame the effects of previous exposure to red light . |
| 27 | The reason for reducing capacity was attributed to long-term shifts in demand rather than recession-related factors . |
| 28 | The actual work was related to scientific observation , enquiry , recording as well as learning how to behave in a group . |
| 29 | After 1839 the number of staff gradually increased but for the first 20 years the work was confined to southern Britain , limited by the availability of Ordnance Survey maps . |
| 30 | For a while , landscape work was restricted to historical geography , where it produced , and continues to produce , a rich vein of national ( Hoskins , 1955 ) and regional ( Armstrong , 1975 ) descriptions of the evolution of landscape . |