Example sentences of "[coord] [was/were] [vb pp] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The failure to identify bed sharing as a risk factor in non-Maori children was probably due to the very small proportion of infants in this group who both shared a bed and were exposed to maternal smoking . |
| 2 | Bede tells the story that , so backward were the heathen South Saxons that although a maritime race , they did not know how to fish and were given to mass suicides from convenient cliffs when the corn harvest failed after a terrible drought . |
| 3 | A sizeable proportion of these cases were suspected arson and were related to increased business failure because of high interest rates . |
| 4 | ‘ So far , all the students who violated the criminal law during the anti-government disturbances in 1989 and were sentenced to different terms of imprisonment have been released , ’ the agency said . |
| 5 | In the spring of 1940 government work started on a large scale , but until then many skilled men became redundant and were transferred to private firms . |
| 6 | It has now been abolished , mainly because a number of middle-class children failed it and were sent to nonacademic schools . |
| 7 | Freames and Pitts Mills were in close proximity to one another and this , coupled with the fact that at various times they shared the same tenants and were put to similar uses , has caused a certain amount of confusion . |
| 8 | At an earlier hearing French air force deserter Anthony Bourgois pleaded guilty to false imprisonment and was sent to Fairmile secure hospital near Wallingford for reports into his mental state . |
| 9 | First the basic minimum was set at a very low level and was related to pre-war wages thus not reflecting the very steep increase in the prices of basic necessities . |
| 10 | He brushed with the same dead regard the face of the man his agents were still seeking in the matter of the Leicester treason , and Brother John gazed back at him earnestly and impartially , and was moved to distant pity . |
| 11 | As well as managing the township of Glen Duror , he was a leading shopkeeper in Appin , associated with smugglers , and was connected to colonial traders in Fort William by his marriage ( c .1725 ) to Margaret , sister of William Stewart , a merchant in Maryburgh . |
| 12 | Her privately published Photographs of British Algae : Cyanotype Impressions was issued regularly in parts between October 1843 and September 1853 , eventually incorporating more than 400 photographic plates , and was distributed to scientific friends and institutions . |
| 13 | There , in 1892 , he was found asleep and drunk on his beat , and was reduced to third-class constable and the fifteen rupees salary upon which he had started over twenty years earlier . |
| 14 | The child required and was used to cooked food . |
| 15 | The dogs were n't allowed on troopships but were entrusted to American Express to deliver to their owners once they had got home . |