Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [adv prt] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or maybe a process of natural selection had winnowed out the overworked and discontented , the theoretical and jaded and left the few who were propelled back to the school by the same affection , curiosity and remembered enthusiasm that had drawn us . |
| 2 | Two boys were remanded in to the care of the local authority by Leeds youth court last night . |
| 3 | Naval vessels were also contributed by Belgium and Italy ( which both on Aug. 21 confirmed that minesweepers sent initially to the eastern Mediterranean were to proceed on to the Gulf ) ; Greece announced on Aug. 20 that a frigate would join the naval forces in the Gulf , and Spain made a similar announcement the following day . |
| 4 | If one of these groups were to go over to the other side — as the army did in Romania — the balance of forces would be altered . |
| 5 | Off you go , ’ and I gathered we were to go back to the beginning and start again . |
| 6 | Twenty-five per cent of decisions reviewed were changed , 57% were referred back to the local office and in 18% of cases the original decision was confirmed . |
| 7 | When process of care measures were reanalysed after excluding the 21 patients who were referred back to the hospital clinic other than through the prompting system , all process of care measures in table IV remained more frequent in the prompted subgroup ( n=65 prompted subjects ) . |
| 8 | The police soon banned these as offensive weapons , especially when steel spikes were welded on to the toecaps , and more subtle weapons had to be found . |
| 9 | To make the car secure , railway sleepers were built into the cliff edge and joints were welded on to the bottom of the vehicle , acting as hinges . |
| 10 | In 1986 , 38 students were enrolled on to the parallel track , but during the next academic year something unexpected happened . |
| 11 | As we were stepping on to the adjoining barge , the man on the bench called out to us . |
| 12 | Ray Angel put the final touches , adding echo and reverberation when the voices were relayed down to the studio floor . |
| 13 | Hungry hacks were flown out to the set to experience the four S's for themselves . |
| 14 | Two large boulders were rolled on to the road and they sat down to wait , guns at the ready . |
| 15 | Tremayne said nothing until we were driving back to the stable and then all he did was ask me if I were happy with what I 'd done . |
| 16 | Fig. 3 showed that the clones of RAP74 whose C-terminal sequences were deleted up to the 171th amino acid residue ( lanes 2,3 and 4 ) stimulated the CAT activity to the same extent as the wild type clone , but further deletion of the C-terminal sequence up to the 128th residue resulted in a complete loss of the CAT activity ( lane 5 ) . |
| 17 | There was scarcely any time for a cigarette before we were hustled over to the equipment store . |
| 18 | Debts were carried on to the next account ; there was certainly none of the easy attitude of the old 17th Century German masters who regularly wrote workers ' debts off . |
| 19 | The tower was off limits , after all , and someone was just ensuring that the Baron 's orders were carried out to the letter . |
| 20 | Emergency repairs were carried out to the hotel and houses , many of which had damaged roofs and broken windows , throughout yesterday . |
| 21 | In the ‘ rotunda ’ of Chicago Central of 1892–3 the main ribs of the vault were carried down to the floor . |
| 22 | The last two boxes were lifted on to the small boat , the men who strained under their weight cursing as they completed their task . |
| 23 | Then , when her legs were lifted on to the couch , the croak turned into a stilted scream as she cried , ‘ No ! |
| 24 | Then , my eyes were lifted up to the hill which overshadows the old city . |
| 25 | However if you were let in to the secret that x stands for the number 10 then you can work out this problem in the following way unc |
| 26 | Mrs Archer told her that apart from three vacant rooms ‘ for the tourism ’ , all the others were let off to the council , who put homeless people into them . |
| 27 | They were walking on to the long ridge they had been able to see from the cottage window . |
| 28 | At twenty past ten Sandison put his book away and sat back to watch the people who were walking down to the square . |
| 29 | Heinrich and Martha were walking back to the Reach hand in hand . |
| 30 | Cargoes were off-loaded on to the stone docks , and again they caught the sharp pungency of unknown spices . |