Example sentences of "it [was/were] [vb pp] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fifty pounds a week could benefit the whole school , if it were put to other uses . ’ |
| 2 | As young men the members of it were apprenticed to practised warriors , taught the profession of arms ; even as children they learned to follow the chase , to hunt boar and stag and wolf , not to mention all the lesser game of the forest ; they learned how to handle and appraise a hawk ; and in the evenings , in their father 's halls , or in the halls of other great lords to whom they had been sent to learn their profession , they listened to the minstrels singing songs of knightly prowess . |
| 3 | Yet , like the Christian cross , the sacral horns were used in a general symbolic way , and it may be that the Labyrinth was , as a whole , dedicated to Poteidan even though individual sanctuaries and shrines within it were dedicated to other deities , in much the same way that within a cathedral there may be chapels dedicated to a variety of Christian saints . |
| 4 | He says music was not a performing art : it was connected to everyday events , to births and deaths , a new house , or a departure . |
| 5 | Part of his spare time was taken up with the marching band of the university , but much of it was given to boisterous evenings drinking and singing with his companion — always with a view to winning the girls ' eyes and hearts . |
| 6 | But as a political shibboleth it was raised to all-powerful heights and was used as a battering-ram to silence any suggestion by anybody that one might ever spend more on anything even if the aim of spending more immediately was to spend less later . |
| 7 | It was said to small children and maybe a young man would say it to his lass but always implied affection of something young and tender . |
| 8 | RD users include Chris Novoselic of Nirvana and the Mission 's Craig Adams , to whom this particular specimen belongs , and on whose early tours and recordings it was used to great effect , before it was trashed at a gig in 1987 . |
| 9 | Apparently it was circulated to senior managers in East Sussex on 1 April . |
| 10 | The Faithful Foundation has declined to explain or clarify its statement.But if it was designed to wrong foot protesters they 've failed . |
| 11 | The Nationwide Building Society felt that they could not increase their investment because it was linked to unchanged valuations and therefore the new ratio of public to private funds had to be higher than before , even though the housing association was prepared to invest some of its own resources . |
| 12 | A point to emphasize is that in each case the material was obtained from natural sources distant and sometimes remote from the places where it was put to social use . |
| 13 | In the recent past Bolivia was under the rule of military juntas almost continuously between 1964 and 1982 , when it was returned to civilian rule under President Hernán Siles Zuazo . |
| 14 | Under the latter system arable land was put under grass for a long period after which it was returned to arable . |
| 15 | It was submitted to SOED as one of the inputs to its selection of research priorities for 1993 . |
| 16 | The argument that it was confined to physical obstruction and threats was rejected in Bastable v. Little . |
| 17 | It did n't seem much on its own but , when it was added to other suggested improvements , it could mean that each operator could put four parts on to each car in the same time . ’ |
| 18 | Hence it was reduced to relative impotence when the radicalism of the French Revolution strengthened the forces of resistance in the government itself . |
| 19 | Then the bureau became embroiled in the Watergate affair and between 1973 and 1976 it was subjected to unprecedented investigation which revealed the full extent of its post-war activities and the dangers inherent in unchecked police bureaucracies . |
| 20 | It was translated to Russian and became a popular minicomputer product in the former Soviet Union , where more than 600 mid-range machines have been operating Pick-based applications for the past 10 years . |
| 21 | In addition , though the party offered its electorate little it was committed to moral ideas and personal liberation to such an extent that it excited passionate enthusiasms . |
| 22 | It was left to Western businessmen to manufacture CCCP T-shirts which ended up on the Soviet black market , an acute case of carrying coals to Newcastle . |
| 23 | It was left to other more prominent and vocal members of the Labour party to stir up people 's fears with irrelevant and inaccurate claims about the consequences . |
| 24 | Possibly the deaths of the Chancellor and the Treasurer undermined the confidence of the King 's surviving ministers , and it was left to other loyalists to act on their own initiative . |
| 25 | But it was left to young Joey to fill the manor 's big top with cheers as he raced away to make it 3-0 . |
| 26 | During the first two weeks , it was left to Labour to make the running with its castigation of the ‘ Tories ’ 13 wasted years ’ , and without being challenged on its own appalling record , when last in office . |
| 27 | Now it was left to Indian and Pakistani seamstresses . |
| 28 | Boldness triumphed and they moved on towards Perth after sending a detachment of the Camerons to try to capture the fortified barracks at Ruthven , where it was left to stalwart Sergeant Molloy of Guise 's Regiment to give them their first rebuff . |
| 29 | It was left to subsequent decisions to extend the application of the rules still further to those decisions which did not affect a person 's legal rights but regulated the grant of a privilege , etc . |