Example sentences of "was [vb pp] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In December word was leaked to American newspapers that the president had resolved to fight , if war was necessary , even if it meant destroying his chances of re-election . |
| 2 | Say was remanded to Royal Cornhill Hospital in Aberdeen and the case continued was without plea until Thursday . |
| 3 | The defence of pluralism , however , was aligned to professional scholarship rather than a clearly formulated politics of education . |
| 4 | This was particularly so in the area round Novgorod , where the dome was altered to Russian designs and climatic needs and established the characteristic Russian church skyline . |
| 5 | Warnie , though forty-one , was recalled to active service , given the rank of major , and sent to France , where he remained until the evacuation from Dunkirk . |
| 6 | He was recalled to active military duty in October 1914 . |
| 7 | The case was brought under the old law and it was alleged that the child in question was exposed to moral danger . |
| 8 | Afterwards , the exposed board is processed with a readily available developer which will wash away all the etch-resist that was exposed to UV light . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Recent work in which an adenoma cell line was exposed to chemical carcinogens has duplicated many of the in vivo genetic findings . |
| 11 | At this time also the surrounding country was exposed to periglacial activity . |
| 12 | When , with colleagues in the Department of Social Administration , I interviewed members of the divorcing population , they argued passionately that divorce was too easy ( or too difficult ) ; that everything was rushed through before they had time to think ( or that it dragged on interminably ) ; and that divorce should be morally neutral ( or that there should be an inquest in which every detail of their spouse 's despicable conduct was exposed to public view ) . |
| 13 | In practice , very few Romanians would have recognized Valentin Ceauşescu before his family was exposed to public denunciation after his parents ' fall . |
| 14 | In the meantime his lady was exposed to public gaze seated in her chair at a great open window . |
| 15 | I arrived expecting high rise hotels and crowded shores , instead I was treated to pretty villages built in honey coloured stone and fields of poppies . |
| 16 | When I arrived , I was treated to magnificent views of the Pyrenees in the distance , but was disappointed to find the church , which was the reason for the trek , was closed . |
| 17 | The spectrum of activity of nalidixic acid was limited to Gram-negative pathogens , it had an unfavourable pharmacokinetic profile , and resistance rapidly developed . |
| 18 | The jurisdiction of the new courts was limited to petty theft and assault , malicious damage to property , cattle trespass and the violation of rules made by local government in matters such as irrigation . |
| 19 | Her experience of men was limited to indifferent kisses from kind , sweet men who made no impact on her . |
| 20 | Violence in Kompong Cham was limited to occasional incidents of shelling near polling stations . |
| 21 | It must remain true , however , that this potentially valuable ability to obtain execution in rem was limited to certain cases . |
| 22 | Reverting for a moment to the last chapter , we saw that we could answer the question of how it is that subsequent generations could acquire the superego organization produced by the primal trauma of human civilization , but only is so far as our answer was limited to archaic hunting societies like those in central Australia . |
| 23 | The Cambridge Board also had its own resident tutor in the county even thus few opportunities for development were missed in the county even though thy LEAs support was limited to specific grant-aid for classes and courses provided by the district and the Cambridge Board . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Use of the oral contraceptive pill was associated with a small increase in risk that was limited to current users . |
| 26 | This claim , however , was limited to unmixed foil and the proceeds of the sale of unmixed foil . |
| 27 | The self-government of the knežina was limited to internal matters concerned with the Serbian peasantry . |
| 28 | This they generously explain by reference to limited research which focused on unique historical periods , was limited to middle class life , and was directed at individual experiences . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Crop husbandry was limited to basic subsistence and animal feed . |