Example sentences of "were [vb pp] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 1975 ) analysed the data collected in their experiment with a view to seeing whether more accurate responses were given to verbal questions which were followed by eye movements to the right than to verbal questions eliciting leftward eye movements . |
| 2 | Extra funds were given to agricultural production , food subsidies , and housing for armed forces personnel . |
| 3 | His wives were given to other men . |
| 4 | These were introduced into Persia and Anatolia in the late 19th century , but proved to be totally unsuitable for rug yarns , producing rather crude colours that were given to rapid fading . |
| 5 | The power generators have argued that the price rises came about when subsidies were given to large firms , which added to the domestic power bills . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ There are probably a great many parks and recreation grounds that were given to local authorities by local benefactors or acquired by public subscription where the wording in the deeds implies that there is a charitable trust . |
| 8 | New powers for speedy land assembly , for plan making and the control of development were given to local authorities , consummated subsequently in the Town and Country Planning Act . |
| 9 | Some Italian cities were given to Frankish counts in the usual manner , and a garrison was left at Pavia . |
| 10 | The ‘ Bureau for Explaining Population Policies ’ was set up to popularise large families and medals were given to prolific mothers . |
| 11 | Many Puritans were given to extreme introspection , and regularly committed their innermost thoughts to paper in the diaries and memoirs which they used as spiritual account books . |
| 12 | The Gods were banished to high places , men were re-created a good deal smaller , and much of the old wild magic was sucked out of the earth . |
| 13 | John Barton , the Islands ' Director of Fisheries , agreed to participate provided that negotiations were limited to technical matters ( such as the conservation of squid stocks ) and did not touch on areas of sovereignty over the Falklands or the resumption of direct links with the Argentinian mainland . |
| 14 | Meanwhile in a speech to the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants Sir Adrian Cadbury said the view among some critics that his committee 's proposals on non-executive directors were divisive for boards stemmed from a misunderstanding of its terms of reference which were limited to financial aspects and did not touch on the wider responsibility of all directors for general governance . |
| 15 | Consciousness of this fact , plus a desire to court moderate Republican opinion , ensured that early rebel pronouncements were limited to vague calls for the prevention of left-wing revolution , the maintenance of national unity and the restoration of authority ; beyond that it remained unclear whether the rising , if successful , would produce a conservative , more authoritarian republic , a monarchist restoration , a military dictatorship or perhaps even an out-and-out fascist state . |
| 16 | Thus , from 1930–31 , the District 's providing powers in Bedfordshire were limited to urban areas and the Cambridge Board assumed Chapter III powers in those rural areas which had been included in Shearman 's territory between 1927–30 . |
| 17 | ( Previously , the criteria were limited to urban and scenic routes . ) |
| 18 | Several ‘ source node names ’ were prefixed to other ‘ source node names ’ . |
| 19 | We were treated to splendid views of distant mountains and farms scattered among an open rocky landscape . |
| 20 | And in some cases they were referred to mental-health professionals like us . |
| 21 | Ory and his deputy , Gen. Gustave Houphouët Koassi , were assigned to other unspecified duties . |
| 22 | Unsocial crafts , such as butchering and tanning , were assigned to particular quarters , and those with a high fire risk , pottery-making or blacksmith work , were excluded from the more densely populated areas ( 90 , pp.47–8 ) . |
| 23 | However , in the presence of NCp7 and RT , much higher levels of cDNA were produced ( lanes 7–12 ) and 3–5 additional bands were seen when the products were exposed to UV . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The requirement for higher concentrations to disrupt pancreatic lysosomes may reflect the fact that , in an in vitro system , the period of incubation of isolated lysosomes with cholesteryl ester is necessarily limited ( 30 minutes in our study ) whereas in the previous in vivo study , lysosomes were exposed to increased levels of cholesteryl esters for a much longer period ( up to four weeks ) . |
| 26 | All vaccines transported by the district transport service , which does not use refrigerators and is not provided with cool boxes , were exposed to excessive temperatures . |
| 27 | New technology has increased dust and noise levels , and current dust levels suggest that one in 20 miners may develop lung damage after a lifetime 's exposure , and four-fifths according to a British Coal survey in 1983 were exposed to damaging levels of noise . |
| 28 | But it soon became evident that there were many kinds of interferon , all produced when cells were exposed to particular viruses but varying in their exact nature according to the cells which produced them and the species of animal from which the cells originated . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Such theories were exposed to obvious practical objections . |