The phrase "and were preselected to" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing individuals or groups that have been chosen in advance for a specific role or task.
Example: "The candidates were thoroughly evaluated and were preselected to participate in the final interview round."
Alternatives: "and were chosen to" or "and were selected to".
In addition, all other habitat factors (e.g. boulders, stand characteristics and deadwood) were taken into account and sites were preselected to be as similar as possible (see Additional file 1: Appendix 1).
Here, we analyze the genomes of ten patients with congenital disease who were preselected to carry complex chromosomal rearrangements with more than two breakpoints.
Houses were preselected to request a male or female to ensure a 1 1 sex ratio, and surveys were alternatively administered between the two sexes.
The patients in this study were preselected to the extent that they were able to receive vancomycin at home.
Four Lb. plantarum strains showing low antibiotic resistance index, antimicrobial activity against enterotoxigenic Staphylococcus aureus and Listeria innocua stains, amine-negative decarboxylase activity, and resistance to NaCl and bile salt solutions, could be preselected to complete studies focused on designing a culture for use in pasteurized-milk Oaxaca cheese manufacturing.
In this connection, it is worth noting that the MOOC explosion came out of two of the most prestigious private universities in the world, Stanford and MIT, where the incoming raw material is preselected to be of the highest quality on the planet!
Thomson had been preselected to widen Labor's reach and she had been travelling the countryside talking up Labor's commitment for two years.
When Matt Keogh was preselected to stand for Labor in the hotly contested byelection for the seat of Canning, near Perth, Western Australia, he was dismissively described by the foreign minister, Julie Bishop, as "the hipster Labor lawyer".
Candidate layups, which can be symmetric, anti-symmetric or non-symmetric, are preselected to exhibit no elastic coupling response, with manufacturing rules applied.
Even when tumours are preselected to be antigen positive, only a minority of patients respond to mAb therapy.
