Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [verb] [prep] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Jock ’ Norwell , Jim Pickering , Harry Ayre and ‘ Drac ’ Bowerman were flown from Luqa to Egypt in a Wellington piloted by newly-promoted and decorated Plt.Off . |
| 2 | Non-personal injury cases involving claims below £20,000 were identified for transfer to the county court and three extra Circuit judges sat in the High Court for three months to take Queen 's Bench cases . |
| 3 | Regular Army units were despatched from Turkmenia to help restore order . |
| 4 | Concentrations were derived by reference to a standard curve ( Behring Diagnostics ) . |
| 5 | Education , moreover , was tending to reduce those differences that still remained ; the proportion of children receiving their education through Russian was steadily increasing , and Russian-speaking Tatars were found in turn to be more favourably disposed towards internationality contact in their home and workplace . |
| 6 | Relative percentages of each transcript were estimated with reference to srRNA . |
| 7 | Between 1940 and 1944 some 76,000 Jews were deported from France to death camps ; 2,600 survived . |
| 8 | SIR — In early 1991 , about 15,000 Jews were airlifted from Ethiopia to Israel . |
| 9 | I am told that certainly parts of this guidance were cited in argument to the justices and it is apparent from the report of the guardian ad litem that sections were quoted from it . |
| 10 | Two crates containing 1,000 Garter snakes were shipped from Miami to London . |
| 11 | In 1930 , all four cars were sent in turn to Hendon , where in addition to being brought into line with No. 32 , they were rebuilt similar to the six ‘ M Type ’ cars ( which see ) . |
| 12 | In part , these relationships were secured by appeal to the historical method . |
| 13 | TWO lorry drivers were stung from head to foot by thousands of angry bees yesterday . |
| 14 | Since confidence ratings were obtained in addition to Yes/No responses it is possible to plot ROC curves for either subjects or stimuli and hence calculate separate measures of recognition sensitivity ( i.e. the ability of subjects to discriminate targets from distractors ) and response criterion bias ( i.e. the tendency to give particular types of response independently of any knowledge a subject has as to whether a film was a target or distractor ) . |
| 15 | Even so their contribution to the mechanisms whereby the new images were translated from theory to practice needs to be recognized . |
| 16 | Disaffected Cantarero supporters were considered by observers to be a danger to future constitutional order . |
| 17 | Even though reactionary voices were raised in opposition to this , both in Parliament and by some campaigners , ( particularly the National Schizophrenia Fellowship , who wished to reverse the policy on the basis of the misguided notion that this would remove the problem of homeless , drifting , mentally disordered people ) , the disasters of the past thirty years of unplanned discharge can not be reversed by bolting the stable door now . |
| 18 | The following memorandum was presented by Vial , and read by the secretary : ‘ When the Members of the Veterinary College were occupied by objects to which I was in no wise competent I was absolutely silent — but now that it is a question to chuse [ sic ] a convenient situation for the establishment of the College , I think it a duty incumbent on me to give my advice on this important point . |
| 19 | Although the commitment to religion was stressed from time to time , often in response to the charge of militarism , the CLB always seemed to emphasize matters of social discipline and conformity . |
| 20 | When the rabbit stock was reduced by myxomatosis to less than one per cent of what it had been , a number of warren systems inevitably became untenanted . |
| 21 | A story about the offender 's arrest nearly doubled the daily circulation of the New York Post In response to the public interest in the crimes , a deal was struck in respect to the rights to the story and a book produced . |
| 22 | Other prelates were to repeat his experience before our period ended , but significantly in each case , as in his , the murder was occasioned by service to the crown and not by defence of the church . |
| 23 | One seat was lost by UUUC to an independent in Fermanagh and South Tyrone as a consequence of an arrangement by which the anti-Unionist vote was not split between SDLP and Unity . |
| 24 | However , as the week long conference progressed , all opposition was dropped in preference to being outvoted . |
| 25 | An agent was despatched from London to Jersey to check on the dead activist Varienski 's daughter . |
| 26 | In his teens , with his father 's health deteriorating , Richard was taken to Hollywood to be his ‘ personal assistant ’ . |
| 27 | Some uncertainty was admitted in relation to those factors , and ways of studying the impact of such uncertainties were shown , but then it was assumed that the uncertainties themselves were reasonably structured such that rough probabilities of outcomes could be assigned . |
| 28 | The god of fertility , wine and drunkenness in Greek mythology , Dionysius was known as Bacchus to the Romans . |
| 29 | The programme was devised in response to feedback from the previous term 's courses on assertiveness and time management , which suggested that one day courses did not allow for adequate reflection on the issues , practice or follow up discussion . |
| 30 | Birth weight was analysed in relation to gestational age by the method of Bland et al . |