Example sentences of "[noun] it was [verb] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An early aircraft it was returned to Boeing at Everett for structural testing to destruction on April 5 , 1988 and the Science Museum were lucky enough to secure a cross section , including the upper deck . |
| 2 | Mitsubishi confirmed in February it was talking to SGS , and the SGS spokeswoman said on Friday that talks were continuing.SGS-Thomson calculates the world Flash memory market at $300m last year , and expects it to grow to $500m this year and , fuelled by demand for small , light portable storage , to soar to $2,500m by 1996 . |
| 3 | With the McDevitt brothers filling the first two places it was left to Des Wilkinson and Les Coatup in fourth and seventh positions to give Wirral an easy win ahead of Sefton . |
| 4 | So after less than three years it was removed to Cleveland Lodge in Great Ayton which was the home of John Pease . |
| 5 | At the next race it was entrusted to Jo Bonnier , a likeable Swede who had won his one and only grand prix 10 years before . |
| 6 | Among the Celtic peoples of temperate Europe it was applied to La Tène bronze safety-pins and torcs as well as to prestige objects such as bronze wine flagons . |
| 7 | When Meissner exhibited the picture at the International Fine Art Dealers ' Fair in New York this past autumn it was shown to Jayne Wrightsman who reportedly disliked the picture because it ‘ was n't pretty enough ’ . |
| 8 | While the Odiham Society has earned and received its fair share of credit , it must be concluded that this modest proposal , so long in incubation , was likely even if put into effect , to have had only a marginal impact on the situation it was meant to remedy — as the society soon realised . |
| 9 | In the end it was left to Jose-Maria Canizares , the oldest man in either side , to secure the point which assured Europe of a tie , before the final four Americans on the course won their matches to produce just the second stalemate in a series stretching back to 1927 , and the first for 20 years . |
| 10 | But typical Mansell courage and skill took him past his arch rival … and with Patrasse in the pits it was left to Mansell to claim victory … only just though on a set of well worn and blistered tyres . |
| 11 | Or think back over some deep personal concern and the way it was brought to God in prayer . |
| 12 | During the 18th century it was leased to Walter Kyte , the actual miller being Thomas Kyte , possibly a son . |
| 13 | Last weekend it was offered to Eddy Shah , the former national newspaper proprietor , for £16m . |
| 14 | A tin of caviar but the label declared the produce to be herring , and as herring it was sold to Amsterdam before the transfer of the labels in Holland and entry to the shops of the European capitals . |
| 15 | On the day Wright , awash with goals since his £2.5 million move across London , came face to face with his former Crystal Palace colleagues it was left to Merson to emphasise that Arsenal are playing like champions a little too late to worry Manchester United and Leeds . |