Example sentences of "[noun] was [verb] [to-vb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obviously , no stranger was allowed to approach them after a performance , and certainly no gifts were to be accepted . |
| 2 | On that Sunday evening Lady Eleanor was instructed to meet them outside the Galilee Gate . |
| 3 | A more open mind was required to discover which of the many possible patterns God had actually chosen to instantiate . |
| 4 | But then Richard was persuaded to release him by Alfonso II , King of Aragon ( 1162–96 ) . |
| 5 | Significantly , however , this ritual was not allowed to take place within the sacred precincts : the animal was burned whole ‘ outside the camp ’ , its blood was not offered at the altar but burned along with the carcass , and the officiating priest was required to cleanse himself after the sacrifice . |
| 6 | More weather rail weight was needed to keep her on her feet . |
| 7 | Having obtained a fairly comprehensive view of the farm situation in Great Britain as it relates to training an attempt was made to compare it with the position in Europe . |
| 8 | An attempt was made to accommodate them by founding a Marxist League , of Socialists and PVO . |
| 9 | However , what is most interesting is that a deliberate attempt was made to sell it as a concept rather than as what might have hitherto been seen as a package of infrastructural measures . |
| 10 | Nevertheless it was used in the early aeroplanes and an attempt was made to protect it by binding the joints with varnished tape which was never very effectual . |
| 11 | Pablo Escobar , the leader of the Medellín drug cartel , escaped from La Catedral prison in Envigado , a few kilometres from Medellín , on July 22 as an attempt was made to transfer him to an army barracks . |
| 12 | These contributions are not shown in official statistics of educational expenditure , but in 1990 an attempt was made to quantify them by the Mail on Sunday , which commissioned a survey of a representative sample of primary schools by the National Foundation for Educational Research . |
| 13 | However , there was concern for the two survivors aboard the lifeboat , who were severely seasick , and an attempt was made to land them at St Abbs . |
| 14 | How could the working class make effective use of the political power which the vote was expected to give them without the opportunity to engage in an open discussion of political principle and perspectives ? |
| 15 | Ramsey was asked to meet him at dinner in Magdalene before the meeting and to second the vote of thanks in the Guildhall . |
| 16 | Even more puzzling is why , throughout the five and a half years Blake was in Wormwood Scrubs , no action was taken to move him to a more secure establishment . |
| 17 | The Vice-Chairman was unable to fill the vacant position so an interim administration was formed to take us to the next assembly . |
| 18 | The lifeboat crew took the victim to Tees Dock , where an ambulance was waiting to rush him to Middlesbrough General Hospital . |
| 19 | The doctor came within the half-hour , and spent some time with Rebecca before deciding that an ambulance was needed to take her to the Marshes . |
| 20 | Sun was expected to display it at PC Expo this summer but Snoopy has never been seen except behind closed doors . |
| 21 | He could feel the vibrations in his bones ; juddering the cradle he was strapped into , making him think for a moment that the tiny vehicle was going to shake itself to pieces . |
| 22 | And no nasty dream was going to spoil it for her . |
| 23 | Ted Heath was sent to inform me of the result . |
| 24 | Unconsciously perhaps Jeanne was seeking to free herself from her narrow and oppressively respectable bourgeois family . |
| 25 | Housing benefit was altered to bring it in line with these other two benefits . |
| 26 | Mr Reynolds was encouraged to take plenty of fluids orally ( up to litres per day ) including nourishing substances and to gradually increase his diet until it was equivalent to his usual intake at home . |
| 27 | Nigel was determined to have none of that during the next Parliament . |
| 28 | After 1945 , the committee was allowed to divide itself into subcommittees , it gave up scrutinizing the estimates in detail and began to look at the way money was being spent in selected fields and how far government policy was being achieved . |
| 29 | The Act was destined to become something of a cause célèbre among successive generations of floggers who would fondly remember ( although without a shred of evidence to support their claim ) how flogging had put down the garotters and could be relied upon to stop Hooligans or Teddy Boys . |
| 30 | The Queen was forced to strip him of it 13 years later . |