Example sentences of "[noun] was [adv] [verb] to [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | O'Rourke was commonly referred to as the weatherman , which he was n't at all . |
| 2 | From 1968 onwards Nicaragua was repeatedly referred to in the Reports of the Court to the General Assembly as a State that had accepted the compulsory jurisdiction of the Court , and the United Nations Secretariat had made similar listings . |
| 3 | Although I have read only a summary of the one-day debate and not the full text of all the speeches , I believe that my impression is correct that the British hesitation over the two key areas was hardly referred to at all . |
| 4 | In Bedfordshire , the earlier agreement over the Board 's assumption of providing powers for Chapter III courses in the rural areas was undeviatingly adhered to by Plaskitt , the university 's resident tutor . |
| 5 | This was later named South Vein and the level driven off along it in both directions was often referred to as South Vein Day Level . |
| 6 | Hepatitis B was formerly referred to as ‘ serum hepatitis ’ because percutaneous exposure to contaminated blood has long been recognized as a major mode of transmission ; and cases of hepatitis B from blood transfusion , needlesticks , and sharing contaminated needles among drug abusers have been well documented . |
| 7 | Spinsterhood was often referred to as ‘ failure in business ’ in middle class households , leading Cicely Hamilton to write bitterly about ‘ marriage as a trade ’ in 1909 . |
| 8 | The value of tolls levied in the duchy was specifically alluded to in a memorandum of 1294 : the French had occupied the duchy , had seisin of péages and rents in Aquitaine , and therefore controlled most of it . |
| 9 | The definition of ‘ consecutive ’ or ‘ non-selected ’ asthmatics was strictly adhered to by excluding from the study all those referred for investigation because of gastrointestinal signs or symptoms . |
| 10 | The establishment of an interstate bank to co-ordinate fiscal policy in the rouble zone was also agreed to in principle by six member states — Byelarus , Russia , Kirgizstan , Uzbekistan , Kazakhstan and Armenia . |
| 11 | In the 1930s this zone was variously referred to as the ‘ axial belt ’ , even the ‘ coffin' , though in truth there was always a low-density gap between London and Birmingham , so perhaps ‘ doughnut ’ would have been more appropriate . |
| 12 | When Leonard Aldous started in the harness-maker 's shop the business was often referred to by a different name . |
| 13 | When first introduced into Europe in the 14th century , sugar was reverently referred to as ‘ white gold ’ , and commanded a market price equal to that of silver . |
| 14 | The Soviet Union decided to endorse the expulsion of Escalante : Castro was henceforth referred to as ‘ comrade ’ and Cuba 's place in the Soviet bloc was officially acknowledged when it was listed along with the other ’ socialist' states in the traditional May Day slogans . |
| 15 | For years , the Clow surcharge was misleadingly referred to by electrical enthusiasts as proof that demand for electricity at peak times was completely inelastic within the relevant price ranges . |
| 16 | This clause was expressly agreed to by the shipper-consignor and the carrier at the moment of issuance of the CKR and to be effective had to be noted in the original or master bill of lading . |
| 17 | Enoch Powell , who although no longer a Tory MP was closely listened to on the Conservative side , recalled that Margaret Thatcher had been called the ‘ Iron Lady ’ and rather liked the description . |
| 18 | The two-tier principle was strictly adhered to in the 1972 Act even when there seemed little justification for it in particular circumstances . |
| 19 | His screen creation was often referred to as ‘ the tramp ’ but as Sobel and Francis have suggested the use of this term is as misleading as to call Chaplin ‘ proletarian ’ . |
| 20 | Mr George Henry Quarry , a Belfast solicitor was then applied to for some land at the top of Carrickblacker Road but initially there was no response from him and other possible sites investigated were some ground opposite where James 's Street now stands and land behind where the little Roman Catholic church was later built ( now Pritchard 's Motors ) and near the site of Edenderry Orange Hall . |
| 21 | Bonn was contemptuously referred to as the ‘ capital village ’ . |
| 22 | Thus the Communists and the Nazis had a common interest in the destruction of the Social Democrats and this fact was frequently referred to by the Labour Party and the TUC in the early 1930s as a reason for opposing both movements with equal vigour . |
| 23 | Husameddin 's argument , moreover , ignores the facts that Shams al-Din is known to have been part of Molla Fenari 's name but not , so far as can be discovered , of that of his son and that the son was regularly referred to as Mehmed Sah whereas it is not known that Molla Fenari ever was . |