Example sentences of "[noun] was [vb pp] [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The search was extended west to Rookhope , near Stanhope , and the RAF Rescue Co-ordination Centre sent a Sea King helicopter from RAF Boulmer in Northumberland . |
| 2 | While travelling on the mainland of South America , Darwin was brought face to face with the conflict that was under way between the European settlers and the native Indians . |
| 3 | The Commons inquiry was denied access to intelligence sources , and its report was published despite the many questions it said were still unanswered . |
| 4 | ‘ When de Craon was refused entry to Godstowe , he came here and offered you money : gold and silver for your church and parishioners . |
| 5 | After a spell in private practice , Vial was made equerry to Louis XVI and chef de manège of the Lyons riding academy , a post he apparently held for some years , but could not retain . |
| 6 | Santa Clara , California-based SynOptics Communications Inc has cut prices on its LattisNet family of Fibre Distributed Data Interface intelligent hubs , saying the cuts were made possible by lower component costs and better manufacturing efficiencies — the 2000 FDDI Workgroup Hubs were reduced immediately , with the 2912A with 12 shielded twisted pair master ports and two fibre optic A/B ports reduced by 36 to $10,000 , or $714 per port ; the Model 3904 FDDI Fiber Optic Host Module was cut 27% to $5,500 and the 3910S-04 FDDI Network Management Module was cut 33% to $10,000 . |
| 7 | Santa Clara , California-based SynOptics Communications Inc has cut prices on its LattisNet family of Fibre Distributed Data Interface intelligent hubs , saying the cuts were made possible by lower component costs and better manufacturing efficiencies — the 2000 FDDI Workgroup Hubs were reduced immediately , with the 2912A with 12 shielded twisted pair master ports and two fibre optic A/B ports reduced by 36 to $10,000 , or $714 per port ; the Model 3904 FDDI Fiber Optic Host Module was cut 27% to $5,500 and the 3910S-04 FDDI Network Management Module was cut 33% to $10,000 . |
| 8 | The row began in 1985 when Mr Phillips was granted permission to resite the gates at the entrance to the mile-long lime avenue nearer to the house . |
| 9 | The fifth case belonged to a different category : a gentleman named Thomas Arundell was given leave to demise a tenement and three yardlands which he presumably treated as an investment . |
| 10 | In 1792 , however , Lewis was elected surveyor to Christ 's Hospital and in the following year he was appointed to the corresponding post at the Bridewell and Bethlehem Hospitals ; and from then on these institutional responsibilities appear to have formed the principal element in his career . |
| 11 | The government 's white paper on the subject was entitled Roads to Prosperity and the then Transport Secretary , Paul Channon , proclaimed , ‘ I will not allow Britain 's first-rate businesses to be disadvantaged by a second-rate road network . |
| 12 | But these were not just facsimiles of Big Ted and Little Ted , no : this time Hamble was dressed head to toe in leather astride a miniature Harley Davidson . |
| 13 | In 1820 Stutchbury was appointed assistant to William Clift [ q.v. ] , conservator of the Hunterian museum of the Royal College of Surgeons . |
| 14 | In 1901 he became an assistant in the clinical laboratory at St Thomas 's Hospital and in December that year was appointed assistant to William Bulloch , bacteriologist at the London Hospital , Whitechapel . |
| 15 | Norwich and Cambridge were reached ; Clydeside 's £85million showpiece was completed with the linking up of Largs and Ardrossan Harbour to the main Ayrshire system ; and the Great Northern system was extended north to Huntingdon and Peterborough . |
| 16 | This time discipline won and Hughie Gallacher was transferred south to Chelsea . |
| 17 | In 1864 , three years after the prince consort 's death , Brown was brought south to Osborne as her groom to give the secluded widow more riding exercise . |
| 18 | In 1976 Huan was made ambassador to Belgium and to the European Communities , and in 1979 became vice-president of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences . |
| 19 | This deal provided GM with the entry to the luxury car market that it had sought — Saab was promised access to GM 's resources and dealership network . |
| 20 | The driver told the court the break was so serious his arm was turned back to front . |
| 21 | On Feb. 18 Sheikh Hasan Nasrallah was appointed successor to Musawi . |
| 22 | The word ‘ mass ’ was no longer used , vestments were forbidden , and the communion table was positioned east to west rather than altarwise . |