Example sentences of "[noun] were [verb] [prep] [noun prp] 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 | Between 1940 and 1944 some 76,000 Jews were deported from France to death camps ; 2,600 survived . |
| 3 | SIR — In early 1991 , about 15,000 Jews were airlifted from Ethiopia to Israel . |
| 4 | Two crates containing 1,000 Garter snakes were shipped from Miami to London . |
| 5 | However , on Jan. 17 Iran released 53 sick and wounded Iraqi PoWs , 50 of whom were returned to Iraq ( the remaining three seeking political asylum in Iran ) , and on Jan. 18 , 20 sick and wounded Iranian PoWs were returned by Iraq to Iran . |
| 6 | Between 1975-85 , 82 sea eagles were imported from Norway to be reintroduced into Scotland . |
| 7 | On March 4 representatives of the major domestic companies were summoned by Suharto to a special audience where he strongly reiterated his proposals . |
| 8 | The first appointments were made in January to a new Cabinet of Ministers , created as part of the restructuring of the senior government leadership approved in December . |
| 9 | The 114 deputies who had supported the independence move were understood in August to be facing possible criminal charges , together with all those who had struck in their support . |
| 10 | Away from Mogadishu , aid workers were reported by mid-December to be urging the US forces to speed up their arrival and there were reports of continuing attacks on aid centres and workers by armed looters . |
| 11 | Wright and Richmond were recommended by Collinson to Bartram as being the most reliable , and were sometimes asked to convey zoological cargo ; live squirrels , red-birds and terrapins for Lord Petre or insects mounted in a cork-lined box for Dr Fothergill . |
| 12 | Between 1979 and 1983 very large advances were made by B.M.F.L. to Carrian . |
| 13 | He and Tasker were chosen by Bonington to be members of the 1982 British Everest Expedition , and shortly before he left Leysin he wrote for the Parents ' Association Newsletter an account of his schooldays , affectionately remembered : |
| 14 | In 1914 batteries of these weapons were lent by Austria to Germany 's right-wing armies to reduce the Belgian fortress-cities . |
| 15 | The waters were layered from October to May while ice was present , with temperatures close to freezing point near the surface but at 1–1.25°C near the bottom in 26 m . |
| 16 | It would appear that , separately from the files referred to in the correspondence in December 1990 , a substantial quantity of further files were moved from London to [ a Middle East state ] . |
| 17 | Over more than 60 years , an estimated 150,000 children including some from Merseyside were shipped from Britain to distant parts of the Empire . |
| 18 | Our observations of the maser emission were made from January to June 1992 with the Nobeyana 45-m telescope . |
| 19 | Such measures as quotas or licensing arrangements were allowed by GATT to a developing country running into balance of payments problems . |
| 20 | This offer was not accepted , the three weeks expired and instructions were given by GFT to their company solicitors to commence winding-up proceedings . |
| 21 | In 1670 Colbert , the greatest of all the finance ministers of Louis XIV , organised the despatch to the Turkish capital of a number of very young French boys for the same purpose , while Greek Christian youths were brought to Paris to be educated in the Collège de Louis-le-Grand . |
| 22 | Evidently the need to furnish an emerging capital with prestigious works of art remained important throughout antiquity and indeed in more recent times : Rome lost much , though temporarily , from Napoleon 's ambitious plans for embellishing Paris with famous works of art , and during the Second World War many artistic works were transported from Italy to Germany . |
| 23 | After successive allegations by Sierra Leone in late March and early April that Taylor 's forces had raided Sierra Leonean villages , killing numbers of civilians , Sierra Leonean forces were reported by mid-April to be operating inside Liberian territory held by the NPFL , while NPFL troops with heavy weapons were said to be advancing into Sierra Leone , both sides claiming successes . |
| 24 | Twenty flamingoes were shipped from Tanzania to London , on arrival three were dead , the other 17 had suffered multiple wounds to legs and wings from tight , non-elastic straps . |
| 25 | South Korea required support and the combination of the United States and Japan was important : the Americans were committed to Japan to an extent not applicable to South Korea and the South Korean aim was to draw the Americans in further . |
| 26 | The terrifying near miss took place 4,500 ft above RAF Waddington , Lincs , as the riders were flying from Newbury to York races . |
| 27 | Insights that a modern chemist might attribute to serendipity were ascribed by Boyle to ‘ pregnant hints ’ received from a greater chemist than he . |
| 28 | The children were taken from Orkney to mainland Scotland under Place of Safety orders . |
| 29 | When the first 120 miles of the East India Railway were opened from Calcutta to Raniganj in 1855 , the ceremony took place at Burdwan station , a long classical structure 66 miles from Calcutta . |
| 30 | Exports worth up to £0.5m. a year in the late seventeenth century were taken from India to England , often for re-export to the rest of the world , and this trade determined the flow of dividends . |