Example sentences of "[adj] was [verb] [adv prt] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When this was pointed out to the organisers , they replied : ‘ It is an unimportant section , it does not matter ’ . |
| 2 | This was hooked up to a DC-2031 cached IDE host adaptor with 2Mb of RAM . |
| 3 | When this was fed back to the operators , they were quickly able to see how their actions were contributing to the effluent and to make substantial reductions in the amount of ammonia leaving the plant . |
| 4 | He said : ‘ There were more than a dozen enquiries about the tender and this was whittled down to a list of six . |
| 5 | This was carried out to the design of William Butterfield and completed in 1848 . |
| 6 | This was put down to a ‘ Fichtesterben ’ , or progressive spruce death , but a year later it appeared in other species too , such as beech , oak and the mountain ash , and foresters grew alarmed . |
| 7 | This was passed on to the Bank but no action was taken — partly , says Bingham , because PW 's report did not convey its concerns ‘ in a blunt and unmistakable way ’ . |
| 8 | In the next room half of Beverly Hills High was freaking out to The Doors . |
| 9 | Here at Halling from 1820–30 , £80 5 7 was paid out to the poor at an average of 2/ per week . |
| 10 | The biggest crime of all was to go round to the front of house or into the street in ‘ full slap ’ , as stage make-up was called . |
| 11 | Mark Cameron ( 1987 ) came to believe , after studying these frescoes intensively , that the West Wing of the Knossos Labyrinth in particular was given over to a whole programme of initiation rites and ordeals . |
| 12 | ‘ I thought that that was barred off to the likes of me . ’ |
| 13 | He says we were told one of them was very badly deformed — but we were never told why — I wondered if that was put down to the tests . |
| 14 | James began construction of the large residential gatehouse or forework , called le dungeon , that was added on to the earlier gatehouse to provide a more fitting apartment for the Keeper — and also for the King , whenever he should visit . |
| 15 | Next morning the gale frustrated attempts to use fireships against those which had got into the Vilaine but , in attempting to evade its pursuers , the Soleil Royal was forced on to an offshore shoal and burned by her own crew . |