Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [noun] [prep] [noun] to " in BNC.
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1 | Demand management had been given priority in preference to profitable or productive work . |
2 | The weekend of November 7/8 , will be a busy one for the SRPS as the Society 's railtour train will be hauled north by diesel to Fort William on Saturday , November 7 to return behind K-1 No. 2005 , later in the day , ( for a booking form send 9 × 4 SAE to : ) . |
3 | Under each month could be found directions for work to be done in the kitchen garden with notes on its produce , the pleasure or flower garden with plants then in flower , and the greenhouse and stove with their plants in bloom . |
4 | Local projects to benefit include the Alton Sports and Social Club who will receive £1,000 towards extensions to the Harry Baker pavilion ; Medstead Parish Council , who have been awarded £1,500 towards extensions to the village sports pavilion ; and Old Alresford Cricket Club , who have been given £100 to upgrade windows in their pavilion . |
5 | Resellers are being given rebates of $1,000 to $4,000 a hit depending on the System 3000 configuration . |
6 | On 28 June , before any request had been received from the ruler , Centaur and Bulwark were sailed for the Gulf ; the Amphibious Squadron left Bahrein for Kuwait with instructions to stay out of sight of land ; the Hunters and Shackletons were flown north from Aden to Bahrein ; a Canberra squadron was sent from Germany to Bahrein as well ; and 24th Brigade was alerted in Kenya and preparations were made to fly it to Kuwait in chartered civil aircraft . |
7 | Participating countries were allocated SDRs in proportion to their quotas , these allocations being known as their ‘ net cumulative allocations ’ . |
8 | As the ability of the state to mould popular consensus diminishes , so the argument goes , the method by which hegemony is achieved moves from consent to coercion . |
9 | They share the large pool with bar at the Giordano , where discos and pizza parties are held end of July to mid-Sept . |
10 | He was given instructions to taxi to the holding point for runway 26 and subsequently took off normally at 1202 hrs . |
11 | The firm was fined £800 in addition to compensation and costs . |
12 | The next couple of hours passed in a whirl of activity as was followed Yvonne from ward to ward receiving warm welcomes everywhere we went . |
13 | Former West Indies captain Clive Lloyd was appointed CBE for services to cricket and for public service in Lancashire . |
14 | In 1951 he received the Godman Salvin medal of the British Ornithologists ' Union , and in 1957 was appointed CBE for services to ornithology . |
15 | In a further change , Salif Diallo , the ODP — MT political secretary , was appointed Secretary of State to the Presidency . |
16 | In 1715 he was appointed master of mechanics to King George I , and gave up his retail shop to concentrate on public duties and regular corporate customers . |
17 | He applied unsuccessfully for the chair of technology at Edinburgh , and in 1862 was appointed keeper of minerals to the Royal Dublin Society , His meteorological output was confined to the translation of Dove 's book but in 1866 he was approached by his intimate friend ( Sir ) Edward Sabine [ q.v. ] , then at the height of his influence as president of the Royal Society and prospective chairman of the new meteorological committee , and was offered the directorship of the Meteorological Office . |
18 | Shortly afterwards , Harrison was recalled to Rochester Row and was appointed Adviser in VD to the War Office . |
19 | It is a revelation of how Cubism was taken east from Paris to Bohemia , the industrial heartland of Franz-Joseph 's empire , and adapted to the design of buildings , furniture and household goods which were actually built and made , not left at the visionary stage . |
20 | Beigbeder was elected Chairman in succession to Brooke in 1979 and Thomas Neff , then manager of the New York office , became Chief Executive . |
21 | On 2 March 1939 Pacelli was elected pope in succession to Pius XI in the shortest conclave there had been since 1623 . |
22 | there is Suzannah the whore in biblical legend and the prostitute who models as Suzannah , their stories parallel with that of Artemesia who because she was raped changes from virgin to whore all three were exploited and abused by men . |