Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] transferred to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gibraltar and Minorca remained in British hands throughout the war , and were formally transferred to Britain by the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713 . |
| 2 | As can be seen , approximately two-thirds went into hospital ( though , particularly in Ipswich , some of them were later transferred to an old people 's home ) . |
| 3 | Apart from the Germans and White Russians ( the Schutzkorps ) who were later transferred to other camps , the main contingents at Viktring comprised units of the Slovene Home Guard ( Domobranci ) , under Gen Krenner ( approx 13,000 including camp followers ) , three regiments of Serbian Volunteers ( approx 4,000 ) plus a smaller number of Montenegrin Royalist ( Chetnik ) troops , Croats and several thousand Slovene and other civilian refugees from various parts of Yugoslavia . |
| 4 | The Severum had previously outgrown his siblings very rapidly and had shown no hint of aggression except for eating three Halfbeaks which were temporarily transferred to his tank . |
| 5 | The ex-London United cars which had been working on the Croydon — Mitcham route were now transferred to the Sutton route , to work alongside the J type cars ( 1s-16s ) , four of which were withdrawn and sent to Brixton Hill . |
| 6 | A corduroy pair in livid crimson , they are horrid to behold but a joy to paint , and were immediately transferred to the canvas . |
| 7 | All the fish were immediately transferred to it . |
| 8 | Those admitted to Holland were immediately transferred to a camp surrounded by barbed wire and guard dogs . |
| 9 | The paired hepatic and gall bladder bile samples thus collected were immediately transferred to the laboratory in sterile brown test tubes kept at 37°C . |
| 10 | In November 1985 North shipped out of America two Boeing 707-loads of Hawk anti-aircraft missiles , ostensibly for Israel although by now the pretence was wearing thin and they were simply transferred to Israeli cargo aircraft and flown straight on to Iran . |
| 11 | Although a number of companies were privatised ( some were fully transferred to the private sector , whereas in other cases only a partial stake was sold ) , the scale of the programme and the sums of money raised were relatively small when compared to privatisation during the second and third terms . |
| 12 | During the 1950s , and by the 1960s packages had been designed in the United States , which were then transferred to the very different physical and social conditions of the Third World . |
| 13 | We were then transferred to the Gendarmerie Royale , we stayed for one year in a prison camp in Rabat , then four and a half years at the headquarters of the Gendarmerie in Rabat , our hands tied day and night from 13 July , 1975 to 19 December , 1979 . |
| 14 | The survivors were then transferred to one of the helicopters at 2015 and both then left . |
| 15 | On Dec. 27 Vice-President Aleksandr Rutskoi was removed from the chairmanship of five state committees which were then transferred to the jurisdiction of the government . |
| 16 | They were then transferred to solitary confinement . |
| 17 | For ribotyping , the gels were then transferred to nylon membranes by means of vacublotting . |
| 18 | According to a slightly modified method described by Deschner and Lipkin , the mucosal fragments were then transferred to sterile septum fitted vials containing 2 ml of Eagle 's basic salt solution supplemented with 10% calf serum ( GIBCO , Paisley , Scotland ) and 5 µCi H-thymidine/ml ( specific activity , 25 Ci/mmol ) ( Amersham , Buckinghamshire , UK ) . |
| 19 | The three men were then transferred to Constantinople . |
| 20 | He suggested that I spoke to the department that approved aircraft radio equipment , and I was duly transferred to that department . |
| 21 | Starting as a mess orderly , Lore was eventually transferred to North Wales . |
| 22 | Control of the lives of accused prostitutes did not end with the repeal of the Acts ; it was merely transferred to new agencies , often with similar personnel to those who had enforced the Contagious Diseases Acts . |
| 23 | He left for the Somme at the end of December and was soon transferred to the 2nd Manchesters . |
| 24 | He arrived at Homestead Air Force Base in Florida in the early hours of Jan. 4 , and was finally transferred to a cell in the basement of the Miami federal courthouse . |
| 25 | The last US foothold , Cubi Point naval air station ( an airfield attached to the Subic Bay naval base ) , was evacuated , and formal control over the vast Subic Bay site — once the largest US base outside north America — was formally transferred to the government of the Philippines . |
| 26 | He was later transferred to the Mount Vernon Hospital , in north-west London , where he underwent several hours plastic surgery and microsurgery to reattach his ear . |
| 27 | Although the Club engaged Carter 's in this instance , the business was later transferred to Messrs. Suttons . |
| 28 | He was later transferred to Royal Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital for specialist treatment . |
| 29 | He was later transferred to the burns unit at Whiston Hospital , Merseyside . |
| 30 | He was later transferred to the burns unit at Whiston Hospital , Merseyside . |