Example sentences of "[was/were] send [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of those remaining were sent to other libraries , while many books were destroyed in a fire . |
| 2 | Casts of these dinosaurs were sent to other museums around the world ; the industrialist Andrew Carnegie presented a cast of the gigantic Diplodocus to the Natural History Museum in London , where it was erected with great ceremony in 1905 . |
| 3 | Thus a London ship 's carpenter 's daughters were sent to one grandfather , and the boys to their other grandmother . |
| 4 | initial destinations questionnaires were sent to 171 SERC-funded students : SERC provided details of the names and departments of students holding information engineering awards that were due to come to an end in 1984 ; |
| 5 | punitive expeditions were sent to many other cities . |
| 6 | Huntsmen in Northern Ireland have been alerted by police after letter bombs were sent to two hunt members . |
| 7 | Copies of a draft brief about the proposed development on the south side of Clark 's Yard were sent to 27 interested people and organisations . |
| 8 | The men were anxious to arrange Mixed Foursomes ‘ to re-awaken interest ’ ( in what is not specified ) , and letters were sent to all previous Lady Members offering them a handicap of L.G.U. plus 6 , or a straight 36 . |
| 9 | Within a short time a National Deaf Conference was arranged to be held in the Lecture Hall of St Saviour 's Church , Oxford Street , London on 16–18 January , 1890 , and invitations were sent to all deaf societies and missions , requesting them to appoint representatives . |
| 10 | Details of the formal agreement between SCOTVEC and SCOTCAT were sent to all centres . |
| 11 | The provisions in the Education ( Schools ) Bill relating to the inspection of schools and information on their performance were trailed in the citizens charter and the charter for parents in Wales , copies of which were sent to all local authorities in Wales as well as to a wide range of bodies representative of education interests . |
| 12 | It has now been abolished , mainly because a number of middle-class children failed it and were sent to nonacademic schools . |
| 13 | ( Three separate negotiating teams were sent to each country tendering offers for the Urengoi gas pipeline , as a result of which the FRG , much to her surprise , found herself underbid at the end of the day . ) |
| 14 | The details of amendments to the Bill needed to press these points were sent to each Unionist MP , from Central Office not from the official Whips , and a special committee of agents and National Union leaders was set up to give MPs professional advice . |
| 15 | Teams of officers were sent to four pubs the Hour Glass , the Owton Lodge , The Smiths Arms at Greatham and the Traveller 's Rest which he is known to have visited just hours before the shooting . |
| 16 | Many were sent to psychiatric hospitals and put in overcrowded wards with real mental patients and only a few overworked nuns to supervise them . |
| 17 | Questionnaires were sent to 400 conference-holding organizations in the UK , of whom 205 responded . |
| 18 | The specifications were sent to seven suppliers who were invited to bid for the installation of a new system . |
| 19 | Subsequently questionnaires were sent to 20 local authorities ( with a request for any relevant information on their own practice relating to matters raised in the questionnaire ) and 10 EFL institutions ( from both private and public sector ) that were known to offer teacher training courses . |
| 20 | Some children were sent to widowed grandmothers to live with them for company , or just sleep a few nights , like the seaman 's daughter on the Western Isles who , when all the men were away at the fishing , ‘ used to sleep with granny … bringing the water from the well and bringing in the peat , tidying up the floor and singing songs , for granny she was a very musical lady , yes she was . ’ |
| 21 | So we were sent to another hostel . |
| 22 | Neglected children were sent to special schools and never allowed to see their mothers or fathers or nannies again for the rest of their lives . |
| 23 | FINAL details of the £700 million relief scheme aimed at helping former ratepayers in the transition to poll tax were sent to local authorities yesterday , Mr Chris Patten , Environment Secretary , announced in a written answer . |
| 24 | FINAL details of the £700 million relief scheme aimed at helping former ratepayers in the transition to poll tax were sent to local authorities yesterday , Mr Chris Patten , Environment Secretary , announced in a written answer . |
| 25 | Free copies of a promotional video were sent to local doctors and accountants . |
| 26 | In one case faulty pushchairs , from Germany , were sent as humanitarian aid to eastern Europe . |
| 27 | In April 1957 , when what remained of the work was being cleared up , some specimens which had been laid by to crystallize were found to have done so , and so they were sent for pharmacological investigation . |
| 28 | Matched pairs of applications were sent for each post — one with an English name and one with an Asian name . |
| 29 | Drivers were sent for this or that and returned with something else . |
| 30 | In November 1985 , arms were sent with American participation . |