Example sentences of "[was/were] sent to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | More than 400 letters complaining about straw burning were sent to the ministry , and 120 MPs protested after the harvest . |
| 2 | Surprisingly , some cynics might say , 49 people did take up the offer and the details were sent to the club to effect the paperwork . |
| 3 | Beginning on the very next day , orders were sent to the sheriffs of Shropshire , Rutland , Nottingham , Leicester , Hampshire , Berkshire , Oxford , Huntingdon , Surrey and Warwick . |
| 4 | As early as 1955 a CAB sub-committee was set up by the national committee to consider hire purchase problems as seen by bureaux all over the country and by other voluntary organisations with experience of families in difficulty ; and in addition to recommendations about trade practices , about possible action by local authorities , and other things , which were sent to the appropriate associations or government departments , the deliberations of the committee produced results which were to have an influence on the trend and standing of much CAB work in the future . |
| 5 | They were not activists in the movement — some of them might have been from the Moss and come to watch the barney — but all were sent to the jail in Inveraray and then taken to Edinburgh for prosecution . |
| 6 | In the first six months of 1848 , some 120 local cases were sent to the Middlesex Hospital . |
| 7 | A microphone was installed at the nearby Capitol Theater to provide high-fidelity subject matter , and the resulting waxes were sent to the Pathé factory in Brooklyn to be made into ordinary pressings . |
| 8 | The plans were sent to the Governors of the Greenwich Hospital , but they gave him no encouragement . |
| 9 | The unfortunate lady 's dresses were sent to the family home in Foster Place , where a maid was tempted to try one on as she unpacked them — with fatal results . |
| 10 | Not only did they have to feed the family and all the guests at ‘ the Big House ’ , but regular supplies were sent to the town house as well , then of course there were all the servants to feed . |
| 11 | Around three thousand letters and cards were sent to the children while they were away from home in a campaign resembling those organised by Amnesty for political prisoners . |
| 12 | Copies were sent to the Bank of England and the DTI , but no comments were received from either . |
| 13 | Certainly , a vast number of Hurricanes were sent to the USSR from 1941 onwards — over 3,000 . |
| 14 | Ten ambulances and fire engines were sent to the scene . |
| 15 | Completed forms were sent to The Marketing Centre , Freepost at Bournemouth , with a prize for two offered on a steam locomotive footplate , or a free meal for two on ‘ The Charnwood Forester ’ dining car train . |
| 16 | Both signals were sent to the Pentagon , the second one also going to the White House . |
| 17 | In the autumn of 1897 seven children contracted diphtheria and were sent to the Isolation Hospital . |
| 18 | Other patients were sent to the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital and to the Children 's Hospital at Great Ormond Street at a similar cost . |
| 19 | Writs have been served for outstanding advertising fees amounting to £16,000 , and it seems unlikely they will be paid — bailiffs were sent to the firm 's place of trading , but nothing of any value was recovered . |
| 20 | Trafford Park food companies headed by Kelloggs , Brooke Bond and Walls formed a thirteen food company group which opposed the incinerators and lobbied against the campaign handing in over 40,000 signatures and over 600 submissions were sent to the UDC prior to the date of the decision , including one from the Students ' Union concerned that the University was directly in line with the prevailing wind from the proposed site . |
| 21 | Letters under the privy seal were prepared by the thousand , and instructions were sent to the chief commissioners in each shire . |
| 22 | One computer printout format included incidences of errors and diagnostic information as well as right or wrong codings , but it proved time-consuming for teachers to use and expensive to produce and post , so generally only the simpler right or wrong data were sent to the schools . |
| 23 | So both boys went to the state school in spite of Father Michael at St Oswald 's , but it was a hollow victory because twice a week , once after school , once on Saturdays , they were sent to the Convent to learn catechism off the nuns so they would grow up good Catholics after all . |
| 24 | To hammer home the political point , a large number of the two million leaflets printed were sent to the headquarters of the various political parties and to the Assemblée nationale , the French parliament building . |
| 25 | Yet letters by themselves were inadequate instruments and of limited effect without the advocacy of royal ambassadors : from 1305 to 1334 at least twenty-five royal delegates were sent to the pope . |
| 26 | Appeals were sent to the sultan , and also a Serbian delegation went to Tsar Alexander I in St Petersburg . |
| 27 | Wh where did you go to anyway when you when you were sent to the front ? |
| 28 | You got a very good committee , dedicated committee erm who , you see the young trainees were sent to the technical colleges and you see , erm some of them did go on if they graduated to Stanford Hall , but I mean those that went to technical college , we used to have to get the committee to sit in at the examinations . |
| 29 | Most of his treasure was lost in the Channel on its way to the king in France , but his bonds were sent to the Exchequer , where a special committee , known as the Scaccarium Aaronis , was charged with their collection . |
| 30 | Because of the interest Colt 's guns aroused at the Great Exhibition of 1851 in London , commissioners were sent to the New York Industrial Exhibition of 1854 . |