Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] to [noun] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Huxley was , after all , writing at a time when medical horizons were limited to digoxin for heart failure , morphine for pain and a handful of other remedies . |
| 2 | Five people were sentenced to death for drug trafficking in Hunan province on June 24 ; two days later , in Yunnan province , 21 traffickers were executed . |
| 3 | As the result of information provided by Parot , 17 others were arrested on April 4-5 in south-west France including two other members of the commando , Jacques Esnal and Frederic Haramboure , who had slipped through the Seville roadblock , and a Benedictine monk ; nine were transferred to Paris for interrogation . |
| 4 | Premiums collected in Kenya were transferred to London for reinvestment . |
| 5 | IF BILL CLINTON were to look to Florida for advice on how to pass a health-care bill , the answer might come back in the words of Lyndon Johnson : better to have your enemies inside your tent pissing out , than outside pissing in . |
| 6 | In the largest transaction , interests in 17 blocks were sold to Deminex for £105.8 million . |
| 7 | Now , when I came back from Stop Hill the other night , must have been , oh must have been Thursday , cos Paul erm , was going out with Alec and then they were going to Alec for dinner and when I came back one of the erm wooden staves was off here , had been prized off . |
| 8 | ‘ Kids kept insisting on actually meeting ‘ The Raisins ’ , so they were brought to life for celebrity appearances in New York 's Thanksgiving Day Parade — and even for the presidential inauguration , ’ said Ms Wood . |
| 9 | They were taken to America for mass-production . |
| 10 | At one point the driver slammed on the brakes causing the police car behind to run into the back of the vehicle … the car was badly damaged … the two officers inside were taken to hospital for treatment to whiplash injuries . |
| 11 | The friends , on a pleasure flight from a hotel , were taken to hospital for checks . |
| 12 | ‘ They were taken to hospital for examination but none suffered any real injury . |
| 13 | When the cars were sent to Hendon for overhaul , most lost their enamelled iron advertisements and received short term paper displays instead . |
| 14 | Daniel was recalled to Germany for discussion , and it appears that he decided to throw in his lot with the mining in England . |
| 15 | Victors ' trophy until it was given to Brazil for keeps on their third win in 1970 . |
| 16 | The appeal is named after Amar , a 10-year-old boy orphaned by the bombings in the marshlands , who was flown to London for plastic surgery at Guy 's Hospital . |
| 17 | He was flown to Britain for treatment . |
| 18 | A few cases have attracted public attention — such as that of Sheila Rossall , a pop singer , who was flown to America for treatment in the 1970s , before such problems could be treated in Britain . |
| 19 | His embalmed body was carried to Dunfermline for burial , but at his own request his heart had been removed by a trusted comrade-in-arms , Sir James Douglas , to be taken on Crusade . |
| 20 | Thomas Bacon was then brought to Stamford to face the charge of poisoning his mother and was committed to Lincoln for trial . |
| 21 | He crawled to a local hospital and was transferred to Ankara for treatment ; |
| 22 | Jim Baxter was transferred to Rangers for £27 , 000 but in a strange inter-club arrangement he was retained at Starks Park for a further three months . |
| 23 | It was with a feeling of animosity that Nicholas accepted an improved offer from London and was transferred to Arsenal for £750,000 . |
| 24 | Despite a statement by Marina that she poisoned Ann Bacon , Thomas was found guilty , but as there was no absolute proof he was sentenced to imprisonment for life . |
| 25 | Troy has the mental age of a seven-year-old and he was sentenced to death for kidnap and murder , though Mr Stafford Smith does not accept that he did it . |
| 26 | In 1961 , Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann was sentenced to death for war crimes . |
| 27 | Then , some time later , Francis Greenway was accused of forgery in connection with a building contract made shortly before the failure ; and , tried at Bristol assizes on 23 March 1812 , he pleaded guilty and was sentenced to transportation for life . |
| 28 | Racking was used to store the goods both on the warehouse floor and on the platform and was bolted to supports for safety . |
| 29 | ‘ Much praise ’ was owed to Chapman for Leeds ' improved performance , said the Yorkshire Evening News . |
| 30 | Gusmao , who was moved to Bali for interrogation , was shown briefly on Indonesian television on Nov. 23 . |