Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] to [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The scalding flood swamped hundreds of homes and many people were plucked to safety by helicopter . |
| 2 | With seconds to spare the two girls were plucked to safety by firemen wearing breathing apparatus . |
| 3 | When the court 's judgement was reviewed by the Armed Forces Ruling Council ( AFRC ) , Nigeria 's principal decision-making body , on Oct. 31 , however , the death sentences were commuted to terms of life imprisonment . |
| 4 | The saint 's relics were given to Vukovar by Pope Benedict XIV and brought from Rome in 1754 . |
| 5 | They were all expected to have similar properties , but , prudently , in some clinics the new substances were given to patients with conditions other than those in which chlorpromazine and its allies were usually effective . |
| 6 | Hick and Hughes were extradited to Germany on July 16 to face charges connected with the bombing of barracks at Langenhagen , near Hannover in May 1990 , and with the murder of a British army major in Dortmund four days after the Roermond shootings [ see p. 37537 ] . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Fees in elementary schools were limited to 9d per week . |
| 9 | Small farms were assigned to sons of noblemen and promising warriors , on condition they reported annually for military service . |
| 10 | As rapid rapair ( restitution ) of injured gastric mucosa takes place only if the damage is non-haemorrhagical , the stomachs were exposed to concentrations of ethanol that caused haemorrhagical damage in less than 10% of the glandular mucosa . |
| 11 | Although the coup attempt was finally crushed on Aug. 1 , the troops were flown to Trinidad on Aug. 3 , at the request of the Robinson government , as a " precautionary " move to protect oil installations . |
| 12 | On the following day , under a temporary amnesty , a group of 167 wounded guerrillas was allowed to leave El Salvador for medical treatment and were flown to Cuba via Mexico . |
| 13 | They were flown to hospital in Aberdeen but released after a check-up . |
| 14 | Haddington Sheriff Court heard that the left-hand drive Land Rover driven by Timothy Taylor collided with a ten-ton lorry on the Edinburgh-Newcastle road near Spott , East Lothian , while their 18-man team were returning to Germany from training in the Highlands with the Royal Marines . |
| 15 | Mark , 26 , Cindy Kibble 27 , and Debbie Hunter , 26 , were returning to homes in Devon and Cornwall from Germany when their Toyota Corolla went out of control in sleet on the M4 motorway in Berkshire . |
| 16 | At the worst , if hard-liners were to come to power in Moscow , Ukraine could be a buffer for the young democracies of Eastern Europe . |
| 17 | Monastic buildings were added to plans by Carlo Lurago and the church was redesigned by F. Špaček from 1733–5 . |
| 18 | The following free GAGs were added to wells before addition of MIP-1 β : heparan sulphate proteoglycan ( HSPG ) ( 30μgml -1 ; Collaborative Research ) , heparin sodium ( 15Uml -1 ; LyphoMed ) and hyaluronic acid ( HA ) ( 100μgml -1 ; Sigma ) . |
| 19 | On the surrender of the abbey to the king 's commissioners in December 1539 , the buildings assigned ‘ to remain undefaced ’ were given into the custody of its former steward , Sir Edward Baynton , but all those ‘ deemed to be superfluous ’ were committed to Stumpe as Baynton 's deputy : they included the church , cloister , chapter house , dormitory , frater , and infirmary . |
| 20 | Similar displacements occurred and Africans were confined to reserves in Kenya , or to tribal trust lands in Zimbabwe ( Southern Rhodesia ) and at the present time in the Bantustans by the Republic of South Africa . |
| 21 | Thus when biological ideas were applied to society by Spencer and by social Darwinists , they were allied to the powerful notion of human progress , which was not a part of Darwin 's evolutionary theory . |
| 22 | GAGs were applied to plates before addition of MIP-1 β and washed away when MIP-1 β was removed . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Two Iraqis , aged 29 and 49 , were sentenced to death on May 5 for informing on and torturing Kuwaitis who had formed part of the resistance to the Iraqi occupation of 1990-91 . |
| 25 | Eight members of a group called The Prophet Mohammed 's Army were sentenced to death on Nov. 25 by a special tribunal composed of three military judges for crimes " against state security " [ see also p. 38457 ] . |
| 26 | Deng Tianshun and Zhu Xiuying were sentenced to death in Guangzhou , China , for selling three giant panda skins between April 1988 and May 1989 . |
| 27 | On Dec. 8 two men were sentenced to death in Beijing for the murder of an armed policeman on June 4 . |
| 28 | Questions of resourcing were related to concerns about efficiency and bureaucracy . |
| 29 | Many of these disabilities found in the older age group were related to loss of hearing and sight , and increasing mobility disability , related to such problems as rheumatoid arthritis . |
| 30 | Only nineteen MPs were heirs to peerages and of these seven were from families that had been Liberal before 1886 and another five were new creations since then ; thirty-eight MPs were related to peers by blood and another forty by marriage . |