Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [to-vb] to the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The " confrontation lines " were understood to refer to the Jordan Valley and the Golan Heights . |
| 2 | Union members were encouraged to go to the Thursday meeting . |
| 3 | In two hours they ferried 22 people to high ground and to safety , and at 0900 they were released to return to the Portrush lifeboat which was still lying in Ballycastle Bay . |
| 4 | The Estonian parliament , influenced by these concerns , adopted a constitutional amendment on 16 November providing for the right of veto over all legislation that was intended to apply to the USSR as a whole . |
| 5 | And at Musselburgh it was Ramsay 's turn to say farewell , much as he was tempted to agree to the Randolphs ' urgings and proceed with them over Forth to Doune of Menteith , so much more secure in present circumstances than would be Dalwolsey ; for nothing was surer than that the English would be up to Lothian and Edinburgh before long , and Dalwolsey not far off their path . |
| 6 | I was determined to get to the Whitechapel Road to see the George Stubbs Exhibition and not to take a taxi . |
| 7 | It was identified on the surveillance radar when it made its first position report and was cleared to continue to the BN non-directional beacon . |
| 8 | The secretary was ordered to write to the Odiham Society , recording these changes . |
| 9 | In turn the government was required to submit to the UN a list of members of the armed forces to be purged for human rights violations . |