Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] to [noun] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were flown to hospital in Aberdeen but released after a check-up . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Deng Tianshun and Zhu Xiuying were sentenced to death in Guangzhou , China , for selling three giant panda skins between April 1988 and May 1989 . |
| 6 | On Dec. 8 two men were sentenced to death in Beijing for the murder of an armed policeman on June 4 . |
| 7 | Quite often curricular problems were related to inadequacies in materials and some advisers went so far as to suggest radical changes in resourcing and accommodation . |
| 8 | In 1989 , 151 thousand divorces were granted to couples in England and Wales , a rate of 12.7 per thousand marriages . |
| 9 | Before any work commenced however , the region 's administrations were transferred to Burston in January , 1992 , which culminated in a new office being completed in July that year . |
| 10 | The Hugh Bell School dosed on 1948 , and the deaf classes were transferred to Homewood in Orchard Road , in enlarged premises ready to receive pupils from the Stockton School for the Deaf which was also to close . |
| 11 | As a result , six separate operations based in north London ( two in Cockfosters , three in Potters Bar and one in Whetstone ) and one in Orpington in Kent were relocated to Stevenage in north Hertfordshire . |
| 12 | Advisory visits were made to schools in Tanzania , Pakistan , India and Jamaica . |
| 13 | The village itself was in Dorset , but visits were needed to Alnwick in Northumberland , Seal in Kent , Syon in Middlesex , Southampton in Hampshire , Slapton in Devon and Salisbury in Wiltshire to examine original manuscripts and take photographs . |
| 14 | Two small groups of captives were shown to reporters in Zakho and Dahuk . |
| 15 | We were going to Aberystwyth in Wales ; too far away for me , I wanted the north . |
| 16 | Then we were going to Newquay in Cornwall ; worse still . |
| 17 | Even sanguine members of the Cabinet dreaded the return of the taunting yellow ribbons that were tied to trees in Carter ’ s time , and feared especially the visits of grieving relatives to the White House . |
| 18 | Firemen were called to allotments in Dumfries Road , Hartlepool , to put out a fire in a car . |
| 19 | Have you heard the one about the two Scottish footballers who were condemned to death in Panama ? |
| 20 | Thanks to Zhukov , critical Khrushchev supporters were brought to Moscow in time for the Central Committee meeting which then overturned the Politburo 's verdict . |
| 21 | More than 40 Rolls Royce cars were driven to Steventon in Oxfordshire today for the start of the nostaglic rally . |
| 22 | FOUR US marines were laid to rest in Virginia nearly 26 years after they were killed in Vietnam . |
| 23 | A take note was issued allowing exploration to start at once and men were set to work in December of 1823 . |
| 24 | They were told by Jesus not to speculate about the time when God would bring in the kingdom in all its fullness , but , once they had received the Holy Spirit , they were to witness to Jesus in Jerusalem , Judaea , Samaria , and throughout the world ( Acts 1:8 ) . |
| 25 | Soviet arms were despatched to Communists in Finland , Bavaria , Berlin and northern Germany , and only a White offensive in 1919 prevented the despatch of troops to assist the fledgling Bolshevik regime of Béla Kun in Hungary . |
| 26 | Six samples were subjected to tests in order to derive the saturation exponent n from Resistivity Index versus Sw plots . |
| 27 | All the injured were taken to hospital in Middlesbrough , but none were seriously hurt . |
| 28 | More people were put to death in Ireland than died in the French revolutionary Terror of the time . |
| 29 | These guidelines were submitted to Nato in May 1969 . |
| 30 | When we read in the Roslavl' files that twenty-three agitator brigades were dispatched to villages in order to celebrate international Women 's Day , it is hard to imagine that they ever came across our peasant woman from Struga , and even more difficult to believe that they would have much impact on her ways of thinking even if they did . |