Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [noun] [prep] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | On 28 June , before any request had been received from the ruler , Centaur and Bulwark were sailed for the Gulf ; the Amphibious Squadron left Bahrein for Kuwait with instructions to stay out of sight of land ; the Hunters and Shackletons were flown north from Aden to Bahrein ; a Canberra squadron was sent from Germany to Bahrein as well ; and 24th Brigade was alerted in Kenya and preparations were made to fly it to Kuwait in chartered civil aircraft . |
| 2 | Participating countries were allocated SDRs in proportion to their quotas , these allocations being known as their ‘ net cumulative allocations ’ . |
| 3 | He was given instructions to taxi to the holding point for runway 26 and subsequently took off normally at 1202 hrs . |
| 4 | The firm was fined £800 in addition to compensation and costs . |
| 5 | The next couple of hours passed in a whirl of activity as was followed Yvonne from ward to ward receiving warm welcomes everywhere we went . |
| 6 | Former West Indies captain Clive Lloyd was appointed CBE for services to cricket and for public service in Lancashire . |
| 7 | In 1951 he received the Godman Salvin medal of the British Ornithologists ' Union , and in 1957 was appointed CBE for services to ornithology . |
| 8 | In a further change , Salif Diallo , the ODP — MT political secretary , was appointed Secretary of State to the Presidency . |
| 9 | In 1715 he was appointed master of mechanics to King George I , and gave up his retail shop to concentrate on public duties and regular corporate customers . |
| 10 | He applied unsuccessfully for the chair of technology at Edinburgh , and in 1862 was appointed keeper of minerals to the Royal Dublin Society , His meteorological output was confined to the translation of Dove 's book but in 1866 he was approached by his intimate friend ( Sir ) Edward Sabine [ q.v. ] , then at the height of his influence as president of the Royal Society and prospective chairman of the new meteorological committee , and was offered the directorship of the Meteorological Office . |
| 11 | Shortly afterwards , Harrison was recalled to Rochester Row and was appointed Adviser in VD to the War Office . |
| 12 | It is a revelation of how Cubism was taken east from Paris to Bohemia , the industrial heartland of Franz-Joseph 's empire , and adapted to the design of buildings , furniture and household goods which were actually built and made , not left at the visionary stage . |
| 13 | Beigbeder was elected Chairman in succession to Brooke in 1979 and Thomas Neff , then manager of the New York office , became Chief Executive . |
| 14 | On 2 March 1939 Pacelli was elected pope in succession to Pius XI in the shortest conclave there had been since 1623 . |
| 15 | there is Suzannah the whore in biblical legend and the prostitute who models as Suzannah , their stories parallel with that of Artemesia who because she was raped changes from virgin to whore all three were exploited and abused by men . |