Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [prep] [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new line includes the first air-cooled machines in the C90 series , a two-processor C92A and a four-processor C94A , which it says were developed in response to demand from Japanese commercial users . |
| 2 | The new line includes the first air-cooled machines in the C90 series , a two-processor C92A and a four-processor C94A , which it says were developed in response to demand from Japanese commercial users . |
| 3 | Short courses , for teachers already in post , were arranged from time to time , though they assumed nothing like the significance that in-service provision was to have later . |
| 4 | They are adjusted so that if the project were completed on time to specification the contractor would realize a reasonable profit . |
| 5 | The voices of churchmen were heard from time to time , perhaps frequently , complaining of the enslavement of Christians , or of the treatment of slaves ; but there was no radical attack on the institution as such . |
| 6 | Long drives were undertaken from town to town , even country to country . |
| 7 | The likes of Naomi Campbell and Linda Evangelista were clad from head to toe in leather , rubber , latex and PVC . |
| 8 | The waters were layered from October to May while ice was present , with temperatures close to freezing point near the surface but at 1–1.25°C near the bottom in 26 m . |
| 9 | Inspectors , some of them Englishmen , were dismissed from time to time for accepting bribes or for other dubious practices . |
| 10 | Four Minilab Sovereign detectors which were intended for export to Belgium were stolen from the premises of Search Technology on 30 August 1991 . |
| 11 | Sealstones and frescoes often depict cult scenes ; stone vessels were often intended for cult use ; the finest faience figurines were idols ; the metal and clay figurines and miniature double-axes were intended as offerings to deities ; the recurring marine motif on the pottery and in frescoes may have had a cult association with the worship of Poseidon . |
| 12 | They were suffering from hypothermia and were flown by helicopter to hospital . |
| 13 | The release of prisoners of war by Iraq was officially described as completed when a total of 45 prisoners-of-war had been handed over to the International Committee of the Red Cross ( 10 on March 4 , comprising six US personnel , three British and one Italian , and 35 on March 5 , comprising 15 US , nine British , nine Saudis , an Italian and a Kuwaiti , who were flown from Baghdad to Riyadh on March 6 ) . |
| 14 | ‘ Jock ’ Norwell , Jim Pickering , Harry Ayre and ‘ Drac ’ Bowerman were flown from Luqa to Egypt in a Wellington piloted by newly-promoted and decorated Plt.Off . |
| 15 | Under the Conservatives the top rates were slashed from 83pc to 40pc which handed top earning executives some mighty large salary increases without them even having to ask . |
| 16 | The swelling letters pages were occupied with responses to Michael Eaves , a correspondent who had suggested axing the ‘ What 's Happening ’ section , record reviews , and ads from the paper — which would have neatly killed it some years before its time — led by a contribution from one of It 's founders , David Mairowitz , ‘ who broke his b***s [ asterisks his ] seeing that It 1–10 got put together and printed . ’ |
| 17 | In some parts of the country , ploughs , decorated with coloured ribbons , were carried from house to house and then a mumming play was performed . |
| 18 | The upshot of this was that the forgery allegation was abandoned and wholly new lines of defence were added by amendment to Mr. Steed 's counterclaim for rectification . |
| 19 | Wright and Richmond were recommended by Collinson to Bartram as being the most reliable , and were sometimes asked to convey zoological cargo ; live squirrels , red-birds and terrapins for Lord Petre or insects mounted in a cork-lined box for Dr Fothergill . |
| 20 | A brother officer , Jock Lewes of the Welsh Guards , had discovered some parachutes which were destined for transport to India , and obtained permission from Laycock for himself and Stirling to experiment with them , together with four other Guardsmen . |
| 21 | Between 1940 and 1944 some 76,000 Jews were deported from France to death camps ; 2,600 survived . |
| 22 | In 1914 batteries of these weapons were lent by Austria to Germany 's right-wing armies to reduce the Belgian fortress-cities . |
| 23 | The princes were seen from time to time when , with a strong guard , they rode through the streets of the City . |
| 24 | Sometimes we get feedback : in the 1991 campaign on Morocco , over 10,000 members sent birthday cards to King Hassan containing a message about human rights ; as part of our campaign for the inclusion of human rights within the National Curriculum , over 3000 letters were written by members to MPs and ministers . |
| 25 | In Stage VIII votes were transferred from Cousins to Kinahan ( both Alliance ) and from Kinahan in Stage IX to Dickson and McLachlan ( both UPNI ) . |
| 26 | SIR — In early 1991 , about 15,000 Jews were airlifted from Ethiopia to Israel . |
| 27 | Heavy reclamation walls were built from time to time as the docks were extended seawards and today , the dock estate lies entirely on land reclaimed from the foreshore . |
| 28 | In all 1,995 index changes could be counted when these were transmitted by computer to Scotland . |
| 29 | The two claims were made for damage to machines , and neither was serious or a Police Court case . " |
| 30 | Our observations of the maser emission were made from January to June 1992 with the Nobeyana 45-m telescope . |