Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [prep] [noun sg] 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 | Inspectors , some of them Englishmen , were dismissed from time to time for accepting bribes or for other dubious practices . |
| 9 | Four Minilab Sovereign detectors which were intended for export to Belgium were stolen from the premises of Search Technology on 30 August 1991 . |
| 10 | They were suffering from hypothermia and were flown by helicopter to hospital . |
| 11 | In some parts of the country , ploughs , decorated with coloured ribbons , were carried from house to house and then a mumming play was performed . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The princes were seen from time to time when , with a strong guard , they rode through the streets of the City . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | In all 1,995 index changes could be counted when these were transmitted by computer to Scotland . |
| 17 | The two claims were made for damage to machines , and neither was serious or a Police Court case . " |
| 18 | A number of reconstructions were made from time to time , especially under Julius Caesar and Augustus . |
| 19 | ‘ All normal programmes were cancelled and brief announcements were made from time to time , interspersed with solemn music , ’ recalls Jean Williams , of Noel 's Court , Catterick Village . |
| 20 | In both 1978 and 1986 the Library Association 's statements were made in response to censorship in a number of public libraries , largely instigated by local authorities ; and the appeal was directed to the local authorities . |
| 21 | It is , of course , undeniable that they were made in response to events in Mozambique and Angola . |
| 22 | Other physical assets were valued by reference to evidence of recent selling-prices of similar items . |
| 23 | They were exported by sea to Italy , Greece , Turkey , Egypt and the Levant . |
| 24 | On arrival at Sefton Park , we were transported by bus to Church Street , as the late King and Queen would pass through on their way to open the Gladstone Dock . |
| 25 | However , on 30 June we were told in response to inquiries by the court that she had not taken solid food since 21 June and that , although she had maintained a fluid intake of 12 cups of tea a day , her weight had dropped from 39 kg. on 16 June to 35.1 kg. on 30 June . |
| 26 | In this area , however , during the Quaternary they were invaded from time to time by thick wedges of debris flows . |
| 27 | The elections originally scheduled for Feb. 16 [ see pp. 38518 ; 38664 ] were postponed in response to opposition calls for polling to take place in May . |
| 28 | The first decade of annexation ( 1910–20 ) witnessed the most rigorous phase in which draconic punishments were enforced for resistance to Japan . |
| 29 | At the Second Son 's ‘ engagement party ’ , the gifts were handed from mother to mother with complete joy and satisfaction . |
| 30 | Policemen of twenty to twenty-five years ' service were harassed from pillar to post in the hunt for improved returns of charges and summonses . |