Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] to [pers pn] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was of a different order from my imaginings about the Chinese communists , arch villains whose evil doings were retailed to us in the classroom with the same ferocious didacticism that accompanies the telling of a lurid fairy tale and enhances its horrifying fascination . |
| 2 | In 1875 a memorial was erected to him in the British Cemetery . |
| 3 | ODDLY enough , although he was for almost 50 years a pillar of the British dance band scene , by his own account Joe Crossman 's only popular acclaim was given to him in the United States for his beautiful alto saxophone solo on Stanley Black 's mid-Forties recording of Django Reinhardt 's ballad ‘ Nuages ’ . |
| 4 | When Stephen returned the following day , the news was broken to him in the stable block by the groom who took his horse . |
| 5 | He accepted it when it was explained to him in the right way . |
| 6 | — He understood very little of what was said to him in the Outpatient Clinic and could not explain it to his wife . |
| 7 | The appeal was made to them in the early 1970s to offer their home to ‘ special needs ’ children and they responded well , Now they are being asked to accept both the challenge of ‘ special needs ’ children and the possibility of continuing contact with members of the original family . |
| 8 | His VC was presented to him in the Western Desert by Montgomery , and he returned to New Zealand in 1943 after active service in Greece , Crete and North Africa . |
| 9 | Will the Home Secretary acknowledge that fresh evidence was presented to him in the summer and that his review is long overdue ? |
| 10 | MUCH OF THE INTERIOR OF MY FATE AND THAT OF JEAN-Claude 's was revealed to me in the opaque , vaporous interior of la Sologne . |
| 11 | It was probably England 's good fortune that Inzamam was preferred to him in the four previous Tests . |
| 12 | In the following year they staged a number of occupations of churches , but even that avenue of protest was closed to them in the end , because it became too dangerous . |
| 13 | So , when an orphaned leopard cub was found after her mother had been killed for her skin , the infant was brought to him in the hope that he could rear it . |
| 14 | She shared none of his growing absorption in politics but was attuned to him in the world of magic . |
| 15 | I respect er the view that was put to me in the extract from P P G twelve , but i nevertheless think that this is a matter of principle because it does n't apply to a particular res western route , it applies to all the western routes . |
| 16 | In subsequent correspondence Technical Division were asked to confirm that the timing of the provision of the benefit to the non-resident or non-domiciled beneficiary was irrelevant , ie that it did not matter whether the income in question was paid to him in the year of assessment in which it arose or in a subsequent year , but Technical Division refused to confirm that this was the case on the grounds that the actual circumstances of particular cases tended to vary so widely that they felt unable to answer the question without more details . |