Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [was/were] [verb] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have had to develop more detailed service costings than required by their main customers , the district health authorities , who were limited to the less information costly block contracts during the first year of the internal market . |
| 2 | This apparent failure to improve housing outcome is mitigated by the fact that a number of this group who were referred to the Homeless Persons Unit , together with others who went to Bed and Breakfast accommodation , would ‘ presumably in due course ’ have found their way to independent accommodation . |
| 3 | At first starting on an ad hoc and ad hominem basis before the birth of the Romanov dynasty , the system of transporting the unwanted criminal detritus and the antisocial , nonconformist and subversive members of the Russian social and political order — both tsarist and Soviet — steadily generated a huge sprawling diaspora comprising millions of wretched human beings who were banished to the living purgatory of Siberian exile . |
| 4 | The very minimum I think these justices should have had was a psychiatric report from one of the psychiatrists who were attached to the secure unit . |
| 5 | After counting the remaining rupees carefully , I spent the last free day in the company of a couple of young Seychellois who were going to an offshore reef to lift their fish-traps . |
| 6 | The sort of people who were attracted to the militant populist Protestantism of Protestant Action can be clearly seen from the occupations of the candidates . |
| 7 | There had always been a radical element in the local Labour parties and this was now augmented by former members of the ILP who were returning to the Labour Party in large numbers . |
| 8 | The present prospective study was designed to evaluate all patients with symptoms of gastrooesophageal reflux , who were submitted to a clinical assessment over a period of time . |
| 9 | While this suited some people with mild conditions , it became clear that those who attended as outpatients frequently had quite different characteristics from those who were admitted to the mental hospitals as in-patients . |
| 10 | I was writing to my MP who was writing to the Secretary of State who was writing to the High Commisioner and it just went on . |
| 11 | That hat has been to Buckingham Palace twice because I lent it to a friend who was invited to a later garden party . |
| 12 | He says he is making a movie with Italian sex kitten La Cicciolina , who was elected to the Italian parliament in 1987 . |
| 13 | His research further showed that the participative , supportive supervisor who was transferred to a low-production unit was able to raise the performance at a fast rate . |
| 14 | Those leaving the Cabinet , besides Thatcher , were Cecil Parkinson , who indicated that he intended to retire from Parliament at the next general election , and Lord Belstead who was appointed to a non-Cabinet post . |
| 15 | In two major changes announced on Oct. 16 , Nvono Akhele was promoted from a minister-delegate to become Secretary-General to the Presidency , taking over from Nguema Ongueme , who was appointed to the new post of Minister of State in charge of Economy , Trade and Planning [ for full Cabinet list as of May 1990 see p. 37478 ] . |
| 16 | During a visit to Jordan on Jan. 10 , Farouq Qaddumi , who was appointed to the foreign affairs portfolio of the Palestinian government-in-exile in April 1989 [ see p. 36536 ] , said that the Baker plan had failed and called for a meeting of the Palestine National Council ( PNC , the Palestinian parliament-in-exile ) to discuss future strategy . |
| 17 | Foreign dependants of the Court continued to be appointed to important Forest wardenships — such as Amaury de St Amand , Steward of the Household 1233–40 , who was also warden of the Forest of Dean during the greater part of that time , and Peter Chaceporc , the able Poitevin Keeper of the Wardrobe 1241–54 , who was appointed to the same wardenship in May 1248 . |
| 18 | Gen. Benjamin Mibenge was named on Nov. 1 as Minister of Foreign Affairs , replacing Luke Mwananshiku who was seconded to the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) in Washington . |
| 19 | THE business dealings of a £40,000-a-year financial consultant , who was lured to a bogus appointment in a wealthy Home Counties village before being battered to death with a claw hammer , were being studied by police yesterday . |
| 20 | The leave-taking this time was formal , bearing none of the displays of emotion that had marked Prince Richard 's departure — the queen-dowager was but bidding farewell , it was thought , to her son 's bride , a young lady who was going to the royal palace within the Tower to keep company for a time with her husband . |
| 21 | The following case example is of a patient who was admitted to a psychiatric hospital because of reasons which placed her in both categories ( 1 ) and ( 2 ) . |
| 22 | , Sarah ( 1672–1765 ) , poet , was born in Kent in 1672 , the daughter of James Dixon , a barrister originally of Rochester , Kent , who was admitted to the Middle Temple as a clerk on 20 May 1663 and called to the bar on 13 May 1670 , and his wife Elizabeth Soulhouse . |
| 23 | THE Marchioness of Anglesey , who was admitted to the Royal Victorian Order in today 's honours , was awarded the CBE in 1977 and became a Dame of the British Empire in 1983 . |
| 24 | Another interesting example of the powerful effect which hypnosis can have on the various planes of the individual is provided by the case of a middle-aged lady from Stornoway who was admitted to the local cottage hospital with terminal breast cancer . |
| 25 | Brian was an intelligent , articulate and self-motivated man who was admitted to the intensive care unit ( ICU ) at Leicester Royal Infirmary with Guillain-Barré syndrome . |
| 26 | During the journey we were informed that tomorrow , we were going to go and see the Queen who was coming to the small town to visit the hospital . |
| 27 | ‘ If you 're not ordering anything , refrain from fighting an leave this café please , ’ replied Joy , who was used to the unkind remarks made by the ‘ left-side people ’ . |
| 28 | And he , he who was used to the subtle caresses of experienced women , did he want the responsibility of that fearful flesh ? |
| 29 | He was a man who was used to the supernatural but he was amazed at the things that he saw ! |
| 30 | Large-scale industrialization and urbanization were bad enough as far as most Basque Nationalists were concerned ; even worse was the descent upon their homeland of tens of thousands of ‘ Spanish ’ immigrant workers , many of whom were affiliated to the Socialist UGT . |