Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [verb] [noun sg] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The search was extended west to Rookhope , near Stanhope , and the RAF Rescue Co-ordination Centre sent a Sea King helicopter from RAF Boulmer in Northumberland . |
| 2 | Supplementary Benefit was to give way to Income Support and the much-abused system of single payment was to be replaced by a Social Fund ; Housing Benefit was to be reformed so that it did not discriminate against the low-paid in work ; and the whole social security system was to be simplified . |
| 3 | Brian Brunswick , principal inspector in charge of the construction group for East Anglia , said the regional HSE was giving priority to falls because the figures in Suffolk , Norfolk and Essex mirrored the national average . |
| 4 | By December 1989 evidence was mounting that consumption was giving way to investment as the main engine of growth . |
| 5 | My worst moment was saying goodbye to John Reynolds ( and Australia ) at Sydney airport . |
| 6 | The Commons inquiry was denied access to intelligence sources , and its report was published despite the many questions it said were still unanswered . |
| 7 | The aim was to confine attention to people who had frequent contact with the dementia sufferer , rather than interviewing all nearest relatives , who might or might not have contact with him or her . |
| 8 | Dusk was giving way to night and the fires outside the gate burned brightly . |
| 9 | After a spell in private practice , Vial was made equerry to Louis XVI and chef de manège of the Lyons riding academy , a post he apparently held for some years , but could not retain . |
| 10 | It said that the auditors knew that Union Discount was extending credit to Berg and it was foreseeable that it would be sent copies of the accounts and would rely on them when making decisions whether or not to continue or extend credit . |
| 11 | The nineteenth-century impact of Europe on the Middle East was giving rise to critics in the Islamic world . |
| 12 | But these were not just facsimiles of Big Ted and Little Ted , no : this time Hamble was dressed head to toe in leather astride a miniature Harley Davidson . |
| 13 | In 1901 he became an assistant in the clinical laboratory at St Thomas 's Hospital and in December that year was appointed assistant to William Bulloch , bacteriologist at the London Hospital , Whitechapel . |
| 14 | Norwich and Cambridge were reached ; Clydeside 's £85million showpiece was completed with the linking up of Largs and Ardrossan Harbour to the main Ayrshire system ; and the Great Northern system was extended north to Huntingdon and Peterborough . |
| 15 | Mission Volga 's main purpose was to bring hope to people in the midst of hopelessness in a country of continued political unrest and financial chaos . |
| 16 | At Cambuskenneth Abbey twelve years later the Scots Parliament was to swear allegiance to King Robert 's chosen successor , and a later king , James III , was to be buried here after his murder in 1488 . |
| 17 | The driver told the court the break was so serious his arm was turned back to front . |
| 18 | Jack felt the need to treat these outbursts by Warnie with firmness as well as with gentleness , not least because his brother was giving voice to feelings which he shared quite passionately himself . |
| 19 | The word ‘ mass ’ was no longer used , vestments were forbidden , and the communion table was positioned east to west rather than altarwise . |