Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [vb pp] [noun] 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 | The Commons inquiry was denied access to intelligence sources , and its report was published despite the many questions it said were still unanswered . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Santa Clara , California-based SynOptics Communications Inc has cut prices on its LattisNet family of Fibre Distributed Data Interface intelligent hubs , saying the cuts were made possible by lower component costs and better manufacturing efficiencies — the 2000 FDDI Workgroup Hubs were reduced immediately , with the 2912A with 12 shielded twisted pair master ports and two fibre optic A/B ports reduced by 36 to $10,000 , or $714 per port ; the Model 3904 FDDI Fiber Optic Host Module was cut 27% to $5,500 and the 3910S-04 FDDI Network Management Module was cut 33% to $10,000 . |
| 5 | Santa Clara , California-based SynOptics Communications Inc has cut prices on its LattisNet family of Fibre Distributed Data Interface intelligent hubs , saying the cuts were made possible by lower component costs and better manufacturing efficiencies — the 2000 FDDI Workgroup Hubs were reduced immediately , with the 2912A with 12 shielded twisted pair master ports and two fibre optic A/B ports reduced by 36 to $10,000 , or $714 per port ; the Model 3904 FDDI Fiber Optic Host Module was cut 27% to $5,500 and the 3910S-04 FDDI Network Management Module was cut 33% to $10,000 . |
| 6 | The government 's white paper on the subject was entitled Roads to Prosperity and the then Transport Secretary , Paul Channon , proclaimed , ‘ I will not allow Britain 's first-rate businesses to be disadvantaged by a second-rate road network . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The driver told the court the break was so serious his arm was turned back to front . |
| 11 | The word ‘ mass ’ was no longer used , vestments were forbidden , and the communion table was positioned east to west rather than altarwise . |