Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [vb pp] [verb] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At baseline , the renin component characteristics in the studied subjects were consistent with those depicted in other studies : active renin concentration was normal , but prorenin concentration was raised according to retinopathy . |
| 2 | The principle of orality was considered to contribute to unanimity in decision making because of the thorough sifting and testing of argument in unrestricted oral argument . |
| 3 | If the pound was expected to devalue to £1 = $2.4 then the holder of sterling balances could sell his £1,000 now ( at £1 = $2.8 ) , buy back pounds at a future date ( at £1 = $2.4 ) , and hence make a sterling capital gain of £167 . |
| 4 | Protein was determined according to Lowry . |
| 5 | Also in the series are An Uncommon Murder , which tells how an East End Jewish refugee was found battered to death on Clapham Common , and the story of Louise Masset , the first woman to be hanged this century after she was accused of killing her young son . |
| 6 | On the fifth day of mobilisation , Lieut-Colonel Deyns was able to report that the Field Ambulance was equipped according to scale , and ready to move . |
| 7 | It is evident that no blame was felt to attach to Vlasov for his part in the battle , since on 11 November Stalin personally appointed him to command 20th Army , entrusting him with 15 precious tanks and a vital role under Zhukov in the planned defence of Moscow . |
| 8 | Inflammation was graded according to Matt 's criteria by one of the authors , who was given no clinical information . |
| 9 | An overall clinical global grade was given according to Truelove and Witts ( table I ) At the end of the study patients were asked whether they found the enemas acceptable or whether they had encountered difficulty in their administration . |
| 10 | After six months Pop was asked to return to Simla to help the Burma Governor , Dorman-Smith , as Director of Public Relations , and to help the Administration and the Army who were by this time getting ready to go back into Burma . |
| 11 | Hyperlipidaemia and obesity are important contributors to the coronary heart disease epidemic in western countries , so a low-risk group was defined according to plasma ApoB level and BMI . |
| 12 | But it is symptomatic of the greater tolerance of the Muslims that the Jewish community was allowed to return to Jerusalem and four Christian priests were allowed to hold services in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre . |
| 13 | Of course , the deception was bound to come to light sooner or later . |
| 14 | The last Paris race was scheduled to go to Madrid but , by order of the government , it was halted at Bordeaux because of the high number of accidents involving pedestrians . |
| 15 | That was the year the city 's deputy was found beaten to death , in a village near Riba ; the landlords had paid a gang to kill him , just as they did in the old days , before Davide left for America . |
| 16 | The first age was said to belong to God the Father , the second to God the Son , and the last age to God the Spirit . |
| 17 | His amendment was that the Code was intended to apply to people under detention ‘ or people for whom detention is becoming , as it were , imminent . ’ |
| 18 | Plasma atrial natriuretic peptide was extracted according to Sagnella et al . |
| 19 | At the Third Reading , the UnderSecretary of State for Scotland , Mr Robert Hughes , laid a number of amendments to make it clear that the Bill was intended to apply to children 's hearings . |
| 20 | A MAN was found stabbed to death yesterday after an all-night party to celebrate his engagement . |
| 21 | Six months after a seventy year old man was found beaten to death in his home , police say they 've made an important breakthrough . |
| 22 | But they had one in the corner you see and I could see the back leg was gone said to Margaret an said I might as well do something of that , you know , to do up it 's the only one that they had there that wanted really wanted repairing , so the feller said ooh I do n't know he said hang on , I 'll look in the book . |
| 23 | DNA was isolated according to ref. 28 . |
| 24 | For Southern blot analysis , thymocyte and brain DNA was isolated according to ref. 28 . |
| 25 | This , however , was impossible so long as descent was reckoned according to mother right . |
| 26 | During the latter years the only minute of interest was in October 1869 when " the secretary was empowered to write to Mr Menzies and Dr. Campbell , the former from taking any papers and the latter from entering the room altogether , not being a subscriber , " In 1870 there was a complaint about the pilfering of papers and the committee have to acknowledge , with regret , that their attempts to prevent this evil have not been attended with such success as had been anticipated . |
| 27 | No clear relation was found with degree of dysplasia , and no information was given pertaining to size or presence of malignant change . |
| 28 | Commius was forced to flee to Britain and he established himself as King of the British Atrebates which were presumably an earlier migrant group of the Gallic tribe of the same name . |
| 29 | Fang Lizhi , a leading astrophysicist noted for his frequent outspoken comments on the Chinese political system was invited to speak to electronics students at Beida on 4 November 1985 . |
| 30 | by no means all species of raptors suffered in this way , but sufficient alarm was engendered to lead to demands that organo-chlorides be prohibited . |