Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [was/were] [verb] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The proposals for provinces were referred to the newly established Royal Commission on the Constitution , while the proposals for local councils were thought to add too much extra work to the already formidable task of local government reorganisation . |
| 2 | Chain began working in the summer of 1938 on penicillin and pyocyanase , though by January 1939 , when an application for funds was made to the Medical Research Council , penicillin and ‘ actinomycetin ’ , an antibiotic which Waksman was studying , were mentioned . |
| 3 | Certainly , a vast number of Hurricanes were sent to the USSR from 1941 onwards — over 3,000 . |
| 4 | In the early seventeenth century , for instance , all sorts of cases were brought to the courts , from the seduction of wives to the incidence of prostitution . |
| 5 | The federal government decided that exports of vegetables were contributing to the soaring inflation rate , and banned them . |
| 6 | All was in vain ; the poor law functions of the Boards of Guardians were transferred to the County Council , and on March 29th 1930 the Board of Guardians met for the last time . |
| 7 | The parade of Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA managers should finally be concluded , says a report in La Repubblica , after the Milan judges interrogated Antonio Garrani , Daniele Mosca and Carlo Lombardoni last week : the three confirmed that other bribes for the supply of computers were paid to the Ministry of Justice through the administrator of a quasi-governmental agency . |
| 8 | Rumoured to have been locked in the safe at KISS FM when a couple of acetates were given to the station in advance of release , this is an ultra-obvious semi-Italio belter which should keep floors jumping . |
| 9 | As the first group of pulses were directed to the satellite high above the Indian Ocean , mixed up with all the other transmissions going out to the Far East , they were snatched out of the ether by the NSA 's giant aerials at Morwenstow 60 miles up the coast to the east of Goonhilly , and compared with the watch lists of ‘ interesting ’ numbers on their computer memories . |
| 10 | Presence of ascites was related to the severity of portal hypertension . |
| 11 | A wider but related set of matters was brought to the fore around this same period by the ‘ history-of-religions school ’ ( Religionsgeschichtliche Schule ) , which may be reckoned to have begun with Otto Pfleiderer 's Primitive Christianity ( 1887 ; E.T . |
| 12 | The genesis of these provisions was the widespread belief that the operations of share-pushers were damaging to the integrity of the markets , and contrary to the public interest . |
| 13 | To ease the pressure , a truckload of Commandos were taken to the rear where they could relax for a couple of days . |
| 14 | One µl ( 25 pmoles ) of linkers were added to the double stranded cDNA together with 1 µl of 10 mM ATP and 1 Weiss unit of T4 DNA ligase . |
| 15 | The tacit knowledge ( in the Polanyi sense of the word ) of the wide range of workers was used to the full . |
| 16 | A checklist of predictors was applied to the maternity notes of all non-Asian women who had delivered a child under consultant care when they were discharged from the maternity unit . |
| 17 | A number of changes were made to the system of stabilization of export earnings ( Stabex ) regarding agricultural and fishery products . |
| 18 | The Tretyakov collection of paintings was donated to the city of Moscow a century ago . |
| 19 | There was a celebrated individual who devoted a large part of his life to carefully recording everything that he observed ; upon his death , this complete set of observations was presented to the Royal Society in the hope that it would be of use to scientists . |
| 20 | Three and a half million head of cattle were moved to the great stock yards by rail each year , together with 8 million hogs and 5 million sheep . |
| 21 | His knowledge of chickens was limited to the roast variety . |
| 22 | They spent billions of pounds on the nightmare of the poll tax , and millions of pounds were lost to the taxpayer when they sold off publicly owned assets at well below valuation . |
| 23 | Derry 's allocation of tickets was distributed to the various clubs in Maghera last night where there was an unprecedented clamour for the precious pieces of paper . |
| 24 | Responsibility for the holding of elections was passed to the signatories of the Bicesse Peace Accords ( i.e. the government and UNITA — see p. 38180 ) and a future National Electoral Council . |
| 25 | Whatever the problems for the CNAA and for the institutions , and however irritating it was for DES officers or some college principals , the CNAA was working methodically to ensure that complex questions of comparability of standards were resolved to the satisfaction of the various parts of the validating machinery . |
| 26 | Their protection was , at least for a time , so stringent that significant numbers of poachers were exiled to the colonies . |
| 27 | Surprisingly , the other avenue available — use of the County Topic Loan Service — does not seem to have been explored in any systematic way , even though parties of children were taken to the divisional library on at least one occasion . |
| 28 | Dietary concentrations of other minerals and of vitamins were according to the AIN-76 recommendations . |
| 29 | This incident caused a very serious morale problem with all pilots and a number of letters were written to the A.O.C. , stating our anger at the loss of Auger . ’ |
| 30 | Among others , bulk orders of mats were delivered to the Simon Community ( St Pancras ) , Centrepoint ( Soho ) , St Mungo 's ( Old Street ) , The Passage ( Victoria ) , Benburb House ( Holloway ) , Riverpoint ( Hammersmith ) , Cecil House ( Waterloo & Holborn ) , Providence Row ( Spitalfields ) , Bondway Nightshelter ( Vauxhall ) and St Martin-in-the-Fields . |