Example sentences of "[noun prp] was [verb] in [noun sg] to " in BNC.

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1 This considered in accordance with AFHQ FX 75383 dated 14 [ Robertson 's order of 14 May -this confirms that Low 's order of 17 May was issued in response to the Robertson order ] .
2 In the same year Bavaria and Wurttemberg concluded a customs agreement and a Central German Customs Union was formed in response , rather as EFTA was formed in response to the EEC .
3 Wilson was remanded in custody to Belfast Magistrate 's Court on September 17 .
4 Chilled PX Budweiser was drunk in preference to the local Adnams bitter , best mince was called ‘ ground beef ’ and the East Anglian Daily Times was only bought to find out what time the Bears were playing the Steelers on Channel 4 .
5 The first of those from Viola was addressed in fact to ‘ Dear Walter and Hilda ’ , but it was not difficult to guess that it was intended primarily for Walter 's eyes .
6 Jobs said at Comdex that NeXTStep was created in answer to the problem of ever-increasing amounts of code necessary for today 's increasingly complex applications — with NeXTStep 's object-oriented development tools , custom applications can be written up to 10 times faster than for MS-DOS or Windows , have greater quality and reliability , 83% fewer lines of code , at a 90% cost saving .
7 Projenor was established in response to fears about the corridor effect and aims to promote the economic , cultural and environmental restructuring of the regions around the Tunnel .
8 ( An earlier change had been made on April 25 when Kwon Hwi Hyuk had been appointed as Director of the Environment Agency after his predecessor Huh Nam Hoon was dismissed in response to the contamination of the water supply in Taegu through the dumping of 300 tonnes of phenol , a caustic chemical compound . )
9 ‘ It 's a good job , an' the money 's not bad , ’ William was saying in answer to Daniel 's enquiry .
10 By the time he reached the table where Fishbane was listening in silence to his enraged colleague , with splendid timing the Colonel had got on to ‘ bloody young whipper-snappers ’ .
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