Example sentences of "[noun prp] was [verb] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | O ’ Neil was sent to a Young Offenders ' Institute for four years after admitting aggravated burglary and grievous bodily harm . |
| 2 | It was reported in October 1991 that 73-year-old Orton was subjected to a special regime known as ‘ cell punishment ’ — forced to squat on the floor with arm and leg-irons chained to a metal rod behind his knees for up two days and nights . |
| 3 | During his years of experimentation , Alexander was led to a long consideration of the whole question of direction . |
| 4 | At a time when the rivalry between Rangers and Celtic was rising to a new level of competitiveness , Baxter turned tradition on its head , and befriended a group of like minded Celtic players . |
| 5 | The gene defective in XLA was localized to a 2-cM interval in Xq21.3-Xq22 ( R. Lovering et al. , manuscript in preparation ) which is shown on the genetic map . |
| 6 | Elizabeth and Helen moved into their own basement flat in an inner-city suburb in 1987. they are middle-aged and spent nearly thirty years together at the same mental handicap hospital but lived separately for the two years before the move into the community because Helen was transferred to a smaller institution . |
| 7 | Stephen was talking to a tall , elegantly dressed woman , who looked younger than she actually was , and her much older husband when she joined him for lunch in the beach bar . |
| 8 | Croatia was confined to a small area round Zagreb and a stretch of the northern Adriatic coast . |
| 9 | Ted was declaiming to a small hushed group . |
| 10 | Amal was taken to a nearby hospital by the driver and the Filipinos . |
| 11 | On March 4 temporary permission to remain in the UK was granted to a Sudanese man who fled racist attacks in Germany . |
| 12 | Carrington was directed to a nearby farmhouse where ‘ a tall , dark German airman had been arrested at the sharp end of a pitchfork ’ to find only another crowd of excited neighbours and a labourer called Davie Maclean who was getting fed up with the whole affair . |
| 13 | Willie was pointing to a tiny shop down the small road they had just crossed . |
| 14 | There was no one to look after the baby in the workhouse , so Oliver was sent to a special ‘ baby farm ’ nearby . |
| 15 | BARCLAYS Bank executive Simon Culling was subjected to a horrifying ordeal at gunpoint after the gang burst in to his home . |
| 16 | Van Damme was taken to a nearby hospital where tests showed he was okay . |
| 17 | Rudman was sent to a psychiatric hospital last year after admitting the manslaughter of his wife on the grounds of diminished responsibility . |
| 18 | A college lecturer in Redcar was reduced to a nervous wreck and had to call the police to get rid of salesmen while in Northallerton a salesman suggested he bedded down on a couple 's sofa while they slept on £5,000 offer . |
| 19 | Mary was posted to a notorious station in the Fens , called Sledgwick , which was universally known as HMS Sledgwick because it was practically under water and everyone wore gumboots and walked about on duckboards . |
| 20 | The exuberance that Minton helped generate at Camberwell was related to a deeper excitement animating the whole school . |
| 21 | It is clear that on the Conservative side , before defeat in the 1964 General Election , Edward Boyle was attracted to a binary solution and in March of that year put a paper on it to a Cabinet committee . |
| 22 | CRP was added to a final concentration of 0.6 ng/µl , cAMP to a final concentration of 50 µM , CytR was added to a final concentration of 3.3 ng/µl in the reactions in lanes 4 and 9 , and a final concentration of 44 ng/µl in the reactions in lanes 5 and 10 . |
| 23 | I think Steve was going to a first aider or something , and there was quite a few different people . |
| 24 | When Rome fell to the barbarian tribes during the fourth and fifth centuries , Europe was reduced to a primitive backwater . |
| 25 | Dry manager Leroy Richardson was frogmarched to a safe containing the weekend 's takings . |
| 26 | In 1337 a certain Robert Gyan was submitted to a brutal penance by the dean of Wells for carrying away ‘ a great number of alder ’ from Stan Moor in the Somerset Levels . |
| 27 | After leaving Franklin 's School in Leicester in 1881 Gimson was articled to a local architect , Isaac Barradale , and also attended Leicester School of Art , where he won national medals for suburban housing and for furniture design . |
| 28 | Former Prime Minister Mouloud Hamrouche was elected to a new 15-member politburo announced by the FLN on Aug. 8 . |
| 29 | Yet for all the growth of its port and shipyard facilities , the size of its herring fleet , the complexity of its transportation network , the growing popularity of the bathing beaches and Spa Cures in nearby Zoppot , Danzig was tied to a backward and unstable agricultural hinterland , dominated by the massively retrograde talent of the Junkers . |
| 30 | More specifically , the rise of the Labour Party in Preston was based to a large extent on the ways in which forms of skill structured certain capacities for political action , in which gender solidarity affected political forms , and in which the social structure determined class alliances ( pp 40–1 ) . |