Example sentences of "[coord] was [verb] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He served as editor of The Times while unable to type , as chairman of the Arts Council while unable to drive , and was appointed to the Broadcasting Standards Council unaware that one of Britain 's most popular television shows was named Jim 'll Fix It ( ‘ Who 's Jim ? ’ he once asked ) . |
| 2 | In 1852 he relinquished his teaching duties on grounds of poor health and was appointed to the sinecure posts of director of the College , secretary and resident governor . |
| 3 | This dates from 1729 and was presented to the cathedral by Pope Benedict XIII . |
| 4 | To commemorate the visit , the Prime Warden the next year , Mr. John Prideaux ( whose father had been Clerk at the time of the 450th Anniversary ) , called at the School in April with designs of a second cup and cover , which was commissioned by the Company from Miss Jocelyn Burton and was presented to the Chairman and Headmaster in July 1974 . |
| 5 | This , in finely-worked bronze inlaid with semi-precious stones , is thought to be by the twelfth-century French master Nicola de Verdun and was presented to the Duomo by Giovanni Battista Trivulzio in 1562 . |
| 6 | One recent Saturday afternoon I was walking along High Row and was treated to the sight of a Labour Party vehicle giving out an election message closely followed by a similar van in Conservative colours broadcasting loud music , presumably to drown out the opposition . |
| 7 | Wexford , Ireland , and was sent to the Institution for the Deaf and Dumb at Paris after no expense had been spared educating him at home . |
| 8 | John W. McCandless was born in 1884 in Londonderry , the son of a Justice of the Peace , and became deaf at the age of 10 months through scarlet fever , and was sent to the Langside Institution at Glasgow , Scotland . |
| 9 | Short stories , pamphlets , and articles appeared on both sides of the Atlantic and her novel , The Magnetic North ( 1904 ) , was a best seller , and was compared to the work of Daniel Defoe [ q.v . ] . |
| 10 | He joined the National Art-Collections Fund and was elected to the executive committee in 1912 . |
| 11 | Tilden became senior science master at Clifton College , Bristol , in 1872 and was elected to the chair of chemistry at the newly founded Mason College in Birmingham ( later the University of Birmingham ) eight years later . |
| 12 | He unwrapped the handkerchiefs , contrived to get a good amount of mud down his boots and pretended to make a bad landing from the monkey rope and was dispatched to the sanatorium with a suspected sprain . |
| 13 | It is administered by a Trust and was bequeathed to the University ‘ for the study and encouragement of art and music ’ . |
| 14 | Bulmer ( 1987 ) observes that the first official use of the term was in 1957 and was related to the field of mental illness . |
| 15 | His conclusion was that the field increased with depth and was related to the Earth 's core according to the inverse cube law . |
| 16 | The old loom , it 's exact age unknown , is no longer of any commercial value and was given to the museum at the request of their Curator for Engineering and industry . |
| 17 | The object of this latest project is Palermo Cathedral 's Chiaramonte crucifix , which dates from the late thirteenth or early fourteenth century and was given to the cathedral in 1311 by Manfredo Chiaramonte . |
| 18 | On this visit , Mr Weir , the mate , is said to have become entangled in the buoy rope when the anchor was being dropped and was dragged to the bottom and drowned . |
| 19 | The world closed quickly in on them and was limited to the gleam and crackle of the dying fire before them , to the firelight on each other 's faces , and the pale darkness of the sky above them scattered with stars . |
| 20 | But fears for his life grew as he lapsed into unconsciousness and was rushed to the Frenchay Hospital — the largest hospital in the South West which has specialist neurosurgical facilities for road accident victims . |
| 21 | He did not sit in Parliament after Pride 's Purge in December 1648 but took his seat after the readmission of the secluded members in February 1660 , and was re-elected to the Convention Parliament ( April 1660 ) . |
| 22 | I picked one of them up and was struck to the heart , for it was obvious that he had been writing a lot of poetry , all of it , so it seemed to me , very good . |
| 23 | The maquila ( in-bond ) industry was introduced along Mexico 's northern border in the mid-1960s and was extended to the rest of the country in 1972 . |
| 24 | Three weeks before his death , F , terrified of being attacked again , became increasingly depressed and was transferred to the hospital wing . |
| 25 | Later that evening she went into labour and was transferred to the maternity unit . |
| 26 | The treasurer , in sharp , clipped tones , was listing the committee 's various expenditures and was bringing to the attention of the members the fact that there was only twenty dollars in hand . |
| 27 | A moment later she felt an agonising blow in her right shoulder , and was flung to the ground . |
| 28 | But recently he became incurably lame … and was moved to the Army veterinary centre at Melton Mowbrey . |
| 29 | Late in 1991 they were completed and returned to Rochester and around the same time the Merlin 266 engine that had been rebuilt in the USA came home and was fitted to the airframe . |
| 30 | He had picked up the Bren gun and was gazing to the left of the wood and pointing the gun in the same direction . |