Example sentences of "[num] [was/were] [verb] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In April 1981 , route 154 was diverted to a new estate on the site of Croydon Aerodrome and only 157 serves South Norwood and Anerley . |
| 2 | Car 2 was presented to the National Tramway Museum at Crich in 1963 , where it became the first car there to move under power in June 1964 . |
| 3 | In 1990 , after unsuccessful fostering and further misfortune , she developed symptoms of anorexia nervosa and in 1991 was admitted to an adolescent residential unit for treatment . |
| 4 | But , coached by a director of la Comédie française , the voice of 1940 was allied to the imperious gestures and stature of 1958 : for Pierre Lazareff , the leading journalist of the French popular press , de Gaulle eclipsed all previous , and contemporary , politicians in his use of the box . |
| 5 | The international pre-eminence the country had enjoyed since defeating Napoleon in 1812 was brought to an abrupt end by the Crimean War ( 1853–56 ) . |
| 6 | As outside broadcasts became more sophisticated , the cars fell into disuse , and 166 was presented to the National Tramway Museum for restoration as an open toastrack in 1972 . |
| 7 | In 1972 , 166 was donated to the National Tramway Museum , where it was beautifully restored to its original condition . |
| 8 | Of these , 340 were pinpointed to a particular chromosome , with at least one on each of the 23 pairs of chromosomes ( McKusick , 1980 ) . |
| 9 | The Labour administration elected to the Greater London Council in 1981 was committed to an extensive programme of economic intervention , to be supported by economic research on a larger scale than previously experienced in local government and with radically new approaches to generating and implementing policy . |
| 10 | During these years he found time to study law and in 1873 was called to the Irish bar . |
| 11 | In 1950 , 4.2 million m 3 were exported to the developed world , in 1980 some 66 million m3 , and this could be 95 million m 3 by the end of the century . |
| 12 | Mladenov relinquished the BCP leadership on Feb. 2 to Aleksandur Lilov , and on April 3 was elected to the new post of President . |
| 13 | On some estimates , perhaps another SFr15 billion was added to the existing SFr1.5 trillion hoard during the first month of the Gulf crisis , and more has no doubt followed . |
| 14 | Exploration well 41/24–3 was drilled to a total depth of 4,834 feet by the Penrod 92 jack-up rig . |
| 15 | Then occasionally when we had houses broken into and so on , if it was thought that a tramp could have been responsible , it used to be a great help if we gave out nine tickets for tramps and only eight of the nine were admitted to the casual ward , then we should clamp down of course on the one who failed to turn up . |
| 16 | Because he did not wish to be ordained , his Fellowship at St John 's College , Cambridge , lapsed in 1852 ; but he was fortunate in getting another at Pembroke College , and then in 1858 was elected to the Lowndean Professorship of Astronomy and Geometry at Cambridge , which did not require that the holder should be a clergyman . |
| 17 | Part 1 was deferred to the second meeting . |
| 18 | The first PC-5A assembled in India was flown for the first time in August 1941 and one report suggests that fifty were delivered to the Indian Air Force from 1942 , but this has not been confirmed . |
| 19 | In 1983 two new MKIII sleeping cars numbered 2914 and 2915 were added to the Royal Train , part finished at Derby Litchurch Lane , with three compartments in each car left empty of berths . |
| 20 | Some , mainly those of war time subjects and taken in the 30 's and 40's were given to the National Portrait Gallery , but the best were retained by the V. and A. |
| 21 | However , one report that took nearly two hours using version 4.2 was reduced to a mere 20 minutes using version 4.5 . |
| 22 | But in April 1878 he was cautioned for being intoxicated while on duty , and when discovered drunk in 1882 was reduced to the second class . |
| 23 | He was educated at Appleby grammar school and at eighteen was admitted to the Inner Temple . |
| 24 | Of this , 309 million was allocated to the central government 's ( i.e. the Scottish Office 's ) own direct expenditure on education , and a further 5 million earmarked for the various education authorities ( i.e. the Regional and Islands Councils ) to spend on education . |
| 25 | It was made part of The East Surrey Regiment in 1916 , and in 1935 was converted to an anti-aircraft role as part of The Royal Engineers . |
| 26 | The sequence of the human NF-l promoter in the region of -300 to -180 was compared to the homologous region in the mouse gene . |
| 27 | The traffic arrangements for the Kumbh mela in 1906 were entrusted to the same officer who had made all the arrangements for the Great Delhi Durbar organized by the Viceroy Curzon in 1904 . |
| 28 | Thus despite the fact that the Thatcher government in the early 1980s was committed to a tight control of money supply and set targets for the broad monetary base M0 , and despite the fact that the authorities have expressed interest in monetary base control , this has not been the form of policy pursued . |
| 29 | Reference to the Nineties was confined to the final paragraph of his 11-page script . |