Example sentences of "and [was/were] [verb] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Birth weights had been recorded in pounds ( 2.2 lb=1 kg ) and were converted to the nearest gram . |
| 2 | We were ushered into the boardroom at the back of the building and were treated to a few welcoming remarks from Derek Jefferson , in his familiar , cheerful and very effective style . |
| 3 | Around 50 retired employees attended the party and were treated to a three course dinner served up by committee volunteers . |
| 4 | The liquid emptying plots were all straight lines and were fitted to a single exponential function by an iterative least squares method . |
| 5 | Some very wide wheels 16 inch diameter were fitted to One Ten and Forward Control vehicles and 15 inch diameter were an option with sand tyres and were fitted to the Pink Panthers . |
| 6 | We were warmly invited to stay with them for the duration of the festival , and were conducted to the top floor for a rather formal preliminary audience with Ranteallo and his elders . |
| 7 | In 1893 they changed their name from Royal Arsenal to Woolwich Arsenal , adopted professional status and were elected to the Second Division . |
| 8 | In December 1982 Jim 's family started squatting in council housing and were referred to the social work department by the housing department . |
| 9 | All 18 appeared before magistrates in Kampala on May 7 and were referred to the High Court . |
| 10 | In November 1941 they became 101 Troop of 6 Commando , with Lieutenant Smith in command , and were attached to the naval shore base HMS Lynx , from which they operated , with MTBs , submarines , or other carriers taking them to the area of their target beaches . |
| 11 | After the arrest , Hamadan and Sami Jafaar returned to Limassol in the launch and were driven to the American Embassy in Nicosia . |
| 12 | They had sold their farm to the Mali Government and were travelling to a new life in France . |
| 13 | The soldiers , carrying pistols and M-16 rifles , got into a pickup truck outside the hotel and were taken to a Salvadorean military installation . |
| 14 | After preparing for our morning 's activities we got on the coach and were taken to the suitable sites arranged for rock climbing and cycling . |
| 15 | When Rob broke a leg she was able to make up a lot of lost ground and was selected to the British Team two seasons before him in 1981 . |
| 16 | He commanded a hired merchantman in the summer of 1650 , serving under his brother , and was appointed to a fourth-rate warship for the following winter guard . |
| 17 | Meanwhile he continued also to operate as a moneylender , advancing large sums on bond during these same decades , and was appointed to a royal commission on the cloth trade in the late 1630s . |
| 18 | He received an honorary DCL ( Durham ) in 1908 , was elected a bencher of the Middle Temple in 1909 , was knighted for his Royal Society work in 1912 , and was appointed to the premier diocesan chancellorship , London , in the same year . |
| 19 | Born in 1948 , Brendan O'Neill was appointed managing director of Guinness Brewing Worldwide in February 1993 , and was appointed to the main board in April 1993 . |
| 20 | After working in Armagh he became Recorder of Belfast in 1982 and was appointed to the High Court two years later . |
| 21 | I travelled to the plant to collect the guitar and was treated to a comprehensive tour of what I can confirm as an impressive facility of skilled and committed people in every department . |
| 22 | But he appeared at the Old Bailey for an earlier trespass at Buckingham Palace , during which he had drunk some wine in the office of the Prince of Wales ' private secretary , and was sent to a secure hospital in Liverpool . |
| 23 | He was a foundation scholar at King Edward 's School , Birmingham , and was elected to a classical exhibition at New College , Oxford , in 1896 . |
| 24 | He held the chair of mathematics at Pavia , taught in Paris , was director of optics in Louis XV 's ministry of marine , ran an observatory in Milan , and was elected to the Royal Society in London and the French Academy of Science in Paris . |
| 25 | The total length of the oesophagus , measured by the location of the distal end of the lower oesophageal sphincter was similar in all patients ; however , the location of the squamous columnar junction extended more proximally and was related to the increasing severity of endoscopic oesophagitis . |
| 26 | After 1789 , Bentham , who was among that distinguished band of foreigners on whom the Revolution conferred honorary French citizenship , saw that the people were capable of acting politically for themselves , and was converted to the general principle of political democracy . |
| 27 | At the global scale numerical modelling has developed and was applied to the planetary boundary layer , facilitated by the development of powerful computers used in short-range forecasting research , and then in the construction of general circulation models and thence models of global climate . |
| 28 | In 1942 the Battalion left the 48th Division and was transferred to the 54th , billeted at Walberswick and Southwold . |
| 29 | One , said to be aged 18 and from Lincolnshire , was in ‘ critical ’ condition and was transferred to the Western Infirmary in Glasgow . |
| 30 | The bank was merely a device to raise capital for railway and port construction and was transferred to the National Provincial after Jackson obtained parliamentary authority to build the West Hartlepool harbour and dock in 1844 . |