Example sentences of "it was [verb] to the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was explained to the women 's meeting which took this decision that " times had changed since the inauguration , that the cost of travel made meetings now almost impossible and that with the formation of local branches of the BDDA there was not the same need for the Auxiliary " . |
| 2 | It was applied to the birds by the ornithologist William Swainson ( 1789–1855 ) , who wrote extensively and produced a number of well illustrated works . |
| 3 | In respect of one item the credit period expired at midnight on 1 December and property in it was transferred to the buyers ' customer on 2 December . |
| 4 | I later learned that , when they went off together in that fashion , it was to go to the pictures . |
| 5 | And a large part of what it was teaching to the Germans it had learned from the Romans . |
| 6 | One of the last acts of Carcani 's government was the announcement on Feb. 20 that it was acceding to the students ' demand to strip Hoxha 's name from Tirana University . |
| 7 | Forensic science had no answer to the question of what happened to the timer after it was supplied to the Libyans by the Swiss , any more than it could say with certainty what happened to the Semtex plastic explosive after that was supplied to the Libyans by the Czechs . |
| 8 | The issue had been brought into focus last September , when GATT condemned a US ban on the import from Mexico of drift-netted tuna , imposed on the grounds that it was leading to the deaths of dolphins and other marine mammals . |
| 9 | They had received the reports in the Place of Healing , where the body lay in the courtyard , protected from the flies and the heat by wet wrappings , waiting for someone to claim it and give permission for an examination to begin , before it was taken to the embalmers . |
| 10 | But this bridging paper had apparently been shown to , and agreed with , the Israeli negotiators before it was shown to the Palestinians . |
| 11 | As for S1593 , it was returned to the makers where three 720hp Junkers Jumo IVC diesel engines were fitted , these being built under licence as the Napier Culverin Series I. This aircraft finished its days as a test machine for anti-corrosive paints , but with its 37mm COW gun was considered the prototype for the Blackburn Perth which followed . |
| 12 | When it was issued in 1234 , with full papal approval , it was addressed to the masters and scholars of Bologna . |
| 13 | Oxbridge , then , was only lifted to the apex of the study of English language , literature , and history when it was subjected to the demands for national efficiency and leadership . |
| 14 | Er it was reported to the police and and everyone was a bit dissatisfied . |
| 15 | She vanished , it was reported to the police , they could n't find anything criminally suspicious . |
| 16 | It was committed to the beliefs that specialization in higher education had been corrupted into narrowness , that scholars and students in sealed disciplines no longer communicated with one another , that values were neglected in a world of facts , that the lack of residence in many contemporary universities removed a deeply significant part of their traditional culture as institutions . |
| 17 | Walsh thought that if it was left to the others they would go on talking for ever . |
| 18 | The early , nineteenth-century experiments in artificial lighting , including that held in Sheffield in the year of Chapman 's birth , had been forgotten , and it was left to the Europeans to develop the idea of floodlit football . |
| 19 | In spite of which , the impression they gave was of being identical , and it was left to the owners to give their property whatever signs of individuality they could , by making neat little gardens , or by not doing so , by cleaning the windows once a month , or by not doing so . |
| 20 | It was left to the cantons to decide whether to follow suit on the local level . |
| 21 | In rejecting such an approach it was left to the Communists to challenge both British fascism and capitalism in the 1930s . |
| 22 | Eventually it was left to the proprietors of the banned publications — Times Newspapers Ltd , News International plc , etc. — and ratepayers in some of the local authorities affected to go to court . |
| 23 | In many parts of the country , it was left to the peasants to apportion both land and the payments due to the landlord and the State . |
| 24 | Despite the fact that the public purse had been so shamefully ripped off by the sales and the asset stripping , it was left to the ratepayers , through the local authority , to pick up the tab . |