Example sentences of "was [verb] to [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The name St Petersburg had been given to the city by Peter the Great in 1703 ; in 1914 it was amended to the Russified form Petrograd , and in 1924 it was renamed in honour of Lenin after his death . |
| 2 | Sometime in the not-so-distant geological past , perhaps as little as half a million years ago , it was joined to the great land mass to the north . |
| 3 | A preview of the Catechism was leaked to an Italian news agency , ANSA , which quotes the contentious death penalty clause : |
| 4 | He took with him a secret report which was leaked to the Japanese press . |
| 5 | The report was leaked to the British television programme , This Week . |
| 6 | An EC monitors ' document , which was leaked to the Yugoslav press on Dec. 2 , accused the JNA of " brutal aggression " and called on the EC to use force against it . |
| 7 | This letter was prefixed to the second volume of Leapor 's verse published in 1751 . |
| 8 | EDITOR 'S FOOTNOTE : The remark ‘ This is the sack Frank Gray issue ’ was uttered to a senior Echo journalist on buying his copy of Mission Impossible at Feethams . |
| 9 | He was remanded to an open bail hostel , but while he was there he raped and murdered office worker Anna McGurk . |
| 10 | Across the mammal 's back are the remains of an iron tool which was riveted to the upper part of the tail . |
| 11 | By this time the whole tube carriage was riveted to the three men . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I walked some way behind Jean-Claude on the narrow path that skirted the woods and lost sight of him when my attention was diverted to a shadowy path in the trees . |
| 14 | The Ithusheng Community Association was founded more than 10 years ago by well-known South African physician and political activist Dr Mamphela Ramphele , when she was banished to the rural village of Lenyenye in one of the so-called black homelands in the North Eastern Transvaal . |
| 15 | In this study forty children with a mean age of four years and five months were divided into two groups : one group received ‘ nurturant ’ behaviour from a role model , while the other group was exposed to a non-nurturant relationship . |
| 16 | Sibylle herself was only eight when Hitler came to power , and so was exposed to the intrusive influences of the Nazi state during her most formative years . |
| 17 | So , in our example , it would be the experimental group which was exposed to the new teaching style . |
| 18 | Moreover , only a very small segment of jejunum was exposed to the full dose of cholera toxin and because of the rapid binding of the toxin to the mucosa it was presumed that cholera toxin was not available in the distal small bowel to induce secretion . |
| 19 | By the time he reached the high moor , visibility was restricted by a swirling mass as he was exposed to the full force of the blizzard . |
| 20 | This hands-on experience helped Lorne talk his way into a production assistant 's job at the BBC in London , where he was exposed to the broader spectrum of skills required to get a film on the air . |
| 21 | In a lively and entertaining performance the audience was treated to a graphic description of the history of man 's relationship with chemicals derived from plants . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | And after two odds-against horses won the opening races , the crowd was treated to a magnificent display of jumping when George Martin guided home his own horse , even money favourite Limeridge , in the Open Race . |
| 24 | I was treated to the full force of the General 's disapproval , which was not negligible . |
| 25 | True , my eyes did the selecting that guided their evolution , but at every stage I was limited to a small clutch of progeny offered up by random mutation , and my selection " strategy " , such as it was , was opportunistic , capricious and short-term . |
| 26 | So if a person had a sore throat and it burned , this burning would be a particular symptom because it was limited to a single focus of his illness . |
| 27 | We know nothing of his campaign , except that it was limited to a single season and that the Silures did not appear again as a fighting force . |
| 28 | If only he could come across a barn in which he could seek refuge from the full force of the gale … but visibility was limited to a few strides . |
| 29 | In fact , the rising was limited to the Zagorje region of north-western Croatia and the adjoining Slovene areas . |
| 30 | But this was limited to the eastern half of the county since the Lord Lieutenant , the Duke of Richmond , felt that it would interfere with the traditional authority of the magnates , and local opinion in the west deferred to this view until 1856 . |