Example sentences of "was [verb] to the [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 | He took with him a secret report which was leaked to the Japanese press . |
| 4 | The report was leaked to the British television programme , This Week . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | This letter was prefixed to the second volume of Leapor 's verse published in 1751 . |
| 7 | Across the mammal 's back are the remains of an iron tool which was riveted to the upper part of the tail . |
| 8 | By this time the whole tube carriage was riveted to the three men . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | So , in our example , it would be the experimental group which was exposed to the new teaching style . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I was treated to the full force of the General 's disapproval , which was not negligible . |
| 16 | In fact , the rising was limited to the Zagorje region of north-western Croatia and the adjoining Slovene areas . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Fortunately Russia never became directly involved and the war was limited to the Korean peninsula , but its effect on Europe was considerable . |
| 19 | His family was nominally Jewish , but their connection with Jewish life was limited to the occasional hand-out to Jewish charities . |
| 20 | But Steven had a b-i-g problem , because he had spent his whole life in Never Never , a land not best known for its grasp of real life , and his idea of what went on in the world outside was limited to the hazy notions he had picked up … from the movies . |
| 21 | His knowledge of chickens was limited to the roast variety . |
| 22 | The survey showed that the main impact of the four to six million barrels of oil which were poured into the Gulf during the 1990-91 Gulf War was limited to the northern shores . |
| 23 | To make this comparison the analysis was limited to the 29 junctions which were recalled by at least one subject . |
| 24 | For two years Vlasov was limited to the depressing task of fighting for the very survival of his movement . |
| 25 | If astrology was limited to the latest fad of providing newspaper horoscopes for the family 's ‘ pampered pooch ’ , it would be comical . |
| 26 | Here again the central place was given to the Labour Party . |
| 27 | No account of the situation beyond the bare notice of dissolution was given to the Chief Registrar and Wilson carefully abstained from registering his new organization in order to avoid the obligation of revealing financial and membership information which might be exploited by his opponents . |
| 28 | Similarly , the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science considered that if legal protection was given to the married woman 's earnings , she and her family would benefit : ‘ is it likely that a wife and mother will be less solicitous for the well-being … of her household ? |
| 29 | And also I think because a lot of publicity erm was given to the actual arrest figures , and to the fact that they did n't come from the local area . |
| 30 | No major concessions were made ; in particular , no ground was given to the Liberal demand for proportional representation to give minor parties a more enhanced position in the country . |