Example sentences of "was [adv] [verb] to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whilst their more extreme suggestions were disregarded , the degree of concern was duly communicated to the government . |
| 2 | The arrangements concerning the loan were , according to Feigen , confirmed in a letter from the museum director and the painting was duly sent to the museum as a loan pending sale in mid August 1991 . |
| 3 | As such it was duly added to the membership roll of the contraption known as the United Nations , which asserts that all nations are equal ( albeit some more so than others ) , with one vote each , just as if they were individual human beings in a right-little tight-little democratic State . |
| 4 | Peppard Golf Club was slowly grinding to a half ( blitzed Londoners were housed in the simple wooden clubhouse ) and two of its trophies were sent to Henley , a more durable looking Club . |
| 5 | Moreover he was perversely drawn to a man so apt to be hated . |
| 6 | The flight was successfully undertaken to the area of Kerkenah Island , where two 22X Squadron Sunderlands met the Hurricanes and led them on the last leg to the island . |
| 7 | A high-performance clothing system , Vent-A-Layer , was successfully introduced to the market , and has led to a whole series of further product introductions during 1993 . |
| 8 | This was uniformly preferred to the Okapi '87 mode selection screen ( similar to Figure 5.1 ) . |
| 9 | The crassness of this assumption was forcibly put to the president by the speaker , Tip O'Neill , following the former 's televised address to the nation on the energy problem on 18 April 1977 . |
| 10 | The contract was eventually granted to a company from Australia , which , although a member of COCOM , was not a member of NATO . |
| 11 | After repeatedly failing his examinations , he was eventually called to the bar in the Inner Temple . |
| 12 | In 1941 I was trained as a Navigator/Radio in the RAF and was eventually sent to an OTU where I crewed up with a Canadian pilot , Bob Tidy of Toronto . |
| 13 | When he returned to the UK he was eventually appointed to the board , but not , as might have been expected , in charge of the refinery side of the business . |
| 14 | And like any dangerous idea , this one was eventually referred to a committee . |
| 15 | This was eventually referred to the Standing Committee for further study and recommendations . |
| 16 | The mill saw some use for storage and was eventually converted to a dwelling during the late 1940s . |
| 17 | It was eventually converted to a corn mill , operated during the 1880s by George Lewis who was followed around the turn of the century by Mr J. Nicholls . |
| 18 | The source of the leak was eventually traced to a vent which had been left open , and firemen hosed down the affected areas . |
| 19 | The source of the leak was eventually traced to a vent which had been left open , and firemen hosed down the affected areas . |
| 20 | To contemporaries , as their private letters demonstrate , the term was effectively restricted to the sale of a vote in return for money , an offer of employment , or other reward during an actual election contest . |
| 21 | This raised the question of what policy the Comintern ought to adopt towards such movements , which in its turn was intimately related to the security concerns of the fledgling Soviet state . |
| 22 | The Special Air Service Regiment — or S.A.S. , as it soon came to be called — was at this time an established part of the Army Air Corps , though it was little known to the public at large . |
| 23 | No — she was presumably seeing to the food and Rupert did n't look the kind of man who would be good at arranging flowers . |
| 24 | The leaders returned to the Knesset for the vote , in which the Shamir government was defeated by 60 votes to 55 ( with five abstentions ) , and was thereby relegated to the status of a minority-backed caretaker administration . |
| 25 | Although Eagles ' defence was rarely put to the test , they need to improve their control for the sterner tasks that lie ahead next season . |
| 26 | His sense of shock was swiftly communicated to the nation . |
| 27 | In fact he was so attracted to the canal with its brightly painted barges pulled by strong horses that his parents finally had to forbid him to go there in case he had another accident . |
| 28 | It was all according to the plan . |
| 29 | Also big trousers with big tops — it was all coming to an end , but it was still OK to wear them . |
| 30 | Its length was entirely related to the fact that it contained good news and , once again , Opposition Members did not want to hear it . |