Example sentences of "was [adv] [verb] to [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During this syndicalist period the ‘ official ’ movement was wholly committed to participation in the programme of modernization in which it participated with regional capital and the associated regional élite ( see Ben well CDP , 1978 ) . |
| 2 | And yet I risked everything I had worked towards , all the hope of what I might do in a position of real power , for something that was obviously doomed to failure from the start . |
| 3 | The audience was constantly moved to applause by the spectacle , and Colonel Fergusson would nudge his daughter heavily at some particularly felicitous aspect of the display . |
| 4 | Le Cerf was rightly taken to task for his selective criticisms of Bononcini , 3 but the tonal oddness of Quando ridi is by no means exceptional in Italian music of the period . |
| 5 | The astrologers have been proved right : the bridge was only closed to traffic in 1950 . |
| 6 | Charles I 's commission on exacted fees and innovated offices was investigating Mynne and the Hanaper ( in effect the treasury of the Great Seal ) in 1630 ; he got off then but was finally brought to trial for extortion in 1634 . |
| 7 | After Brunel 's death , and in more prosperous times , work was recommenced on a modified design , as a tribute to the great man whose career as an independent engineer had begun with this project , and the bridge was finally opened to traffic in 1864 . |
| 8 | On 5 July the body , whether it was Crabb 's or not , was finally laid to rest in Portsmouth cemetery . |
| 9 | Mellowed by two bottles of beer , he was convinced that Hank was telling the truth ; his mind was already going to work considering how to double that forty thousand . |
| 10 | The jury heard how a social worker was horrifically knifed to death on a late-night train . |
| 11 | The completed first phase of the west coast road , which would eventually connect Castries and Soufrière , was formally opened to traffic in December 1990 . |
| 12 | None was ever brought to trial for war crimes . |
| 13 | Major has been embarrassed by unauthorised revelations : about his engagingly eccentric brother , Terry , who still bears the family 's original surname , Major-Ball ; and his sister Pat , now retired and in straitened circumstances , who was once taken to court for failing to pay the rates . |
| 14 | In 1746 , for example , William Grant , who in spite of his seemingly humble occupation of carpenter was the son of an Inverness-shire laird , chose a particularly inconvenient moment to take leave from the service of the Hudson 's Bay Company and return to Scotland , for he was promptly committed to prison on suspicion of treason when he reached Scotland during the turmoil occasioned by the Jacobite Rising . |
| 15 | Catherine Moore , 19 , of Daniels Court , Middlesbrough , was still clinging to life in hospital last night . |
| 16 | In some of these respects ( such as improvisation , or blue tonality and pitch inflection ) it was more suited to transmission on recordings than in notation . |
| 17 | Major 's partner in crime was later stabbed to death during another raid . |
| 18 | Initially he was treated with ganciclovir for 3 months , which was later changed to foscarnet for lack of response and presumed resistance . |
| 19 | ‘ The man who can win the allegiance of the Teddy Boys ’ , remarked Mr Andrew Fountaine who was later to come to prominence within the leadership of the National Front , ‘ can rule this country . ’ |
| 20 | Swinton 's idea for three companies was also presented to parliament in a White Paper , but the general election of July 1945 brought Labour to power before any of the wartime government 's plans could be implemented . |
| 21 | In the other case , two neighbours were helping to care for an 88-year-old single woman ; service-providers were not happy with this care and were suspicious about the neighbours ' management of the woman 's finances , so she was also admitted to hospital under a guardianship order . |
| 22 | The 1989 GDP growth rate of 2.7 per cent , up from 2.2 per cent in 1988 , was partly attributed to growth in the non-oil sector . |
| 23 | Though this term was originally applied to invasion of the visceral tissues of an animal by parasites whose natural hosts were other animals , it has now , in common usage , come to represent this type of invasion in humans alone and , in particular , by the larvae of Toxocara canis . |
| 24 | She was admirably suited to membership of a caring profession . |
| 25 | ‘ I was even taken to hospital at one point thinking I had a hypo coming on , but then we realised that I was actually having panic attacks — a delayed reaction to losing my sight . |
| 26 | Mrs. Dolman was well known to Mum through the Mothers ' Union , the only son Roger was a Standard Seven boy and he had four younger sisters including one who was about a year old . |
| 27 | Reference was earlier made to work of Abrams ( in Bulmer , 1986 ) whose findings and commentary on this issue are equally illuminating . |
| 28 | He was then taken to hospital for observation . |
| 29 | afarensis was fully adapted to bipedality in ‘ excruciating detail ’ . |
| 30 | Relief-sculpture was likewise confined to adornment of temples and other sanctuary-buildings , or of tombs . |