Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [adv prt] to [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The final destruction of the road 's equilibrium took place when it was given over to high speed travel by car . |
| 2 | He was carried up to that garret , probably in a state of stupor , drunk or drugged . |
| 3 | In response to the demands of the Grain Trade , further expansion was carried out to Imperial Grain Warehouse resulting in additional bulk silo storage of 15,000 tons . |
| 4 | ‘ Captain Bernard was transferred back to active service last week . |
| 5 | Thereafter , the mill was turned over to grinding corn and animal feedstuffs , the latter accounting for much of the business in the later part of its working life . |
| 6 | The case was turned over to another policeman with a mean , bony face and narrow eyes . |
| 7 | Joe Turi , the first to go clear in the jump-off , was pushed back to third place on Country Classics Vital . |
| 8 | It is quite clear that nothing is missing from the other end of the Interludium as it was copied on to this vellum : the vellum had already been cut to its surviving top edge by the time the Interludium came to be written on to it . |
| 9 | It was a feature of the history of technology in the nineteenth century that an invention by a craftsman , or a traditional practice , was opened up to scientific analysis ; once properly understood , it could be improved upon . |
| 10 | Brian Keenan , a teacher with dual British-Irish nationality , was handed over to Syrian Army officers in West Beirut on Aug. 24 and was immediately driven to Damascus to be freed and flown home . |
| 11 | A £162,000 pools payout was handed over to four community projects in the Highlands yesterday by Ross , Cromarty and Skye MP , Charles Kennedy , on behalf of the Foundation for Sport and the Arts , which is funded through Littlewoods , Vernons and Zetters . |
| 12 | The Navy 's own dockyard at Devonport , Plymouth , was handed over to private management in 1987 , with 3,300 of the 11,500 jobs to go by 1990 ( the Guardian , June 11 1988 ) and , again , little preparation of land for replacement industries . |
| 13 | He was handed over to local army units and then driven around in an armoured car for three days to prevent Securitate units discovering his whereabouts . |
| 14 | As an example close to home , it would be a sanction much more powerful than an SEC if , as head of audit of my firm , I was called in to that panel to be told that if my firm wanted the institutional shareholders to vote their proxies in favour of our being reappointed auditors to this or that company , we would have to mend our ways in some respect . |
| 15 | The young man who was to have done it was called back to active service in the RAF and Burton stepped forward . |
| 16 | This fuelled Opposition fears that the committee was set up to rubber stamp massive cuts in welfare payments . |
| 17 | When his bastard turned out to be studious , the boy was accepted into the English bachelor 's house for a short time before he was shipped off to prep school and public school in his father 's country . |
| 18 | He recalls that when other boys of David 's age listened to Radio Luxemburg , David was tuned in to American football on the American Forces Network , and was fascinated not only by American music , but by the whole culture of America . |
| 19 | There was an assumption that inflation would be higher than it was and that was cut back to one point five percent , which I think that I would actually support was a sensible way forward . |
| 20 | The lead changed hands three times in the final seven minutes ; England scrum-half Dewi Morris failed to end the match when he missed a touch kick and when the ball was delivered back to drop-kick expert Davies , Orrell 's apparent victory was transformed into misery . |
| 21 | I was taken out to another room , sat down and then heard that thick voice , full of soft , sickly fruit . |
| 22 | However , work on the War Time Operational Expert System was continued until it was passed over to another Branch and , of course , I have continued to sponsor the work on the Circuit Board Fault Diagnostic Aid since this was my own MSc project . |
| 23 | It 's just conceivable that one or other of those houses was passed on to another organisation … |
| 24 | The case was passed on to German Self Aid , who Rave £50 . |
| 25 | The material was poured on to hemispherical centering in which the coffered panels had been inserted . |
| 26 | In the big race … the womens championships … the favourite Andrea Whitcombe who was out to win for a record equalling third year in a row was beaten in to second place by Lisa York of Leicester … they raced for nearly four miles and at the finish there was just three seconds between them |
| 27 | She also recalled the time Tippett had ‘ flu and stayed at their home where he was nursed back to good health . |
| 28 | It is ironic that the man from Windsor who was nursed back to good health in a London hospital by the woman he later married should end up as a health authority magnate . |
| 29 | Annie was nursed back to full health by the kind nuns who adopted her and they were able to give her a good education . |