Example sentences of "was [vb pp] to [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having become a War Office civilian in 1925 , he was recalled to the colours as a lieutenant-colonel in September 1939 to command No . |
| 2 | His voice was heard to the ends of the earth — at least the earth wherever cricket is played : Australia , New Zealand , India , Pakistan , Canada , and of course West Indies . |
| 3 | For the time being , however , the impact of the voyage was limited to the kudos of returning laden with booty and important information about new trade routes . |
| 4 | ( b ) Holding outsalaried partners In the United Bank of Kuwait case no particular consideration was given to the consequences of the undertaking having been given by a salaried partner . |
| 5 | Little thought was given to the conditions in which people who had no desire to leave the country of their birth had to live . |
| 6 | In the meantime consideration was given to the problems of control , particularly given the length of Italy 's seaboard . |
| 7 | In 1945 a general power to apportion damages was given to the courts by the Law Reform ( Contributory Negligence ) Act 1945 . |
| 8 | Tremendous publicity was given to the circumstances in which this movie had been made and to the way in which the director had shot some forty reels ; ‘ the eight-hour day for movie fans has not yet dawned ’ was the thankful comment of Robert Sherwood , but few critics doubted that the film conveyed much of the anger , ugliness , and brutality of the novel . |
| 9 | Similar , though slightly more muted , approval was given to the propositions on Christian education , discussed from 17 to 19 November , and on the latter date the Council turned its attention briefly to recommendations to simplify marriage legislation and end discrimination against non-Catholic partners in mixed marriages . |
| 10 | Final impetus was given to the talks by the presence of President Alfredo Cristiani in New York on Dec. 28-31 at the personal invitation of Pérez de Cuéllar , who gave assurances that the FMLN had given " confidential promises " regarding the peace process . |
| 11 | Although compensation was given to the deportees for possessions stolen from them during the journey , no compensation was offered to the schoolchildren who were forced by internment to leave school or job training to which , in most cases , they were unable to return . |
| 12 | The passenger whom I picked up informed me that , throughout the journey , no information regarding delays was given to the passengers on the train . |
| 13 | Labour 's weak bargaining position , combined with the speed with which new industrial centres such as the Donets basin of the Ukraine were developed and older cities such as St Petersburg expanded , ensured that little attention was given to the needs of the work-force . |
| 14 | In 1946 general effect was given to the recommendations of the Beveridge Report , Aneurin Bevan tamed the recalcitrant self-interest of the doctors , and the main outlines of the Welfare State were definitively drawn . |
| 15 | That narrow smile was pressed to the scars on Justine 's throat . |
| 16 | Mucosal infiltration by inflammatory cells was evaluated as : absent ( 0 ) , moderate ( + ) , mild ( ++ ) , intense ( +++ ) by an experimented pathologist who was blinded to the results of platelet activating factor . |
| 17 | To exclude the influence of how people might feel about different types of lender or types of credit , the information was confined to the terms of the loan — so that in effect people were choosing between rival credit terms possibly within a single credit type . |
| 18 | Minton , like Whistler , was attracted to the docks by more than just his sense of sight . |
| 19 | He was added to the committees of the army , for advance of money , and for settling courts of justice . |
| 20 | In 1895 Sunderland was added to the ports of call down the East Coast now being served by four steamers . |
| 21 | In the Tudor age , patriotism in response to the threat of Philip II and the Inquisition , the spirit of Hawkins , Howard and Drake , was added to the explorations of Frobisher and the solid achievements of merchants in creating the foreign trade which rapidly became the basis of the country 's wealth . |
| 22 | A second and more fundamental change occurred in the tenth and eleventh centuries in Europe and in the Islamic world , when lead was added to the ingredients for the inlay . |
| 23 | In Lewis 's day , some formality was added to the proceedings by the undergraduate 's wearing a gown . |
| 24 | No such luxury was permitted to the scientists of the Soviet Union but even there Andrei Sakharov , the Russian Oppenheimer , was trying to persuade Khrushchev to abandon testing by 1958 . |
| 25 | Later in the century , ‘ folk ’ took over these usages from ‘ popular ’ , which was transferred to the products of the music hall and then to those of the mass market song publishers of Tin Pan Alley and its British equivalent . |
| 26 | Some girls , who worked in a factory where luminous radioactive paint was applied to the dials of watches , developed necrosis of the jaw and fatal anaemia . |
| 27 | It accepted that someone could be guilty even though unaware of the falsity of the description and even though the description was applied to the goods by another person . |
| 28 | It was applied to the birds by the ornithologist William Swainson ( 1789–1855 ) , who wrote extensively and produced a number of well illustrated works . |
| 29 | After washing in PBS , streptavidin-peroxidase ( jackson Immunonuclear Laboratories , Westgrove , PA , USA ) was applied to the sections at a 1:5000 dilution in PBS with 1% BSA for 30 minutes at room temperature . |
| 30 | ‘ Another man-witch , who was sentenced to the galleys for life , said that he had such a pity for the horses which the postillion galloped along the road that he did something to prevent it , which was that he took vervain and said over it the Pater Noster five times and the Ave Maria five times , and then put it on the road so that the horses should cease to run . ’ |