Example sentences of "was [vb pp] by [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.

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1 On the same day , 18 February 1974 , the lease was assigned by Tempest to C.T .
2 She was flown by helicopter to hospital in Orlando .
3 She was flown by helicopter to hospital in Orlando .
4 The 32-year-old Californian was flown by helicopter to hospital with chest and back injuries and suspected fractures to one or more vertebrae .
5 When Ako Adjei , Adamafio and Crabbe were given a second trial they were condemned to death : but the sentence was commuted by Nkrumah to life imprisonment .
6 This work was subcontracted by EEG to John Whitney Jr and his Digital Productions — John Whitney Sr was a pioneer of computer animation whose abstract films inspired Con Pederson and Douglas Trumbull to try slit-scan .
7 It shows good practice that the social worker did not withdraw once the immediate situation was resolved by admission to Part III , but continued to work for reconciliation , and to lessen guilt , so that all feelings were beginning to be worked through .
8 It was applied by Baulig to Brittany ( 1935 ) and seemed to work quite well as the basic map used was the old French 1:80 000 hachured map which had plenty of spot heights often on flattish summits or spurs .
9 The head of the family , Sir John , was related by marriage to Warwick 's allies the Fitzhughs of Ravensworth , and two of his sons married Neville wives .
10 The head of the family , Sir John , was related by marriage to Warwick 's allies the Fitzhughs of Ravensworth , and two of his sons married Neville wives .
11 The drive for expansion received its greatest impetus from the support given to the movement by Lord Rothermere , who was persuaded by Mussolini to back Mosley .
12 The ultimate compliment was paid Ferguson before the interval when Buchwald was told by Vogts to man-mark the awkward 21-year-old in case his threat should turn into an act of aggression that brought an equaliser .
13 Gastric acid was collected continuously on to ice and the acid output during each 15 minute period was measured by titration to pH 7 with 0.1M NaOH .
14 In his early twenties Wordsworth wandered the roads himself in search of case histories — see Guilt and Sorrow or Old Man Travelling — and when he settled at Grasmere he lived alongside a road which was used by travellers to Whitehaven and to Scotland in bad weather ; Dorothy 's Journals are full of encounters with wanderers .
15 After he was transported by train to Dar Es Salaam nothing more was heard in Masailand until the official notice was posted in the district commissioner 's office in Ewaso Narok confirming that sentence had been carried out .
16 Finally his estate was reduced by debts to £4 net .
17 Gearing was reduced by 3pc to 39pc .
18 After the Government announcement the charge was reduced by £140 to £260 .
19 It illustrates the pyramiding effect of interbank lending which means that no single customer or bank can be sure of where credit , i.e. deposits loaned , it extends will end up ( Shell 's deposit was loaned by Barclays to Lloyds and the latter used it to grant a loan to BP ) .
20 Meanwhile , in laboratories in Essen , Bernard Prinz was suggesting that forest decline was caused by damage to foliage by ozone , another gas produced as a by-product of industry .
21 EXTENSIVE damage expected to run into hundreds of thousands of pounds was caused by floodwater to properties in the West Wales market town of Cardigan following Thursday night 's heavy rain .
22 13 , the definition of sale by retail was considered and it was held that the sale was defined by reference to quantity sold , not to the person to whom that quantity was sold .
23 These consumed large amounts of coal and anthracite which was delivered by barge to Halling , then conveyed by horse and cart to the works .
24 It was the biggest demonstration since the lifting of martial law in 1988 , and was estimated by police to number 10,000 .
25 This new group was taken by coach to Liverpool before the move so that they could get to know their new managers and the methods of working before the relocation exercise .
26 A second received burns over 60pc of his body and was taken by helicopter to hospital , where he was reported to be seriously ill .
27 Zahira was taken by car to Harmondsworth detention centre .
28 Two days later the family received a letter from Joe written in a field dressing station before he was taken by boat to Naples .
29 The pretty presenter was taken by ambulance to London 's Charing Cross Hospital at 6 am with terrible stomach pains .
30 From there , he was taken by ambulance to Wellington Hospital .
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