Example sentences of "[noun] was [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The stone free date corresponds to the first time the gall bladder was considered to be free of fragments and sludge . |
| 2 | It was only after a considerable struggle that the diver was dragged to the deck . |
| 3 | What he did not , of course , add was that he intended to exacerbate that instability by every means in his power while making certain that external isolation was added to internal dysfunction . |
| 4 | Busby was sacked by Sunderland when Malcolm Crosby was promoted to first-team coach last December . |
| 5 | The association was closed to new members from the time that this project became public , but now membership will be opened again : I imagine there will be considerably more interest in membership than prior to the event . |
| 6 | On 28 January 1919 , Mr. Spencer was promoted to General Manager , Tramways . |
| 7 | Cunningham was warming to this theme now . |
| 8 | On each of the six nights the auditorium was packed to capacity with a seating of 1,500 . |
| 9 | If no excuse had been sent he called on the parents , so truancy was kept to a minimum . |
| 10 | Although the Americans were anxious not to become identified with " colonial " authorities , aid was granted to the French from May 1950 . |
| 11 | He is resentful that no aid was given to him — another villager was given 3,000 rupees to repair his house because , says Kirtana , he knew the local member of the Orissa state parliament . |
| 12 | Some US$40,000,000 of the unfrozen aid was destined to be used to replenish foreign exchange reserves , pay for oil imports and pay off arrears to international organizations . |
| 13 | He advocated the combined system and regretted that , at the very moment when state aid was going to be available for the education of the deaf and dumb for the first time , oral teaching was recommended by the Report of the Royal Commission . |
| 14 | Up to US$100,000 a year in US aid was reported to be involved — about US$60,000,000 to be used for crop substitution programmes and the remainder for military training and equipment . |
| 15 | Other food aid was allocated to Nicaragua , Rwanda and the Philippines [ see also FAO below ] . |
| 16 | Sarajevo : REBEL Serbs were last night roaming through the Moslem village of Cerska , just a day after the first U.S. aid was dropped to its besieged people . |
| 17 | In the years that followed the Brigade was called to a vast number of outside fires , until they eventually handed over control to the National Fire Service in 1942 . |
| 18 | The fire brigade was called to Gulliver Road , Hartlepool , on Saturday night where a car was destroyed by fire . |
| 19 | The fire brigade was called to Spencerbeck House in Middlesbrough in the early hours of yesterday morning where there was a fire in the bin room . |
| 20 | The histories of the various herds are quite complicated but , very broadly , two of the oldest were the Guisborough Priory in Cleveland and the Whalley Abbey in Lancashire , whose stock was said to be derived from the wild white horned cattle of near-by Bowland Forest in the sixteenth century and deliberately bred for the polling factor by the abbot . |
| 21 | Some stolen stock was allowed to be recovered by the traditional method — not , it can be imagined , without amusement on the part of the Masai , who had spent forty years resisting the government 's efforts to abolish that fighting spirit which was now deemed so commendable . |
| 22 | An example of the former ( Fig. 9.1 ) was advertised in the press on 31 May 1988 when 400 million of 2 per cent index-linked stock was offered to the public . |
| 23 | Similarly , in a major study of investment in the EC over the period 1961–90 , the relation between net investment and the rate of profitability per unit of capital stock was found to be highly significant . |
| 24 | In 1911 , following six months ' military service with the Danish infantry , Rambush was invited to England by Arthur H. Lymn , who had formed a business in London to further develop and exploit commercially existing processes of gas production for industrial purposes . |
| 25 | Not that Uttley was allowed to completely forget his rugby past — also competing is fellow ‘ crumbly ’ Andy Ripley who , after taking the Ergo up in recent months , almost overtook Uttley at a recent head-to-head in a London gymnasium . |
| 26 | By his second marriage , to Marie de St Pol , at Paris in July 1321 , Aymer was related to a family which held lordships in Artois and the Pas-de-Calais very close to the Channel ports at Boulogne and Wissant . |
| 27 | But a new Royal Daffodil was delivered to GSN Co in 1939 and the people of Wallasey were forced to call their 1934-built ferry Royal Daffodil II , until GSN scrapped their version in 1967 . |
| 28 | A marquis , Ridolfi was related to the Medici family through the marriage of one of his ancestors to a daughter of Lorenzo the Magnificent ; another member of the family , Cosimo Rodolfi , was a leading figure of the 19th century Risorgimento and the founder of Florence 's first savings bank . |
| 29 | In 1963 Earp returned to England , Lawrie was transferred to the North Lowlands Unit and Johnstone became the District Geologist for the Highlands and Islands . |
| 30 | In 1957 Lawrie was promoted to District Geologist of the Highlands and Islands district . |