Example sentences of "[Wh det] was [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , at least since the nineteenth century there has been a spillover into the State schools of the ethos of the independent boarding schools , the purpose of which was understood to be as much moral as academic , with character-training high on the agenda . |
| 2 | This comprised three street tramway lines based on Mitcham , one of which was extended to the Croydon Borough boundary . |
| 3 | The bread supplied by Benjamin Maulden was ‘ very indifferently baked ’ and the house surgeon was to write to him expressing the Board 's dissatisfaction — which was extended to a Mr. Bentham , whose bread was found to be underweight . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Held , dismissing the applications , that prior to 1873 judges sitting as visitors to the Inns of Court to hear appeals by barristers who had been ordered to be suspended or disbarred were acting as judges and performing judicial duties which were an essential part of the administration of justice in their courts ; that the disciplinary jurisdiction of the visitors in respect of fitness of persons to become or remain barristers , was a jurisdiction which was transferred to the High Court by section 16 of the Judicature Act 1873 and retained there by section 18 of the Judicature Act 1925 and section 10(3) ( b ) of the Supreme Court Act 1981 ; and that , accordingly , there was no jurisdiction to hear the applications for judicial review ( post , pp. 1007D–E , G — 1008A , 1010B ) . |
| 6 | Accordingly , the jurisdiction of the visitors in these matters was a jurisdiction which was transferred to the High Court in 1873 and retained there by section 18(3) of the Act of 1925 and section 10(3) ( b ) of the Act of 1981 . |
| 7 | This was probably caused by the roll of linoleum , one end of which was tied to the carrier behind her saddle , the other to the handlebar . |
| 8 | You may want to make the nice gesture , which was made to me when I first moved into a flat and I have repeated myself whenever I have moved , of leaving a plant or a box of chocolates and a note wishing the next occupants a happy life in your former home . |
| 9 | The nearest approach which was made to judicial independence was in 1289 , when Edward I enacted that the seneschal of Aquitaine was the principal seneschal set above all the sub-seneschals ( of the Agenais , Landes , Quercy , Limousin and so forth ) . |
| 10 | They argue that it is unnatural to break up a programme which was made to be viewed as a whole . |
| 11 | The request which was made to me in Committee was to bring forward amendments to enable the Secretary of State to set up a funding council , on the clear understanding that no commitment was being given that we would wish to do such a thing . |
| 12 | One early example of a pre-packaged product was JS own-brand bloater fish paste which was made to a special recipe in the firm 's Blackfriars factory from 1891 until the Second World War . |
| 13 | But before the Salvation Army took it over , it was a , a Borough Council property , which was leased to a f Jewish company in London , and they used to send a manager , at this lodging house and these were then let nightly at about ten pence per night . |
| 14 | The narrowness of the ledge of the rock on which the castle stands dictated the shape of the great hall , 125 feet in length , which was built to a unique bowed plan in three sections and is perhaps one of the most interesting features of the castle . |
| 15 | However , having said that , there is some support for the submission made on behalf of the appellants in this regard , and that is to be found in the letter of 10 October 1989 which was written to them , following that hearing , by their solicitor . |
| 16 | Alternatively , he may have represented a powerful aristocratic family descended from neither the Deiran nor the Bernician royal family and which was aspiring to royal power for the first time , though the likelihood is that some such affinity was at least claimed . |
| 17 | Blake left the navy in 1947 with an excellent report on his work , a copy of which was sent to General Gerald Templer , Director of Military Intelligence at the War Office . |
| 18 | Rodrigo replied , in a letter which was sent to all the Moslem rulers , implying that Yusuf did not dare to cross the sea and face him . |
| 19 | While he was imprisoned in 1534 he was working on a map of the Holy Land which was sent to Cromwell 's confidant , Rowland Lee [ q.v. ] , in an attempt to secure his release . |
| 20 | Amongst these was a Guide for Teachers which was sent to every secondary school teacher in Scotland . |
| 21 | Following this initial research , a questionnaire was designed for each of the core services of audit and tax which was sent to either the chief executive or finance director of 100 client companies . |
| 22 | In the Government 's manifesto which was sent to every household it was clearly stated that there would be no political union . |
| 23 | Cases included 7,000 tons of ash from a Berlin power plant which was sent to be mixed with cement but found to be radioactive . |
| 24 | He later produced a detailed report from which evolved a blueprint for emergency planning which was sent to all local authorities throughout Britain . |
| 25 | Having released two singles — ‘ June ’ — and ‘ Childhood Revisited ’ — in the late eighties on an independent label — Ashanti recorded a demo containing a song called ‘ Real World ’ , which was despatched to Polygram and , according to Boyd , ‘ within 20 minutes they were prepared to make us an offer which , at the time , was as good as we could get . |
| 26 | But Comdisco made a bundle leasing 3090-Es , upgrading its base of original 3090s and navigating past most of the rocks and shoals of the mainframe disk business , which was adjusting to IBM 's impressive 3380-K drives . |
| 27 | Or the jurors could have taken the path they did in fact elect , which was to go to the very heart of the matter and conclude that these officers were only doing what they have been trained to do and that all the famous video footage demonstrated was that they had indeed gone by the book . |
| 28 | The farm buildings formed three sides of a square in the south-eastern corner of the property , which was bounded to the right by a shaded area . |
| 29 | They took nothing from the van which was delivering to Barclays Bank . |
| 30 | Had the student acted without regard to either of these considerations , then the act of admission to residential care might have come to represent for John an aggressive act against him rather than one which was intended to be supportive . |