Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [verb] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Orange warned that the costs involved in addressing environmental pressures on the worldwide oil industry were rising to a point where they would soon equal revenues . |
| 2 | Papers produced by Rudolf Schaffer summarising the results of the YPS programme and by Harry McGurk discussing design possibilities for the longitudinal study were circulated to the research community and comments were invited on how the initiative should be developed . |
| 3 | Towards the end of the Christmas term 1990 , the staff of the Modern Languages Department were invited to a buffet dinner in Crescent House by Professor Noel Thomas , who was retiring after some 25 years as a member — and for much of that period a key member — of the Department . |
| 4 | But now the details relating to academic , social , personal , and occupational aptitude were forwarded to the juvenile section of the local labour exchange where vacancies had been notified by employers . |
| 5 | During the period 1978–88 , 112 consecutive patients with an adenocarcinoma in a columnar lined lower oesophagus were referred to the Rotterdam Oesophageal Tumour Study Group for evaluation and treatment . |
| 6 | In 1985 the Star , Guardian , Observer , Mail on Sunday , Sunday Mirror , Coventry Evening Telegraph , Lancashire Evening Post , Lancaster Guardian and Middlesex Chronicle were added to the sample . |
| 7 | Police equipped with riot gear were called to the scene . |
| 8 | Through their work , the fruits of biblical scholarship were disseminated to an ever-widening audience . |
| 9 | These petitions in practice were referred to the Chancellor , who was the chief minister and secretary and the most learned member of the King 's Council . |
| 10 | His observational sample of prisoner interviews , although small , had found the PACE codes of practice were followed to the letter and he argued this showed that it required the sanction of the law to effect changes in interview and interrogation techniques . |
| 11 | Many undiagnosed patients with prostatic obstruction were referred to the renal unit . |
| 12 | At independence , the powers of the Governor and his administration were transferred to the president and his Cabinet but , as we shall see , these powers were not judged to be sufficient . |
| 13 | ‘ Cash or stock were owed to the client and problems could be attributed to inadequacies in the member 's administrative procedures . ’ |
| 14 | Tranmere were restricted to the occasional breakaway which usually ended with an offside decision and Nixon came to their rescue again when he swooped to his right to hold Wright 's shot . |
| 15 | Kid and suckling pig were done to a turn on spits attended by uncles and a rapt audience of neighbourhood dogs . |
| 16 | After closing the caecum with a purse string ligature , the loops of intestine were restored to the abdominal cavity . |
| 17 | PROCEEDS from the recent Bishop 's Annual Charity Social at the Marton Country Club were donated to the Hemlington Day Care Centre . |
| 18 | It was only after a considerable struggle that the diver was dragged to the deck . |
| 19 | If no excuse had been sent he called on the parents , so truancy was kept to a minimum . |
| 20 | Although the Americans were anxious not to become identified with " colonial " authorities , aid was granted to the French from May 1950 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 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 | " I only ever wish to please him and I 'm very sorry my pet gibbon was taken to the palace . |
| 24 | Kitchin was apprenticed to the map-engraver Emanuel Bowen [ q.v. ] on 6 December 1732 . |
| 25 | The gullibility of the electorate was tested to the nth degree by the promises of ; more taxi licences , a ‘ better ’ carnival , ‘ good and plenty water ’ and the equally uninspired promise from one candidate that , if reelected , he would abolish dog licences . |
| 26 | It was a great regret to me that our partnership was to come to an end . |
| 27 | The townsmen had secured support from the rural hinterland , and a young knight in the invading force was clubbed to the ground by an English rustic . |
| 28 | IN 1982 , a naval task force was despatched to the Falkland Islands under the same authority . |
| 29 | On Aug. 9 , when the aircraft carrier Clémenceau was directed to the Gulf area , President Mitterrand said that France 's long-standing friendly relations with Iraq , and support during its war with Iran , " allows us to say all the more clearly that we accept neither the aggression against Kuwait nor the annexation which followed " . |
| 30 | Soon after 1620 a monument was erected to the memory of the first [ q.v. ] and second Barons Rich ( died 1568 and 1581 , Felsted , Essex ) which includes a series of reliefs illustrating scenes from the life of the first lord . |