Example sentences of "[noun prp] was [verb] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | George Stephenson was appointed engineer to the Stockport and Darlington Railway which opened in 1825 , as a line to transport coal only , but the idea soon spread and , in 1826 , the Menai Suspension Bridge was opened , linking Anglesey to the mainland . |
| 2 | In reply , Robert Dahl had no difficulty making it seem that Walker was pinning arguments to him and to others in an arbitrary manner , but in the process some of Walker 's stronger points were diminished — in particular the argument that ‘ political scientists … have overlooked the importance of broadly-based social movements , arising from the public at large , as powerful agents of innovation and change ’ . |
| 3 | Losing was one thing but to lose as spinelessly as the Welsh XV did to Bridgend on Saturday was to add insult to severely injured pride . |
| 4 | Alexei was adding details to his sketch . |
| 5 | Ten plutonium production reactors were built and operated and the irradiated fuel reprocessed ; various types of thermal reactor were investigated , as well as fast reactors and fusion reactors ; and from the mid-1950s AEA was selling electricity to the grid . |
| 6 | Preece was appointed electrician to the postmaster-general in 1877 and Kempe was subsequently transferred to London on 2 March 1878 to act as his assistant . |
| 7 | In 1796 Sadler was appointed chemist to the newly founded Board of Naval Works of the Admiralty , under Bentham as inspector-general . |
| 8 | Russia contended that Ukraine was exporting inflation to Russia when Ukrainian enterprises purchased Russian goods with credits issued by Ukraine , for although Russia had the monopoly on printing money , all former Soviet republics could issue credits to their industries . |
| 9 | While travelling on the mainland of South America , Darwin was brought face to face with the conflict that was under way between the European settlers and the native Indians . |
| 10 | Everyone knew Gary Lineker was saying farewell to international football and a new dawn was beckoning . |
| 11 | During their stay the Juan Carlos and Salinas presided over the signature of a five-year treaty of friendship and co-operation in the context of which Spain was to provide aid to Mexico of 4,400 million pesetas ( about US$40,000,000 at current exchange rates ) over five years in the form of credits and investment in the private sector . |
| 12 | In Scotland Horne was made Assistant to the Director as he had been ‘ acting Director ’ since 1899 when Howell retired . |
| 13 | This was in 1976 , when the Expenditure Committee of the House of Commons was refused access to a programme analysis and review ( PAR ) study on educational planning which had been made available to the organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD ) and referred to at length in one of their publications . |
| 14 | In 1824 Lehzen was appointed governess to the young princess . |
| 15 | The spokesman said that China was making representations to the UK over the meeting . |
| 16 | ‘ When de Craon was refused entry to Godstowe , he came here and offered you money : gold and silver for your church and parishioners . |
| 17 | Their task is nowhere better summed up than by Ernest Newman , one of the great music critics of his day , who rarely watched ballet until intrigued by the news that Massine was creating ballets to Tchaikovsky 's fifth Symphony ( Les Présages , London 1933 ) and to Brahms ' Fourth Symphony ( Choreartium , London 1933 ) . |
| 18 | In the morning they decided Oliver was to lure Tim to the flat with offers of breakfast and a shower . |
| 19 | Vic Wilcox was dictating letters to Shirley when Brian Everthorpe knocked and put his head round the door , grinning , for some reason , from sideburn to sideburn . |
| 20 | In what was widely interpreted as a bid for electoral advantage — securing Florida 's 25 electoral college votes was seen as essential if Bush was to win re-election to the White House — the President also announced that the government would provide 100 per cent federal reimbursement to local authorities for recovery operations , rather than the 75 per cent customary in such cases . |
| 21 | Later Miss Francis of Maidstone was to give evidence to the jury . |
| 22 | In 1952 " Sutcliffe was appointed Secretary to the Church of England " Council for the Deaf in succession to Canon Vernon Jones and the Rev Humphrey Ainger , who died after less than three years in office . |
| 23 | And so when Lacuna was screaming instructions to the androids , and the Doctor was almost hopping from foot to foot with anxiety , and the pale young man and the little girl were staring open-mouthed at the screens , Britta omitted to speak . |
| 24 | Further conversations with Eleanor McCallum and others confirmed that God was wanting Gary to ’ move out ’ . |
| 25 | Her question never got answered , for just then another couple with a dog appeared in the distance and Vendelin Gajdusek was calling Azor to heel so that he could leash him . |
| 26 | He wanted to know what Emily was doing adding to them . |
| 27 | It was also announced yesterday that Britain was giving £500,000 to the Urban Foundation in South Africa , a private group backed by South African businesses , to help finance homes for low-income black families . |
| 28 | The row began in 1985 when Mr Phillips was granted permission to resite the gates at the entrance to the mile-long lime avenue nearer to the house . |
| 29 | The fifth case belonged to a different category : a gentleman named Thomas Arundell was given leave to demise a tenement and three yardlands which he presumably treated as an investment . |
| 30 | Bill Craig 's cognomen Jas was elected thanks to the accumulation , in fourteen successive stages of the count after the first , of 1,246.83 votes plus 297.25 plus 4.75 plus 1.75 plus 111.25 plus 15.47 plus 13.79 plus 975.73 plus 15.26 plus 219.03 plus 2.39 plus 2.00 plus 305.65 plus 747.00 . |