Example sentences of "[det] [was/were] [verb] to [art] " in BNC.
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1 | The original enquiries about this were directed to the County Surveyor 's Department , but I now understand that the work on the boundary sign was done on behalf of the County Planning Department . |
2 | The reasons for this were linked to the financial relationship between central and local government . |
3 | It was not officially ‘ discovered ’ until the 1970s , when a few were brought to the United States . |
4 | For example , some were moved to the edges of the older urban cores as a result of the construction of peripheral public-housing schemes in the 1960s and early 1970s . |
5 | Many of the vehicles found their way back to the West , some were delivered to the Middle East and some to the Soviet Union . |
6 | Some were dancing to the beat . |
7 | Young people approaching the age when they would no longer be the formal responsibility of the local authorities became the primary consumers of residential care for several reasons : first , many had been placed with a family and temporary readmission to residential care was needed when such placements broke down ; second , some did not wish to join a new family and preferred group living amongst other young people and appointed caregivers ; and third , some were admitted to a residential setting for help with specific problems or as part of a strategy to prepare them for independent living . |
8 | No I think just dedication and we , if we made an appearance maybe something would come to a head , things would get sorted , if we just said forget it then stay at home , then the quarry managers would say right forget it , we 'll get another workforce in , you know it was , I think it was just I think some were dedicated to the job and sort of gave it their best , whereas others were slightly you know , willy nilly about it and well I 'll turn up today cos it the weather looks nice , or I 'll turn up today because the wife is n't off and or the gas has run out or whatever . |
9 | There had always been bad blood between Robert and Edward Bruce ; now this was transmitted to the next generation apparently . |
10 | This was announced to the waiting press and supporters by Dr Helen Martini , who was to play an important role in the fight to get the children home in the weeks that followed . |
11 | This was given to the DC-10 as ‘ 51 , you are cleared to FL180 ’ but was miss-heard by the Concorde as ‘ 01 , you are cleared to FL180 ’ . |
12 | This was leaked to the media , who began to clamour for stricter control . |
13 | But this was limited to the eastern half of the county since the Lord Lieutenant , the Duke of Richmond , felt that it would interfere with the traditional authority of the magnates , and local opinion in the west deferred to this view until 1856 . |
14 | This was to lead to an increase in real wages and to a decline in rents for land , and in so far as these can be used to measure the standard of living of the people , they suggest that the condition of the peasantry improved markedly in the fifteenth century . |
15 | A copy of this was sent to every bishop in England . |
16 | This was sent to every house not just to members of St Peter 's church and dealt with general social topics e.g. place of work , type of work , size of household etc . |
17 | In 1812 a model of this was sent to the Society of Arts by Hugh , Earl Percy ( later third Duke of Northumberland , q.v. ) , but it made no award of its reaping-machine premium as the invention was ‘ incomplete ’ without proper trials . |
18 | This was rectified to an extent by switching in the active circuitry , which gave the signal a kick in the pants , but care had to be exercised to avoid muddying-up the lower-mid frequencies and making the treble over-twangy . |
19 | Later this was revised to the hedging advice to discuss the matter with a social worker before deciding . |
20 | Apart from the immense raft of organisational and personnel change caused by the merger , this was ascribed to the fact that all the units were still directly managed , which caused conflicts of interest and confusion of role . |
21 | In intact experimental animals prostacyclin has a vasodepressor effect and this was observed to an equal degree when injected intravenously or intra-arterially ( Armstrong et al , 1978 ) . |
22 | This was presented to the town by the L & NWR Company in 1 885 immediately adjacent to the general offices , No. 30 , alongside the canal , is the brass moulding shop , while No. 31 is the iron foundry . |
23 | The Headquarter was originally at Rugby Cement Works where disused offices were placed at our disposal , but later as the unit increased this was moved to the Church rooms , and the unit was commanded by Captain Sammy Wenham . |
24 | Beset with cooling and undercarriage problems , the Keiun made one flight only , on May 8 , 1945 and this was brought to a premature close by high engine temperatures . |
25 | Most of this was brought to the surface last century , when mining of other metals was also important . |
26 | The company had special display boxes made which would take the complete range and this was distributed to the homes of leading food writers and journalists . |
27 | The ribbon is 1¼″ wide and was originally of violet and white alternate horizontal stripes , although as with the AFC this was changed to a diagonal format in July 1919 . |
28 | This was changed to An Nam — The Pacified South — by the Chinese who conquered them , occupied their territory for eleven centuries , and called them Annamese . |
29 | None of this was known to the British at the time . |
30 | All this was known to the auditors , they did n't spill the beans . |