Example sentences of "[det] [was/were] [vb pp] to the " 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 | 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 . |
| 7 | There had always been bad blood between Robert and Edward Bruce ; now this was transmitted to the next generation apparently . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | This was leaked to the media , who began to clamour for stricter control . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Later this was revised to the hedging advice to discuss the matter with a social worker before deciding . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Most of this was brought to the surface last century , when mining of other metals was also important . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | None of this was known to the British at the time . |
| 20 | All this was known to the auditors , they did n't spill the beans . |
| 21 | None of this was mentioned to the crowd when he spoke . |
| 22 | When this was put to the Environment Trust erm they were er , unaware before that stage that there were erm may be proposals of developing that land and expressed an interest in being involved if that ever came to fruition . |
| 23 | These coins contained less gold than English gold coins and , on the principle of ‘ bad money drives out good ’ , had tended to drain England of its finer gold ; this was exported to the continent where it was worth more . |
| 24 | Most of this was exported to the United States via the Cyprus-Frankfurt pipeline , nicknamed khouriah ( ‘ shit ’ ) by the couriers who used it , or via Turkey , the Balkans , central Europe and then on to New York and points west . |
| 25 | This was attributed to the demand for DP staff induced by " Big Bang " — the deregulation of many of the City 's financial activities and the major extension of computer-based trading . |
| 26 | This was preferred to the normal process of simply making the hair greyer , and the stars did not like the set of wigs that was originally intended to be used . |
| 27 | One class was for the most original entry ; another was limited to the tots ; a third to the over-8s . |
| 28 | Another was attachéd to the French embassy in Madrid in 1841 ; and there is some record of a corresponding Spanish appointment in Paris three years later . |
| 29 | Much was owed to the small Radical party , which collected the necessary 500,000 signatures to obtain a referendum on the issue . |
| 30 | The air raids failing to materialise at that time , 152 of these were transferred to the Orchard London County Council Hospital in Dartford . |