Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Women were given rights to property , credit facilities and access to literacy programmes . |
| 2 | The Britons were given mouth to mouth and heart massage but it was too late . |
| 3 | Sheets were turned sides to middle and worn blankets cut up to make sleeping bags for children . |
| 4 | In 1701 by the Act of Settlement Catholics were debarred from the English succession , and Sophia and her heirs were named heirs to William III and Anne . |
| 5 | Birmingham specialised in close , dark and filthy courtyards : there were over two thousand of these in the town in the 1830s , and many of their houses were built back to back in order to get the maximum number on to each expensive acre . |
| 6 | In this context the first reactions of Europeans to the reality of the native inhabitants of the Americas is of particular interest , for here , in a very explicit sense , experience and fantasy were brought face to face . |
| 7 | If the group 's total annual output in biscuits were laid edge to edge , they would stretch twice to the moon and back , or forty-eight times around the equator . |
| 8 | Six people were found shot to death in an apartment in the crime-ridden South Bronx district of New York yesterday in a modern St Valentine 's Day massacre , police said . |
| 9 | A smart mobile caravan began to tour the area with a reassuring message of safety and reliability , an information shop opened in Bridgwater , and 35,000 full colour newspapers were delivered door to door . |
| 10 | Interviews were conducted face to face . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He was given instructions to taxi to the holding point for runway 26 and subsequently took off normally at 1202 hrs . |
| 13 | This time discipline won and Hughie Gallacher was transferred south to Chelsea . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The driver told the court the break was so serious his arm was turned back to front . |
| 16 | In 1976 Huan was made ambassador to Belgium and to the European Communities , and in 1979 became vice-president of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences . |
| 17 | After a spell in private practice , Vial was made equerry to Louis XVI and chef de manège of the Lyons riding academy , a post he apparently held for some years , but could not retain . |
| 18 | The word ‘ mass ’ was no longer used , vestments were forbidden , and the communion table was positioned east to west rather than altarwise . |
| 19 | This deal provided GM with the entry to the luxury car market that it had sought — Saab was promised access to GM 's resources and dealership network . |
| 20 | Because I was born twin to Grainne … because the Royal Line must never divide … |
| 21 | Few facts are known about William Smith except that he was bound apprentice to Benjamin Slade in London in 1709 . |
| 22 | ‘ When de Craon was refused entry to Godstowe , he came here and offered you money : gold and silver for your church and parishioners . |
| 23 | He was refused entry to Kuwait and asked for asylum in France.President Giscard d'Estaing asked the Shah his views and the Shah made one of the worst mistakes in his reign by agreeing the Khomeini should go to France , He assumed that the obstreperous priest would be les of a threat to him in distant , Christian France than in neighbouring , radical , Islamic country . |
| 24 | In 1864 , three years after the prince consort 's death , Brown was brought south to Osborne as her groom to give the secluded widow more riding exercise . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Santa Clara , California-based SynOptics Communications Inc has cut prices on its LattisNet family of Fibre Distributed Data Interface intelligent hubs , saying the cuts were made possible by lower component costs and better manufacturing efficiencies — the 2000 FDDI Workgroup Hubs were reduced immediately , with the 2912A with 12 shielded twisted pair master ports and two fibre optic A/B ports reduced by 36 to $10,000 , or $714 per port ; the Model 3904 FDDI Fiber Optic Host Module was cut 27% to $5,500 and the 3910S-04 FDDI Network Management Module was cut 33% to $10,000 . |
| 27 | Santa Clara , California-based SynOptics Communications Inc has cut prices on its LattisNet family of Fibre Distributed Data Interface intelligent hubs , saying the cuts were made possible by lower component costs and better manufacturing efficiencies — the 2000 FDDI Workgroup Hubs were reduced immediately , with the 2912A with 12 shielded twisted pair master ports and two fibre optic A/B ports reduced by 36 to $10,000 , or $714 per port ; the Model 3904 FDDI Fiber Optic Host Module was cut 27% to $5,500 and the 3910S-04 FDDI Network Management Module was cut 33% to $10,000 . |
| 28 | In November of the same year he was appointed chaplain to Newgate prison , where he wrote a large number of Ordinary 's Account s of funeral sermons , confessions , and last dying words of criminals executed at Tyburn . |
| 29 | On Feb. 18 Sheikh Hasan Nasrallah was appointed successor to Musawi . |
| 30 | Hamilton Green was appointed deputy leader and Seeram Prashad general secretary ( replacing Ranji Chandisingh , hitherto Deputy Prime Minister , who was appointed ambassador to Moscow ) . |