Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] to [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following an intensive campaign by the World Health Organization , when mass injections of penicillin were given to everyone at risk , this form of syphilis has been eradicated in Yugoslavia . |
| 2 | Lady Londonderry was greatly admired at the Russian Court and some of the Londonderry family jewels — the Down Diamonds and the parure and cross were given to her by the Russian Emperor Alexander I. |
| 3 | As many teachers were unable to attend the Annual General Meeting of the Society when formal thanks were given and a presentation made to Hilary Weedon on the completion of her four year term of office as Chairman of the Executive Committee special thanks were given to her by Betty Syrett on behalf of the teachers . |
| 4 | The oranges were given to him by Mr. Singleton of Houghton 's … he realised in Supt. Learmont 's office that the people he received them from might not have the right to give them . |
| 5 | We 're selling that with all the other medals some of which were British campaign medals , some were given to him by countries like Poland because of his special friendship or good deeds |
| 6 | ‘ They were given to me as a present . |
| 7 | Here are two exercises that were given to me by ANDY WATSON and TREFOR OWEN , part-time tutors at Leeds College of Music . |
| 8 | They are documents of all sorts which were given to me by my father or which I found among his papers after his death in 1968 . |
| 9 | ‘ These papers were given to me by Sir Charles Baskerville , ’ said Dr Mortimer . |
| 10 | Well that , it speak the truth they were given to me by June , who 's very into that sort of thing and prescribed them for Simon and in fact has had to give him a few more now because he 's had his driving test cancelled . |
| 11 | Once you got into the C C Q erm for me it sounded like a string of questions erm I could n't hear any at all or any open questions into any of the answers that were given to you on question . |
| 12 | ‘ You have some papers , Fagin , ’ said Mr Brownlow quietly , ‘ which were given to you by Monks to look after . ’ |
| 13 | Legend has it that the ‘ eyes ’ or ‘ spectacles ’ on the rear of the Cobra 's hood were given to it by Guatama the Buddha as protection against the attacks of Garuda the Eagle , arch enemy of the Cobras . |
| 14 | But in a reply to a letter from prospective Stockton South Labour MP John Scott , a senior ambulance officer says : ‘ The account was submitted not to the patient but to a relative whose name and address were given to us at the time of the booking . |
| 15 | Proxy votes were limited to one per person ( although husbands might still vote on behalf of their wives ) and electoral campaigning in mosques and school buildings was banned . |
| 16 | The Law Reform Committee , a standing body with a Secretary provided by the Lord Chancellor 's Office , functioned on a part-time basis producing reports on those aspects of the civil law as were referred to it by Ministers . |
| 17 | Early workers with X-rays , who were exposed to what by modern standards are horrifying doses , developed cancers at an alarming rate . |
| 18 | Mr and Mrs Crump , who until that moment had reigned serene in their social supremacy at the Swan , moved swiftly from slight disgruntlement to genuine delight as details of the new arrival 's pedigree , accoutrements , speech and manner were relayed to them by one or other of the scampering servants . |
| 19 | The court heard the shift supervisor at Three Mile Island change his testimony on the crucial relief-valve temperatures that were reported to him during the incident . |
| 20 | Along the colonnade under Upper School were recorded 1157 names of Old Etonians killed in the First World War ( 748 others , including my brother Dermot 's , were added to them after the Second World War ) . |
| 21 | Most of the submissions which were addressed to us by Mr. Persaud took matters no further . |
| 22 | It is almost as if they were lent to us for their infancy and formative years , and are then entirely free to go their own way . |
| 23 | A set of Edinburgh Crystal glasses and a decanter were presented to him on behalf of Lyles by Ralph Ellis , Chief Executive of Stoddard Sekers International Plc . |
| 24 | The Court of Appeal held that the jurisdiction clause was not binding on B. The way the documents were presented to him for signature was misleading : B was entitled to assume that the two copies of the terms were identical . |
| 25 | Two letter of thanks were then read — the first from Edith Harlow thanking all the teachers for the lovely handbag , matching gloves and cheque which were presented to her at the Essex Rally together with a jewel box , cheque , flowers and an iced cake all given by Essex teachers and class members . |
| 26 | were turned to him in profile : |
| 27 | Complaints were made to us about certain members of our staff ( who , incidentally , no longer work for us ) going into unoccupied floors to make love . |
| 28 | Because the cat was seen as evil , all kinds of frightening powers were attributed to it by the writers of the day . |
| 29 | Constables know that all radio messages are taped and that the time they take to arrive at calls is recorded , which is often unnecessary , given the competition to beat other stations and colleagues by getting there first , although stories were told to us of instances where people were transferred for failing to respond to a call . |
| 30 | Further works at Westminster Palace were entrusted to him in April 1346 , and included the final stages of St Stephen 's chapel , and he was to impress masons and carpenters for Edward III 's expedition against France . |