Example sentences of "of [noun sg] was [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The presence of moisture was found to be necessary to promote chemical weathering and weaken the rock sufficiently for disintegration to occur . |
| 2 | An important body of support was secured to the alliance by the decision taken at the Annual Conference of the Co-operative Party by 2,343,000 votes to 1,547,000 to endorse the Reynolds news manifesto . |
| 3 | By 1978 , the wind of change was freshening to a full gale in the cutter service . |
| 4 | More than £2,000 worth of vandalism was caused to the hall but no evidence was produced connecting this with Oddy . |
| 5 | A degree of freedom was afforded to the Gascon nobility by the prevalence of allodial tenures , whereby no immediate lord was recognized , in certain parts of the region . |
| 6 | The queen herself was quite ready to concede that her area of responsibility was confined to the administration and jurisdiction of the church and did not extend to defining ‘ any article or point of the Christian faith and religion ’ . |
| 7 | 16–7- Duncan McGilvray , a Deacon , who had been seen publicly in a state of intoxication was ordered to be publicly rebuked . |
| 8 | Thousands of pounds worth of damage was caused to several shops in the area . |
| 9 | This method has also shown that a similar pattern of damage was caused to the DNA in human cells for the complex 9 whereas damage to intracellular DNA was not detected for the complex 10 ( 9 ) . |
| 10 | An estimated £400 worth of damage was caused to the loft . |
| 11 | What precisely was entailed in oversight was not made clear and in practice the control of the school , its aims , policies and methods of teaching was left to the headteacher . |
| 12 | The idea of CAD was suggested to Clarks in 1968 by Tony Darvill , its technical consultant . |
| 13 | The rhetoric of maternalism was applied to women of all classes , but with differential effect . |
| 14 | Our clump of existence was related to the fortunes of others after all and to the more remote circumstances of industries , coal , engineering , clothing , printing . |
| 15 | Thankfully all men and women returned safely from the Second World War , so a sum of money was given to the hall and a brass plaque erected declaring it to be a memorial village hall . |
| 16 | The raising of taxes or the dispensing of laws without the assent of Parliament was declared to be illegal . |
| 17 | When a member of parliament was considered to be in a position to influence senior officers ' careers , he might , however , find himself offered minor patronage posts to use as he saw fit , without having to do much to seek them . |
| 18 | Here , other Questions beat those to the Prime Minister on each programme ; coverage of other debates fell to between 4% and 11% ; attention to legislation rose to between 12% and 18% ; coverage of select committees roughly doubled , reaching 25% in The Parliament Programme ; between 3% and 6% of coverage was given to standing committees . |
| 19 | Postal notice of confirmation was made to the owners on 1st April . |
| 20 | Postal notice of confirmation was made to the owners on 1st April . |
| 21 | The same kind of escape ( or enlargement , if you look at the process in a favourable light ) is allowed for in a discussion of half a century ago in which the thesis that all novels contributed to a sense of escape from the artificial complexities of civilisation was turned to a commercial purpose . |
| 22 | Tait yawned into a white hand , the well-disguised yawn of a man whose only knowledge of torture was confined to that inflicted by sitting through committees . |
| 23 | All they had ever been able to do in the face of violence was to bend to it . |
| 24 | The petition was not successful but a deputation to Sir James Graham , Home Secretary , in April 1842 received some encouragement and an amended petition and a draft of a Charter of Incorporation was submitted to him on 24 March 1843 . |
| 25 | A model of a proposed new type of car was submitted to Lord Ashfield , but it was not approved . |
| 26 | It worries me because these exemptions as to there for example er where thirty nine square metres of roof was permitted to be without support of any kind . |
| 27 | The office of governor-general was recognised to be a major one carrying much prestige and authority ; the incumbent enjoyed substantial initiative in the formulation of policy . |
| 28 | Now erm last century er goods came up er the Trent to er and er by sailing barge er and er this sort of equipment was used to er to collect er items from the holds of these er barges , erm put on wagons , horse-drawn er and er some steam traction engines , er to be transported around . |
| 29 | However , the prevalence of anxiety was related to class : 9 per cent of those from social classes 1 and 2 were defined as anxious compared with 19 per cent from classes 4 and 5 ( Victor 1989b ) . |
| 30 | Although sure they had been seen , he thought that their only chance of escape was to run to better cover . |