Example sentences of "was [verb] [prep] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Douglas Gillis ( 28 ) , labourer , of Queens Avenue , who elected to be tried by a judge and jury was remanded on bail to November 12 . |
| 2 | He was cleared of wounding two other youths , but convicted of affray and was remanded in custody to be sentenced today . |
| 3 | Wilson was remanded in custody to Belfast Magistrate 's Court on September 17 . |
| 4 | He was remanded in custody to September 22 . |
| 5 | Andrew Thompson , 21 , from Manor Street , who denies setting fire to the car and garage in Alexandra Park Avenue , was remanded in custody to September 17 . |
| 6 | In this book , we assume that the similarity between the transformational process and our diagnostic test arises because the former was formulated in response to intuitions about the fact that the properties of many ( but not all ! ) adjectives could be considered valid for the E qualified in both the P positions in : ( 7 ) P E E P In any case , the test gives us two different ways in which the adjective French may be used with its noun , and the examples show that it does not always designate a property of the entity to which it appears to be attached syntactically . |
| 7 | But this is so only where the fence etc. was erected with reference to the highway and would probably not apply where the fence was erected for some other reason ( A.G. v Beynon , [ 1969 ] 2 All ER 263 ) . |
| 8 | [ Ca 2 + ] i was calculated with reference to a standard calibration curve relating Ca 2 + concentration to R , which was constructed in vitro using Ca 2 + -EGTA buffers ( Molecular Probes , Eugene , USA ) yielding known Ca 2 + concentrations ( 0–39.8 µM ) and containing 5 µM Fura-2 ( free dye ) . |
| 9 | The proportion of each subclass was calculated in relation to the total number of IgG producing cells present in the evaluated area of the same section . |
| 10 | After grading gastric metaplasia and counting the number of villi in each specimen , the mean extent of gastric metaplasia for all specimens taken at each session was calculated in relation to the number of villi in each specimen . |
| 11 | There seems to be little doubt that before 1348 the country was overpopulated in relation to its resources — Hatcher estimates the pre-plague population in the 41/2–6 million range , and probably nearer the higher figure ( 75 , p.68 ) — and that the contribution which the extra population made to its total productivity was negligible . |
| 12 | In the same year Bavaria and Wurttemberg concluded a customs agreement and a Central German Customs Union was formed in response , rather as EFTA was formed in response to the EEC . |
| 13 | It was formed in response to the urban riots in the late 1960s , although there had previously been community activity concentrated on winning historic and architectural recognition for the area . |
| 14 | The company says the Dedicated Systems Business Unit was formed in response to customer demand for additional networking functionality in dedicated systems , which it conceives of as dedicated systems with low system overhead , fast performance , built-in networking , real time response and graphics capabilities . |
| 15 | Sontag 's postmodernist aesthetic was formed in opposition to contemporaneous ‘ hermeneutic ’ criticism , which for her foisted Marxian and/or Freudian interpretations onto the meanings of literature . |
| 16 | ( An earlier change had been made on April 25 when Kwon Hwi Hyuk had been appointed as Director of the Environment Agency after his predecessor Huh Nam Hoon was dismissed in response to the contamination of the water supply in Taegu through the dumping of 300 tonnes of phenol , a caustic chemical compound . ) |
| 17 | Although the passing of a custodial sentence could be justified under the Act on the basis of dangerousness , the length of the sentence was limited by reference to the gravity of the offence , and the court found that the sentence was not excessive judged on this basis . |
| 18 | This , if not mere coincidence , may be some strange legacy , for our heroine is — you 'd never have guessed this one — really an aristocratic heiress who was given at birth to a gypsy family . |
| 19 | There 's a quotation here from one of the ladies ' magazines at the time : ‘ woman was given to man to be his better angel , to dissuade him from vice , to stimulate him to virtue , to make home delightful and life joyous , in the exercise of these gentle and holy charities , she fulfils her high vocation ’ — pretty inspiring stuff ! |
| 20 | Hannah explained that it was one of the elegant gifts that her mother had brought down when she was given in marriage to her half-cousin ( on the Tallentire side of the family ) , William Bayles Hauxwell . |
| 21 | The Macedonian royal house was deeply involved with Persia : Gygaia , the sister of Alexander I , was given in marriage to a Persian called Boubares , and they lived off the revenues of a Phrygian city given them by the Persian king ( Hdt. viii . |
| 22 | Perhaps too much emphasis was given in hyper-Calvinism to God the lawgiver ? |
| 23 | In 1153 , for example , when the bishop of Langres brought a complaint against Duke Eudes II of Burgundy in the royal court , all four royal summonses to the duke met with excuses ; in the end , therefore , the royal verdict was given by default to the bishop , but without much expectation that a long-term solution to the conflict had been achieved . |
| 24 | You may have heard the horrific tale of the small boy who was painted from head to toe with a metallic-based substance for a carnival and who consequently died of respiratory failure . |
| 25 | She was painted from head to foot in red . |
| 26 | The appearance of two parallel systems of power was justified by reference to the continuing strong influence of the CPSU in elected provincial bodies . |
| 27 | I realise that there are constraints of time and problems with dissemination , but you would not expect your local GP to prescribe a drug unless he was satisfied that its use was justified by reference to the available research material . |
| 28 | Furthermore , it was the role of the adolescent as worker which first introduced the State into this area of collectivism , proof of the importance with which the juvenile labour-market was regarded in relation to the social problem . |
| 29 | It argues that if child support was received in addition to income support the resulting higher incomes would mean that more lone mothers would remain longer on benefit rather than looking for paid employment . |
| 30 | On the same day , 18 February 1974 , the lease was assigned by Tempest to C.T . |