Example sentences of "was [verb] to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only days later news of a rights issue by British Airways was leaked to many newspapers . |
| 2 | In December word was leaked to American newspapers that the president had resolved to fight , if war was necessary , even if it meant destroying his chances of re-election . |
| 3 | Protestant — loyalist domination , successor to the ascendancy , was circumscribed to one corner of Ireland while the catholic — nationalist alliance asserted total domination in the remainder . |
| 4 | Even though we have no record of how this was communicated to 5 Corps , we assume that in view of the urgency of the situation , the decision was passed on from HQ Eighth Army by telephone . |
| 5 | Say was remanded to Royal Cornhill Hospital in Aberdeen and the case continued was without plea until Thursday . |
| 6 | The defence of pluralism , however , was aligned to professional scholarship rather than a clearly formulated politics of education . |
| 7 | Indeed , in the 1970s , the theoretical influence of Jean Ricardou , who was aligned to both movements , extended even to the actual fiction produced by Robbe-Grillet and Claude Simon at that stage , and several of the concepts he formulated were regurgitated in critical interventions by these writers . |
| 8 | This was particularly so in the area round Novgorod , where the dome was altered to Russian designs and climatic needs and established the characteristic Russian church skyline . |
| 9 | Warnie , though forty-one , was recalled to active service , given the rank of major , and sent to France , where he remained until the evacuation from Dunkirk . |
| 10 | Phase 1 of the RIBA 's Strategic Study was publicised to much acclaim in May . |
| 11 | The nearest the Government came to bringing the judges and magistrates ‘ within the disciplines of efficiency and cost effectiveness ’ ( Guardian 1.10.90 ) , was to circulate to all courts details of the full costs of their sentencing decisions . |
| 12 | Sandys ' task was eased to some extent by Macmillan 's success in reestablishing the Anglo-American special relationship . |
| 13 | Sir Richard Steel wrote in the Tatler ‘ When I came into the Coffee House , I had not time to salute the company before my eye was diverted to 10,000 gimcracks round the room and on the ceiling ’ . |
| 14 | The case was brought under the old law and it was alleged that the child in question was exposed to moral danger . |
| 15 | Afterwards , the exposed board is processed with a readily available developer which will wash away all the etch-resist that was exposed to UV light . |
| 16 | It is made clear that the boy was exposed to serious danger by his father 's irresponsibility and by his sisters ' departure : but his sisters had been exposed to this father too , and had had to defend themselves . |
| 17 | Recent work in which an adenoma cell line was exposed to chemical carcinogens has duplicated many of the in vivo genetic findings . |
| 18 | The only way I can account for that is he was exposed to some sort of nerve gas . ’ |
| 19 | At this time also the surrounding country was exposed to periglacial activity . |
| 20 | In the meantime his lady was exposed to public gaze seated in her chair at a great open window . |
| 21 | When , with colleagues in the Department of Social Administration , I interviewed members of the divorcing population , they argued passionately that divorce was too easy ( or too difficult ) ; that everything was rushed through before they had time to think ( or that it dragged on interminably ) ; and that divorce should be morally neutral ( or that there should be an inquest in which every detail of their spouse 's despicable conduct was exposed to public view ) . |
| 22 | In practice , very few Romanians would have recognized Valentin Ceauşescu before his family was exposed to public denunciation after his parents ' fall . |
| 23 | I arrived expecting high rise hotels and crowded shores , instead I was treated to pretty villages built in honey coloured stone and fields of poppies . |
| 24 | When I arrived , I was treated to magnificent views of the Pyrenees in the distance , but was disappointed to find the church , which was the reason for the trek , was closed . |
| 25 | In one , for example , a casual labourer and his wife in their sixties lived with a woman of 79 , her son of 57 who was a street matchseller , and six younger tenants ; in another a woman of 68 was subletting to another woman of 65 , a crippled woman of sixty , and two others ; while in a third household a 71-year-old sandwich-man lived with an unrelated widow and widower of the same age and two younger tenants . |
| 26 | The spectrum of activity of nalidixic acid was limited to Gram-negative pathogens , it had an unfavourable pharmacokinetic profile , and resistance rapidly developed . |
| 27 | The jurisdiction of the new courts was limited to petty theft and assault , malicious damage to property , cattle trespass and the violation of rules made by local government in matters such as irrigation . |
| 28 | Her experience of men was limited to indifferent kisses from kind , sweet men who made no impact on her . |
| 29 | More rain at Edgbaston washed out the Bank Holiday Monday , and when the game was played on Tuesday afternoon it was limited to 32 overs . |
| 30 | Violence in Kompong Cham was limited to occasional incidents of shelling near polling stations . |