Example sentences of "was [verb] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A preview of the Catechism was leaked to an Italian news agency , ANSA , which quotes the contentious death penalty clause : |
| 2 | EDITOR 'S FOOTNOTE : The remark ‘ This is the sack Frank Gray issue ’ was uttered to a senior Echo journalist on buying his copy of Mission Impossible at Feethams . |
| 3 | He was remanded to an open bail hostel , but while he was there he raped and murdered office worker Anna McGurk . |
| 4 | This was especially the case when pragmatism was conjoined to a legal positivist outlook . |
| 5 | In April 1981 , route 154 was diverted to a new estate on the site of Croydon Aerodrome and only 157 serves South Norwood and Anerley . |
| 6 | I walked some way behind Jean-Claude on the narrow path that skirted the woods and lost sight of him when my attention was diverted to a shadowy path in the trees . |
| 7 | In this study forty children with a mean age of four years and five months were divided into two groups : one group received ‘ nurturant ’ behaviour from a role model , while the other group was exposed to a non-nurturant relationship . |
| 8 | In a lively and entertaining performance the audience was treated to a graphic description of the history of man 's relationship with chemicals derived from plants . |
| 9 | I travelled to the plant to collect the guitar and was treated to a comprehensive tour of what I can confirm as an impressive facility of skilled and committed people in every department . |
| 10 | And after two odds-against horses won the opening races , the crowd was treated to a magnificent display of jumping when George Martin guided home his own horse , even money favourite Limeridge , in the Open Race . |
| 11 | The day before the election I was treated to an unsolicited political speech on behalf of the Conservative Party . |
| 12 | True , my eyes did the selecting that guided their evolution , but at every stage I was limited to a small clutch of progeny offered up by random mutation , and my selection " strategy " , such as it was , was opportunistic , capricious and short-term . |
| 13 | So if a person had a sore throat and it burned , this burning would be a particular symptom because it was limited to a single focus of his illness . |
| 14 | We know nothing of his campaign , except that it was limited to a single season and that the Silures did not appear again as a fighting force . |
| 15 | If only he could come across a barn in which he could seek refuge from the full force of the gale … but visibility was limited to a few strides . |
| 16 | But today , the flooding was limited to a few rural spots where roads were closed and even the main railway line between Swindon and Bristol was under water . |
| 17 | Martin Burns of the Amalgamated Transport and General Workers ' Union alleged that catering facilities were being run down and warned that jobs would be lost if the in-house contract was given to a private firm . |
| 18 | A National Salvation Front ( NSF ) took power , its Council , represented by an Executive Bureau , assuming legislative authority , while executive responsibility was given to a new provisional Council of Ministers . |
| 19 | In a referendum on Aug. 19 popular approval was given to a new constitution drafted by the National Forum , a multiparty conference dominated by the opposition Comité des forces vives formed in mid-1991 . |
| 20 | But — and here 's the point — second billing was given to a young Austrian lad of 17 who had just won the title of Junior Mr Universe . |
| 21 | The Andrew Williamson Trust Lecture was given to a packed house by Sir Edward Heath , and the Robbins Lecture was given by Professor Sir Frederick Holliday , a former Deputy and Acting Principal of the University . |
| 22 | In addition to the emergency grants to individuals and small teams , the foundation has also given $500,000 to the Komarov Botanical Institute in St Petersburg for the preservation of one of the world 's largest herbaria , Some $80,000 was awarded to a popular science magazine Chemistry and Life and $4,000 was given to a special high school in Moscow that maintains high standards for teaching physics and mathematics . |
| 23 | Approval was given to an amended format for ballot papers , to permit each candidate for elected membership of Council/boards to include a short biographical note , in addition to the usual list of appointments . |
| 24 | He was to go to a certain address on a certain day — the following day — at a certain hour . |
| 25 | But it was agreed on all sides , and most importantly by Graham Watson himself , that his instructions were that the fee was to go to a charitable organisation flying relief into Biafra . |
| 26 | The supermarket 's suppliers Gulf Oil , based in Cheltenham , said it was reacting to a local situation and Tesco says the cut is part of it 's service to customers , denying it 's creating an artificially low price . |
| 27 | He was reacting to an open letter to the region which claimed that business had flourished under the Tories . |
| 28 | Mary was posted to a notorious station in the Fens , called Sledgwick , which was universally known as HMS Sledgwick because it was practically under water and everyone wore gumboots and walked about on duckboards . |
| 29 | The decision was to retire to a private island and bar , give the mike to Mike Rafter and leave the rest to changing-room adrenalin . |
| 30 | As harvest time was drawing to a close and autumn would soon be upon them , Tamar admitted what she had tried to deny for the last few weeks . |