Example sentences of "was [verb] to a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally , at around 3am one Sunday in 1967 pump man , Willie Baxter , was detailed to go through the tunnels from St Enochs to Bridge Street Station where he was to attend to a tank located beneath the stairs . |
| 2 | The intestinal mucosa was exposed to a solution with the following composition ( mM ) : NaCl 122 ; KCl 3.5 ; KH 2 PO 4 1.2 ; MgCl 2 1.2 ; CaCl 2 2.5 ; NaHCO 3 25 ; mannitol 30 . |
| 3 | The ‘ bomb ’ was sent 700 miles south to Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico where it was exposed to a beam of muons produced in the laboratory 's particle accelerator . |
| 4 | Meanwhile the full and horrifying battery of modern welfare , stopping short only at nuclear weapons , was exposed to a world audience in this , the first " televised war " . |
| 5 | It was held ( a ) that it was a statement of present fact , namely that at the time the letter was sent the traveller had a definite and certain booking , ( b ) that that statement was false because the airline 's overbooking policy meant that the traveller 's booking was exposed to a risk that it might not give a seat on the aircraft , and ( c ) that the airline made the false statement knowingly ( and not merely recklessly ) since the airline was well aware of its own overbooking policy . |
| 6 | Each year , shortly before graduation , the sixth grade class of my elementary school was treated to a day of sun , roller skating , hot-dog gorging and swimming pool frolics at Tones Beach , Long Island . |
| 7 | As for his Holiness himself , he was treated to a ride from Gatwick to Victoria behind the Royal loco No 73142 Broadlands bearing the special Southern headcode ‘ HF ’ ( Holy Father ) . |
| 8 | The craft lifted smoothly across the river and , as it grounded nearby , Rostov was treated to a view of the blistering which marked the heat shield around the blunt nose . |
| 9 | The first train of excursionists west on the Union Pacific was treated to a war dance performed by Pawnees on the station at Columbus , Nebraska . |
| 10 | On the other hand a Stony Stratford shoemaker 's connexion with agriculture was limited to a cow and ( possibly ) a white horse ; his sideline was petty capitalism , if not simply money-lending , for his assets , totalling more than £28 , included £18. 1s. 8d. owed by seven different persons . |
| 11 | By notice of appeal dated 22 April 1992 the father appealed on the grounds , inter alia , that ( 1 ) the judge was wrong in law to reject the submission that any consideration of the children 's welfare in the context of a judicial discretion under article 13 ( a ) of the Convention was relevant only as a material factor if it met the test of placing the children in an ‘ intolerable situation ’ under article 13 ( b ) ; ( 2 ) the judge should have limited considerations of welfare to the criteria for welfare laid down by the Convention itself ; ( 3 ) the judge was wrong in law to reject the submission that in the context of the exercise of the discretion permitted by article 13 ( a ) the court was limited to a consideration of the nature and quality of the father 's acquiescence ( as found by the Court of Appeal ) ; ( 4 ) in the premises , despite her acknowledgment that the exercise of her discretion had to be seen in the context of the Convention , the judge exercised a discretion based on a welfare test appropriate to wardship proceedings ; ( 5 ) the judge was further in error as a matter of law in not perceiving as the starting point for the exercise of her discretion the proposition that under the Convention the future of the children should be decided in the courts of the state from which they had been wrongfully removed ; ( 6 ) the judge , having found that on the ability to determine the issue between the parents there was little to choose between the Family Court of Australia and the High Court of England , was wrong not to conclude that as a consequence the mother had failed to displace the fundamental premise of the Convention that the future of the children should be decided in the courts of the country from which they had been wrongfully removed ; ( 7 ) the judge also misdirected herself when considering which court should decide the future of the children ( a ) by applying considerations more appropriate to the doctrine of forum conveniens and ( b ) by having regard to the likely outcome of the hearing in that court contrary to the principles set out in In re F. ( A Minor ) ( Abduction : Custody Rights ) [ 1991 ] Fam. 25 ; ( 8 ) in the alternative , if the judge was right to apply the forum conveniens approach , she failed to have regard to the following facts and matters : ( a ) that the parties were married in Australia ; ( b ) that the parties had spent the majority of their married life in Australia ; ( c ) that the children were born in Australia and were Australian citizens ; ( d ) that the children had spent the majority of their lives in Australia ; ( e ) the matters referred to in ground ( 9 ) ; ( 9 ) in any event on the facts the judge was wrong to find that there was little to choose between the Family Court of Australia and the High Court of England as fora for deciding the children 's future ; ( 11 ) the judge was wrong on the facts to find that there had been a change in the circumstances to which the mother would be returning in Australia given the findings made by Thorpe J. that ( a ) the former matrimonial home was to be sold ; ( b ) it would be unavailable for occupation by the mother and the children after 7 February 1992 ; and ( c ) there would be no financial support for the mother other than state benefits : matters which neither Thorpe J. nor the Court of Appeal found amounted to ‘ an intolerable situation . ’ |
| 12 | After that time there was increasing participation from merchants , manufacturers , artisans , shopkeepers and also from widows , spinsters and clergymen , whose concern was limited to a return averaging around 5 per cent by 1800 . |
| 13 | Since the evidence was limited to a series of sexual relationships with specific individuals , the judge concluded that there was no basis to prosecute a charge of being a common nuisance . |
| 14 | In February 1985 , a government Green Paper 3 accepted the basic proposition that a royalty should be levied on blank tape , but the amount was limited to a maximum of 10 per cent on the retail price of the tape . |
| 15 | Campaign expenditure was limited to a maximum of 200,000 roubles ( about US$330,000 ) per candidate . |
| 16 | Furthermore , aid to industry had to be demonstrably " additional " to national expenditures , and overall assistance was limited to a maximum of 50 per cent of total expenditure . |
| 17 | The term ‘ merchant adventurer ’ was originally applied to any merchant trading in cloth overseas ; there were groups of them from various towns including Newcastle and York , and others were drawn from several of the London companies , but gradually the term was limited to a group within the Mercers . |
| 18 | Apart from a cold-storage warehouse in Charterhouse Street in the City of London , his architectural output was limited to a handful of houses in London and the Manchester area , including 25 Cadogan Gardens , Chelsea , in partnership with George Hornblower , for the Australian artist Mortimer Menpes . |
| 19 | In this case money was given to a school probably because it was closing . |
| 20 | THE bitter tussle between Russia 's parliament and government appeared to be drawing to a close last night after preliminary approval was given to a compromise that would allow President Yeltsin 's administration to continue its reforms . |
| 21 | If the account was given to a neighbour who then repeats it to the social worker it will be multiple hearsay . |
| 22 | Because it 's not on T P S , and , and it was given , it was given to a great-aunt or something , and she hocked it off him . |
| 23 | For the same reason the highest vocation of any created being was given to a woman , Mary , as representative of mankind in our response to God because symbolically and fundamentally , the response of sacrificial giving is associated with femaleness . |
| 24 | It was also important to establish whether adults would use deductive markers in these contexts , and so a written version of the tasks was given to a group of undergraduates . |
| 25 | Hence priority was given to a recovery programme whereby the Americans hoped to trade massive financial aid for the creation of the sort of Western Europe which would meet America 's economic and strategic interests . |
| 26 | As described in Chapter 2 , the greater part of the funding in any year was given to a number of Major Project schools ( usually £6,000 to each of eight schools ) , and at the time of writing 36 schools have received such a grant and another five have been proposed for the current financial year . |
| 27 | Much of last week 's fiction space was given to a novelist who , to judge by his picture , certainly will not see 40 again , Louis Begley . |
| 28 | Soccer fans would n't mind if the job was given to a hermaphrodite , provided it had a place in the Cabinet , an important voice in decision-taking and an avowed policy to improve sport in Britain , not just soccer but across the board . |
| 29 | A few days before Michael came home , our daughter-in-law Pippa came to stay for a few days , bringing Emily , who was to go to a boarding-school in Yorkshire . |
| 30 | She had nothing planned , unless it was to go to a cinema show with Jules , and even if she had , there was nothing she would not have cancelled in order to be with Harry . |