Example sentences of "was [verb] to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The East window was erected to the memory of the Rev. Francis John Lambert , who died in Jan. 1892 . |
| 32 | ‘ I do n't know why his tail is like that , but the Percy Lion was erected to the lord of the manor by his tenants in gratitude for his leniency with their rents in a time of hardship . |
| 33 | On arrival at Bridgnorth the train was propelled to the limit of the line when the buffer stops were reached at the Hollybush Road siding . |
| 34 | The heads of the spears are usually slightly lozenge-sectioned , as a result of beating out the edges , and the socket , normally split on one side , was riveted to the top of the shaft . |
| 35 | On the outbreak of the second Dutch war in 1664 Stokes was recalled to the navy as captain of the Triumph , but he fell ill soon afterwards and died in Portsmouth 11 February 1665 . |
| 36 | In 1595 Crosse was preparing to accompany Ralegh to Guiana when he was recalled to the navy at the queen 's specific order . |
| 37 | Having become a War Office civilian in 1925 , he was recalled to the colours as a lieutenant-colonel in September 1939 to command No . |
| 38 | She shivered and then was recalled to the reality of the cold autumn morning by the sound of her friend 's voice . |
| 39 | Futre 's mood was no better after a £5million transfer from Atletico Madrid to Benfica , though he was recalled to the team who lost to Italy . |
| 40 | ( 2 ) Where a competent objector desires to object in relation to any application , he shall , not later than seven days before the meeting of the licensing board at which the application is to be considered : ( a ) lodge with the clerk of the board a written notice of objection which be signed by the objector or his agent and shall specify the grounds of his objection and ( b ) intimate his objection to the applicant in the manner provided by subsection ( 3 ) below , and an objection shall not be entertained by the licensing board unless it is proved or admitted that such objection was intimated to the applicant as aforesaid . |
| 41 | She dropped the bowl that she was using to the floor . |
| 42 | He was stripped to the waist , and she could see the lunar map of dead skin and fresh scars that was stretched tautly over his Schwarzenegger musculature . |
| 43 | ‘ How many miles d' you reckon today , twenty ? ’ asked Paddy , who was stripped to the waist and had a knotted handkerchief on his ginger mop of hair . |
| 44 | He was stripped to the waist and the scars on his chest were like a map of the battles in which he had fought . |
| 45 | He was stripped to the waist and as he jogged along between the shafts a few coins — obviously his meagre earnings for the day — jingled pathetically in a leather pouch fastened to the back of his belt . |
| 46 | During one attack , it is said , she was stripped to the waist and seen by a number of boys and offensive graffiti depicting her appeared on a wall . |
| 47 | The classic ‘ Bad ’ sounded fresh as a daisy , ‘ Running To Stand Still ’ was stripped to the bone , a speech from Martin Luther punctuated a storming version of ‘ Pride ’ , and huge burning crosses filled the screens during the anti-war tirade ‘ Bullet The Blue Sky ’ . |
| 48 | It was humid if not particularly warm , and he was stripped to the vest . |
| 49 | Once the dealer gave his number under these circumstances , he was submitting to the client 's own terms , letting him off the hook . |
| 50 | Although the initial mapping was in the Grampians , it was not long before part of the team was diverted to the North-West Highlands . |
| 51 | His first choice was to remain leader on his own terms , his second to go , and his third , last , and unacceptable one was to cling to the position on the terms of others . |
| 52 | He was terrified of the Sultan , but for his own safety decided the best policy was to cling to the Tughluk 's fingertips ‘ and every time he said any encouraging word to me I kissed his hand , until I had kissed it seven times . ’ |
| 53 | John 's youngest son , Azariah , backed Monmouth in the rebellion and was banished to the West Indies , where he became a sugar planter . |
| 54 | Later this was revised to the hedging advice to discuss the matter with a social worker before deciding . |
| 55 | In the majority of cases work was prescribed to the extent that there was insufficient opportunity for children to incorporate ideas of their own . |
| 56 | It marked the end of the long process of transformations — starting with the seething leaves of the plant , then the reeking green stage of the first steepings , and the sulphurous yellow stage of the liquor before it was exposed to the air , then binding with the air , it gradually turned to blue . |
| 57 | Subsequently , the DNA was exposed to the mutagen NaNO 2 as described ( 18 ) . |
| 58 | Each man was struggling to fill the hollow that had opened inside him , to bridge it over with some kind of reasonable structure while saying nothing about it as though afraid it might crumble if it was exposed to the light . |
| 59 | As was typical of nineteenth and early twentieth century food retailing , foods were on open display on shop counters , in open windows and on the stalls outside , where food was exposed to the dirt and dust thrown up from the street . |
| 60 | When King Henry had summoned his muster for Scotland , the year after his coronation , Grey had been charged with delivering the summons to his Welsh neighbour , and had withheld it until too late , so that the lord of Glyndyfrdwy was exposed to the charge of being a traitor . |