Example sentences of "was [adv] [verb] to [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This clause was expressly agreed to by the shipper-consignor and the carrier at the moment of issuance of the CKR and to be effective had to be noted in the original or master bill of lading . |
| 2 | He was presumably known to at least some of his fellow members — who themselves became foundation members of the Veterinary College — in particular the Duke of Northumberland , first president of the College ; Granville Penn , active in the establishment of the College , who became a member of the Society of Arts in 1788 and was in 1791 a steward ; the Earl of Morton ( one of Vial 's patrons ) ; Thomas Pitt FSA , subsequently to be one of the most assiduous attenders of meetings of the College governors , and last , but not least , Arthur Young , a member of the Society of Arts since 1769 . |
| 3 | It would n't surprise me to hear it was locally referred to as the sugar sifter ( a metaphor at last ! ) , one of those useless gadgets dispensing too little or too much in cheap cafés . |
| 4 | The Soviet Union decided to endorse the expulsion of Escalante : Castro was henceforth referred to as ‘ comrade ’ and Cuba 's place in the Soviet bloc was officially acknowledged when it was listed along with the other ’ socialist' states in the traditional May Day slogans . |
| 5 | When the County School had moved to the Oxford side of the town in 1930 , generous provision of land had been made and that was prudently added to over the years . |
| 6 | In themselves they were by no means new — they were indeed centuries old — but they constituted a direct challenge to the rather abstract and clear-cut penal theory which was much subscribed to on both sides of the Atlantic , and to this extent also reflected something of the atmosphere of the new age . |
| 7 | Lhote , who had already established a certain independent reputation , mixed cautiously in Cubist circles , but from 1911 onwards was generally referred to as a Cubist , although his somewhat academic style often gained him exemption from the unfavourable criticism directed at the other painters . |
| 8 | In Bedfordshire , the earlier agreement over the Board 's assumption of providing powers for Chapter III courses in the rural areas was undeviatingly adhered to by Plaskitt , the university 's resident tutor . |
| 9 | It was what would be shown on the screens of the new theatres that would ultimately determine what was always referred to as ‘ the tone ’ of the movies as a social custom . |
| 10 | For some reason he was always referred to as " The Threarah " — perhaps because there happened to be only one threar , or rowan , near the warren , from which he took his name . |
| 11 | Philip 's father had served in the Irish Guards in the First World War , and was always referred to by his rank . |
| 12 | Although I have read only a summary of the one-day debate and not the full text of all the speeches , I believe that my impression is correct that the British hesitation over the two key areas was hardly referred to at all . |
| 13 | Hepatitis B was formerly referred to as ‘ serum hepatitis ’ because percutaneous exposure to contaminated blood has long been recognized as a major mode of transmission ; and cases of hepatitis B from blood transfusion , needlesticks , and sharing contaminated needles among drug abusers have been well documented . |
| 14 | " Problem solving " was also referred to as a more global idea , or a process which prompts active thought rather than a question designed to initiate rote-learning techniques . |
| 15 | That point enables me to raise with the Minister the matter of aid to mining areas , which was also referred to by my hon. Friend the Member for Hemsworth . |
| 16 | This was also adverted to by the county surveyor in a letter dated 7 February 1983 to Mr. Page , the borough engineer . |
| 17 | I was also spoken to by the Chief Whip who reiterated that the majority of the party were for Alec . |
| 18 | The establishment of an interstate bank to co-ordinate fiscal policy in the rouble zone was also agreed to in principle by six member states — Byelarus , Russia , Kirgizstan , Uzbekistan , Kazakhstan and Armenia . |
| 19 | The two-tier principle was strictly adhered to in the 1972 Act even when there seemed little justification for it in particular circumstances . |
| 20 | The definition of ‘ consecutive ’ or ‘ non-selected ’ asthmatics was strictly adhered to by excluding from the study all those referred for investigation because of gastrointestinal signs or symptoms . |
| 21 | From 1968 onwards Nicaragua was repeatedly referred to in the Reports of the Court to the General Assembly as a State that had accepted the compulsory jurisdiction of the Court , and the United Nations Secretariat had made similar listings . |
| 22 | When first introduced into Europe in the 14th century , sugar was reverently referred to as ‘ white gold ’ , and commanded a market price equal to that of silver . |
| 23 | During the UDI ( Unilateral Declaration of Independence ) years there was little love lost between the Smith regime and the university — indeed it was often referred to as ‘ the Kremlin on the hill ’ . |
| 24 | Because it was so small — no more than a Hamlet — it was often referred to as ‘ Little Sutton ’ . |
| 25 | His screen creation was often referred to as ‘ the tramp ’ but as Sobel and Francis have suggested the use of this term is as misleading as to call Chaplin ‘ proletarian ’ . |
| 26 | Any sound grain which was harvested was completely unusable for flour because of the fishy smell which accompanied the smut , ( hence it was often referred to as stinking smut ) . |
| 27 | Spinsterhood was often referred to as ‘ failure in business ’ in middle class households , leading Cicely Hamilton to write bitterly about ‘ marriage as a trade ’ in 1909 . |
| 28 | This was later named South Vein and the level driven off along it in both directions was often referred to as South Vein Day Level . |
| 29 | ‘ Songs were specially composed for her by such distinguished musicians as WSGwynn Williams and Meirion Williams , and she was often referred to as ‘ the second Katherine Ferrier ’ , ’ he said . |
| 30 | When Leonard Aldous started in the harness-maker 's shop the business was often referred to by a different name . |