Example sentences of "was [adv] [vb pp] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Griess was duly invited to London ( 1858 ) and Hofmann commissioned him to explore the possibilities of his new diazo compounds . |
| 2 | The status of reviseur d'entreprises was duly granted to Mr Ramrath . |
| 3 | All went well , and he was duly admitted to St Paul 's College in Cheltenham from the Islington Trinity National School , having been awarded a Queen 's Scholarship , second class . |
| 4 | This was duly reported to General Joseph Galliéni , now Minister of War , who had heard similar disquieting news from other sources . |
| 5 | Preliminary analysis of these questions suggested that dissatisfaction with six of the organizations was importantly related to preparedness to break the law : the press , local government , the civil service , banks , the police and the local doctor . |
| 6 | This information was verbally communicated to officials of the Department of Health in July 1981 , who asked that further studies be done to be available by October 1981 . |
| 7 | With the aid of a cable slide , the patient was slowly lowered to safety . |
| 8 | If it is stretching the imagination to describe any West Indian fast bowler as a gentle giant he is nevertheless mild-mannered and easy-going , and it is significant that while the likes of Croft and Marshall were doing unpleasant things to batsmen 's heads , the damage that Garner inflicted was mostly confined to arms and hands ; obviously any broken bone is bad and obviously he sent down his share of bouncers , but there was never the suggestion that he was using his physical advantages maliciously ; six feet eight inches 12 metres ) tall and weighing seventeen stones ( 108 kilograms ) , the prospect of the carnage he might have caused had he been of an aggressive nature hardly bears thinking about . |
| 9 | A second shutdown of the 3B unit occurred but following investigation the unit was successfully returned to services . |
| 10 | But I was eventually sent to Ghana . |
| 11 | In 1845 the line was bought by the North British Railway for £113,000 , the gauge changed to 4′ 8½ inches ( 1.43m ) , and the horses and inclined plane replaced by steam locomotives upon reopening in July 1847 when it was also connected via Portobello to Edinburgh Waverley , and the route past Dalhousie was eventually extended to Carlisle to form the ‘ Waverley Line ’ . |
| 12 | Starting as a mess orderly , Lore was eventually transferred to North Wales . |
| 13 | He was eventually traced to Lancaster University last October and arrested . |
| 14 | His mistress , Mrs. Vince , wanted his body to be placed in her family vault , but the family objected , and the corpse was eventually removed to Parham . |
| 15 | One , that was eventually exported to Mycenae , had been turned upside down , transforming its mouth into a pedestal base , and its original base had been sawn off and replaced with a moulded rim of gilded bronze ; then a pair of wooden handles and a spout were added , completing the transformation of the Egyptian vessel into a Minoan jar . |
| 16 | First , his trustee , Mr Basden , charged him with contempt of court for failing to produce statements of his financial affairs over the preceding five years , and Hooley was eventually committed to Brixton Prison for a month . |
| 17 | He began banging his head against the wall , vomiting up his food , lost a great deal of weight and was eventually taken to hospital . |
| 18 | She was eventually taken to hospital , and this morning they told Moira that her condition is very serious . |
| 19 | During this syndicalist period the ‘ official ’ movement was wholly committed to participation in the programme of modernization in which it participated with regional capital and the associated regional élite ( see Ben well CDP , 1978 ) . |
| 20 | Unfortunately , however , a good many East Indiamen were unable to enter the Bay of Bengal , which was effectively restricted to vessels whose bottoms had been plated with copper to prevent damage from marine worms . |
| 21 | The subsequent development of the jaw enabled the vertebrates to exploit a wider range of lifestyles than were available to the jawless fish , and it would not be too gross a generalization to say that much of the evolution of the vertebrates was intimately related to things that happened to jaws . |
| 22 | If he was not a god himself , he was intimately linked to God , a manifestation of God 's favour and God 's will . |
| 23 | The remark was presumably addressed to Tavalouze . |
| 24 | He was powerfully addicted to conspiracy theory , according to which the group was continually under surveillance by the Special Branch and MI5 , while concentration camps were being prepared to incarcerate the militants as the capitalist crisis deepend . |
| 25 | Kim 's victory was widely attributed to Chung 's poorer than expected showing , and his failure thereby to divert conservative votes from the DLP . |
| 26 | It was held on the facts that the trustees did not have the power to make such loans and that the payments were in fact outright payments so that she was properly assessed to income tax . |
| 27 | This huge monumental arch was erected in the early years of the nineteenth century to celebrate the victories of Napoleon , although it was swiftly re-dedicated to Peace when the Austrians returned . |
| 28 | This news was swiftly conveyed to Sam at West Birk Hatt , who decided he would have some fun . |
| 29 | He was so tied to London , and had been especially so during his increasingly unhappy marriage , that his knowledge of the country , even the Home Counties , was patchy . |
| 30 | Obviously , that was not the case but it may be that Viola was so used to people thinking like that about her that she felt a need to assert herself as well . |