Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fifth case belonged to a different category : a gentleman named Thomas Arundell was given leave to demise a tenement and three yardlands which he presumably treated as an investment . |
| 2 | He was given instructions to taxi to the holding point for runway 26 and subsequently took off normally at 1202 hrs . |
| 3 | This time discipline won and Hughie Gallacher was transferred south to Chelsea . |
| 4 | The row began in 1985 when Mr Phillips was granted permission to resite the gates at the entrance to the mile-long lime avenue nearer to the house . |
| 5 | The driver told the court the break was so serious his arm was turned back to front . |
| 6 | In 1976 Huan was made ambassador to Belgium and to the European Communities , and in 1979 became vice-president of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences . |
| 7 | After a spell in private practice , Vial was made equerry to Louis XVI and chef de manège of the Lyons riding academy , a post he apparently held for some years , but could not retain . |
| 8 | The word ‘ mass ’ was no longer used , vestments were forbidden , and the communion table was positioned east to west rather than altarwise . |
| 9 | This deal provided GM with the entry to the luxury car market that it had sought — Saab was promised access to GM 's resources and dealership network . |
| 10 | Because I was born twin to Grainne … because the Royal Line must never divide … |
| 11 | Few facts are known about William Smith except that he was bound apprentice to Benjamin Slade in London in 1709 . |
| 12 | ‘ When de Craon was refused entry to Godstowe , he came here and offered you money : gold and silver for your church and parishioners . |
| 13 | He was refused entry to Kuwait and asked for asylum in France.President Giscard d'Estaing asked the Shah his views and the Shah made one of the worst mistakes in his reign by agreeing the Khomeini should go to France , He assumed that the obstreperous priest would be les of a threat to him in distant , Christian France than in neighbouring , radical , Islamic country . |
| 14 | In 1864 , three years after the prince consort 's death , Brown was brought south to Osborne as her groom to give the secluded widow more riding exercise . |
| 15 | While travelling on the mainland of South America , Darwin was brought face to face with the conflict that was under way between the European settlers and the native Indians . |
| 16 | Santa Clara , California-based SynOptics Communications Inc has cut prices on its LattisNet family of Fibre Distributed Data Interface intelligent hubs , saying the cuts were made possible by lower component costs and better manufacturing efficiencies — the 2000 FDDI Workgroup Hubs were reduced immediately , with the 2912A with 12 shielded twisted pair master ports and two fibre optic A/B ports reduced by 36 to $10,000 , or $714 per port ; the Model 3904 FDDI Fiber Optic Host Module was cut 27% to $5,500 and the 3910S-04 FDDI Network Management Module was cut 33% to $10,000 . |
| 17 | Santa Clara , California-based SynOptics Communications Inc has cut prices on its LattisNet family of Fibre Distributed Data Interface intelligent hubs , saying the cuts were made possible by lower component costs and better manufacturing efficiencies — the 2000 FDDI Workgroup Hubs were reduced immediately , with the 2912A with 12 shielded twisted pair master ports and two fibre optic A/B ports reduced by 36 to $10,000 , or $714 per port ; the Model 3904 FDDI Fiber Optic Host Module was cut 27% to $5,500 and the 3910S-04 FDDI Network Management Module was cut 33% to $10,000 . |
| 18 | In November of the same year he was appointed chaplain to Newgate prison , where he wrote a large number of Ordinary 's Account s of funeral sermons , confessions , and last dying words of criminals executed at Tyburn . |
| 19 | On Feb. 18 Sheikh Hasan Nasrallah was appointed successor to Musawi . |
| 20 | Hamilton Green was appointed deputy leader and Seeram Prashad general secretary ( replacing Ranji Chandisingh , hitherto Deputy Prime Minister , who was appointed ambassador to Moscow ) . |
| 21 | In 1838 he was appointed ambassador to St Petersburg . |
| 22 | On 1 March 1830 he was appointed gardener to Charles Stanhope , fourth Earl of Harrington , at Elvaston Castle , where he took up his post on 2 August , with instructions to create a new garden . |
| 23 | The partnership was dissolved in June 1735 when he was appointed goldsmith to Frederick Louis , prince of Wales [ q.v. ] , and moved to Panton Street . |
| 24 | He was appointed paediatrician to Queen Charlotte 's Maternity Hospital ( 1933 ) , and physician to the Hospital for Sick Children , the Middlesex Hospital , and the British Postgraduate Hospital , Hammersmith ( 1934 ) , where he developed the renowned premature-baby unit in 1947 . |
| 25 | In 1820 Stutchbury was appointed assistant to William Clift [ q.v. ] , conservator of the Hunterian museum of the Royal College of Surgeons . |
| 26 | In 1901 he became an assistant in the clinical laboratory at St Thomas 's Hospital and in December that year was appointed assistant to William Bulloch , bacteriologist at the London Hospital , Whitechapel . |
| 27 | From 1823 onwards he built over twenty in the region , a number of them for the commissioners for building new churches established under the Million Pound Act , and in 1829 he was appointed surveyor to York Minster . |
| 28 | In 1689 , through Locke , he was appointed auditor-general to Queen Mary II ; her death in 1694 was a great blow . |
| 29 | In 1950 he was appointed Trainer to Palace 's League team and was twice nominated in that capacity to the Division 3 South eleven in the annual representative matches against their northern counterparts . |
| 30 | On retirement he was appointed ADC to Queen Victoria and Lieutenant of the Tower of London . |