Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [adv prt] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some space was given over to discussion of these questions in chapters 2 and 3 . |
| 2 | One of its rooms was given over to chess-playing , a pastime enjoyed by Rosengarten and Leonard . |
| 3 | The morning of the celebrations dawned and the whole day was given over to ironing best robes , practising on broomsticks and chanting . |
| 4 | So William erm on Thursday night erm he said on B B C's Question Time erm which was given over to crime and punishment issues which had not been debated and erm William said he 'd a come to the conclusion now that he believed drug taking should be made legal . |
| 5 | I was up there for six weeks , I passed the course and was posted back to Brigade H Q to a wider posting to a regiment . |
| 6 | They had to use the guards " radio , which was patched through to army headquarters and thence to the Majles . |
| 7 | The flight lasted over an hour as the plane was flown out to sea , returning over Fleetwood , then back to Blackpool . |
| 8 | A third child , aged only seven months , was lifted out to safety in a carry-cot . |
| 9 | A third child , aged only seven months , was lifted out to safety in a carry-cot . |
| 10 | Old Jimbo can still roll back the years and reach into his glorious past , and how he loved it as the crowd roared at every winning shot and then sang Happy Birthday as a giant cake was rolled on to court for him afterwards . |
| 11 | A widespread training programme was carried out to help governors and schools staff to meet their new tasks and obligations . |
| 12 | In August 1952 the innocent-looking East and West Lyn rivers swept down into the Devon resort of Lynmouth , obliterating houses and removing all trace of the Beach Hotel , which was carried out to sea . |
| 13 | One house , inhabited by a British family called Tatlock , was carried out to sea whole . |
| 14 | In four ( 10% ) patients a precut papillotomy using a needle knife was carried out to gain access to the common bile duct . |
| 15 | He lived in a good loose-box , and was let out to water twice a day . |
| 16 | On my first Sunday , two days before the operation I was let out to family lunch . |
| 17 | There he remained until 18 March 1986 when , no doubt because his condition had deteriorated , he was transferred back to hospital . |
| 18 | The Church denounced nonprofessional healing as heresy ( hence condemning many female midwives to the stake as witches in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries ) and the state was prevailed on to grant a final legal monopoly of practice to the medically qualified by the establishment of the Medical Register in 1858 . |
| 19 | Then she was whisked off to lunch at the clubhouse . |
| 20 | Shaken to have found herself so suddenly envious of Liz 's happy home life , and startled to realise that no amount of money could create these comfortable surroundings , Laura was jerked back to reality by the sound of Ross 's voice . |
| 21 | Following its days of silk production , it was turned over to piano making , and became known as the Evans Piano Factory . |
| 22 | But I also felt that the guitar became a different instrument when it was turned up to maximum and fully distorted — it was no longer a polyphonic instrument , really . |
| 23 | Her narrow shoulders and long , slim neck had barely seen the sun , and gleamed white and translucent against the dark fabric ; her small-featured , impassive face was made up to salon standard . |
| 24 | ‘ Mainly cooks and cripples , ’ he said cheerfully , and the family hoped that this would mean that he stayed in England , but when he returned to London after his leave the battalion was made up to strength and moved to Howick in Scotland . |
| 25 | By 1700 the full extent of the disaster had become clear , and in 1713 , the Denver sluice , the key to the whole system , was washed out to sea . |
| 26 | In 1803 the chapel was very badly damaged by flood , and the image of Nossa Senhora dos Milagres was washed out to sea . |
| 27 | Three times this was done , and then the sheet was drawn up to heaven again . |
| 28 | He was sold on to make way for two show jumpers — Lady Touchwood , a 15.3hh Thoroughbred and Floyd , a part Thoroughbred . |
| 29 | The supply side of the market was opened up to competition , but on the demand side direct consumer choice was limited to the choice of a GP . |
| 30 | As a reward , the liberated shell of Plenty , largest of all orbitals , was handed over to Earth . |