Example sentences of "was [vb pp] to [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is appropriate here that I quote from passages in the report of the headmaster Mr which was furnished to Norwich City College . |
| 2 | The report , which was leaked to Environment Business magazine , was written for Environment Secretary Michael Heseltine by John Hobson , head of the department 's pollution control and waste directorate . |
| 3 | This was communicated to Mr. Cooper by letter dated 31 March 1983 in these terms : |
| 4 | Col Peck said Lt-Gen Robert Johnston , Edinburgh-born head of US forces in Somalia , and the US special envoy , Robert Oakley , signed the ultimatum which was communicated to Gen Morgan by radio . |
| 5 | After his arrest , in 1989 , he was remanded to Brixton prison hospital wing . |
| 6 | He was remanded to Cardiff Prison . |
| 7 | He also was remanded to Crumlin Road until June 11 . |
| 8 | The name of Leith , Hull and Hamburg Steam Packet Co. was altered to Currie Line Ltd as business was concentrated on the Baltic Ports . |
| 9 | Shortly afterwards , Harrison was recalled to Rochester Row and was appointed Adviser in VD to the War Office . |
| 10 | Subsequently , the DNA was exposed to Eco RII restriction endonuclease ; samples were electrophoresed through a 1% agarose gel containing 0.5 mg/l ethidiumbromid . |
| 11 | For the remainder of her half-hour set , the audience was treated to vintage Aurora Blake — in fact , it was doubtful that she 'd ever put on a more powerful show in any of the venues she 'd performed in all over the world . |
| 12 | Poor Martha 's experience of suitors was limited to Sam Baldwin who , although hardworking and dependable , was not the type to turn a girl 's head . |
| 13 | It is important to note , before going on to look at the main body of legislation in detail , that prior to 1980 , when insider dealing first became a statutory offence ( by virtue of Part V of the 1980 Companies Act ) , the legislative means of curtailing the practice was limited to disclosure provisions contained in general companies legislation . |
| 14 | Until the 1980s , however , its development was limited to executive functions where inputs and outputs could be most easily identified and aligned ( see Treasury and Civil Service Committee , 1982 , vol. 111 , Appendix 9 ) . |
| 15 | Whilst the experiment was limited to trainee engineers and by the type of microcomputer used , the results of this investigation indicated that : 1 ) the mode of man-machine interaction which was most popular and has the fewest dissenters , was one in which the user directed the course of action , as in the modular program ; 2 ) a fast design time was most likely to be achieved by the use of an optimization technique ; 3 ) an optimum design was most likely to be achieved by a preprogrammed optimization technique , but only where the problem , design parameters and constraints were understood ; 4 ) the technique thought most likely to allow some gaining of insight was one in which the user has control of the program , as in the modular program . |
| 16 | Held , allowing the application , that since section 7(5) of the Act of 1976 made provision for persons arrested for breaking bail conditions , or on the likelihood of their so doing , to be brought before a single justice , it was an enactment falling within the exception contemplated by section 121 of the Act of 1980 which , in any event , was limited to summary trials of informations and the hearing of complaints under the civil jurisdiction ; that Parliament had intended by section 7(4) to create a simple and expeditious procedure whereby a justice was required , before forming an opinion under section 7(5) , to conduct no more than an informal inquiry , hearing the arresting officer 's grounds for belief that the person had broken or might break his bail conditions and allowing that person to respond , but without the giving of evidence on oath or cross-examination ; and that , since the provisions of the Act of 1980 relating to the adjournment of proceedings before magistrates ' courts did not apply , there was no power in the justice to adjourn proceedings under section 7(5) ( post , pp. 24A , G — 25B , C–G , 26B , E–F , H — 27A , G–H ) . |
| 17 | The death sentence came in 1967 when a majority of members voted the British Phrenological Society into liquidation and most of its valuable library was given to University College , London , and to the University of Cambridge . |
| 18 | When Worrell declined the captaincy after the 1957 tour , it was given to Gerry Alexander and the series against Pakistan was well won . |
| 19 | My heart was given to Tommy Steele , " Rock with the Cavemen " and " Elevator Rock " . |
| 20 | It was given to Alfred Austin instead . |
| 21 | Permission to manipulate human genes was given to Dr Morgan and his team by the Clothier committee , the Government 's advisory body on the ethics of gene therapy . |
| 22 | A welcome was given to Beryl Smith who kindly agreed to teach on this day because of the shortage of other trainers . |
| 23 | This assertion was strongly denied by Tshisekedi , who further maintained that key Cabinet positions were controlled by supporters of Mobutu , including the Defence portfolio which was given to N'gbanda Nzambo Ko Atumba , a nephew of Mobutu . |
| 24 | The principal part in the attack was given to General Sir Hubert Gough 's Fifth Army , with one corps of Plumer 's Second Army on its right flank and the French First Army , under General Francois Anthoine , on its left . |
| 25 | Editor , — Snake oil salesmen might recognise the treatment that was given to Simon Crawford 's patient , but not homoeopaths , lay or medical . |
| 26 | Early emphasis was given to water vapour ( Harrison , 1970 ; Newell , 1970 ) but soon afterwards oxides of nitrogen became the primary focus ( Crutzen , 1972 ; Johnston , 1971 ) . |
| 27 | The original score — the two movements completed by Mozart , and the rest added by Süssmayr in a hand almost indistinguishable ( deliberately so ) from Mozart 's — was given to Count Walsegg , who for once found himself on the receiving end of a little deception . |
| 28 | A special international award was given to Alexey Yablokov , Russian President Boris Yeltsin 's special environmental adviser , for his willingness to alert Yeltsin to the extent of Russia 's ecological problems . |
| 29 | United Kingdom confectionery trade is worth two point six billion pounds , billion , and two years ago a figure that really astonished me when I saw it was that the total of all money that was given to development charities in the United Kingdom , including CAFOD , Christian Aid and Oxfam was equal to what Britain spent on one product made in York and that 's KitKat . |
| 30 | All praise was given to Dean Acheson , the conference chairman , for his handling of the ‘ Reds ’ ; and there were lurid tales told by a reporter who smuggled himself into the Soviets ' rented mansion disguised as a plumber ( ‘ socks and panties dangled … orange peels littered the floors … five to seven beds had been squeezed into every bedroom … ’ ) . |