Example sentences of "which was [verb] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This comprised three street tramway lines based on Mitcham , one of which was extended to the Croydon Borough boundary . |
| 2 | Later in the century , ‘ folk ’ took over these usages from ‘ popular ’ , which was transferred to the products of the music hall and then to those of the mass market song publishers of Tin Pan Alley and its British equivalent . |
| 3 | Held , dismissing the applications , that prior to 1873 judges sitting as visitors to the Inns of Court to hear appeals by barristers who had been ordered to be suspended or disbarred were acting as judges and performing judicial duties which were an essential part of the administration of justice in their courts ; that the disciplinary jurisdiction of the visitors in respect of fitness of persons to become or remain barristers , was a jurisdiction which was transferred to the High Court by section 16 of the Judicature Act 1873 and retained there by section 18 of the Judicature Act 1925 and section 10(3) ( b ) of the Supreme Court Act 1981 ; and that , accordingly , there was no jurisdiction to hear the applications for judicial review ( post , pp. 1007D–E , G — 1008A , 1010B ) . |
| 4 | Accordingly , the jurisdiction of the visitors in these matters was a jurisdiction which was transferred to the High Court in 1873 and retained there by section 18(3) of the Act of 1925 and section 10(3) ( b ) of the Act of 1981 . |
| 5 | This was probably caused by the roll of linoleum , one end of which was tied to the carrier behind her saddle , the other to the handlebar . |
| 6 | Or the jurors could have taken the path they did in fact elect , which was to go to the very heart of the matter and conclude that these officers were only doing what they have been trained to do and that all the famous video footage demonstrated was that they had indeed gone by the book . |
| 7 | The farm buildings formed three sides of a square in the south-eastern corner of the property , which was bounded to the right by a shaded area . |
| 8 | The final stages of this long and deliberate government breeding programme occurred when the Red Polled Østland , which was related to the Swedish Red Polled and also had Ayrshire blood , was amalgamated ( along with its colour-sided variety , the Jarlsberg of Vestfold ) in 1961 with the horned Norwegian Red-and-White ( NRF ) of the southeast lowlands to form the Norwegian Red . |
| 9 | Eric Jones-Evans began donating material to the Theatre Collection in 1980 and the remainder , including his substantial library , formed just a part of his considerable estate , the bulk of which was bequeathed to the Collection upon his death in 1989 . |
| 10 | Three jets recently handled include Sea Vixen FAW.2 XN685 from the British Aerospace Apprentice School at Hawarden , which was moved to the Midland Air Museum , Coventry , and a pair of Folland Gnats T.1s , XP511 and XS109 , which were moved from RAF Halton initially into a storage area at Portsmouth , and have since been exported to Seattle in the USA . |
| 11 | Robyn rose early to skies that promised a truly blissful day of warm summer sunshine , showered and dressed and then drove off in her dilapidated jeep which was packed to the gunwales with everything she might possibly need for the day ahead . |
| 12 | He took with him a secret report which was leaked to the Japanese press . |
| 13 | Around 1,150 jobs would be lost in the UK , mainly at Dagenham , by the end of the year according to the document , which was leaked to the Press Association . |
| 14 | An EC monitors ' document , which was leaked to the Yugoslav press on Dec. 2 , accused the JNA of " brutal aggression " and called on the EC to use force against it . |
| 15 | Some of the UK government 's key environmental policies are likely to be undermined by a lack of resources , according to an internal Environment Department report which was leaked to the press . |
| 16 | The document , which was leaked to The Ecologist magazine , also states that the proportion of failures has multiplied by two and a half times over the last 10 years . |
| 17 | Under the contract , a copy of which was leaked to the media , Nur Elmy Osman , describing himself as " minister of state for health , Republic of Somalia " , granted Acher a 20-year concession to treat up to 550,000 tons a year of industrial and hospital waste , including " solid and liquid waste of the toxic type " , at a disposal facility in Somalia and to store the treated waste in a landfill . |
| 18 | Although Douglas was eventually acquitted of any offence , his initial conviction and the methods of the police — which included presenting in court what they claimed was a transcript of their tape of his speech , but which was only one third of the length of another tape-recording which was played to the court — led many Free Presbyterians and sympathizers to believe that the whole force of the state was being directed against them . |
| 19 | In a taped interview which was played to the jury , Paul said : ‘ I just thought it was like a little tap on the head and that he would be all right . |
| 20 | Across the mammal 's back are the remains of an iron tool which was riveted to the upper part of the tail . |
| 21 | Subjects were presented with a computer controlled tone in one ear and had to match this tone through movements of the tongue which were transduced so as to produce a sound which was relayed to the other ear . |
| 22 | The expansion scheme which was announced to the press in June is already well underway . |
| 23 | To make a long story short , I finally arranged for Service to record a brief message on tape which was flown to the Yukon and broadcast over loud-speakers during the cinema 's opening ceremonies . |
| 24 | Near the minster there is the Ashes playing fields which was given to the town by a local benefactor , Charles Briggs . |
| 25 | The parish registers begin in 1546 and contain among the memoranda reference to a large gold ring with the inscription ‘ Obey and Rule ’ which was given to the church by a Mrs Francis Rokeby on 26th August 1711 for the use , of any who came to the church to be married and were ‘ unprovided with a ring ’ . |
| 26 | The President signed the committal warrant which was given to the tipstaff as his authority for conveying M. to prison and the governor 's authority for receiving and detaining M. The drawing up of the formal order that M. be committed to prison was left to the court staff . |
| 27 | This was the case notwithstanding the fact that all the information which was given to the expert had in fact been previously published . |
| 28 | Jackson Pollock was driven by a despair which was partly his and partly that of the culture which nourished him , to refuse this act of faith : to insist , with all his brilliance as a painter , that there was nothing behind , that there was only that which was done to the canvas on the side facing us . |
| 29 | As regards the philosophical concept of time , according to Needham , the Mohist school ( followers of the philosopher Mo Ti in the fifth century BC ) was inclined to temporal atomicity , although the hypothesis of material atomism never played any significant role in Chinese thought , which was wedded to the idea of the continuum . |
| 30 | When the unsuspecting man was safely ensconced in a deep slumber , Jarman would pull two bolts from the floor below , and the bed , which was screwed to the floor , would tip up to a 45° angle , sliding the poor wayfarer into a great vat of boiling fat strategically placed below . |