Example sentences of "was [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And so in the sanctuary of the triune Godhead , whose secrets we can never know , and whose mystery we must never probe , God the Father prepared him a body , and the Word from the beginning , the Son , humbly said , ‘ I come ’ and the Holy Spirit overshadowed a young woman of Israel so that the uncreated one was joined to creature-flesh and became man . |
| 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 | The murder , it is suspected , was intended to foment open conflict in Belfast between the Ulster Defence Association and the rival Ulster Volunteer Force as relations between them were strained at the time . |
| 4 | Twice , aged 15 and 16 , she was remanded to prison for a series of offences including setting fire to rubbish bins , attempted theft , criminal damage ( slashing car tyres ) and making hoax telephone calls to the fire brigade . |
| 5 | Pearsons correlation coefficient was calculated to measure the association between continuous variables . |
| 6 | In Bath , Nicholas Godfrey , 16 , was plucked to safety from the swollen River Avon as he clung on to a branch . |
| 7 | At Frampton Cotterell near Bristol , Avon , a canoeist was plucked to safety after being swept away in the fast-flowing River Frome . |
| 8 | A CAMERAMAN was plucked to safety yesterday after being trapped for two days inside an active volcano . |
| 9 | The ship 's course was altered to north-northeast to enable HMS Impregnable to clear the notorious Bembridge ledges . |
| 10 | Most of Pocklington 's streets had been called gates ( a word that had been introduced into this country by the Vikings ) , but during the nineteenth century Hungate was re-named George Street , Southgate became Regent Street , St Peter 's Gate was changed to Union Street and the colourful name of Pudding Gate was altered to Pavement . |
| 11 | where a defendants conduct led the plaintiff to incur expenditure in the reasonable belief that the action was to proceed to trial regardless of the plaintiffs delay even where the limitation period had expired , the defendant was estopped from claiming that the action be struck out for want of prosecution on the grounds of the plaintiffs delay . |
| 12 | was stripped to green |
| 13 | They all seemed to be pleased except the child , who was banished to bed disappointed , and we sat until the sky blackened , talking and sharing their hedgerow broth . |
| 14 | British Rail Engineering says it accepts that Mr Hayward was exposed to asbestos at work which led to his death.But it disputes the amount claimed.The Judge will decide on the claim tomorrow . |
| 15 | The next morning , when Delia Sutherland met the men before work , she was treated to opinion and advice . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The pH was adjusted to 7.0 with 1 N HCl and the mixture was evaporated to dryness . |
| 18 | The pH was adjusted to 7.0 with 1 N HCl and the mixture was evaporated to dryness . |
| 19 | For the purposes of postlabelling , a volume of DNA solution containing 5 µg DNA was evaporated to dryness in a Univap rotor evaporator ( Uniscience , Cambridge , UK ) and digested to mononucleotides with micrococcal nuclease ( Sigma , Poole , UK ) and spleen phosphodiesterase ( Boehringer , Lewes , UK ) . |
| 20 | They did , however , note that the disturbances of 1811 – 12 were distinguished by a new level of planning and organisation , but still insisted that the involvement of " proper " trade unionists was limited to sympathy . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Under the old rating system , spending was limited to income from a 2p in the pound rate and an equivalent restriction was continued under the poll tax . |
| 23 | Government 's new power was limited to restraint upon LEA innovation . |
| 24 | 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 ) . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 ) . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | A distinctive prominence was given to mathematics — not least because its value in astronomy , navigation , architecture , and surveying gave it particular relevance to those training for missionary work overseas , or to those preparing for high military or government service . |
| 29 | ( This was a similar exercise to that carried out during the study of the Adult Training Centres described in Chapter 10 , where a weighting was given to software depending on the relative value of the functions that it could support . ) |
| 30 | 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 ) . |