Example sentences of "was [adv] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | At last in 1854 Forbes was duly appointed to the Edinburgh chair , but he died a few months later at the age of only thirty-nine ; there was a general feeling that he had worn himself out with drudgery , and that success had come too late . |
| 2 | Whilst their more extreme suggestions were disregarded , the degree of concern was duly communicated to the government . |
| 3 | This was duly fitted to said bass and instantly cured the problem . |
| 4 | I did that and was duly engaged to be a clerk in this pretty little mansion which housed the records of our fighting aircraft . |
| 5 | The arrangements concerning the loan were , according to Feigen , confirmed in a letter from the museum director and the painting was duly sent to the museum as a loan pending sale in mid August 1991 . |
| 6 | Griess was duly invited to London ( 1858 ) and Hofmann commissioned him to explore the possibilities of his new diazo compounds . |
| 7 | The status of reviseur d'entreprises was duly granted to Mr Ramrath . |
| 8 | The visitor came from Surrey and brought with him a bat , which was duly presented to me — my first cricket bat ! |
| 9 | He suggested that I spoke to the department that approved aircraft radio equipment , and I was duly transferred to that department . |
| 10 | Meanwhile , back in Manchester , The Smiths ' favourite local photographer Steve Wright ( who shot the Salford Lads Club picture in the inside gatefold of ‘ The Queen Is Dead ’ ) was duly dispatched to a grubby street in Salford to snap a Strangeways road sign . |
| 11 | All went well , and he was duly admitted to St Paul 's College in Cheltenham from the Islington Trinity National School , having been awarded a Queen 's Scholarship , second class . |
| 12 | This was duly reported to General Joseph Galliéni , now Minister of War , who had heard similar disquieting news from other sources . |
| 13 | The scrambler device was duly attached to the standard telephone and the first details emerged of Prince Charles 's dismissal of his private secretary , Major-General Sir Christopher Airey . |
| 14 | As such it was duly added to the membership roll of the contraption known as the United Nations , which asserts that all nations are equal ( albeit some more so than others ) , with one vote each , just as if they were individual human beings in a right-little tight-little democratic State . |
| 15 | We both accepted this without question , and a marriage allowance was duly added to my salary . |
| 16 | Preliminary analysis of these questions suggested that dissatisfaction with six of the organizations was importantly related to preparedness to break the law : the press , local government , the civil service , banks , the police and the local doctor . |
| 17 | Inflation for the month of December was officially stated as 40.1 per cent but was unofficially recognized to be much higher . |
| 18 | A condition of the IMF loan was unofficially reported to be a 25 per cent reduction in public staff levels . |
| 19 | This information was verbally communicated to officials of the Department of Health in July 1981 , who asked that further studies be done to be available by October 1981 . |
| 20 | Peppard Golf Club was slowly grinding to a half ( blitzed Londoners were housed in the simple wooden clubhouse ) and two of its trophies were sent to Henley , a more durable looking Club . |
| 21 | With the aid of a cable slide , the patient was slowly lowered to safety . |
| 22 | A TWO-YEAR-OLD boy in Cape Town , who was slowly suffocating to death , yesterday became the world 's first child to have an artificial windpipe implanted , during an operation by a British surgeon . |
| 23 | Yet Jaq feared that for all its power the Imperium was slowly succumbing to the attentions of aliens , of renegades , of daemons . |
| 24 | It may be that some of the produce offered to the temple for the gods and goddesses was discreetly diverted to the royal household ; it may also be , as with many later monarchies , that the royal authority depended on the religious establishment for validation . |
| 25 | Moreover he was perversely drawn to a man so apt to be hated . |
| 26 | ’ I was mostly reporting to that woman leader , Sergia ’ |
| 27 | If it is stretching the imagination to describe any West Indian fast bowler as a gentle giant he is nevertheless mild-mannered and easy-going , and it is significant that while the likes of Croft and Marshall were doing unpleasant things to batsmen 's heads , the damage that Garner inflicted was mostly confined to arms and hands ; obviously any broken bone is bad and obviously he sent down his share of bouncers , but there was never the suggestion that he was using his physical advantages maliciously ; six feet eight inches 12 metres ) tall and weighing seventeen stones ( 108 kilograms ) , the prospect of the carnage he might have caused had he been of an aggressive nature hardly bears thinking about . |
| 28 | The excess land was mostly sold to existing tenants . |
| 29 | I hardly remember him and what I tell you about him was mostly told to me by my mother . |
| 30 | The flight was successfully undertaken to the area of Kerkenah Island , where two 22X Squadron Sunderlands met the Hurricanes and led them on the last leg to the island . |