Example sentences of "was [num ord] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The plaintiffs are also waiting to hear the depositions , hitherto withheld , of three important witnesses : Richard Camber , a former director of Sotheby 's ; Felicity Nicholson , head of the Antiquities Department at Sotheby 's , and Dr Anna Bennett of the Institute of Archaeology in London , who conducted the scientific tests on the treasure before it was first revealed to the world in February 1990 . |
| 2 | Specialist Old Testament study has long answered this question by saying that we have differing traditions of the early history of the people of God : one tradition in which the divine name was known from the earliest times , and another — contradictory — tradition that it was first revealed to Moses . |
| 3 | It was also at this time that Elizabeth was first invited to a ‘ very simple luncheon ’ at Braemar Mansions . |
| 4 | Kate Kennett saw the problem when she was first invited to the school before the scheme had received any finance : |
| 5 | The iron circle which was placed on his head was first raised to white heat , and the peasant leader expired to the taunts of ‘ Ave rex rusticorum ’ ( Živio seljački kralj ) . |
| 6 | His annuity was first raised to 100 marks ( £66 13s. 4d. ) , assigned on the lordship of Haverford , and then on 20 August 1385 replaced by a grant for life to him of that lordship . |
| 7 | Here , as fig. 1.8 shows , the CS when it was first presented to the control subjects tended to suppress responding ; but thereafter , these subjects acquired the CR ( which involved an increase in responding ) more rapidly than did pre-exposed subjects . |
| 8 | the member of staff who was first alerted to the fire did not inform his colleagues ; Police radios did not work underground |
| 9 | Mr Taylor found himself under attack from members of his own party after he was first selected to stand.It blew up into a national row over allegations of racism before he was confirmed as candidate . |
| 10 | However , if the right is not commercially exploited within 15 years of the creation of the topography , the right expires 15 years from the time the topography was first recorded in a design document or the time when an article was first made to the design , whichever is the earlier . |
| 11 | Is the Minister aware that since he was first appointed to the Ministry of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food in 1985 there has been a £28 billion food deficit , which amounts to £15 million per year or £1,200 per household ? |
| 12 | The United States Pomerene Act , provided that if the goods were delivered to a common carrier by their owner or by the owner 's agent , once an order bill of lading was issued , the goods could not be attached or levied upon , under an execution , unless the bill was first surrendered to the carrier , or its negotiation was enjoined . |
| 13 | To construct plasmids expressing C-terminal deletion mutants of RAP74 , the NcoI site at the translation initiation site was first converted to an NdeI site by inserting a synthetic oligonucleotide . |
| 14 | The commission to design the memorial chapel was first given to G.F. Bodley ( 1827–1907 ) , an eminent church architect of the late-Victorian period , but Bodley passed it on to Comper who had been his most highly talented pupil . |
| 15 | Direction was first given to the work by the publication in 1978 of the Warnock Report , the results of a committee of inquiry into the education of handicapped children and young people . |
| 16 | As I said in pre presenting the Board 's report , when this matter was first given to us , we were invited to advise the general assembly on matters relating to health and healing , and that we did . |
| 17 | In Eastern Province 's defeat against Natal he was first sent to the cooler for head-butting , then dismissed for immediately raking a player in a ruck . |
| 18 | He was first sent to a strictly Protestant preparatory school in Cheam , then entered Eton in January 1862 , where his house was chosen for the ‘ staunch Protestant bias ’ of the cleric in charge . |
| 19 | Although the Supreme Court had ruled that amendments should be ratified within a reasonable period in order to reflect a contemporaneous consensus — the time limit most usually accepted was seven years — no such restriction had applied at the time when the amendment was first sent to the states for consideration . |
| 20 | FRANK Field , whose political career stood at the crossroads last night , was first elected to the House of Commons in May 1979 . |
| 21 | When Molyneaux was first elected to Westminster for South Antrim in 1970 , he had been regarded by Paisley as a conservative ally . |
| 22 | A member of the NFU since he started farming , Mr. Pexton was first elected to council in 1981 . |
| 23 | He was first elected to the Liverpool city council as a Liberal in 1903 , was leader of its Liberal party in 1918 , and served almost continuously until his death , at which time he was chairman of the finance committee . |
| 24 | He was first elected to the Council in 1971 . |
| 25 | Brendan was first elected to the Executive Committee as a representative of AIB Bank , Dublin in 1989 . |
| 26 | In all cases , the original light curve started with 100-s binning , and was first normalized to its mean value , so that the resulting power spectrum estimates represent contribution per Hertz to fractional variance . |
| 27 | In I Thessalonians 1:5 Paul reminds his readers how the gospel was first preached to them : ‘ it came not in word only , but in power and in the Holy Spirit and in full assurance . ’ |
| 28 | The paper was first scheduled to be printed in June , but in the end did n't go on the presses until four months later in mid-October . |
| 29 | His right to sit was first referred to a select committee of the House of Commons which reported , somewhat unhelpfully , that there were arguments for and against his right to sit , and recommended clarifying legislation which , however , has not been forthcoming . |
| 30 | She was first referred to our department aged 14 years , when she had behavioural problems at school , short bouts of deep depression , and outbursts of temper . |