Example sentences of "were [vb pp] to [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fugitives were traced to Sydney . ’ |
| 2 | All nursing and medical procedures were explained to Mr Reynolds and he was asked his preferences wherever possible . |
| 3 | They resist the Hungarian claim that the three regions of Slavonia , Croatia and Dalmatia were annexed to Hungary . |
| 4 | His responsibilities were given to Dipak Patel . |
| 5 | The Jews were given Galilee and Nager , and Judea and the Rift Valley ( West Bank ) were given to Jordan . |
| 6 | In 1836 grafts of both Cox 's new apple trees were given to E. Small and Son , nurserymen of Colnbrook , who began to sell young trees locally four years later . |
| 7 | The depopulated territories were given to Charles ' loyal vassal , the King of the Abotrites . |
| 8 | The saint 's relics were given to Vukovar by Pope Benedict XIV and brought from Rome in 1754 . |
| 9 | She became , for a short while , my personal manager — we did a radio promotion tour around England on the ‘ Andy Warhol ’ single — but I often had the feeling that they were things that were given to Angie to keep her out of David 's way , to occupy her so that he could sort himself out . |
| 10 | In 1391 the castle of St Briavels and the Forest of Dean were given to Thomas , Duke of Gloucester to hold in tail male , and in 1398 the forest of Rutland to Edward , Duke of Albermarle : by 1405 the Somerset forests of Neroche , Exmoor , Mendip and the park of North Petherton had been granted away to the Earl of March . |
| 11 | Hick and Hughes were extradited to Germany on July 16 to face charges connected with the bombing of barracks at Langenhagen , near Hannover in May 1990 , and with the murder of a British army major in Dortmund four days after the Roermond shootings [ see p. 37537 ] . |
| 12 | Apart from the thousands of common criminals who proved to be such a bane for Siberian society , the nineteenth century also witnessed a steady increase in the number of people who , either by judicial or administrative process , were banished to Siberia for political crimes — committed or suspected — against the state . |
| 13 | The injured were treated to Middlesbrough General Hospital . |
| 14 | The injured were treated to Middlesbrough General Hospital . |
| 15 | About 30 ambassadors were recalled to Moscow to explain their conduct in the coup . |
| 16 | The assumption became that the men who were assigned to Masai District were ‘ picked men ’ , exemplars of the finest ideals of the Colonial Service . |
| 17 | Most were assigned to Castlereagh Police Holding Centre in Belfast ( 38 cells and 21 interrogation rooms ) and the remainder to Gough Police Holding Centre in Armagh ( 24 cells and 9 interview rooms ) . |
| 18 | Mountbatten resisted this enormous additional responsibility , and it was actually only on 15 August , the day after Japan 's surrender , that Indonesia and also Indo-China south of the 16th parallel were assigned to SEAC ( though there was an American joke that this stood for ‘ Saving England 's Asiatic Colonies ’ ) . |
| 19 | Form 1A were assigned to Mr R. J. ‘ Bunny ’ Warren for Mathematics and I still have the reports he wrote about me at the time . |
| 20 | Reference to the actual grant of arms showed that it had a very strange limitations clause , for the arms were assigned to Thomas Magnall and his offspring and ‘ any such of the Descendants of his Father who shall write their Names Magnall and by no Others ’ ! |
| 21 | It is believed to be the last living relic of the days when these islands were joined to Europe and the Thames was a tributary of the Rhine , where the same species of snail is still found . |
| 22 | It was said that the main fear of many army officers who were posted to India was that they would be eaten by a tiger . |
| 23 | Most of the mothers were nurses who worked in a civilian hospital , but were part-time reservists in the US Army and were posted to Saudi Arabia at short notice in the run-up to the war . |
| 24 | On the day that the bailiffs entered and took walking possession , 2 March 1988 , there ensued negotiations by telephone between Mr. Mendelson , the landlord 's solicitor , and Mr. Mahmoud , whose proposals and comments were relayed to Mr. Mendelson by one of the bailiffs . |
| 25 | Klaus Barbie , 77 , the Gestapo commander in Lyon in 1942-44 , who was convicted of crimes against humanity and sentenced to life imprisonment by a French court in 1987 [ see p. 35417 ] , died in a prison hospital in Lyon on Sept. 25 ; he was cremated and his ashes were flown to Austria … |
| 26 | The guerrillas were flown to Phnom Penh where they were placed under the protection of UN troops prior to resettlement in the United States . |
| 27 | Councillors were flown to France to see a PWR in operation , to Torness to see how luxurious the workers , accommodation could be — an attraction to keep them on site and out of trouble . |
| 28 | Although the coup attempt was finally crushed on Aug. 1 , the troops were flown to Trinidad on Aug. 3 , at the request of the Robinson government , as a " precautionary " move to protect oil installations . |
| 29 | When bees trained to an artificial feeder in Paris were flown to New York , they kept to their established meal times . |
| 30 | On the following day , under a temporary amnesty , a group of 167 wounded guerrillas was allowed to leave El Salvador for medical treatment and were flown to Cuba via Mexico . |