Example sentences of "and [was/were] introduced [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 One school , deciding that extra space for resource-based learning was a priority , took over a classroom for use in unstructured individualized work , with the result that other classrooms including some specialist rooms were more heavily used than before ; teachers complained that they could not get in to put up work on the blackboard beforehand , and were introduced to the more thorough use of the overhead projector ; the timetabler had to bear in mind the needs of some practical subjects where the previous laying-out of equipment was vital , but the exercise was valuable in focusing attention on such priorities and making them clear to everyone .
2 I made a lot of friends and was introduced to the wonders of television for the first time .
3 I knew some of the people and was introduced to the others .
4 Molly spent more time with the Corduroys and was introduced to the Tapscotts , a white-haired couple : Nicholas , who had been the British Consul in Florence , and his wife Connie .
5 So poor that he had to borrow money to buy a horse , he found Mehmed II on the road from Istanbul to Edirne and was introduced to the sultan by the vezir Mahmud Papa ( Grand Vezir 858–72/1454–68 and 877–8/1472–3 ) .
6 He saw the West Indies when they played at Feethams last summer and was introduced to the team .
7 The familiar instrument in common clinical use depends on measuring the pressure which checks the flow of blood in an artery , and was introduced at the end of the nineteenth century .
8 Gates ' range is branded as the Millenium Power System and was introduced in the US in 1990 .
9 It was a method which reckoned the year from the movable feast of Easter , and was introduced by the French king Philip Augustus ( 1180–1223 ) .
10 The scheme is called Save As You Earn ( SAYE ) and was introduced by the Government in 1969 .
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