Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The miners were eventually forced back to work — some might claim they were virtually ‘ starved back ’ by the operation of the social security benefit rules — because there was no apparent chance of success . |
| 2 | The full-time farms surveyed were mostly given over to grass and were on the higher ground . |
| 3 | They were soon summoned back to London . |
| 4 | The argument comes just months after the ancient writings were finally opened up to scholars around the world , and it centres on a single phrase . |
| 5 | If the urban élites were largely won over to Christianity by about 430 , the masses had drifted into it even sooner . |
| 6 | Most of the store windows were already given over to Christmas displays in silver and white , whilst around behind his hotel , down-and-outs were sleeping over hot air vents in the pavement . |
| 7 | They were quickly sent on to reception camps . |
| 8 | BOMB DISPOSAL specialists were yesterday called out to beaches on the south-west coast of Scotland after Second World War phosphorus canisters believed to be from an undersea dump were washed ashore . |
| 9 | Ken Brown from Glasgow North and Tony Killeen from Manchester North were both made up to Fellows of the Guild having won the award for three consecutive years . |
| 10 | erm Sorry , I think we 'll just stick with Faulkner for a moment , because I think that leads us on to the constant tragedies of battle casualties , which were obviously very much brought in into Oxford whenever people were wounded outside they were often brought in to Oxford to be cared for , there was a hospital out of Yarnton too , but a great many were cared for all over Oxford , and the greatest of course were buried at Christchurch . |
| 11 | He also remembered with a sense of humiliation and disgust that the pages of the Informer were now given over to articles on gay rights , the ‘ politics of feminism ’ and peer pressure towards glue-sniffing in the inner cities . |
| 12 | The four were then taken back to Douglas . |
| 13 | The goods were then taken back to Mansha 's home where his girlfriend heard the men and saw Randhawa throwing the stolen jewellery around the kitchen . |
| 14 | Bishops were again brought in to arbitrate ; but they did not see eye to eye . |
| 15 | Five ( 6% ) prompted patients changed their minds about accepting prompting and were subsequently transferred back to hospital outpatients . |
| 16 | ’ Doreen 's weekly classes were quietly changed over to Medau , and continually to gather more members and new teachers , including Rosemary Littlewood ( formerly Gould ) who is now a trainer . |
| 17 | During the war , his entourage was frequently scandalised by his affairs with Frenchwomen in occupied France , and when , in 1923 , he was secretly smuggled back to Germany from exile in Holland , his friends hustled him through breakfast out of fear that he might fall in love with some hotel chambermaid and thus jeopardise the whole plot . |
| 18 | It was eventually delivered up to Nicholas Stone shortly after Donne 's death in March 1631 for transformation into stone . |
| 19 | A housewarming was impulsively decided on to mark the arrival of the new Alfoxden tenants , and on about 17 July Coleridge , seeking ‘ change of air ’ , arrived from Stowey in anticipation of the event . |
| 20 | It was only shipped up to Paris recently when the house had been emptied of furniture . |
| 21 | Divided up into three groupings , the A , B , and C special constabularies , according to diminishing power , responsibility , and time commitment , the force was soon cut down to class B only and these came to be known as the ‘ B Specials ’ , a thoroughly armed , militant , semi-private , and sectarian army . |
| 22 | My initial perceptions of a college of further education might have begun on a lofty plane , but I was soon brought down to earth with a bump . |
| 23 | She was not sick in the mornings and when occasionally nausea swept over her it was easily put down to fatigue , or to something she had eaten . |
| 24 | In the early period of the application of the formula , Oxford RHA was rapidly brought down to RAWP target levels and Merseyside RHA brought up . |
| 25 | Shear Cave equipment , designed , supplied and installed by Davy McKee was formally handed over to BNFL commissioning teams . |
| 26 | Responsibility was formally passed over to TEC in February 1977 , and the Council established its committee for art and design education ( DATEC ) late that year under the chairmanship of Mr David Carter . |
| 27 | He was usually invited out to lunch , resumed work or attended a concert in the evening , and then went to see Constanze , when her mother ( who was often drunk ) berated both of them . |
| 28 | I was always brought up to treat everybody as I find them . |
| 29 | The bus was cosy and , as I stood dangling from a strap with the other excess passengers , someone asked the driver if Hampstead Road was still closed off to traffic going north . |
| 30 | Throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries land previously used for pasture was gradually given over to cultivation . |