Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [adv prt] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said : ‘ There were more than a dozen enquiries about the tender and this was whittled down to a list of six . |
| 2 | Now , she was stripped down to the bare essentials of her person , trying to deal with her knowledge . |
| 3 | Readers of the great Victorian novelists rejoiced to find in the final chapters how summarily justice was meted out to the villains ; some were perplexed that the Almighty often failed to knot up loose ends equally satisfactorily . |
| 4 | Mark Cameron ( 1987 ) came to believe , after studying these frescoes intensively , that the West Wing of the Knossos Labyrinth in particular was given over to a whole programme of initiation rites and ordeals . |
| 5 | The evening was given over to a " conversation " , which was held in the Church Institute and attracted an audience of one hundred and fifty people . |
| 6 | The rest was given over to a bowling green and a large expanse of lawn ; the potential for change was enormous . |
| 7 | The building was given over to the university in 1810 , and the commode entered the Clanwilliam collection in 1831 . |
| 8 | Ironically , during the war years , the pitch was in better condition than it had ever been , as it was given over to the growing of carrots and potatoes . |
| 9 | So much of the station was given over to the passengers , who by 1863 numbered 2.1 million annually , that a special parcels depot was built next to the station proper in 1889 . |
| 10 | The front part of the house , being somewhat darkened by evergreens , was given over to the Staff Common Room , with the classrooms of the senior forms on the first floor . |
| 11 | Much of the speech was given over to the already familiar complaints about " destructive and separatist tendencies " and about " ferocious " attempts to discredit the central government , and to exhortations to political forces to unite behind perestroika . |
| 12 | The preoccupied merchant , whose attention is totally bound up with his commercial affairs and who consequently neglects his wife , is a stock figure of fabliau-type narrative ( compare , for instance , La Bourgoise d'Orliens , Le Cuvier , " The bathtub " , or L'Enfant qui fu remis au soleil , " The child who was given back to the sun " ) . |
| 13 | To produce the latter the inner coffin was placed on to a width of lead which was then cut so as to be three inches larger all round than the coffin itself ; this was then turned up and tacked to the wood . |
| 14 | The bug was traced back to the Farmoor treatment works which only started supplying Swindon from last August . |
| 15 | In September 1990 W. was referred back to the clinic which had seen her three years before and began sessions with a clinical psychologist . |
| 16 | Miroslav Stepan , former Communist Party secretary in Prague , was sentenced on Oct. 22 to 30 months ' imprisonment following confirmation by an appeal court of his July conviction on charges of abuse of power connected with the suppression of a Prague demonstration on Oct. 28 , 1988 ; a second charge relating to a January 1989 demonstration was referred back to the Prosecutor 's Office [ for his conviction and initial sentence of four years ' imprisonment see p. 37737 ] . |
| 17 | Disagreement arose within the PLO regarding its composition and the issue was referred back to the Executive Committee . |
| 18 | She was referred back to the medical clinic after a few months with the same clinical findings . |
| 19 | The Doctor was marched on to the flight deck of the F61 at pistol point . |
| 20 | I was marched down to A block [ punishment ] . |
| 21 | Mr Biffen , who was later to become Leader of the Commons and Lord President of the Council , and was eventually to be sacked by You-Know-Who for wholly ideological reasons , was marched back to the hotel to cover himself . |
| 22 | The customer was delighted and telephoned Ralph Edwards to say how pleased his client was with the service and that the cloth was flown out to The Yemen within a few hours . |
| 23 | As for Mary Alice , she was flown back to the USA in June 1945 , some 11 months after her original crew . |
| 24 | And if you recall when my Colonel read John plaque it attributes to him er the aid in assisting us at in the establishment of that memorial museum , John gave us a er and sort of took that apart and hauled it over to and it was flown back to the States and that 's going to be a briefing operations room for the museum itself . |
| 25 | Ahead there was space , but her foot was pressed down to the floor and the car would n't go any faster . |
| 26 | And some of these were found in Bristol harbour er and the pattern of the cloths was pressed in to the lead so we were able to put a microscope to that and see how it should be woven . |
| 27 | All eyes were looking up at the pit lane screens as every lap , every move , was relayed on to the tube |
| 28 | It was pointed out to the young man that Philip was the chairman of CUM . |
| 29 | It was pointed out to the Special Branch man behind the screen that the police team investigating the murders had no knowledge of his information and he was asked why he had not passed it to them . |
| 30 | When this was pointed out to the organisers , they replied : ‘ It is an unimportant section , it does not matter ’ . |