Example sentences of "was [vb pp] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is appropriate here that I quote from passages in the report of the headmaster Mr which was furnished to Norwich City College . |
| 2 | This was amended to $100bn in a 1987 revision of the law , and now the Congressional Budget Office , which keeps track of such things , tells us that this too will be overshot , resulting in a deficit estimated at $117.8bn . |
| 3 | Before the Atlantic Ocean existed , 900 million years ago , Scotland was joined to America , and it was then that Torridon sandstone was formed . |
| 4 | Up until about 100 million years ago , then , South America was joined to Africa in the east and to Antarctica in the south . |
| 5 | Antarctica was joined to Australia , and India was joined to Africa via Madagascar . |
| 6 | And so in the sanctuary of the triune Godhead , whose secrets we can never know , and whose mystery we must never probe , God the Father prepared him a body , and the Word from the beginning , the Son , humbly said , ‘ I come ’ and the Holy Spirit overshadowed a young woman of Israel so that the uncreated one was joined to creature-flesh and became man . |
| 7 | Originally the island was joined to Purbeck by a Chalk ridge the ends of which are still visible in Purbeck and in the Needles at the western end of the Isle of Wight . |
| 8 | In Hebrew religion , and in that religion alone , man was joined to God by a quasi-legal covenant , as a result of which the ancient bond between man and nature was destroyed . |
| 9 | Antarctica was joined to Australia , and India was joined to Africa via Madagascar . |
| 10 | The report , which was leaked to Environment Business magazine , was written for Environment Secretary Michael Heseltine by John Hobson , head of the department 's pollution control and waste directorate . |
| 11 | The murder , it is suspected , was intended to foment open conflict in Belfast between the Ulster Defence Association and the rival Ulster Volunteer Force as relations between them were strained at the time . |
| 12 | This was communicated to Mr. Cooper by letter dated 31 March 1983 in these terms : |
| 13 | Col Peck said Lt-Gen Robert Johnston , Edinburgh-born head of US forces in Somalia , and the US special envoy , Robert Oakley , signed the ultimatum which was communicated to Gen Morgan by radio . |
| 14 | After his arrest , in 1989 , he was remanded to Brixton prison hospital wing . |
| 15 | He was remanded to Cardiff Prison . |
| 16 | He also was remanded to Crumlin Road until June 11 . |
| 17 | I went to court the next morning , was refused bail and was remanded to Holloway . |
| 18 | Twice , aged 15 and 16 , she was remanded to prison for a series of offences including setting fire to rubbish bins , attempted theft , criminal damage ( slashing car tyres ) and making hoax telephone calls to the fire brigade . |
| 19 | Pearsons correlation coefficient was calculated to measure the association between continuous variables . |
| 20 | The mixture was heated to 90°C and cooled down slowly to form the hybrids . |
| 21 | In Bath , Nicholas Godfrey , 16 , was plucked to safety from the swollen River Avon as he clung on to a branch . |
| 22 | At Frampton Cotterell near Bristol , Avon , a canoeist was plucked to safety after being swept away in the fast-flowing River Frome . |
| 23 | A CAMERAMAN was plucked to safety yesterday after being trapped for two days inside an active volcano . |
| 24 | For low stringency PCR ( C to F ) , the same reaction mixture was used in conjunction with the following temperature profile : an initial denaturation at 95°C for 5 min , two cycles of 30°C for 2 mins for annealing , 72°C for 1 min for extension and 30 secs at 95°C for denaturation followed by 33 cycles where the annealing step was altered to 40°C . |
| 25 | The ship 's course was altered to north-northeast to enable HMS Impregnable to clear the notorious Bembridge ledges . |
| 26 | Most of Pocklington 's streets had been called gates ( a word that had been introduced into this country by the Vikings ) , but during the nineteenth century Hungate was re-named George Street , Southgate became Regent Street , St Peter 's Gate was changed to Union Street and the colourful name of Pudding Gate was altered to Pavement . |
| 27 | A further change occurred in 1804–5 when the firm 's style was altered to Rundell , Bridge & Rundell following the senior partner 's nephew , Edmond Waller Rundell ( 1768 ? –1857 ) , son of Maria Eliza Rundell [ q.v. ] , being admitted into the business . |
| 28 | The name of Leith , Hull and Hamburg Steam Packet Co. was altered to Currie Line Ltd as business was concentrated on the Baltic Ports . |
| 29 | At the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian war some months later he was recalled to Germany ; he served as a stretcher-bearer in the army of the Loire and was wounded . |
| 30 | Daniel was recalled to Germany for discussion , and it appears that he decided to throw in his lot with the mining in England . |