Example sentences of "was [vb pp] to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tap was joined to a slightly bent length of pipe which appeared from a wall seemingly composed of tightly compressed paper . |
| 2 | A preview of the Catechism was leaked to an Italian news agency , ANSA , which quotes the contentious death penalty clause : |
| 3 | EDITOR 'S FOOTNOTE : The remark ‘ This is the sack Frank Gray issue ’ was uttered to a senior Echo journalist on buying his copy of Mission Impossible at Feethams . |
| 4 | He was remanded to an open bail hostel , but while he was there he raped and murdered office worker Anna McGurk . |
| 5 | The colour of the team 's socks , until 1927 black with thin red and white stripes , was altered to a more distinctive blue and white so that the players could recognize their colleagues more easily without looking up . |
| 6 | This was especially the case when pragmatism was conjoined to a legal positivist outlook . |
| 7 | In April 1981 , route 154 was diverted to a new estate on the site of Croydon Aerodrome and only 157 serves South Norwood and Anerley . |
| 8 | I walked some way behind Jean-Claude on the narrow path that skirted the woods and lost sight of him when my attention was diverted to a shadowy path in the trees . |
| 9 | In 1978 , this statement was revised to an ‘ insignificant effect ’ ( Panofsky , 1978 ) . |
| 10 | The ‘ bomb ’ was sent 700 miles south to Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico where it was exposed to a beam of muons produced in the laboratory 's particle accelerator . |
| 11 | In this study forty children with a mean age of four years and five months were divided into two groups : one group received ‘ nurturant ’ behaviour from a role model , while the other group was exposed to a non-nurturant relationship . |
| 12 | Meanwhile the full and horrifying battery of modern welfare , stopping short only at nuclear weapons , was exposed to a world audience in this , the first " televised war " . |
| 13 | If the Moon also lost most of its craters from the final stages of formation then the apparent failure on Mercury of post-formation bombardment to saturate the intercrater plains may seem to indicate that Mercury was exposed to a less numerous population of small bodies than the Moon . |
| 14 | It was held ( a ) that it was a statement of present fact , namely that at the time the letter was sent the traveller had a definite and certain booking , ( b ) that that statement was false because the airline 's overbooking policy meant that the traveller 's booking was exposed to a risk that it might not give a seat on the aircraft , and ( c ) that the airline made the false statement knowingly ( and not merely recklessly ) since the airline was well aware of its own overbooking policy . |
| 15 | The intestinal mucosa was exposed to a solution with the following composition ( mM ) : NaCl 122 ; KCl 3.5 ; KH 2 PO 4 1.2 ; MgCl 2 1.2 ; CaCl 2 2.5 ; NaHCO 3 25 ; mannitol 30 . |
| 16 | As for his Holiness himself , he was treated to a ride from Gatwick to Victoria behind the Royal loco No 73142 Broadlands bearing the special Southern headcode ‘ HF ’ ( Holy Father ) . |
| 17 | Each year , shortly before graduation , the sixth grade class of my elementary school was treated to a day of sun , roller skating , hot-dog gorging and swimming pool frolics at Tones Beach , Long Island . |
| 18 | In a lively and entertaining performance the audience was treated to a graphic description of the history of man 's relationship with chemicals derived from plants . |
| 19 | I travelled to the plant to collect the guitar and was treated to a comprehensive tour of what I can confirm as an impressive facility of skilled and committed people in every department . |
| 20 | The craft lifted smoothly across the river and , as it grounded nearby , Rostov was treated to a view of the blistering which marked the heat shield around the blunt nose . |
| 21 | The first train of excursionists west on the Union Pacific was treated to a war dance performed by Pawnees on the station at Columbus , Nebraska . |
| 22 | And after two odds-against horses won the opening races , the crowd was treated to a magnificent display of jumping when George Martin guided home his own horse , even money favourite Limeridge , in the Open Race . |
| 23 | Hugo Varna 's showrooms occupied an entire floor of the 550 building and from the moment a potential client stepped out of the brass elevator she was treated to an ambience of unashamed luxury . |
| 24 | The day before the election I was treated to an unsolicited political speech on behalf of the Conservative Party . |
| 25 | So if a person had a sore throat and it burned , this burning would be a particular symptom because it was limited to a single focus of his illness . |
| 26 | If only he could come across a barn in which he could seek refuge from the full force of the gale … but visibility was limited to a few strides . |
| 27 | On the other hand a Stony Stratford shoemaker 's connexion with agriculture was limited to a cow and ( possibly ) a white horse ; his sideline was petty capitalism , if not simply money-lending , for his assets , totalling more than £28 , included £18. 1s. 8d. owed by seven different persons . |
| 28 | We know nothing of his campaign , except that it was limited to a single season and that the Silures did not appear again as a fighting force . |
| 29 | By notice of appeal dated 22 April 1992 the father appealed on the grounds , inter alia , that ( 1 ) the judge was wrong in law to reject the submission that any consideration of the children 's welfare in the context of a judicial discretion under article 13 ( a ) of the Convention was relevant only as a material factor if it met the test of placing the children in an ‘ intolerable situation ’ under article 13 ( b ) ; ( 2 ) the judge should have limited considerations of welfare to the criteria for welfare laid down by the Convention itself ; ( 3 ) the judge was wrong in law to reject the submission that in the context of the exercise of the discretion permitted by article 13 ( a ) the court was limited to a consideration of the nature and quality of the father 's acquiescence ( as found by the Court of Appeal ) ; ( 4 ) in the premises , despite her acknowledgment that the exercise of her discretion had to be seen in the context of the Convention , the judge exercised a discretion based on a welfare test appropriate to wardship proceedings ; ( 5 ) the judge was further in error as a matter of law in not perceiving as the starting point for the exercise of her discretion the proposition that under the Convention the future of the children should be decided in the courts of the state from which they had been wrongfully removed ; ( 6 ) the judge , having found that on the ability to determine the issue between the parents there was little to choose between the Family Court of Australia and the High Court of England , was wrong not to conclude that as a consequence the mother had failed to displace the fundamental premise of the Convention that the future of the children should be decided in the courts of the country from which they had been wrongfully removed ; ( 7 ) the judge also misdirected herself when considering which court should decide the future of the children ( a ) by applying considerations more appropriate to the doctrine of forum conveniens and ( b ) by having regard to the likely outcome of the hearing in that court contrary to the principles set out in In re F. ( A Minor ) ( Abduction : Custody Rights ) [ 1991 ] Fam. 25 ; ( 8 ) in the alternative , if the judge was right to apply the forum conveniens approach , she failed to have regard to the following facts and matters : ( a ) that the parties were married in Australia ; ( b ) that the parties had spent the majority of their married life in Australia ; ( c ) that the children were born in Australia and were Australian citizens ; ( d ) that the children had spent the majority of their lives in Australia ; ( e ) the matters referred to in ground ( 9 ) ; ( 9 ) in any event on the facts the judge was wrong to find that there was little to choose between the Family Court of Australia and the High Court of England as fora for deciding the children 's future ; ( 11 ) the judge was wrong on the facts to find that there had been a change in the circumstances to which the mother would be returning in Australia given the findings made by Thorpe J. that ( a ) the former matrimonial home was to be sold ; ( b ) it would be unavailable for occupation by the mother and the children after 7 February 1992 ; and ( c ) there would be no financial support for the mother other than state benefits : matters which neither Thorpe J. nor the Court of Appeal found amounted to ‘ an intolerable situation . ’ |
| 30 | In February 1985 , a government Green Paper 3 accepted the basic proposition that a royalty should be levied on blank tape , but the amount was limited to a maximum of 10 per cent on the retail price of the tape . |