Example sentences of "was [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each time the oil was replenished to at least the original amount . |
| 2 | It is appropriate here that I quote from passages in the report of the headmaster Mr which was furnished to Norwich City College . |
| 3 | The light genoa was stopped to the lifelines and the staysail was ready to send up through the forehatch . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He was further informed that the main charge against him was amended to what in reality was a new charge . |
| 6 | The name St Petersburg had been given to the city by Peter the Great in 1703 ; in 1914 it was amended to the Russified form Petrograd , and in 1924 it was renamed in honour of Lenin after his death . |
| 7 | A proposal to accept the draft Russian constitution as a basis for the new Constitution was amended to the more general wording of giving " approval of the general concept of constitutional reforms in the Russian Federation laid out in the basis of the draft constitution " . |
| 8 | Mighty Quinn , made famous by Manfred Mann , was changed to Mighty Wyn as a tribute to Newcastle 's leaping centre forward , a Kinks ' song was amended to ‘ What are we living for , to see Sunderland in Division Four ’ and who can forget ‘ Half-a-sixpence is better than , Arthur Horsefield ? ’ |
| 9 | Every note had vitality , yet every note was joined to all the others . |
| 10 | Before the Atlantic Ocean existed , 900 million years ago , Scotland was joined to America , and it was then that Torridon sandstone was formed . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The promoter of the elastase gene was joined to the growth hormone gene and this new construct injected into the nucleus of the fertilized mouse egg . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Sometime in the not-so-distant geological past , perhaps as little as half a million years ago , it was joined to the great land mass to the north . |
| 15 | Handfast Point was joined to the cliff by a narrow ridge at this time . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The tap was joined to a slightly bent length of pipe which appeared from a wall seemingly composed of tightly compressed paper . |
| 18 | Taking it up , and with no very clear idea of what she meant to do — apart from escaping from the humiliations to which she had been subjected — Theda crept out of the room , down two sets of stairs , and slunk past the open door of the coffee-room , where the landlord 's voice was joined to those of his wife and the gentleman . |
| 19 | Up until about 100 million years ago , then , South America was joined to Africa in the east and to Antarctica in the south . |
| 20 | Antarctica was joined to Australia , and India was joined to Africa via Madagascar . |
| 21 | Antarctica was joined to Australia , and India was joined to Africa via Madagascar . |
| 22 | Sandford , a lawyer before becoming the youngest chief executive in local government , was upset when his name was leaked to the press , and Taylor is incensed to find himself suddenly only a contender for a job to which he was appointed in August . |
| 23 | Sandford , a lawyer before becoming the youngest chief executive in local government , was upset when his name was leaked to the press , and Taylor is incensed to find himself suddenly only a contender for a job to which he was appointed by the League 's president , Bill Fox , in August . |
| 24 | The plan was leaked to the New York Times yesterday , in time for the strategy hearings of the Senate Armed Services Committee , and the hearings on possible defence cuts before the Senate Budget Committee . |
| 25 | This was leaked to the media , who began to clamour for stricter control . |
| 26 | In December word was leaked to American newspapers that the president had resolved to fight , if war was necessary , even if it meant destroying his chances of re-election . |
| 27 | The bitter pill of generic substitution was leaked to the press , and created a totally unwanted side effect : an unholy row . |
| 28 | He took with him a secret report which was leaked to the Japanese press . |
| 29 | At the beginning of April the programme for the VEC seminar was leaked to the DUC . |
| 30 | An agreement between Hoare and his French counterpart , Pierre Laval , was leaked to the press . |