Example sentences of "it [was/were] [vb pp] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Staff and resources allocated to it were redirected to a major project intended to regenerate east Glasgow . |
| 2 | If this can be established as an objective truth , then this would indeed make a correctionalist approach misguided — although only if it were committed to the total elimination of deviance . |
| 3 | In systems integration , for example , Gartner Group rates Bull fourth in Europe and sixth in the world , which is a fact that continually gets lost amid all of Bull 's other bad news — and the French authorities seem to be oblivious to how badly the regular injections of state cash to prop Bull up play in the outside world , causing the company to be regarded as a corporate basket case that would no longer exist if it were subjected to the normal commercial disciplines faced by all its foreign competitors . |
| 4 | Where this problem was found at high level on the aisle gable walls , it was owed to a poor constructional detail . |
| 5 | It was n't likely that it was connected to the local cop shop . |
| 6 | Leyland unveiled a prototype transmission on Tuesday ; it was fitted to a single-decker bus in place of the traditional gearbox . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It was sent to the lost-luggage office to wait for its owner . |
| 9 | They have n't received your invoice or statement because it was n't sent or it was sent to the wrong address . |
| 10 | But it was sent to the National Security Council and in the meantime Secretary of Defense Johnson , according to the internal ‘ History of the Indo-China Incident ’ prepared for and by the Joint Chiefs of Staff , had called upon the NSC to determine exactly how US security was threatened by the current situation in the Far East and to formulate tentative courses of action which were to be co-ordinated for the whole region and were to outline specific objectives to be attained . |
| 11 | Afterwards , he could always claim that it was sent to an old or wrong address by mistake , or that it must have got lost in the post . |
| 12 | A niece took over the post office when she married , and it was moved to the present premises . |
| 13 | It was constructed to a traditional Perpendicular Gothic design , and despite the official proscription of Anglicanism , its internal lay-out and furnishings incorporated a number of obvious Laudian features . |
| 14 | A NORTH Wales MP says he is disappointed that Flint post office is to be sold off , only nine months after it was franchised to the private sector . |
| 15 | After a period at the Tramway Museum , it was transferred to a working line in Manchester 's Heaton Park in 1979 , and repainted in full Company livery . |
| 16 | The most successful writer who had lived in an English colony was Aphra Behn , who was brought up in Surinam before it was transferred to the Dutch in 1668 , and her most important novel of American life , Oronooko , was so completely sympathetic to the Indian hero that it should be considered as an early contribution to the cult of the noble savage rather than a book which could help its English readers understand the wider world . |
| 17 | Administratively the unit was originally part of the direct responsibility of the Assistant Director , Scotland but in 1974 it was transferred to the Continental Shelf and Geophysical Division of IGS . |
| 18 | On 6th June , 1857 he introduced the Public Offices Extension Bill , and it was given a Second Reading on 30th June , the day that he reported the judges ' decisions , when it was referred to a Select Committee . |
| 19 | When it came up for its third reading on 21 June it was referred to a select committee who on 18 July reported that they were of the opinion that the bill ought not to be proceeded with . |
| 20 | Er if the district secretary failed to agree , then it was referred to the divisional officer . |
| 21 | The amount was then increased by another £2,000 because it was related to the retail prices index — I do not know why . |
| 22 | As children with diffuse chronic idiopathic intestinal pseudoobstruction frequently vomit , we have investigated gastric electrical control activity as detected by the non-invasive technique of surface electrogastrography in the fasting state in such children to determine if persistently abnormal electrical control activity was present , and if it was related to the underlying pathology of enteric nerves and muscle coats . |
| 23 | However , in 1965 it was given to the National Tramway Museum to care for , and it operated at Crich in the Derbyshire hills from 1965–1971 , when 59 was withdrawn as needing extensive overhaul . |
| 24 | At first Athelstan thought it was addressed to a woman but realised it was written to a young man . |
| 25 | ‘ It was written to an elderly fan called Elizabeth ’ , says Ray Santilli , managing director of the London-based Merlin Group , making the TV special with Nomad Films of Australia . |
| 26 | It was revealed to The Northern Echo that Grand Met has reduced the rent for the Old Dun Cow from £2,000 to £500 under temporary management . |
| 27 | Whitlock knew that the ambassadors of two Western nations had already promised state visits to Zimbala as soon as it was readmitted to the United Nations . |
| 28 | It was converted to a private house , with only the leat still visible in the landscaped gardens . |
| 29 | I looked round as we crossed a road ; I saw the sign for Union Street where it was fixed to a low wall . |
| 30 | However , this failed to secure unequivocal backing when it was presented to a joint session of the Presidential and Federation Councils on Aug. 30-31 . |