Example sentences of "[noun] it was [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | An early aircraft it was returned to Boeing at Everett for structural testing to destruction on April 5 , 1988 and the Science Museum were lucky enough to secure a cross section , including the upper deck . |
| 2 | Although this is rarely the sole cause of the iron deficiency , in one study it was found to be a contributing factor in 57% of patients . |
| 3 | RD users include Chris Novoselic of Nirvana and the Mission 's Craig Adams , to whom this particular specimen belongs , and on whose early tours and recordings it was used to great effect , before it was trashed at a gig in 1987 . |
| 4 | On one side it was fixed to a plastic drainpipe outside the Stars and Stripes pub . |
| 5 | In those latter areas it was left to the Serb-speaking parish priests , many of whom were illiterate , to act as upholders of Serbian culture . |
| 6 | Some years previously , however , a long tunnel , North Cross-cut , was taken off ( along a fault ) from a point further along the Deep Level ( see Fig. 19a ) to try the Dry Gill Vein — at the intersection it was found to be a barren quartz string . |
| 7 | Mitsubishi confirmed in February it was talking to SGS , and the SGS spokeswoman said on Friday that talks were continuing.SGS-Thomson calculates the world Flash memory market at $300m last year , and expects it to grow to $500m this year and , fuelled by demand for small , light portable storage , to soar to $2,500m by 1996 . |
| 8 | Deep snow-drifts and sheet ice slowed down the party 's progress , and beyond Bar-le-Duc it was reduced to an average of two miles an hour , on running into the chaotic rear of the Verdun army . |
| 9 | Even if a 727 could slip into a Caribbean community with all the basic needs of life — video games , CD players , Benetton shirts and Playboy — its operating costs would mean the folk it was delivering to could not afford the service . |
| 10 | But when they sent the specimen to the Natural History Museum it was found to be the intestine of a hedgehog , if you will pardon the expression . |
| 11 | In later work it was referred to as a " contiguity factor . " |
| 12 | While for elementary pupils the object was to instil a feeling for the grandeur of the national language and literature , within the higher sector it was felt to be necessary to fire the pupils ' and students ' imaginations : to provide indirect moral inculcation through pleasurable and even joyous responses to literary values . |
| 13 | I ca n't remember which teacher it was referred to anything Orcadian we used as Orkneyisms . |
| 14 | In those days it was estimated to be guarded by some three hundred Hezbollah fanatics and , despite being a single-storey construction , it was known to have several basement levels . |
| 15 | In the case of Re C ( a Minor ) ( 1991 ) The Times , 18 November it was stated to be advisable , for example , for the Official Solicitor to continue to act as guardian in public law proceedings relating to a former ward of court where these are transferred up to the High Court . |
| 16 | Although this rank was that of a clerk , in the Constantian period it was applied to those officials who were responsible for the minutes of the imperial consistory and some of them rose to the highest ranks . |
| 17 | With the McDevitt brothers filling the first two places it was left to Des Wilkinson and Les Coatup in fourth and seventh positions to give Wirral an easy win ahead of Sefton . |
| 18 | Just because Hawks were going to go to Iran and I was wondering how many planes it was going to be this time . |
| 19 | So after less than three years it was removed to Cleveland Lodge in Great Ayton which was the home of John Pease . |
| 20 | For years it was left to the family and close associates to keep the search alive . |
| 21 | Finally relegated to a Kibbutz at Alonim it was recovered to the UK in 1978 by Robert Lamplough . |
| 22 | When we looked at the cu cumulative percentage mortality and major morbidity it was found to be significantly less in those sites performing more than one hundred operations , compared to those sites performing less than one hundred operations , during the audit period . |
| 23 | At high tide later the same day it was covered to a depth of three feet , and the following week , it was covered to a depth of 14 ‘ ft ‘ , so salvaging the Croydon was out of the question . |
| 24 | He had rung through to the Swan Hotel in Stratford to set a revised time of arrival at 6.15 p.m. ; but by the look of things it was going to be , in Wellington 's words , ‘ a damn close-run thing ’ . |
| 25 | formerly an area on the north bank of the Thames between Waterloo and Westminster bridges , belonging from ancient times to the borough of Lambeth ; according to legend it was bequeathed to the borough by a pedlar on condition that his portrait , and that of his dog , should be preserved for ever in one of the parish church 's stained glass windows . |
| 26 | At the next race it was entrusted to Jo Bonnier , a likeable Swede who had won his one and only grand prix 10 years before . |
| 27 | And then on the platform every week there 's a evacuation drill where it 's usually on a Sunday night or a Saturday night it was changed to recently . |
| 28 | I thought , if he had any passion it was directed to her , not I do n't think he had it and Jane . |
| 29 | He commented with amazement that the charge was supposed to be entirely arbitrary and that at one ground it was said to be nil . |
| 30 | In the first flight it was taken to 240 mph and did four-point rolls . |