Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [verb] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was only after a considerable struggle that the diver was dragged to the deck . |
| 2 | If no excuse had been sent he called on the parents , so truancy was kept to a minimum . |
| 3 | Although the Americans were anxious not to become identified with " colonial " authorities , aid was granted to the French from May 1950 . |
| 4 | In the years that followed the Brigade was called to a vast number of outside fires , until they eventually handed over control to the National Fire Service in 1942 . |
| 5 | An example of the former ( Fig. 9.1 ) was advertised in the press on 31 May 1988 when 400 million of 2 per cent index-linked stock was offered to the public . |
| 6 | " I only ever wish to please him and I 'm very sorry my pet gibbon was taken to the palace . |
| 7 | Kitchin was apprenticed to the map-engraver Emanuel Bowen [ q.v. ] on 6 December 1732 . |
| 8 | The gullibility of the electorate was tested to the nth degree by the promises of ; more taxi licences , a ‘ better ’ carnival , ‘ good and plenty water ’ and the equally uninspired promise from one candidate that , if reelected , he would abolish dog licences . |
| 9 | It was a great regret to me that our partnership was to come to an end . |
| 10 | The townsmen had secured support from the rural hinterland , and a young knight in the invading force was clubbed to the ground by an English rustic . |
| 11 | IN 1982 , a naval task force was despatched to the Falkland Islands under the same authority . |
| 12 | On Aug. 9 , when the aircraft carrier Clémenceau was directed to the Gulf area , President Mitterrand said that France 's long-standing friendly relations with Iraq , and support during its war with Iran , " allows us to say all the more clearly that we accept neither the aggression against Kuwait nor the annexation which followed " . |
| 13 | Soon after 1620 a monument was erected to the memory of the first [ q.v. ] and second Barons Rich ( died 1568 and 1581 , Felsted , Essex ) which includes a series of reliefs illustrating scenes from the life of the first lord . |
| 14 | One night about a month ago Tod woke up in an unusually desperate condition , half clothed , in fact , and with everything intolerably slewing around him — as if the bedroom was moored to a loosening capstan inside his gut , where his secret moans . |
| 15 | A report on the shooting was sent to the Crown Prosecution Service , but it decided not to take any action against Miss Hobson . |
| 16 | All the new industrial investment was switched to the continent . |
| 17 | The lack of industrial investment was attributed to a potentially low rate of return rather than to any lack of institutional financing . |
| 18 | The police chose this moment to charge at and disperse the pickets from the entrance to the plant and the NUM President was bundled to the floor . |
| 19 | The President was responding to the defeat on Feb. 19 of the ruling National Party ( NP ) in a by-election in Potchefstroom , in the western Transvaal , where the Conservative Party ( CP ) , the official white opposition party , won a majority of 2,140 , overturning the NP 1989 general election majority of 1,583 . |
| 20 | Proliferation was limited to the mucosa and submucosa . |
| 21 | The allegation was made to a Belfast newspaper by an individual who showed a journalist documents containing the names of 233 people . |
| 22 | Intron loss was attributed to a reverse transcriptase activity potentially encoded in group II intronic ORFs and certain , freestanding genes present in higher plant mitochondria ( 60 , 61 , 62 , 63 , 64 , 28 ) . |
| 23 | For crude oil , Quan ( 1992 ) found that the spot price led the futures price by over a month , and this unusual result was attributed to the dominance of the spot market for oil . |
| 24 | A silver dish like a holy water font was fastened to the seat in front of me . |
| 25 | The Papingo Trophy was traced to The Royal Company and on 7th June , 1951 , a contingent of Royal Archers paraded through Kilwinning and ceremoniously handed over the trophy to the joint care of the town council and the Ancient Society of Archers . |
| 26 | The total of seven Protestants charged with murder was credited to the new joint task force and heavily publicised on the governmentowned BBC and other news media . |
| 27 | The DUP 's first reaction to the murder was to suggest to the OUP that a joint candidate , acceptable to both parties , be found . |
| 28 | In vitro kinase assays were performed in a 30 µl reaction which contained the following ; 10 µg HeLa nuclear extract ( 28 ) or 200 ng of purified DNA-PK ( a gift from C.Anderson ) , 250 ng substrate protein , 25 mM Hepes pH 7.5 , 12.5 mM MgCl 2 , 20% glycerol , 0.1% NP-40 , 100 mM KCl , 50 µM ATP ( containing 10 µCi [ γ 32 P ] ATP ; 6000 Ci/mmol ) and 1 mM DTT. 200 ng of linearised DNA template was added to the appropriate reaction as indicated in the text . |
| 29 | The club was reacting to a proposal by Glasgow Brightsiders that the Scottish men 's first division should consist of just six teams next season . |
| 30 | But the club was sold to the brewers Arkells . |