Example sentences of "[num] [noun prp] be [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a period supporting Coastal Command based at Predannock , Cornwall , in 1943 Braham was switched to the experimental task of escorting bomber streams over Europe . |
| 2 | In 1895 Sunderland was added to the ports of call down the East Coast now being served by four steamers . |
| 3 | In 1684 Culpeper was apprenticed to Walter Hayes , engraver and mathematical instrument-maker of Moorfields , London . |
| 4 | ‘ At the height of the Ethiopian famine in 1985 Oxfam was alerted to the plight of several million people who faced starvation , on the sugar-producing island of Negros , in the Philippines ’ , writes Oxfam worker Belinda Coote . |
| 5 | After leaving Franklin 's School in Leicester in 1881 Gimson was articled to a local architect , Isaac Barradale , and also attended Leicester School of Art , where he won national medals for suburban housing and for furniture design . |
| 6 | The Montenegrin poet and the Serbian philologist made friends immediately , and in 1834 Vuk was invited to Cetinje to assist in the establishment of a new printing press , using Vuk 's phonetic orthographic principle . |
| 7 | Around 300,000 Lynx are expected to be sold in the UK this year , bringing the number of owners up to 500,000 . |
| 8 | In February 1991 Czechoslovakia was admitted to the Council of Europe and continued to negotiate an association agreement with the European Communities as a prelude to full membership . |
| 9 | By 1842 Brussels was linked to Antwerp , Ostend , and the French frontier . |
| 10 | But in 1678 Joseph was elected to the committee of the East India company , serving continuously down to 1686 , and then from 1687 to 1694 and from 1698 until his death . |
| 11 | Of the 75,000 BTOE of solar energy which reaches the earth , only 2.3 BTOE is converted to useful energy by man — 71% is used for food production , 24% goes on the burning of wood and agricultural waste and 4% on hydro electricity . |
| 12 | When the raids died down after May 1941 Scott was moved to the Ministry of Home Security , first as deputy ( 1941–2 ) and then as permanent secretary ( 1942–3 ) . |
| 13 | In June 1917 Maitland was appointed to the DSO for ‘ extremely valuable and gallant work in connection with airships and parachutes ’ . |
| 14 | In 1812 Jackson was co-opted to the committee of the Kildare Place Society , established in 1811 , where , as secretary , he strengthened the Protestant influence . |
| 15 | In 1833 Biscoe was appointed to the Hopefull and Rose for a similar expedition , but resigned before sailing . |
| 16 | -30 Sigmar is born to the chief of the Unberogen tribe . |
| 17 | In 1920 Flett was promoted to Director and was replaced by W. Gibson of the English staff . |
| 18 | In 1984 Kahane was elected to the Knesset as his party 's sole representative , but in October 1988 the Israeli Supreme Court upheld a decision taken by the central elections committee to ban Kach from competing in the forthcoming elections because of its " Nazi-like , un-democratic and racist " stance [ see p. 36947 ] . |
| 19 | In 1957 Lawrie was promoted to District Geologist of the Highlands and Islands district . |
| 20 | At fourteen Bellingham was apprenticed to a Whitechapel jeweller but proved ‘ perverse and troublesome ’ and eventually ran away . |
| 21 | From 1829 Marsh was translated to Birmingham to a diocese under the direction of the first evangelical bishop in the Anglican hierarchy . |
| 22 | In the late '60s Sunderland were invited to the USA and Canada to take part in a summer tournament with Aberdeen and Dundee United . |
| 23 | In March 1818 Baker was apprenticed to ( Sir ) William Pearson for five years , Pearson being surgeon to the Hull General ( later Royal ) Infirmary . |
| 24 | In 1608 Evesham was referred to as both sculptor and painter . |
| 25 | In October 1914 Maitland was sent to Belgium in charge of an RNAS balloon detachment for artillery spotting . |
| 26 | In 1912 Punnett was appointed to the Balfour professorship of biology at Cambridge — effectively the first chair of genetics to be established anywhere — after Bateson had declined it . |
| 27 | At a party in Soho in 1914 Epstein was talking to Beatrice , who made it clear that she was at a loose end in her life . |
| 28 | In the spring of 1914 Couchman was transferred to the headquarters office of the Survey in Calcutta . |
| 29 | On the outbreak of the second Dutch war in 1664 Stokes was recalled to the navy as captain of the Triumph , but he fell ill soon afterwards and died in Portsmouth 11 February 1665 . |
| 30 | In 1752 the old Julian calendar was replaced by the more accurate Gregorian calendar and in order to bring England in line with Europe the next day after 3 September was proclaimed to be 14 September . |