Example sentences of "was [verb] [adv prt] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the next room half of Beverly Hills High was freaking out to The Doors . |
| 2 | Righter is Unix System Labs/Novell Inc joint-venture Univel 's second top-level loss — vice president Greg Fallon was recalled back to his original post at Novell just a couple of months ago . |
| 3 | On cold january nights , they camped out on platforms for the last experiences of ‘ Whistler ’ haulage , as the class of two hundred was whittled down to just one , the rebuilt , pioneer D200 . |
| 4 | He was on a short-list of 15 , and it was whittled down to five . |
| 5 | He said : ‘ There were more than a dozen enquiries about the tender and this was whittled down to a list of six . |
| 6 | This was whittled down to three for this event , including me . |
| 7 | Noble sold the mill and by 1887 it had been taken over by Moses John Mason who , at his peak , was producing up to four tons of millboard per week . |
| 8 | Now , she was stripped down to the bare essentials of her person , trying to deal with her knowledge . |
| 9 | During the refurbishment period , the kiln was stripped down to its basic frame , shot-blasted and painted . |
| 10 | Edward was tucking in to his meal . |
| 11 | So it failed to turn the heating element off … and the oil was boiled up to 185 degrees centigrade … turning the liquid into explosive vapour . |
| 12 | She bit her lip hard as cool sun lotion was smoothed on to her hot skin . |
| 13 | Readers of the great Victorian novelists rejoiced to find in the final chapters how summarily justice was meted out to the villains ; some were perplexed that the Almighty often failed to knot up loose ends equally satisfactorily . |
| 14 | By the early 1780s the spirit of the Enlightenment , emphasizing individual freedom and status , was filtering through to Austria from pre-Revolutionary France . |
| 15 | One of its rooms was given over to chess-playing , a pastime enjoyed by Rosengarten and Leonard . |
| 16 | How much of the discussion was given over to reporting back on the perceptions of others including children ? |
| 17 | The final destruction of the road 's equilibrium took place when it was given over to high speed travel by car . |
| 18 | The morning of the celebrations dawned and the whole day was given over to ironing best robes , practising on broomsticks and chanting . |
| 19 | Mark Cameron ( 1987 ) came to believe , after studying these frescoes intensively , that the West Wing of the Knossos Labyrinth in particular was given over to a whole programme of initiation rites and ordeals . |
| 20 | The building was given over to the university in 1810 , and the commode entered the Clanwilliam collection in 1831 . |
| 21 | Ironically , during the war years , the pitch was in better condition than it had ever been , as it was given over to the growing of carrots and potatoes . |
| 22 | The evening was given over to a " conversation " , which was held in the Church Institute and attracted an audience of one hundred and fifty people . |
| 23 | The rest was given over to a bowling green and a large expanse of lawn ; the potential for change was enormous . |
| 24 | Some space was given over to discussion of these questions in chapters 2 and 3 . |
| 25 | So much of the station was given over to the passengers , who by 1863 numbered 2.1 million annually , that a special parcels depot was built next to the station proper in 1889 . |
| 26 | The front part of the house , being somewhat darkened by evergreens , was given over to the Staff Common Room , with the classrooms of the senior forms on the first floor . |
| 27 | Much of the speech was given over to the already familiar complaints about " destructive and separatist tendencies " and about " ferocious " attempts to discredit the central government , and to exhortations to political forces to unite behind perestroika . |
| 28 | So William erm on Thursday night erm he said on B B C's Question Time erm which was given over to crime and punishment issues which had not been debated and erm William said he 'd a come to the conclusion now that he believed drug taking should be made legal . |
| 29 | Mr Cross does not deny the main charge in my article that a Hiatts-Thompson brochure was given out to two British human rights workers at the Miami exhibition which indicated that the leg-cuffs for sale were manufactured in Birmingham . |
| 30 | As a reward for its co-operation , Hungary was given back to Vojvodina . |