Example sentences of "was [vb pp] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The light genoa was stopped to the lifelines and the staysail was ready to send up through the forehatch . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | A proposal to accept the draft Russian constitution as a basis for the new Constitution was amended to the more general wording of giving " approval of the general concept of constitutional reforms in the Russian Federation laid out in the basis of the draft constitution " . |
| 4 | The promoter of the elastase gene was joined to the growth hormone gene and this new construct injected into the nucleus of the fertilized mouse egg . |
| 5 | Sometime in the not-so-distant geological past , perhaps as little as half a million years ago , it was joined to the great land mass to the north . |
| 6 | Handfast Point was joined to the cliff by a narrow ridge at this time . |
| 7 | Sandford , a lawyer before becoming the youngest chief executive in local government , was upset when his name was leaked to the press , and Taylor is incensed to find himself suddenly only a contender for a job to which he was appointed in August . |
| 8 | Sandford , a lawyer before becoming the youngest chief executive in local government , was upset when his name was leaked to the press , and Taylor is incensed to find himself suddenly only a contender for a job to which he was appointed by the League 's president , Bill Fox , in August . |
| 9 | The plan was leaked to the New York Times yesterday , in time for the strategy hearings of the Senate Armed Services Committee , and the hearings on possible defence cuts before the Senate Budget Committee . |
| 10 | This was leaked to the media , who began to clamour for stricter control . |
| 11 | The bitter pill of generic substitution was leaked to the press , and created a totally unwanted side effect : an unholy row . |
| 12 | He took with him a secret report which was leaked to the Japanese press . |
| 13 | At the beginning of April the programme for the VEC seminar was leaked to the DUC . |
| 14 | An agreement between Hoare and his French counterpart , Pierre Laval , was leaked to the press . |
| 15 | Around 1,150 jobs would be lost in the UK , mainly at Dagenham , by the end of the year according to the document , which was leaked to the Press Association . |
| 16 | News of his arrest was leaked to the newspapers . |
| 17 | Wyllie , who stood down as a candidate for the All Black job after a confidential letter from NZRFU Chairman Eddie Tonks criticising him was leaked to the press , returns to what he loves most , working with clubs to develop the skill and the knowledge of the average club player . |
| 18 | His brief for the speech was prepared by the DES and was leaked to the press in advance . |
| 19 | An internal 1976 report on Friern by the regional health authority 's own long-stay hospital monitoring team was leaked to the Telegraph . |
| 20 | An EC monitors ' document , which was leaked to the Yugoslav press on Dec. 2 , accused the JNA of " brutal aggression " and called on the EC to use force against it . |
| 21 | A report into the Boipatong massacre commissioned by the government and submitted to the Goldstone Commission was leaked to the press on July 22 . |
| 22 | A similar statement sent to Catholic bishops in the United States in June was leaked to the US press in mid-July . |
| 23 | In 1952 , according to the American nuclear physicist Stanton Friedman , a top-secret briefing document for president Eisenhower was leaked to the public . |
| 24 | The final version of the report was sent to the Polytechnic and — with Kerr assuring the Council that the responsibility could not have lain with the CNAA itself — was leaked to the Times Higher Education Supplement and appeared in its issue of 8 September , under the headline : ‘ Closure threat to poly in CNAA 's toughest-ever report ’ . |
| 25 | The report was leaked to the British television programme , This Week . |
| 26 | Some of the UK government 's key environmental policies are likely to be undermined by a lack of resources , according to an internal Environment Department report which was leaked to the press . |
| 27 | This toxic and radioactive waste threatens the long-term health of thousands of Kuwaitis , according to the AEA , whose report was leaked to The Independent on Sunday . |
| 28 | The document , which was leaked to The Ecologist magazine , also states that the proportion of failures has multiplied by two and a half times over the last 10 years . |
| 29 | Under the contract , a copy of which was leaked to the media , Nur Elmy Osman , describing himself as " minister of state for health , Republic of Somalia " , granted Acher a 20-year concession to treat up to 550,000 tons a year of industrial and hospital waste , including " solid and liquid waste of the toxic type " , at a disposal facility in Somalia and to store the treated waste in a landfill . |
| 30 | It was leaked to the press nearly a month before its official launch ; a national paper detailed many of the leaflet 's suggestions in the some ideas to get you going section which includes a variety of unusual ideas between its first suggestion — pecks on the cheek , and its last — cuddling up and sleeping . |