Example sentences of "[coord] was [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or was prepared for . |
| 2 | You should end up with at least six separate lists , some with perhaps only one item on it , others with several items , listed in the order that each client received , or was assisted with , that care . |
| 3 | At some date , presumably after the twelfth century , the village moved or was moved westwards and its gridplan suggests this may have been planned . |
| 4 | Erm , was forbidden , and quickly changed that , to was stopped , or was prevented , or was refus was not refused . |
| 5 | All along the Baltic region brick building began early , owing to the lack of stone materials , but such work has mostly been altered later , in the Middle Ages , or was destroyed in the Second World War . |
| 6 | ‘ Held with the intention ’ has come to mean brought into being with the intention , on the part of anyone , and subsequently held , by him or by anyone else' ; and if that is what the draftsman intended or was instructed to express , the conclusion is irresistible that he did so with a degree of competence that would not have disgraced a chimpanzee learning the piano . |
| 7 | Or was cut out , more likely . |
| 8 | So far as Orientalism in particular and European knowledge of other societies in general have been concerned , historicism meant that one human history uniting humanity either culminated in or was observed from the vantage point of Europe , or the West … |
| 9 | I would say that if a person is locked up from that time at night , there 's circumstances , their perhaps observation for their own safety , erm any body else that can be trusted at night sanitation are not locked in , they have the facilities to go to the toilet during the night , I mean this person that 's just said must of obviously been ob observation or was locked up for a reason . |
| 10 | In those days they did n't use mileometers , what they did was they took any particular route number and the number of journeys they did , because in those days a bus kept on a route which applied , say between Witton and Rushmere Heath all day , did n't run around like they do nowadays and erm when the schedules were prepared , each bus had got a route number or was placed on a route number , say one Witton , two Witton , three Witton and a copy of its schedule was recorded on another sheet and the mileage , having known what the mileage was and we 'd used to obtain that from the Borough Surveyor 's Department , er I think it was about nine point one four miles a return trip Witton and Rushmere Heath , er you 'd work out how many journeys they did there and say well that bus was due to run a hundred and twenty six miles during the day . |
| 11 | If the parent of the opposite sex was unconsciously seductive with this adult when a young child , and if the excitement of the love of and for this parent was felt to be too dangerous , or was disapproved of by the parent of the same sex , passion and excitement within marriage may continue to be forbidden by an inner imperative . |
| 12 | In any case each country at times preferred or was tempted to act independently of the other . |
| 13 | However by 1941 , almost the entire membership had either found war work or was employed in the surviving Edinburgh printing offices , and by then only 2 members were listed as out of work . |
| 14 | For example , the defendant may argue that the injury was not inflicted with intent to have intercourse but occurred after consensual intercourse or was inflicted during a quarrel , after which there was a reconciliation and consensual sexual intercourse took place . |
| 15 | Bernard fell asleep mid-seminar , and Ellen wept , or was seen to weep , from the shame of it . |
| 16 | Their lordships did , however , state that a different result might apply to a telex message which was not a direct communication in office hours between the acceptor and the offeror , e.g. if it was sent at night or was sent or received through telex machines operated by third persons . |
| 17 | ‘ Or was replaced later on . ’ |
| 18 | Later when the plaintiff challenged the defendant 's demands seizure either took place or was threatened . |
| 19 | The people , having once surrendered it , could not revoke their delegation ; and no subordinate authority in his dominions , whether of a guild , a religious order or the estates of a province , could be valid unless it emanated from or was confirmed by him . |
| 20 | Some stone was transported considerable distances , or was altered by heat , but most major sources were local and provided stone which was used in its natural state . |
| 21 | It follows that the key issue is the extent to which there was ( or was believed to be ) a significant Soviet threat to those supplies , especially in southern Iran . |
| 22 | No trace has yet been found of the French gallery owner Basmadjian who disappeared or was kidnapped two years ago in the former Soviet Union . |
| 23 | A Bf110D night fighter of the newly arrived 1/NJG 3 was lost over the island on 17th but it is uncertain whether this fell to the A.A. guns or was shot down by Plt.Off . |
| 24 | A Kelmscott Chaucer with an estimate of £4,000-£5,000 either did not reach its reserve or was withdrawn . |
| 25 | If , for example , the arbitrator was bribed , or was drunk while considering the case , or if new evidence of great importance unexpectedly turns up , each party may ignore the decision . |
| 26 | From its inception , traditional medicine came to form an integral part of the popular health system , while in the ‘ official ’ system it was either ignored and ridiculed or was incorporated and exploited for profit . |
| 27 | After impetuously hijacking the tapes of a feature on trade unions which C4 's nervous bigwigs wanted cut , he did n't make another appearance on the show , and it has never been clear whether he jumped or was pushed . |
| 28 | Fell or was pushed . |
| 29 | I do not suppose that the ultimate mental component of the universe is some spooky , all-embracing mind that is more real than flesh-and-blood people , nor that we should treat the state or community as a real person with a distinct interest or point of view or even welfare of its own , nor that we can ask the range of questions about a state 's principles — for example whether it accepted them freely or was misled or misunderstands them — that we can ask about aspects of a real person 's moral life . |
| 30 | There are forty varieties he has bought or was given . |