Example sentences of "was [verb] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cyclosporin treatment was stopped but the patient continued to deteriorate and died from sepsis and shock in spite of antibiotic treatment . |
| 2 | Pen , coming once more at a run to see his mother , was stopped and held by her and persuaded to come instead and play with Pilade . |
| 3 | Thuja LM1 produced immediate improvement in hot flushes which returned at Thuja LM4 when the remedy was stopped and the flushes abated . |
| 4 | There was police intervention almost immediately ; an NILP loudspeaker van , which was making announcements , was stopped and its three occupants were taken to Victoria RUC station where , one of them later told the Belfast Telegraph , they were charged with incitement to defy the ban on the march . |
| 5 | There was no alternative now the bus was stopped and the passengers ' amusement turning to impatience . |
| 6 | We learned , however , that highway robberies in past days were very common in the district of both Camden and Kentish Town ; and on more than one occasion we had heard Professor Sewell state that a Hampstead stage coach … was stopped and the passengers robbed near to St Pancras Church … |
| 7 | The bus was stopped and its occupants ordered to alight — ‘ Come on Maung , put those b — knives in a heap . ’ |
| 8 | At least two independent witnesses were needed to agree in evidence ; if they did not agree , the trial was stopped and the accused found ‘ not guilty ’ ( Mark 14:59 ) . |
| 9 | Their official car , following behind the royals , was stopped and then forced into a police compound . |
| 10 | Well , it 's difficult to stop a fish eating completely in a mature planted tank , but normal feeding was stopped and small pieces of orange ( no peel ; tease out individual cells ) were added to the tank . |
| 11 | In week 5 , the intervention was stopped and the original baseline condition repeated for one week . |
| 12 | The defendant was driving in Jermyn Street at 1.55 a.m. on 11 May 1990 when he was stopped and given a roadside breath test which proved positive . |
| 13 | Letters went home to our parents about it , our weekend leave was stopped and we was n't allowed to associate with any of the other girls . |
| 14 | After 60 minutes , the reaction was stopped and radioactive RNA was isolated and analyzed . |
| 15 | As a result , the matchbox-making was stopped and the family 's last remaining source of income disappeared . |
| 16 | After a further two hour chase the Sea Rover was within our territorial waters where she was stopped and arrested by Seeker . |
| 17 | Two days later , he was dismissed and as a consequence of his dismissal , his unemployment benefit was stopped and he received reduced rate income support of , I understand , £23.79 a week . |
| 18 | The affair had come to light in late January when a United Kingdom businessman , Paul Pearson , representing a South African-registered company , Dove Trading International , was stopped and searched at Moscow 's Sheremetyevo Airport on his way out of the country . |
| 19 | The challenge was stopped and the patients were examined , when any adverse reaction was noted . |
| 20 | One of our fellows claimed that , within half a day out from Basra , one of the RAF chaps was stopped and a HLI lad said , " Hey Jock , can you tell me where is the wash-hoos ? " |
| 21 | She was killed last Wednesday south of Cairo when the tour bus she was travelling on was stopped and gunmen opened fire . |
| 22 | The treatment was stopped and Mrs Hilton prescribed her own course of healthy eating and holistic medicine . |
| 23 | I would have thought they 've simply , it had to be agreed that that was stopped and then as the professor has said , I mean we give all the aid we can to turn their erm military er industry into erm , what was it , instead of guns . |
| 24 | The polished surface of the dark mahogany desk was charred and pitted beyond all redemption , the wood splintered and rough . |
| 25 | This is no doubt because it is the Government which would , on the hypothesis that section 47 was invalid because inconsistent with article 30 , have failed to take the necessary steps to ensure that section 47 was amended or repealed as necessary . |
| 26 | To do away with the evils of this system , as well as to guard against dangers of fraud and forgery , a Land Registry was established by the Land Transfer Act 1875 , which was amended and extended by the Land Transfer Act 1897 , both Acts being repealed and replaced by the Land Registration Acts 1925–1988 . |
| 27 | In 1979 the state constitution was amended and a ceiling placed on spending by the state and in local jurisdictions within its borders . |
| 28 | In 1983 this was amended and a maximum payment ceiling established . |
| 29 | This being found somewhat lukewarm , somewhat unsatisfying and unsatisfactory , the formulation was amended and became : that Bert and Jasper were empowered by those present to offer support to the Irish revolutionaries , and ask to be given concrete tasks . |
| 30 | The final list was amended and typed on lavender-coloured notepaper by his political secretary Marcia Williams , who had become Lady Falkender in 1974 . |