Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [vb past] was [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the complex we observed was required for PPT expression we would expect to see it in these cells . |
| 2 | Here officers are tracking a car they believed was stolen in Milton Keynes . |
| 3 | That is an analysis by the officers of what additional funds they felt was needed for them to fulfil their statutory duties . |
| 4 | A mahogany bookcase and the books it contained was left to Anne ‘ with gratitude for our long friendship ’ and a Sheraton occasional table to ‘ our good neighbour Mrs Fitzgerald ’ . |
| 5 | He could n't threaten the Soviet Union directly because the Soviet Union was a nuclear power and could n't be threatened er so the course of action he took was intended to be moderate and to secure the objective solely of removing the missiles from Cuba , not of doing anything about the Cuban government or the regime or anything of that sort . |
| 6 | He could n't threaten the Soviet Union directly because the Soviet Union was a nuclear power and could n't be threatened er so the course of action he took was intended to be moderate and to secure the objective solely of removing the missiles from Cuba , not of doing anything about the Cuban government or the regime or anything of that sort . |
| 7 | The chase which followed was captured on a takeway restuarant 's security video , this was to form part of the prosecution evidence . |
| 8 | Er all the clothing you had was provided by yourself , boiler suits , boots er there there was no protective clothing at all , there were no protection for your hearing , er there was no what we called leathers as such for er to save you from getting burned with scales off of the rivets , with burning machines etcetera , there were n't there was absolutely no er protective clothing at all , unless you happened to be able to buy it yourself somewhere . |
| 9 | What small political influence it possessed was confined to the immediate post-war years of social tension , inflation and unemployment . |
| 10 | The blue silk mortar board she wore was edged in gold lace with a gold bullion button and tassel . |
| 11 | The salvation it proposed was based on a reduction in the amount of first-class cricket to a 16-match one-day competition without over limitation , a reduction in county staffs and the involvement and use of part time cricketers . |
| 12 | But the five-shot lead he created was trimmed to a manageable three shots for today 's third round which the English Ryder Cup man starts on a 13-under-par total of 131 . |
| 13 | Every move he made was duplicated by the rest of the shoal at exactly the same speed and with absolute precision . |
| 14 | Any sound it made was lost in the green murk . |
| 15 | On the other side , ‘ some years ago we observed that quite a large proportion of the concentrated acids we sold was diluted by our customers on site and sometimes in rather unsatisfactory conditions ; small companies did n't have facilities to dilute acid safety — it generates a lot of heat . |
| 16 | The two , sometimes three , hours spent in the College quadrangle when , we are told , the Professor would courteously listen and give an intelligible answer to every question , and when the instruction he communicated was stamped on the memory by the good temper and joke and repartee with which it was accompanied , these were periods which an old student liked to call to memory , for they were hours pleasantly and usefully passed . |
| 17 | Tuttle said that if the four bipedal tracks at Laetoli three were made by hominids ; the other he suggested was made by a bear . |
| 18 | Despite a long history of hostility between the two organizations the tone of the seven-hour meeting was described as good-natured , while the joint peace strategy which emerged was seen as a positive development . |
| 19 | The government agency withdrew facilities for 160 centres countrywide , because the beef they handled was deemed below the required level . |
| 20 | He had decreed everyone should wear tartan shoes and since no-one had any , or could get any being stuck on the island , every pupil he met was punished for breaking the law . |
| 21 | A YOUTH who inflicted what a sheriff described yesterday as an appalling gaping face wound on a teenager he slashed was ordered to be detained for 15 months in a young offenders ' institution . |
| 22 | The Eisteddfod ceremony in which the chair he won was draped in a black cloth has remained part of the Welsh bardic ethos ever since . |
| 23 | For someone who , according to Naylor 's belief , should be sorely upset that the woman he loved was engaged to another , Travis was coping exceedingly well . |
| 24 | On the most mundane level , repayment of any debts they owed was postponed until their return ; while they were on the crusade their property was taken under the protection of the church . |
| 25 | It hit the digger and the man who died was pinned under the front wheels . |
| 26 | THREE vigilantes who took the law into their own hands after a burglary were convicted yesterday after a man they confronted was killed on his own doorstep . |
| 27 | The relief they felt was emphasised by the way Gustafsson 's team-mates jumped on to the court , picked him up and tossed him high in the air in celebration at the end . |
| 28 | He fled and fled , and every door he found was painted with the black plague cross and every face he pleaded with was tinged with the red of plague fever . |
| 29 | It is , indeed , doubtful how much help Gloucester could have commanded explicitly in order to take the throne : some , almost certainly , but much ( if not most ) of the backing he enjoyed was given to the protector for the maintenance of stability — a distinction of which Gloucester himself seems not to have been fully conscious . |
| 30 | It is , indeed , doubtful how much help Gloucester could have commanded explicitly in order to take the throne : some , almost certainly , but much ( if not most ) of the backing he enjoyed was given to the protector for the maintenance of stability — a distinction of which Gloucester himself seems not to have been fully conscious . |