Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] was [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although external organs such as the police networks were used to enforce control , much of it was exercised through existing social institutions , for example , the family and the company , and through official organizations such as the reservists , youth leagues and women 's groups , of which membership , where appropriate , eventually became compulsory . |
| 2 | Much of it was erected by small speculators with limited means , who came themselves from the working class . |
| 3 | Part of his spare time was taken up with the marching band of the university , but much of it was given to boisterous evenings drinking and singing with his companion — always with a view to winning the girls ' eyes and hearts . |
| 4 | Well he did n't reveal any of this new material and none of it was revealed in open court . |
| 5 | Some of it was mixed with other ingredients as a compost , some of it was used as pure money . |
| 6 | The first striking feature of the collaboration we observed was that most of it was associated with individual rather than shared tasks . |
| 7 | Some of it was mixed with other ingredients as a compost , some of it was used as pure money . |
| 8 | Cognitio was an official procedure , and a judgment given in it was based on magisterial authority . |
| 9 | The Dialogue was not published for the benefit of transvestite amateur countertenors : Mopsa 's part in it was aimed at young ladies . |
| 10 | My affection for her was leavened with lesser likings and with admiration . |
| 11 | He was offered a knighthood in 1847 when Queen Victoria visited Cambridge , but he declined it and the honour which came to him was accompanied by little emolument . |
| 12 | But the one next to it was veined with crimson and dull purple and , as Fenella touched it , she was instantly aware of a stinging pain , a boiling of hot sourness . |
| 13 | Then in the late fifth , or early sixth , century the settlement moved northwards ; it was smaller , of briefer duration and more dispersed , and the cemetery belonging to it was defined by Romano-British ditches . |
| 14 | Analysis of Brian 's nursing history does not show a structured approach of this nature ; such support was provided as the need for it was noticed by individual staff members , which is theoretically unsatisfying , although it may have worked in practice . |