Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] or [vb pp] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The training committee continued to advise the training officer , but all real initiatives were overturned or dismissed by the management committee . |
| 2 | Though it was shot on a strict schedule , not in the looser manner of its two predecessors , some scenes and lines were improvised or contributed by the actors ; for instance , Rhodes 's last words to the zombies as they eat his guts , ‘ Choke on ‘ em ! ’ |
| 3 | Previously existing fascist groups , which had been oriented towards Italy , were bullied or out-organized by the BUF which followed German Nazi example in becoming increasingly anti-Semitic . |
| 4 | Cases were won or lost on the facts , not the law . ’ |
| 5 | Fishing vessels registered in the register of British vessels under the Merchant Shipping Act 1894 were owned or managed by the applicants , companies incorporated under the laws of the United Kingdom and their directors and shareholders , most of whom were Spanish nationals . |
| 6 | At the same time we should also keep in our prayers all those who died , were injured or bereaved in the Hillsborough disaster . |
| 7 | Although many of the town 's historical records were plundered or destroyed during the Reformation in an effort to erase Popish imagery , Dunfermline as a See of St Andrews would have followed closely that town 's model . |
| 8 | The west Siberian Tatars of the Khanate of Sibir were subjugated or dispersed among the steppe nomads , but the presence of the latter ( particularly the Kazakhs and Oirats ) obliged the Russians to maintain fortified ‘ lines ’ in the south for over two hundred years ( see Chapter 3 ) . |
| 9 | Most of the original dwellings were built or rebuilt under the aegis of the Everingham estate , owned by the Constables who married into the Norfolk family . |
| 10 | Like mustard gas , the nitrogen mustards caused blisters when they came into contact with skin , and they damaged many other tissues when they were absorbed or injected into the circulating blood . |
| 11 | When District Officers were eventually allowed into the field they were watched like hawks by their senior officers for signs — an indication , it was said , of inaptitude or inexperience — of running things too directly , and promotions were made or denied on the extent to which they seemed , in the words of the Resident , Adamawa , to be ‘ imbued with the true spirit of Indirect Rule ’ . |
| 12 | The basis of the Directive is to fix in a general way the criteria for assessing the unfair character of contract terms taking into account , in particular , whether the relevant term was individually negotiated , the relevant strength of the bargaining position of the parties , whether the consumer had an inducement to agree to the term , and whether the goods or services were sold or supplied to the special order of the consumer . |
| 13 | After last summer 's trouble 's at Blackbird Leys some roads were narrowed or treated with an anti-skid surface . |
| 14 | You could even press the flowers that were worn or used at the event and then use them as the decoration . |
| 15 | One school did , however , keep a record of which children and classes were brought or sent to the library and in which subjects , but these were not analysed ( until the evaluators analysed them ! ) and again did not discriminate between use of project and use of non-project purchases . |
| 16 | Over the weekend of 21/22 September 1985 , for example , 60 protesters were arrested for wire-cutting at Molesworth and a further 55 were arrested or reported for the same action at RAF Sculthorpe . |
| 17 | The bottom and topsides were payed or stopped with a putty like composition . |
| 18 | These were followed or interspersed by a windswept Starmer-Smith standing on the touchline , microphone in hand , sporting a selection from his extensive wardrobe of scarves and neckties , and promising delights which were sure to come next week but which had unaccountably failed to materialise this week . |
| 19 | This he might find in the service of a bishop ; for many bishops in the late eleventh and twelfth centuries were coming to have large staffs of young clerks , who learned the business of ecclesiastical administration and rose to be canons or archdeacons , or were seconded or translated to the royal service . |
| 20 | TYNE AND WEAR : A party of North-East firefighters fly to the Ukraine this week to visit a museum in Kiev dedicated to their foreign counterparts who were killed or injured in the Chernobyl nuclear disaster . |
| 21 | A party of North-East firefighters fly to the Ukraine this week to visit a museum in Kiev dedicated to their foreign counterparts who were killed or injured in the Chernobyl nuclear disaster . |
| 22 | The dangers for teachers in war zones of being identified with the government were exemplified by the fate of numbers of ‘ popular teachers ’ who were killed or kidnapped by the Contras . |
| 23 | The Coventry , Ardent , and Antelope were all sunk ; many Welsh Guardsmen , waiting to land , were killed or maimed in an air assault on the Sir Galahad at Bluff Cove . |
| 24 | The image of hope which had thus arisen in Williamson 's mind was soured by the reality of his second obsession : the sheer horror of his experience on 1 July 1916 , when 60,000 British soldiers were killed or wounded on the first day of the Battle of the Somme . |
| 25 | Radio Lebanon reported on Aug. 24 that a number of civilians were killed or wounded in the subsequent SLA barrage , during which , according to some sources , regular Lebanese soldiers ( deployed in the south since July — see p. 38360 ) clashed with SLA fighters . |
| 26 | It would be a breach of the first principle if the data subject , or data provider , were deceived or misled about the purpose for which the data were obtained , held , used or disclosed . |
| 27 | I doubt whether our predecessors in this place before 1914 thought that the powers of the House were compromised or undermined as a result . |
| 28 | About two thousand other veteran communists were also executed , while hundreds of thousands were imprisoned or expelled from the party . |
| 29 | The application is made to the judge if the judgment or order was given or made by the judge and , if not , to the district judge ( Ord 37 , r 2 ) . |
| 30 | For in each instance the problem of expansion was solved or evaded in a different way , and produced as a result towns with very different characteristics . |