Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adj] [was/were] [verb] by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The British government attempted to extradite Bourke for his part in helping Blake escape but after a long legal wrangle this was rejected by the Irish courts . |
| 2 | The UK-flag bulk carrier Charming was hit by a missile while carrying a cargo of alumina in an Iranian-organized convoy going up to Bandar Khomeini . |
| 3 | In practice this was done by a compromise , the thin skin being stiffened by attaching to it spars and stringers , with which it shared the load , the whole rather elaborate surface forming a shell stiff in bending and therefore unlikely to buckle . |
| 4 | The note to which I refer of six er page six seven five reads as follows , the words omitted from sub-sections one , four and five and the whole of sub-section three were repealed and sub-section six was substituted by the Local Government Act nineteen seventy two , sections one hundred and ninety-six one two , two hundred and seventy-two one , Schedule thirty , the words in square brackets in sub-section one and in the first pair of square brackets in sub-section two , were substituted and the words omitted from para two B , paragraph two B and the whole of paragraph two C , both of which had been inserted by the Local Government Act nineteen seventy two , section two hundred and seventeen , schedule twenty- seven , part two , paragraph eighteen were repealed . |
| 5 | The Mercantile Marine Act 1850 was seen by the government as dealing with the other side of the problem — that of raising the standard of British seamen and seamanship and of protecting the seamen themselves from the tyranny of their officers and the depredations of the shipowners . |
| 6 | Section 2 of the Official Secrets Act 1911 was discredited by the jury acquittal of the editor of the " Sunday Telegraph " for publishing a confidential army report about the Biafran war which indicated that ministerial statements in Parliament were false . |
| 7 | An IOC spokesman said last night : ‘ As we said after the opening ceremony , the non-appearance of the Princess Royal was noted by the top table . ’ |
| 8 | Ironically , the Charitable Uses Act 1601 was repealed by the Mortmain and Charitable Uses Act 1888 , section 13(1) , and the Charities Act 1960 , section 38 , repealing the law of mortmain states , clumsily : |
| 9 | After the communist takeover this was replaced by the " Dimitrov Constitution " of 1947 , modelled on the 1936 Soviet Constitution . |
| 10 | His wide-ranging contribution to Allied security during World War II was recognized by the USA with the award of the US Legion of Merit in 1946 . |
| 11 | Last month Rainbow Warrior II was seized by the French navy as it led another protest to the atoll . |
| 12 | When Part II to Schedule 12 was amended by the Building Societies ( Investigation of Complaints ) Order 1990 ( S.I . |
| 13 | Car No. 396 was destroyed by a bomb outside Croydon bus garage on 10 May 1941 and its remains dumped in Purley depot , to be officially written off on 30 November 1945 . |
| 14 | Schedule 8 was varied by the Building Societies ( Commercial Assets and Services ) Order 1988 ( S.I . |
| 15 | It was obviously much easier during the Kaiser 's war when a short sharp Court Martial was followed by the offender being shot the next morning . |
| 16 | No , you 're just a pathetic monomaniac who 's lived too long and has become obsessed with the idea of making the entire planet suffer for an ancient wrong that was perpetrated by a mindless minority ! ’ |
| 17 | In the financial district this was accompanied by the appearance and proliferation of the trading centres known as exchanges , of speculative office blocks , and of large buildings constructed for single clients such as banks and insurance companies . |
| 18 | What the PBI felt about their own gunners may be gauged from a French estimate that out of ten shells falling on a Verdun trench , ‘ on an average two were provided by the friendly artillery ’ . |
| 19 | Broca 's area was strongly activated in both the phonological short-term memory task and the rhyming task , while left BA 40 was activated by the phonological short-term memory task only . |
| 20 | In the domestic sphere 1990 was dominated by the protracted dispute over the budget between Bush and the Democrat majority in Congress [ see below ] and by a series of financial and political scandals . |
| 21 | As a final touch each was accompanied by a lock of the particular loved one 's hair . |
| 22 | DOWNING Street security officers today mounted an investigation after a telephone call by John Major inside Number 10 was overheard by a BBC journalist . |
| 23 | Resolution 678 was proposed by the USA , the Soviet Union , the UK and Canada . |
| 24 | And for that reason most were destroyed by the Spanish invaders . |
| 25 | Patient XII was managed by an endoscopic sphincterotomy after percutaneous drainage of the collection . |
| 26 | The previous day a 22 year old , a 19 year old and a 17 year old were shot by a state trooper when they tried to sell cocaine worth $50,000 to a couple of undercover policemen in a car park . |
| 27 | Two patients developed encephalopathy after TIPSS , in one patient this was controlled by the insertion of a smaller diameter stent within the existing TIPSS . |
| 28 | Point mutations in the first two base pairs of K-ras codon 12 were sought by a method previously described , and modified from the non-radioactive restriction enzyme technique of Jiang et al . |
| 29 | In fact 125,000 were made by the sports goods specialists , A.G.Spalding and although heavy and bulky even for its 1.5 x 1.5m ( 5 ft.sq. ) dimensions , any survivors are treated with great reverence and are highly valued by their collectors . |
| 30 | In my judgment , the matter is put beyond doubt by considering the position as it existed from 1980 until the amendments to section 6 were made by the Act of 1988 . |