Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] [was/were] [verb] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can he give a categorical assurance to the House that none of that money was used by the Soviet Communist party to try to destabilise this country and foment industrial disputes , as it has now admitted that it did ? |
| 2 | The sequences around both the initiation and termination regions of each clone was determined by the di-deoxy method and confirmed to be in frame with the N-terminal 6-His sequence of pET15b . |
| 3 | That decision was overturned by the Dublin Supreme Court , and the pro-abortion movement in Ireland is now alarmed these gains could be lost . |
| 4 | That decision was approved by the House of Lords in Caparo [ 1990 ] 1 All ER 568 . |
| 5 | The independently testable attempt to save Newton 's theory by a speculative hypothesis was a success because that hypothesis was confirmed by the discovery of Neptune and not because it was falsified . |
| 6 | That assessment was echoed by the other speakers in the session — Kevin Allard of Bertram Books , David Edyvean of the Gosport Bookshop and Nick Polkinhorne of the Sevenoaks Bookshop — each of whom explained how the application of new technology had enabled them successfully to transform the environment in which they worked . |
| 7 | Because that level was set by the government , the licence fee was too often seen as a political issue and a source of political pressure . |
| 8 | That plea was echoed by the men and their families . |
| 9 | In January last year details of the workload and the resources available to meet that workload were collected by the British Orthopaedic Association directly from consultant orthopaedic and trauma surgeons working in the 19 general hospitals in the 12 health districts in inner London . |
| 10 | That figure was produced by the independent Institute for Fiscal Studies . |
| 11 | First , that civilisation was invented by the Egyptians and then plagiarised and corrupted by the Greeks . |
| 12 | That collectivity was supervised by the secret police and its resident informers . |
| 13 | That rule was accepted by the Conservative Party in opposition before 1979 , and Nigel Lawson , as a junior Treasury Minister , helped to develop the targeting of M3 , the money supply measure , which was the backbone of the counter-inflationary policy of Mrs Thatcher 's first administration . |
| 14 | According to a survey conducted for the BBC in April 1974 by Professor Richard Rose , sixty-nine per cent of the people of Northern Ireland thought that the executive should be given a chance to govern but this finding was contradicted by the results of a general election two months earlier and may reflect the general tendency of survey respondents to make statements in response to poll questions which are more moderate than their real views . |
| 15 | Second , I shall consider how this framework was used by the subject working parties whose job it was to produce the detailed lists of statements of attainment . |
| 16 | At the United States-Soviet summit meeting off Malta on Dec. 2-3 ( see pp. 37110-12 ) , the US President , George Bush , indicated that he would support an application by the Soviet Union for observer status at GATT , and this support was reaffirmed by the US delegation to the immediately following 45th session of GATT contracting parties . |
| 17 | This change was marked by the arrival on 1 June of Air Commodore Hugh Pughe Lloyd , M.C. , D.F.C. , to take over as A.O.C. from A.V.M. Maynard , A.F.C. Newly-promoted from the rank of Group Captain , Lloyd had been serving as Senior Air Staff Officer with No.2 Group of Bomber Command . |
| 18 | This majority was obtained by the votes of the 128 Popular Front deputies together with those of independents and deputies from radical nationalist groups ; the resolution was passed by 138 votes to none , with one abstention , but with a group of 57 pro-Soviet deputies boycotting the vote . |
| 19 | The case at Water Newton is rather less certain , but it has been argued that either one of the two large buildings visible at the centre of the defended area served as an administrative centre for the Fens , or that this function was performed by the remarkable complex identified at Castor to the north-east of the town 's extramural suburbs . |
| 20 | This difficulty was overcome by the concept of ‘ operant conditioning ’ , developed by the behaviourist , Skinner . |
| 21 | A way to start to address this difficulty was suggested by the Strathclyde Equality Awareness Trainers , an organisation of disabled people . |
| 22 | One case of particular importance in this field was brought by the Equal Opportunities Commission which , in addition to its formal powers of investigation has legal authority to pursue cases in the courts . |
| 23 | This case was approved by the Court of Appeal in Congreve v. Home Office . |
| 24 | This case was approved by the Privy Council in DPP v Daley , above . |
| 25 | This hope was shattered by the discovery of atomic structure and quantum mechanics . |
| 26 | In botany this technique was extended by the Swiss naturalist Augustin de Candolle ( 1778–1841 ) and his son Alphonse ( 1806–93 ) . |
| 27 | This technique was originated by the Gestalt school , and since their early work experimental psychologists have amassed a great deal of information about which parameters influence the occurrence of apparent motion . |
| 28 | Unfortunately this play was overshadowed by the opening production and Crawford was the only leading actor not to merit a mention from Eric Shorter in the Daily Telegraph , who believed that the key to performing this wittiest of farces was in the technique . |
| 29 | This award was commissioned by the Public Finance Consortium ( award reference number B/02/25/0000 ) |
| 30 | This deficit was funded by the use of surpluses earned in prior years . |