Example sentences of "[vb pp] was [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Interest increased when he revealed that among the types of RNA successfully attacked was RNA from the HIV virus which causes Aids . |
| 2 | Another factor which affected the likelihood of a case being reported was intimidation by the cattle stealers . |
| 3 | The one thing she had n't done was look up Puddephat in Who 's Who . |
| 4 | All they had done was look at each other and exchange a few very prosaic words , yet something magical was happening . |
| 5 | I would never have been able to respect myself if all I 'd ever done was take from my father . ’ |
| 6 | All the master puppeteers of pop had done was speed up the sophisticated , satin-smooth voice of the boy from Newton-le-Willows in Lancashire to end up with the higher-pitched , female version — Kylie . |
| 7 | The address Signe had written was south of Milam Square . |
| 8 | Even my highly regrettable tendency to react positively whenever the fridge door is opened was proof against that . |
| 9 | What was left was sex in the head , as D.H . |
| 10 | These local impressions are confirmed by the national returns which show that between 1911 and 1914 , the major occupational group to which boys were sent was conveyance of goods , men , and messages , followed by metals and commercial employment ; ( for girls , the major employers were dress , outdoor domestic work , and food , tobacco , drink , and lodging ) . |
| 11 | Also prohibited was payment of ransom or protection money to the guerrillas by farmers and businesspeople ; companies proved to have paid such money would lose their operating licences . |
| 12 | The most that could yet be achieved was independence from rich outsiders ; independence from rich local men was as far away as ever , even in Liverpool . |
| 13 | Less than half ( 45% ) said that the off-farm job imposed limitations on the farm and by far the most common reason given was lack of time available to carry out the farm work . |
| 14 | The second front on which this issue was developed was part of a debate between philosophers , who were concerned with the moral nature of man at an abstract , idealist , level and the biologist-naturalists , who were concerned with the delimitation of man considered as a zoological species . |
| 15 | The £6.1m paid was consideration for the site and the existing partly-constructed buildings . |
| 16 | But the woman he had held was dust in a sea-girt grave , his love buried with her . |