Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] was [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | King Arthur , so the story goes was born at Tintagel Castle and raised there by Merlin the magician . |
| 2 | The decision to proceed was taken by the Slovak authorities immediately after the breakdown of EC-sponsored talks ( earlier bilateral talks having ended without agreement on Oct. 13 ) . |
| 3 | The cAMP produced was measured by radioassay . |
| 4 | Since local councils borrowed to finance virtually all their capital expenditure , permission to borrow was used by central departments to set the total capital spending limits for local authorities , determine national service priorities for capital spending , and set common design standards and cost yardsticks which ensured a tight degree of economy in capital projects . |
| 5 | However , the decision to allow the board to continue was cloaked in Ministers ' remarks suggesting that the statutory provision would be short-lived . |
| 6 | The likelihood of such conflicts occurring was increased following market developments and reforms in the structure of the financial markets in the 1980s , in particular the abolition of single capacity in the trading of stocks and shares , and the development of financial conglomerates offering a wide range of services . |
| 7 | The data from the other three course involved was restricted to progression beyond first year . |
| 8 | For a claim to be recoverable the Policyholder must satisfy us that on the balance of probabilities the loss or damage sustained was caused by a peril insured against . |
| 9 | ‘ The document the kidnappers want was written by Vicente Ortiz , ’ said Charlotte in a rush . |
| 10 | The amount of glucose given was calculated from body weight . |
| 11 | ‘ The man who had Carrie and Mikey kidnapped was trained at Balashikha . ’ |
| 12 | In both studies , gall bladder emptying was determined by ultrasonography and dose response curves were determined in both studies . |
| 13 | Gall bladder emptying was restored to eight of 10 patients managed with an acutely inflamed gall bladder and to 11 of 13 patients with non-function because of a stone impacted in Hartmann 's pouch ( Table II ) . |
| 14 | The instrument used was derived from discussion with four groups of members of the general public ( with and without incontinence ) who explained their attitudes and the perceived effect on lifestyle . |
| 15 | The data used was based on the 1972 , 1973 and 1974 intakes of all UK Universities and was provided by The Universities Statistical Record . |
| 16 | The data used was taken from two separate surveys carried out in 1977 and 1981 . |
| 17 | AN AZERI who hijacked a Russian plane so he could go to the United States to work was held on charges of air piracy by a Swedish court yesterday after giving himself up . |
| 18 | Paki bashing was combined with queer bashing , squaddie bashing , grease bashing and student bashing . |
| 19 | One of the problems is that the Government 's momentum to privatise was determined for ideological reasons and on a tight time scale . |
| 20 | In the end : ‘ A public meeting at which the mayor presided was held in 1948 before the work began . |
| 21 | Everything upon which her eyes focused was obscured by a heavy veil . |
| 22 | The maximum penalty for conspiracy to murder was increased from ten years to life ; for causing explosions from twenty years to life ; and membership of proscribed organisations from five years to ten . |
| 23 | That is , he must show that the loss incurred was caused by the insider 's actions . |
| 24 | How much of what the informants said was discarded by the interviewer because he did not find it useful — and by what criteria did he decide what was useful and what was not ? |
| 25 | The church where Ramsey ministered was bombed to bits in the Second World War . |
| 26 | The VAS were averaged over the first 3 days of admission ( any patient with data missing was omitted from the analysis ) and these means compared by Mann-Whitney U tests . |
| 27 | ‘ ( c ) Proceedings . ( i ) The case was tried before Judge Aglionby and jury between 3 and 4 July 1990. ( ii ) At the close of the prosecution case a submission of no case to answer was made by the respondent in respect of both counts . |
| 28 | At the close of the prosecution case before the trial judge , a submission of no case to answer was made by the respondent in respect of both counts . |
| 29 | After 300 hours rounding was pronounced for all three grades . |
| 30 | Most of the money collected was given to the war effort and a bag of gobstoppers and aniseed balls was bought with the rest . |