Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [vb pp] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The experiment was repeated many times , with the bats taking turns to be the starved victim . |
| 2 | This experiment was repeated several times and the average ratio of the subunits present in each band plotted ( Figure 2b ) . |
| 3 | ‘ The murder was committed some time between twelve and three . |
| 4 | Major restoration projects include the Cathedral of Our Lady whose exterior is now almost complete ; inside , the first phase of work on the nave and roof was completed some years ago . |
| 5 | Phase two of the development of the Department was completed this summer . |
| 6 | Cocaine was reborn that way . |
| 7 | The sample in the photograph was made this way on the S47 ( 600 ) , machine . |
| 8 | The bid was expected this week or next , with finance arranged through Manufacturers Hanover and Charterhouse , which acted for the brothers in the past . |
| 9 | Although their research was done some years ago , the conclusions of Hatch and Mocroft still hold : ‘ On the whole , towns low in voluntary organisations tended to be the ones that were low in terms of social class ’ . |
| 10 | Your company car was impounded this morning . |
| 11 | His car was vandalised several times and he was forced to move his business after it was set on fire . |
| 12 | The rule was reiterated many times , by the Permanent Court of Justice , by various international arbitrations , by publicists , and in draft treaty articles . |
| 13 | ‘ Equal pay for equal work ’ was a justifiable battle-cry of the feminist movement and that ambition was achieved some years ago . |
| 14 | So long as the intended effect was achieved all means were justified : architecture , ornament , sculpture , painting , all the arts were to serve the optical illusion . |
| 15 | Wembley 's West side was shut that night while the Royal Box side was boosted by schools and stadium staff on free tickets . |
| 16 | Our marriage was arranged many years ago . |
| 17 | See that thing you had whe when the bar was taken this time was that just for tax like |
| 18 | The AR-WACC Women 's Desk was closed this year because it was time to turn it over to an existing women 's group which would take the programme to a new phase in its development as well as broadening the network . |
| 19 | It has an overdraft of just over £1m , and its finance committee was told this week that , after hoarding trade-union and individual affiliations since 1987 , the party would have some £6m to spend in a May or June election — still much less than the Tories , but twice what it spent in the last election . |
| 20 | The fourth report of the Committee on Monitoring Agreements on Tobacco Advertising and Sponsorship was produced this summer and the Minister will have had time to study it in detail . |
| 21 | Part A goes ninety one to ninety six , part B ninety six to two thousand and six , sites adjacent to the urban area in the Greater York study er which were acceptable for development because corporately the districts and the county did not think that those sites discharged a greenbelt function as the greenbelt local plan was progressed those sites were excluded from the greenbelt erm and yes , we did identify a number of sites which did not conflict with greenbelt objectives erm on the urban edge . |
| 22 | lt has come to the Prince 's ears , my lord , that the boy was seen some days ago entering Parfois , escorted by four of your men . |
| 23 | The mill 's equipment was removed many years ago following which it was converted to a row of cottages . |
| 24 | If rugby was played each way , I 'd probably be a household name by now . |
| 25 | THE Diocesan Pastoral Council was told this month , of a plan for a special ceremony in each diocese to mark the appearance of the new Catechism of the Catholic Church . |
| 26 | In addition government control of the media ensured that the opposition 's campaign was given little coverage . |
| 27 | This fundamental requirement was established some years ago and is achieved by creating work , spatial , engineering and technical sub-files with the CAD part files . |
| 28 | Part of today 's cargo was assembled some weeks ago by Lance Corporal Gary Manning … a soldier who lost his life in the crash in Scotland . |
| 29 | However , it is fair to say that , compared with 1986 , far more emphasis was placed on the data about publications ( of which a much greater quantity was submitted this time ) , i.e. the judgments have been more ‘ output led ’ . ’ |
| 30 | An effect of this sort was reported some years ago by Grastyan ( 1961 ) , who monitored an electrophysiological correlate ( hippocampal slow waves ) of the overt OR during conditioning and found that the electrical response diminished as the CR emerged . |