Example sentences of "[det] [noun] was [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Each caste was subdivided into jatis or subcastes , which in total number many thousands .
2 Reliance was apparently placed — I say ‘ apparently ’ because there is nothing in the papers which indicates clearly one way or the other what the view of the justices ' clerk was on this subject — I am told that reliance was placed on section 8(3) which provides : ‘ For the purposes of this Act ‘ family proceedings ’ means any proceedings … ( b ) under the enactments mentioned in subsection ( 4 ) . ’
3 It is apparent , therefore , that differentiation was made between male and female blood , and that circumcision , in its new casting , had some role to play in that context .
4 Each division was assessed on each of these fourteen risk elements and compared , element by element , with the corresponding assessments made for the group as a whole .
5 That provision was placed in the contingency because it was un felt it was unclear at the time , what the effect on costs would be , of the sale of link waste .
6 Each squadron was divided into three troops , each with three sections .
7 A solicitor acting for another trustee has discovered that that money was withdrawn in cash .
8 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 ?
9 What I can do is bring you someone now on the line who can tell us exactly why that decision was made and exactly why that money was spent in the way it was because we 've been joined by Councillor John Power .
10 Each strip was staked by its winner who cut his mark in the ground .
11 That privilege was given to the women a year ago after one of their colleagues Anna McGurk was murdered in the more remote Castlemeads car park .
12 As to section 39(11) Mr. Langley relied on the decision of the Court of Appeal ( Dillon and Ralph Gibson L.JJ. ) in Bank of England v. Riley [ 1992 ] 2 W.L.R. 840 where the question was whether the defendant was entitled to refuse to answer interrogatories or disclose documents in reliance upon the privilege against self-incrimination , or whether that privilege was excluded by section 42 of the Act which entitles the Bank of England , inter alia , to require a person to attend and answer questions where the Bank has reasonable grounds for suspecting that a person is guilty of contravening various sections of the Act .
13 There is an additional aspect that erm we we must look also , I think , at the viability of the services and facilities , er , within the new settlement , if the new settlement is , for the sake of argument five hundred houses then my submission is that that really offers no long term viability for any facility or service , erm , clearly you might get a primary school if the new settlement size was of the order of eight hundred to a thousand dwellings , but you would not get any sizable retail element , and so however far that settlement was located from the main centre they would still become dependant on that centre , and that 's why I think it 's important to recognize that if you are to achieve the erm if you like the balance of requirements , of achieving erm a reasonable degree of self containment within the new settlement , but also meet the needs of York , it has to be a reasonable size , but located as close to York as possible
14 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 .
15 Little progress was achieved during the UN-sponsored negotiations over the next two years .
16 Little progress was made for thirty years .
17 Little progress was made in this field before the 1950s , but in the 1940s a particularly notable drug came to light unexpectedly .
18 The depressed post-war state of the countries ' economies meant that little progress was made until the 1950s but the experience of modern warfare had at least convinced government circles that the old security arguments against a tunnel were redundant .
19 The conservatives of the New Democracy Party promised to tackle the problem when they came back to office in 1990 , but little progress was made until a tough new economics minister , Stephanos Manos , was appointed last year .
20 Little progress was reported during the talks , which were largely overshadowed by events in the occupied territories .
21 That building was valued by a private firm — well , it 's that sort of Government — at a cost of £40,000 .
22 Implied terms underpin the law of challenge to experts ' decisions , because some basic terms are not spelled out : namely , that the parties would not accept a final decision intended to have binding effect when that decision was vitiated by dishonesty , partiality or mistake .
23 The basis of that decision was stated by Lord Greene MR , at p. 370 : " A term created by a leasehold tenancy agreement must be expressed either with certainty and specifically or by reference to something which can , at the time when the lease takes effect be looked to as a certain ascertainment of what the term is meant to be .
24 That decision was overturned by the Dublin Supreme Court , and the pro-abortion movement in Ireland is now alarmed these gains could be lost .
25 DPP v K [ 1990 ] 1 WLR 1067 applied Caldwell to assault occasioning actual bodily harm , but that decision was overruled in Spratt [ 1990 ] 1 WLR 1118 ( CA ) .
26 That decision was approved by the House of Lords in Caparo [ 1990 ] 1 All ER 568 .
27 That decision was reversed by Vinelott J. [ 1990 ] 1 W.L.R. 204 , whose decision was affirmed by the Court of Appeal [ 1991 ] Ch. 203 .
28 Sant' Ambrogio transferred the remains of San Nazaro to the basilica that now bears his name , raising a second basilica here for the remains of San Celso ; that basilica was replaced by a church .
29 Today that judgement was rejected on a technicality by the European Court in Luxembourg , which said the Commission had acted incorrectly .
30 Each part was cushioned by synovial fluid .
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