Example sentences of "of [noun sg] was [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had gone to the sideboard cupboard where a bottle of whisky was kept for medicinal purposes , drunk what was there , and died . |
| 2 | The presence of moisture was found to be necessary to promote chemical weathering and weaken the rock sufficiently for disintegration to occur . |
| 3 | A measure of unity was provided by routes of communication , on land and sea . |
| 4 | What is incontestable is that Mr Stewart 's conduct during the whole affair was entirely unbecoming of a representative of a national sports , and his claim that the TVNZ cameraman was obstructing the removal of David Lawrence from the field of play was proved by television evidence to be false . |
| 5 | In 1513 there was opposition to a tax imposition in Yorkshire — indeed on this occasion a remission of assessment was granted on grounds of poverty , so the government seems to have been prepared to meet genuine grievances . |
| 6 | This dose of capsaicin was given in four injections over two days ( first day : 25 mg/kg in the morning and 25 mg/kg in the later afternoon , second day : 25 mg/kg in the morning and 50 mg/kg in the late afternoon ) . |
| 7 | and one woman said that the year , nineteen twenty one she was a bride of eighteen years old and she took Good Housekeeping and she 's got the whole lot although she 's now a very old lady , and she said my first lot of housekeeping was done in a house in Wales where we had water from the well we had to build the fires up by hand we could get Welsh coal cheaply but they had to you know use paper and kindle and we swept with brooms and my life has never been easier she said I had three children in four years and my life has never been easier she said and all these modern things came in life has got more and more complicated and difficult ! |
| 8 | An important body of support was secured to the alliance by the decision taken at the Annual Conference of the Co-operative Party by 2,343,000 votes to 1,547,000 to endorse the Reynolds news manifesto . |
| 9 | The original connections for the panels had been removed from the edge girders in 1951 , and a system of support was introduced for the new panels . |
| 10 | The message of support was signed by Don Allen of the Sports Council for Northern Ireland ; Billy Stewart , the Northern Ireland Commonwealth Games Council ; Ewart Bell , Institute of Coaching ; Joan McCloy , Council of Physical Recreation ; Mary Peters , former chairman of the Ulster Games Foundation ; and Ian Bamford of the Ulster Sports and Recreation Trust . |
| 11 | The message of support was signed by Don Allen of the Sports Council for Northern Ireland ; Billy Stewart , the Northern Ireland Commonwealth Games Council ; Ewart Bell , Institute of Coaching ; Joan McCloy , Council of Physical Recreation ; Mary Peters , former chairman of the Ulster Games Foundation ; and Ian Bamford of the Ulster Sports and Recreation Trust . |
| 12 | Marx 's theory of change was based on the growing contradiction that arose in society between the technological side of production and the social system with which it was associated . |
| 13 | The survey was based on aerial photographs taken in the late 1980s , and the extent of change was assessed by making comparisons with earlier data produced by the Ordnance Survey in the 1970s . |
| 14 | In the end all hope of change was projected into higher management . |
| 15 | By 1978 , the wind of change was freshening to a full gale in the cutter service . |
| 16 | The patch of skin was removed with a sharpened tungsten needle , a few drops of Hanks ' balanced salt solution were added to keep the wound from drying out , and the egg was then returned to the incubator . |
| 17 | Indeed , towns were as anomalous as the independent lordships the count of Champagne was bent on integrating into his castellan network . |
| 18 | Handed over to the Five Nations committee by its saviour Michael Davies — building contractor and exhibition organiser , the trophy commenced its official life once the content of five bottles of champagne was emptied in it , at the aftermatch function . |
| 19 | In the tenth century , the peace of Champagne was shattered in ten violent years of political battle by the house of Vermandois in its bid to secure the bishopdom of Reims . |
| 20 | A glass of champagne was held before her , and , with a little shrug , she took it . |
| 21 | Finally , extended follow up for gastric cancer incidence among the 1977–81 users of cimetidine was undertaken by record linkage with The Danish Registry of Deaths and The Danish Cancer Registry . |
| 22 | The power of cinema was recognised by Hitler and Stalin alike . |
| 23 | We performed additional analyses restricted to subjects whose history of smoking was known at baseline . |
| 24 | The opening of this section of route was delayed until September , because the Board of Trade insisted upon street widening to accommodate the wider Company cars . |
| 25 | The 1.8 km long Maidencraig Crescent–Silverknowes section of route was opened as a cycletrack in November 1983 . |
| 26 | The higher rate of payment was set at more than twice the previous fee for night visits . |
| 27 | A spark of hope was rekindled in him , as his eye traced the faint line and saw it formed a two-foot square . |
| 28 | The whole process of disempowerment was summarised by a social worker : |
| 29 | More than £2,000 worth of vandalism was caused to the hall but no evidence was produced connecting this with Oddy . |
| 30 | The legal entitlement to common of pasture was defined by the ‘ couchant and levant rule ’ — that is to say , commoners were allowed common for no more cattle than they could keep on their own land during the winter months when they were excluded from the forest . |