Example sentences of "was [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For those who stayed with the film , like Preston , it turned out that the underground was infested with such creatures . |
| 2 | However , after completing the purchase , they were horrified to find that the cottage was infested with dry rot — this cost them £5,000 to deal with . |
| 3 | When I was heavily pregnant we lived in one room that was infested with red ants . |
| 4 | Jack Backhouse , a jet lad scarcely in his teens , was drunk and smashed up his father 's house A letter in 1853 claimed Whitby was infested with thieving ‘ city arabs , cast out of their homes , orphans by day and burthens by night ’ . ’ |
| 5 | Branded a " police spy " by Thorez , Nizan was pilloried on two counts : first , for spreading the pernicious doctrine of " National Communism " , that is , communism in word and nationalism in deed " secondly , for enacting in the reality of his life the treachery and cowardice portrayed in the fiction of his literature . |
| 6 | Colin Blakemore was pilloried in 1987 and 1988 not just because his work was considered ( wrongly ) to be excessively cruel but also because it was thought to be useless . |
| 7 | The pictures showed various angles of a small room that was furnished with little more than a big couch , a hi-fi and a table of drinks . |
| 8 | It also had a smoking room , which was furnished with one electric light and pressurised to prevent hydrogen seeping in . |
| 9 | The ‘ Ritz Bedroom ’ , for example , ‘ so named by the Ashleys because the bath in the adjoining bathroom was exactly like those in their favourite hotel , the Paris Ritz ’ , was furnished with some choice pieces of Louis XV vintage . |
| 10 | It was furnished like any room . |
| 11 | This methof was effective at producing complete carbohydrate hydrolysis within two hours and was validated in preliminary experiments against an enzymatic method . |
| 12 | If the process was stopped at that point and the Chart was examined , would be best interpretation of that segment . |
| 13 | For eight of the 13 partial responders , treatment was stopped at 24 weeks . |
| 14 | Ireland 's representation has already been halved due to first round defeats by Antrim 's Mark Winters and Ardoyne 's Eamon Magee who was stopped with 40 seconds to go in the final round . |
| 15 | Boldwood turned the gun on himself , but was stopped by one of his men . |
| 16 | A hunting trip by Saudi Arabia 's Prince Bandar was stopped by environmental police in Niger after 55 bustard falcon carcasses were found . |
| 17 | Incubation was stopped by rapid washing ( 4×2 ml over 10 s ) with ice cold buffer . |
| 18 | Naturally , he was stopped by British Customs ; what gay men returning from Amsterdam ( or San Francisco , or … ) is not ? |
| 19 | ‘ Yesterday morning , a coach was stopped by some of our troops on the road from Salzburg to Munich . |
| 20 | This actually was stopped in 1766 , but they still went down as a job — emancipation . |
| 21 | Graham , 33 , was stopped in nine rounds on Wednesday by Bradford 's unrated Frank Grant . |
| 22 | According to the Nepali Election Commission , 25 people were injured in election-day violence and voting was stopped in 21 rural stations after charges of " booth capturing " . |
| 23 | Museums will have the first pick of a huge art mountain which has been allowed to accumulate over the years as the result of an income support scheme for artists which was stopped in 1984 . |
| 24 | The second trial was going well for the Masons when it , too , was stopped after 11 weeks . |
| 25 | Only one of nine patients with stone recurrence received adjuvant bile acid therapy and treatment was stopped after two weeks in this patient because of side effects from the therapy . |
| 26 | It was stopped after one minute with 25 µl of 9% SDS sample buffer ( 0.0015% bromophenol blue , 10 ml of 2% SDS , 25 mM TRIS pH 6.8 , and 20% sucrose ) . |
| 27 | Prednisolone was stopped after seven months treatment and a cumulation dose of 8.6 g , and the bowel disease stayed quiescent . |
| 28 | The digestion reaction was stopped after 12 seconds by addition of 4µl formamide containing 10mM EDTA and 0.1% ( w/v ) bromophenol blue . |
| 29 | A toxic hepatitis was suspected and the amiodarone was stopped after 24 hours . |
| 30 | The reaction was stopped after 3 minutes by addition of 4µl 80% formamide containing 10mM EDTA . |