Example sentences of "was [vb pp] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The media commentary on this first Report concentrated on this exclusion , and I was pilloried in the Sunday Times for blacklisting Enid Blyton 's Noddy . |
| 2 | Whatever , when he arrived at the Ring , Niki was pilloried in the sporting press for his opposition to a great track in which all the other champions had raced : if he was so craven-hearted , they said , he should n't be racing . |
| 3 | The church was reconsecrated in the presence of HM the Queen in October 1958 as the Central Church of The RAF . |
| 4 | The full-length private coach was furnished in the fashion of a ‘ club car ’ in the Pullman Service , but it also had a medium-sized galley and a fully equipped bar , with a chef and two porters to look after our needs . |
| 5 | A new HNC in Golf Course Management was validated in the summer of 1992 , and will be offered by four colleges in session 1993–94 . |
| 6 | According to an apocryphal story he was stopped in the foyer and asked what advice he would give to an eager undergraduate embarking on a career . |
| 7 | He conceded 12lb and paid the penalty when he was stopped in the third round . |
| 8 | Professor Martin Harris , who started his job at Manchester University last month , was stopped in the city 's red light district , police said . |
| 9 | McMillan was stopped in the eighth round because his left arm had been viciously dislocated from its shoulder socket — but at the time our Colin was hanging on for grim life . |
| 10 | The three judges each scored it 100–86 for Panamanian Duran who was stopped in the sixth round by Pat Lawler in his last fight in March , 1991 . |
| 11 | His reign as champion , however , lasted only two months and he was stopped in the tenth round of a return contest in New York City . |
| 12 | When whaling was stopped in the Azores he created a museum to display the thousand of pieces he had collected since a boy . |
| 13 | Jack himself was stopped in the street by a man who wanted to change two $50 bills at black market rate . |
| 14 | After winning his first 13 fights , Ferguson 's career slump started when he was stopped in the 10th round by former contender Carl Williams in August 1985 . |
| 15 | Two fights later , he was stopped in the sixth by Tyson , whom he had helped prepare for several fights as a sparring partner . |
| 16 | When he was joined in the Test team by Desmond Haynes , one of the most dependable and successful of all opening partnerships was created , and as the senior member in his late twenties Greenidge matured at just the right time . |
| 17 | But as the runners made round the left-hand bend in front of the stands and set off into the country for the first time she was joined in the lead by Run And Skip , and the company clearly put her off , for she hit the third fence hard . |
| 18 | After the tour , Manly was joined in the chase for Ofahengaue 's signature by St. George . |
| 19 | Seles was joined in the semi-final by fellow-American Martina Navratilova who beat Spain 's Arantxa Sanchez Vicario 6–1 , 2–6 , 6–2 . |
| 20 | And Councillor William Magill was joined in the DUP camp by his newly-elected son Jeff . |
| 21 | Labour was joined in the new government by the left-Zionist Meretz grouping and the ultra-orthodox Shas ( International Organization of Torah-observant Sephardic Jews ) . |
| 22 | Musical director of Art Blakey 's Jazz Messengers from 1978 to 1981 , where he joined a select musical fraternity in the band 's history that included Horace Silver , Benny Golson and Wayne Shorter , he was joined in the front line by Wynton Marsalis , whose brother Branford took over the saxophone chair after Watson left to concentrate on ‘ Horizon ’ and other projects . |
| 23 | A letter from Baker to the then Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Alptemocin was leaked in the Turkish press and was shown to urge " flexibility " and " a more conciliatory attitude " on the Turkish side . |
| 24 | The planning process has been delayed and made more expensive by the need for constant negotiations between authorities responsible for two separate parts of a process which was intended in the Town and County Planning Acts of 1968 and 1971 to be fully integrated . |
| 25 | It is very important to realise exactly what was intended in the analysis about to be described . |
| 26 | The other boy was remanded in the care of the local authority and is due to appear before Sutton Youth Court today . |
| 27 | On May 25 the GCC Secretary-General , Abdullah Bishara , had said that the proposal for joint Gulf defence arrangements , to include also Egypt and Syria , which was formulated in the Damascus Declaration of March 1991 [ see pp. 38116-17 ] was still under study by GCC committees . |
| 28 | This church was erected in the mid-nineteenth century in an area of South London which was being developed , to an overall plan , as a residential estate . |
| 29 | This building was erected in the nineteenth century and was the first mill on the site . |
| 30 | This huge monumental arch was erected in the early years of the nineteenth century to celebrate the victories of Napoleon , although it was swiftly re-dedicated to Peace when the Austrians returned . |