Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | The journal contains material of interest to historians concerned with late colonial Nigeria , and with the developments among the Nupe people and their neighbours at this time ; and material which illuminates how one body of anthropological field research was carried out against the background of colonial administration . |
| 32 | Much of the previous chapter was taken up with the question of what kind of economy is emerging in the UK . |
| 33 | Highfield came back strongly and should have scored in front of the posts but lost possession their hooker was held up on the line , their only reward was a penalty from their captain Terry Dillon . |
| 34 | The above extract was taken out of the ‘ Welsh Marches ’ section . |
| 35 | When the marriage of Henry and Constance was solemnised on 27th January 1186 , the ceremony was carried out by the Patriarch of Aquileia , who also crowned Henry as King of Italy . |
| 36 | A study was carried out of the behaviour of … |
| 37 | The initial study was carried out as the practical project for my MSc course in 1987 . |
| 38 | The study was carried out in the West Berkshire and the Basingstoke and North Hampshire District Health Authorities . |
| 39 | The volunteers fasted overnight , or for six hours after a light breakfast if the study was carried out in the afternoon . |
| 40 | The volunteers fasted overnight or for six hours after a light breakfast if the study was carried out in the afternoon . |
| 41 | His stream of talk was dried up at the source . |
| 42 | The new minibus was handed over to the school yesterday in a ceremony attended by governors and members of the Eastbourne Parent Teachers Association . |
| 43 | The engine of the big mechanical monster was ticking over with the deep throb of impatient , reined-in horsepower . |
| 44 | Such a practice was frowned on by the church , and instructions were given to the warden of the building that if any young woman allowed a man to stay overnight then she was to be reported to the Mother Superior . |
| 45 | Fourteen Mafia bosses have been arrested by Sicilian detectives after a woman 's Mafia Godfather lover was gunned down by the organisation . |
| 46 | The engine was started up , revving violently as the car was turned round on the narrow road . |
| 47 | And sure enough , when he got back , the car was lined up with the arrow . |
| 48 | The car was hauled out of the river and Tania 's body was discovered inside . |
| 49 | After measurements had been carried out under each of these conditions , the metre rule was moved back towards the experimenter so that the subject could see his/her finger when pointing . |
| 50 | At St Asaph , a wine-shop was set up in the cathedral and the font was used as a trough for animals . |
| 51 | The spreader arrived and the boat was edged out of the marina and into Plymouth Sound . |
| 52 | The boat was mooring up on the River Severn when it rolled over , trapping two of them underwater . |
| 53 | A health board spokesman said the wages ' computer tape was handed over to the Clydesdale Bank on Wednesday , as normal , which would have allowed processing of the £1,360,000 wage bill in time for withdrawal yesterday . |
| 54 | This telegram was sent on to the Prime Minister 's office in London and on 29 April Winston Churchill ruled [ HP 41 ] that all anti-partisans ( including by inference " Croats " and " Slovenian White Guards " who were mentioned to Churchill in an accompanying minute by Sir Orme Sargent ) should , as Stevenson urged , " be disarmed and placed in refugee camps " . |
| 55 | This view is not new ; in fact it was put forward by Durkheim and other nineteenth-century writers , but it was often disregarded after the study of crime was taken over by the new discipline of criminology in the early twentieth century . |
| 56 | Labour leader John Smith , in Question Time exchanges on freedom of information , demanded to know the cost to Britain of the ‘ fiasco ’ of Black Wednesday , when the pound was forced out of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism . |
| 57 | Luke says that , in her case , the offering was laid down for the poor : |
| 58 | However the disparity between the three jurisdictions became marked in the course of the present century , and a reorganization was brought about by the Administration of Justice Act 1970 . |
| 59 | A working party to tackle the under representation of ethnic minorities at management level in the hospitality industry was set up by the Commission for Racial Equality . |
| 60 | But light was spilling in through the seams of the door at the far end of the room ; crimson , glowing light from whatever lay on the other side . |