Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The defendant was held liable for the loss , as the thief 's act did not break the chain of causation . |
| 32 | The defendant was held liable as if he had driven more slowly he could have avoided the accident . |
| 33 | Most importantly , since this work on the dictionary was completed Standard Generalized Markup Language ( SGML ) ( Bryan , 1988 ) has been accepted as a standard for encoding document information . |
| 34 | Villa 's jubilation at last Sunday 's result was cut short at West Ham on Wednesday and they are without Gage today . |
| 35 | On July 11 a police corporal was shot dead during an unsuccessful attempt by 100 provincial police to storm the barricade ; some reports claimed that he had been killed in cross-fire . |
| 36 | The Boat Club was voted Athletic Union 's team of the year and Club captain Piers Robinson shared the AU award for ‘ Contribution to Sport ’ . |
| 37 | Last month , the club was found guilty of financial irregularities and fined £50,000 by the Football League , then last week Fry was sacked and the club , plus Flashman 's north London mansion , was raided by tax officials . |
| 38 | Aoun 's departure into exile was made possible on Aug. 26 when the National Assembly approved a law providing a general amnesty for crimes committed during the civil war ( 1975-90 ) . |
| 39 | Urinary albumin excretion was measured monthly in 24 hour urine samples by nephelometry ( sensitivity of the assay 0.2 mg/l ; intra-assay and interassay variability 4% and 5% respectively ) . |
| 40 | Violent incidents involving local inhabitants and US troops were reported outside the US Albrook Air Force Station in the days leading up to the Bush visit , and on June 10 one US soldier was shot dead and another wounded while driving an army vehicle near the Caribbean coastal city of Colón . |
| 41 | AN OFF-DUTY soldier was shot dead last night in the heart of Loyalist West Belfast . |
| 42 | One soldier was reported killed and two others wounded during an attack on the military barracks at the coastal town of Tadjoura on the night of Jan. 8-9 , in what the government claimed was the start of an attempted coup . |
| 43 | On Dec. 1 a Jewish settler was shot dead in an ambush near Ramallah and el-Bireh on the West Bank . |
| 44 | A pamphlet which achieved wide circulation was called Helpful Information and Guidance for Every Refugee . |
| 45 | Here at the bottom of the sky , I went with him in imagination by the rocks of the mind 's shore and I saw that the sky was thin and could not hold and my mind was set free . |
| 46 | His brother-in-law was found dead last year after complaining of cash worries . |
| 47 | Meyer of Leipzig preferred to think that if sufficiently diligent search was made natural sources of jade would be found in Europe itself . |
| 48 | POLICE last night were hunting for a 31-year-old man after his former girlfriend was found strangled and their toddler son missing . |
| 49 | The back of the roof was piled high with their possessions . |
| 50 | But a year ago the roof was declared unsafe and now the Church has been closed while repairs are carried out . |
| 51 | The priest was shot dead as he drove back to his parish after conducting a wedding ceremony , but nothing was stolen . |
| 52 | When the heavy door of his cell was heaved open and his jailor , along with three of his largest colleagues strode in . |
| 53 | In the BrdU assay , a cell was considered positive if there was any nuclear staining present . |
| 54 | Repercussions over Dowty are still re-verberating through TI today , almost nine months after the bid was declared unconditional . |
| 55 | The consultants , appointed after the closure programme was ruled unlawful by the High Court last December , said the fabric of all ten pits was being preserved , as claimed by British Coal but disputed by mining unions . |
| 56 | When the programme was broadcast live in the US last October , it had an audience of 33 million . |
| 57 | This doubt had been in my mind for some time but the research was undertaken due to a number of reasons . |
| 58 | It argues that renewable energies are not developed enough for a higher goal , but if more money for research was made available , the future could be very different . |
| 59 | To investigate this possibility , a new , non-invasive test of gastric acid secretion was developed ideal for ield use in the third world , where chronic diarrhoea and undernutrition are common . |
| 60 | H. C. Wyld , for example , was a very great expert on the grossly divergent regional dialects of Middle English , but when it came to post-sixteenth-century English , he was quite insistent that the only object worthy of our study was Received Standard English . |