Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The frequency of peristalsis in the duodenum was calculated from this sequence at 14 contractions per minute . |
| 32 | The coeficient of variation ( SD ( 100% ) /mean ) was calculated from this variance component model for each variable of the model . |
| 33 | However , the whole incident was witnessed by another driver who took a note of the car number and in turn , of course , reported it to the police and eventually Mrs was interviewed on the eleventh of August of this year she agreed that she was the driver at the time and she replied it 's okay , but if the little had stopped after the accident I would of sorted things out I could n't do anything after she ran off . |
| 34 | He was riveted by that news . |
| 35 | Indeed , in the 1970s , the theoretical influence of Jean Ricardou , who was aligned to both movements , extended even to the actual fiction produced by Robbe-Grillet and Claude Simon at that stage , and several of the concepts he formulated were regurgitated in critical interventions by these writers . |
| 36 | I say that on behalf of the party he beat as opposed to the one that he put into third place — the Conservative party , which was marginalised in that by-election . |
| 37 | For most of his career after discovering the similia principle , he was inundated with more patients than the average practitioner could have coped with . |
| 38 | In 1975 , after it was launched in Finland , sixteen cases of agranulocytosis occurred , eight being fatal , and the drug was withdrawn in some countries . |
| 39 | However , it was withdrawn after several speakers said such a call would have little impact on Parliament . |
| 40 | However , it was withdrawn after several speakers said that such a call would have little impact on Parliament and might have an adverse affect on the reputation of the federation . |
| 41 | Phase 1 of the RIBA 's Strategic Study was publicised to much acclaim in May . |
| 42 | The Party was formed for those reasons . |
| 43 | Their Jewish inheritance apart ( and no serious understanding of his music interests can afford not to give this a very high place , as we shall see ) , was formed by such artists as Eddie Fisher , Gordon Jenkins , Vaughan Monroe , Patti Page , Dinah Shore , Frank Sinatra , Tony Bennett and Johnny Ray , who followed in the wake of the big bands . |
| 44 | The present Soviet economic system was formed in these years ; Mr Gorbachev and his colleagues , in endeavouring to reform the USSR , are deliberately seeking to build on the strengths and eliminate the weaknesses of the traditional system . |
| 45 | The room he was looking into was stripped of all furniture and decoration ; if anybody had occupied this house since Sartori 's time — and it surely had n't stood empty for two hundred years — they had gone , taking every trace of their presence . |
| 46 | It was stripped of all decoration : no furniture , no rushes , no hangings on the wall . |
| 47 | In September " Mr. John Wodrow , Minister of the Parish of Kildalton having Represented That the Church of Lagavullin was stripped of many slates , and otherwise much hurt by the Storm , and that it is absolutely necessary That the same be immediately Repaired , otherwise that the Church will become ruinous … " £7:4:0 was granted . |
| 48 | It was stripped of this status when its majority Tatar population was deported to Central Asia , accused of having collaborated during the Second World War with the Nazi German occupiers . |
| 49 | St. Peter 's Hospital was designated under this scheme . |
| 50 | My request was dismissed with some amusement by my parents who added that I should have more sense than to believe in all that mumbo-jumbo . |
| 51 | If the Federation took up a case , it often meant that the worker in question was dismissed on some pretext , accused of robbery for example . |
| 52 | His original appeal against conviction , pursuant to section 1 of the Criminal Appeal Act 1968 , was dismissed by this court on 14 October 1988 . |
| 53 | The Baker explanation was dismissed by some members of Congress as a lame attempt to deflect complaints , from both right and left , that the administration bungled a chance to remove General Noriega . |
| 54 | Throughout the 1970s he was involved in trade union activities in opposition to the communist regime , and as a result was dismissed from several jobs . |
| 55 | Although her candidacy was dismissed in most quarters as irrelevant , she was potentially the best-funded of the candidates ( although much of her wealth was believed to be inaccessible in frozen Swiss bank accounts ) and had the advantage of the remnants of her husband 's huge patronage network . |
| 56 | In return for the element of subsidy in this system , the Treasury was consulted about any expenditure which was abnormal by British standards . |
| 57 | I should , at this point , declare my interest as being associated with Horizon , but it is through this link that I know that not one of the producers involved with BBC productions was consulted in any way during the writing of the book . |
| 58 | Sandys ' task was eased to some extent by Macmillan 's success in reestablishing the Anglo-American special relationship . |
| 59 | She was drained of all colour and animation , but alive . |
| 60 | The texture of his voice was unfamiliar , and his face , when Eochaid glanced up , was drained with some sort of force which Eochaid suddenly saw was consuming anger . |