Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | The last time these clubs met was at Wembley in the 1983 FA Cup final , a game that needed two bites for United before they finally ran out winners . |
| 2 | Emma dropped down on to the couch again and Peggy beside her , and the first question Peggy asked was , ‘ Is this true ? ’ and Emma nodded , saying , ‘ Yes , yes , it 's true , every word . ’ |
| 3 | In calculating the number of 17p stamps which could be bought for El , a few pupils used knowledge gained from playing darts : treble 17 was known to be 51 and 51p doubled was 102 , making one 17p too many . |
| 4 | The total award made was £54,196 . |
| 5 | Richard Cocks , one of several on 20s. with 6s. 8d. livery , had 3s. 4d. in land and £5 in goods , though all John Sewster of Mursley owned was 20s. in goods ; if the identification is correct he would appear to have been of lower status . |
| 6 | Hence the provision made was in the form of public sector over spill , particularly at Longbenton , but also within Wallsend and Tyne mouth County Borough . |
| 7 | That opportunity squandered was followed swiftly by the briefings for yesterday 's press to the effect that Delphic Douglas was in fact leaving open the door for an executive ratification of the original , unamended treaty irrespective of whatever parliament may decide . |
| 8 | Other such thematic surveys completed during the year included the DOE-funded Falkirk project , the results of which were presented at a one day seminar for planning officials , where the practical value of the 36 thematic maps produced was demonstrated . |
| 9 | The technological change made was to take a commercially available checkweigher and replace the standard electronics with a microprocessor controller . |
| 10 | What these cities shared was fast growth and great prosperity in the second half of the nineteenth century , leading to extremes of poverty and wealth and the establishment of a large number of hospitals , either as a result of private philanthropy or of government intervention . |
| 11 | In the planning sphere it has been used to invalidate conditions attached to planning permission such as that the developer should construct an ancillary road over the frontage of the site at his own expense to which rights of passage should be given to others , and that a property developer should allow those on a council housing list to occupy the houses with security of tenure for 10 years.u The test has also been adopted in the context of industrial relations , though in this instance the decision attacked was upheld . |
| 12 | The break-through that the Anisminic case made was the recognition by the majority of this House that if a tribunal whose jurisdiction was limited by statute or subordinate legislation mistook the law applicable to the facts as it had found them , it must have asked itself the wrong question , i.e. , one into which it was not empowered to inquire and so had no jurisdiction to determine . |
| 13 | The break-through that the Anisminic case made was the recognition by the majority of this House that if a tribunal whose jurisdiction was limited by statute or subordinate legislation mistook the law applicable to the facts as it had found them , it must have asked itself the wrong question , i.e. , one into which it was not empowered to inquire and so had no jurisiction to determine . |
| 14 | The cAMP produced was measured by radioassay . |
| 15 | The measure used was simply the total number of accidents reported at a junction in this period . |
| 16 | Both relied heavily upon the goodwill of the private profession because the payment involved was minimal . |
| 17 | For the British delegation , the pace of change proposed was far too hasty . |
| 18 | The Modigliani that Germaine described was the man that so many women admired : fascinating , intelligent , with beautiful manners . |
| 19 | The data from the other three course involved was restricted to progression beyond first year . |
| 20 | The technique used was lazy-bed cultivation which is a form of hand cultivation . |
| 21 | For a claim to be recoverable the Policyholder must satisfy us that on the balance of probabilities the loss or damage sustained was caused by a peril insured against . |
| 22 | In the above example , the weighting used was 0.444 S&P500 contracts for every one NYSE contract . |
| 23 | In areas where cattle stealing was highly organized and ransoming common it is likely that the proportion of cases reported was very much smaller . |
| 24 | That great audience assembled to hear a speaker quite unknown in the political world and the enthusiasm created was an eye-opener to me , and would have been to most of the Westminster hacks with whom I had previously associated public influence . ’ |
| 25 | The money involved was a considerable sum , but in those days Dunedin was New Zealand 's commercial capital and many big businesses were represented on the Otago CA . |
| 26 | The views of the Library Association on censorship are , on paper , sound , but what the News International ban demonstrated was that a simple reliance on policy statements and codes of professional conduct was not enough and never will be enough to confront library censorship . |
| 27 | The rule devised was that if a man 's goods could be valued at £1 , but less than £2 , or alternatively if he owned nothing but received wages of £1 a year , he should pay 4d . |
| 28 | The Law Commission proposing the offence had confined it to situations where the alarm or distress experienced was " substantial " but this requirement was dropped from the Act itself . |
| 29 | Indeed , in cases where the remedy sought was not certiorari there was often no mention of the ‘ judicial ’ requirement at all . |
| 30 | alright , there were no , there were very few production targets , if there were production targets , erm , er , they were very low , essentially the support that Eastern European car manufacturers got was , was not coupled right , to production . |