Example sentences of "[noun] was [verb] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The impasse was deepened by the refusal of Quebec 's Liberal Premier , Robert Bourassa , under pressure from the growing separatist Parti Québecois opposition , to contemplate a revision or excision of the " distinct society " clause . |
| 2 | A percutaneous cholecystogram was done and then the fundus of the gall bladder was punctured with a Kellett needle ( 152 mm long dwell sheathed needle , Becton Dickinson , Ontario , Canada ) , using a combination of ultrasound and fluoroscopic guidance . |
| 3 | The Hermopolitan cosmology was linked with the city of Hermopolis and the god Thoth . |
| 4 | It was only after a considerable struggle that the diver was dragged to the deck . |
| 5 | It seems the brick and tile building consisted of two storeys and a loft , and that the wheel was fed from a dam which is now dry . |
| 6 | This wheel was worked by a man getting inside and walking forward rapidly . |
| 7 | At Main Road , Bicknacre , a wheel was stolen from the boot of a Ford Escort XR3 . |
| 8 | The wheel was designed by a team from the US chemical company Du Pont . |
| 9 | A drive wheel was attached above the cycle 's rear wheel and , after a day 's use , the battery is repowered overnight , using a standard home charger . |
| 10 | A spare wheel was taken from a Ford Escort Eclipse parked in New England Close , Bicknacre , and £20 damage caused . |
| 11 | A Charter making Stockport a free borough was granted by the Earl of Chester in about 1220 ; and a second Charter granted in 1260 gave the right to hold a market each Friday and an annual Fair , commencing on St. Wilfred 's Day and running for the seven days following . |
| 12 | Society was now based on complicity in the common crime ; religion was based on the sense of guilt and the remorse attaching to it ; while morality was based partly on the exigencies of this society and partly on the penance demanded by the sense of guilt . |
| 13 | Easily Accessible : Buxton was discovered by the Romans who named it rather poetically ‘ the spa of the Blue Waters ’ . |
| 14 | While he was out , Buxton was let into the house by Hendley and lay in wait at the top of the stairs . |
| 15 | As the Prime Minister reproached Mr Nigel Lawson for resigning the Chancellorship ‘ with such suddenness and haste ’ — and over personality not policy — her isolation was highlighted by the ex-minister whose enforced resignation in the Westland affair of 1986 is being likened by disaffected MPs to the recent sacrifice of Mr Lawson . |
| 16 | The door leading to the gallery on which his chamber stands was locked by the guards , whilst the other end of the passage is blocked by fallen masonry . |
| 17 | A military member of the National Salvation Front also disclosed yesterday that ex-President Ceaucescu was captured at a roadblock north of Bucharest while trying to flee . |
| 18 | No remedy was provided by the statute for enforcement . |
| 19 | The final remedy was found in the convoy system . |
| 20 | They told him that his only remedy was to work as a government agent . |
| 21 | An alarming crack also appeared in the nose Plexiglas but nothing vital fell off , no serious damage resulted and the idea 's feasibility was proven with the expenditure of more rounds . |
| 22 | Fasting was maintained for a minimum of six hours . |
| 23 | It was Sunday and Nellie was visiting with the twins . |
| 24 | Nellie was sitting at the bedside . |
| 25 | Nellie was chuckling at the story . |
| 26 | Holland 's interpretation was that in the second phase of training an association was formed between the illness produced by the injection and a CS-evoked representation of the food that preceded it . |
| 27 | By coincidence , the British Medical Association was represented in the House this week to report on its study of hazardous waste in the west midlands in the very same district of Walsall to which I referred . |
| 28 | The Annual General Meeting of the Juniper Green Village Association was held in the Village Hall on Monday 27th April at 7.30p.m . |
| 29 | The Annual General Meeting of the Juniper Green Village Association was held in the Village Hall on Monday 26th April at 7.30pm . |
| 30 | 27.4. 92 The Annual General Meeting of the Juniper Green Village Association was held in the Village Hall on Monday 27th April at 7.30p.m . |