Example sentences of "[noun] was [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 After Zarathustra 's death his religion was taken up by the old priestly class known as the Magi and eventually became the faith of the Achaemenid dynasty .
2 He said a 130lb sheat-fish was hauled out of the Dnepr one time .
3 Doctors said the biopsy was carried out in a different part of the brain to where the rupture of the aneurysm occurred and was not responsible for the death .
4 On this occasion , Plage was set up over a water-hole in a clearing in the jungle , hoping that a leopard would show up to hunt or drink .
5 Her glance was drawn back to the bed again when , clearly befuddled , and with no idea how he came to be where he was , he slurred , ‘ How did I get here ? ’
6 A family planning association was set up by the Government in 1972 , and the Government 's First Five Year Plan proposed the promotion of several different types of birth control .
7 In 1918 Lymn & Rambush was taken over by the Power-Gas Corporation of Stockton-on-Tees .
8 Well , United started in fine style as early as the twentieth second ; Martin Foyle was brought down on the edge of the penalty area and Paul Simpson 's free kick was headed away for a corner .
9 The stranger was led back through the empty trains to the car shed pits where he could gain access to the street .
10 The card was borne back on a silver tray .
11 Sheringham , who cost £2 million from Millwall 12 months ago , was lined up for Spurs a fortnight ago but the deal was called off at the last minute .
12 If a deal was hammered out with the banks , an accompanying rights issue to raise up to £400m from existing private shareholders was likely next spring .
13 At that time the tax that banks deducted from interest payments to depositors was passed on to the taxmen each quarter .
14 An experiment was carried out with a mixed age group of macaques .
15 This experiment was carried out in a dedicated growth room with walls well masked with charcoal-grey cartridge paper .
16 At the Apollo 17 site an experiment was carried out by the astronauts which gave the seismic wave speeds down to a few kilometres depth in the vicinity of the site .
17 They remained in occupation until 16 October 1979 , immediately after the coup against Romero , when the factory warehouse was burnt down by the company and the women dislodged by armed members of the Treasury Police .
18 Mary of Guise was brought up in the charmed circles of the greatest French aristocracy .
19 Marie was wading up to the path through waist-high reeds : ‘ Look at the state of my clothes ! ’
20 A former 3rd Farnham scout was heading off with the Falklands-bound Navy task force as one of the mechanics servicing the Harrier jump-jets aboard HMS Hermes .
21 The first ring was thrown out of a window after a row .
22 Mo was curled up in a bundle under the eiderdown .
23 As the hon. Gentleman knows , Nuclear Electric was formed out of the old Central Electricity Generating Board and has remained a Government-owned project throughout .
24 Posi then told me that a comm-call was coming in from the Famlio ship , but I told her to ignore it .
25 But the recommendation was thrown out by an overwhelming majority , with only Coun Orwig and education committee chairman , Coun Handel Morgan , voting to close the three schools .
26 Although most Panamanians will welcome the departure of General Noriega , the fact that their new President was sworn in by a US army general at a US army base is likely to colour perceptions of the new government .
27 Then a motorcyclist was brought in on a blue light , a dispatch rider who had been burning along the Norwich road and hit a patch of oil .
28 On Dec. 1 President Ramaswamy Venkataraman received assurances of " outside " support for a minority National Front government from the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Left Front parties ; the next day V. P. Singh was sworn in as the Prime Minister , in place of Rajiv Gandhi .
29 Kalyan Singh was sworn in as the new Chief Minister [ see p. 38287 ] .
30 It was here in 1911 , for instance , that the ruthless , reforming Russian First Minister Peter Stolypin was gunned down by a Jewish police agent in full view of the Tsar , at a gala opera night .
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