Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [prep] [noun sg] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ At Darlington county court in 1991 , 565 homes were repossessed for non-payment of mortgages , ’ the report says . |
| 2 | On this and the following day , over 300 sorties were flown as part of preparations for the US Marine invasion of Tulagi and two smaller nearby islands . |
| 3 | Over 20 British scientific experiments due to be performed on the flight [ see also pp. 37437 ; 37932 ] were cancelled for lack of funds . |
| 4 | The conditions under which loans were made on security of goods remaining the property of the borrowers were strictly regulated by the Bills of Sale Acts . |
| 5 | Disclose that payments were made for insurance of officers or auditors against liabilities in relation to the company or group . |
| 6 | All counts were corrected by subtraction of counts for 1 4 C liberated in control vials without specimens . |
| 7 | They had landed with the Anzacs at Gallipoli , when the battleships were deterred by fear of mines after HMS Irresistible and HMS Ocean were mined in the Dardanelles on 18 March 1915 . |
| 8 | Owing to the large percentage of employees joining up , female labour was employed in many branches of Railway Work , ie : ticket collecting , platform work , engine and carriage cleaning work in the shops at Wolverton , Crewe and Earlstown. 6,584 females were utilised in place of men . |
| 9 | In his inaugural address he said that " the evil era when the authorities of our country were appointed under pressure of foreigners or as the result of forced compromises is ending " . |
| 10 | The professional membership figure is 33 182. 1626 members were removed for nonpayment of subscriptions . |
| 11 | Three IRA men were killed in hail of bullets , inquest told |
| 12 | Both these projects were provided for in the Five Year plan current at the time but were shelved for lack of funds . |
| 13 | A civil legal action was launched in the mid-1980s to resolve the dispute , but was halted through lack of funds . |
| 14 | However , the search for methods of countering the national economic and military ‘ deterioration ’ after the Boer War was dominated by discussion of methods of improving the numbers and environment of the masses rather than of weeding out the unfit . |
| 15 | The -300 Sal 5'ESV and -300 Sal 3'ESV constructs contain a 220bp NcoI-PvuII fragment from the SV40 enhancer which was modified by addition of linkers to either a BamHI fragment or a SalI fragment and placed at the 5' and 3' end of the -300 Sal construct , respectively . |
| 16 | From the start , the College was hampered by shortage of funds , an inappropriate site , and a lack of suitable staff . |
| 17 | The College was hampered by shortage of funds throughout Coleman 's 45 years as Professor . |
| 18 | This was seen as victimisation of intellectuals , already suffering in the changed economic circumstances of modern China . |
| 19 | Immunofluorescence staining was done by use of cells grown on coverslips . |
| 20 | She was careful what was said in front of boys , especially William . |
| 21 | Duvalier , in which a prejudgment Mareva injunction was sought in aid of proceedings in the French courts . |
| 22 | Last year his progress was threatened by lack of funds . |
| 23 | In addition , to determine the dietary effects on the cytolytic potency of the intestinal contents , luminal lytic activity was measured as lysis of erythrocytes by faecal water . |
| 24 | Vere Bird Jr had his appointment as a minister revoked on May 10 and was replaced as Minister of Communications and Works by Eustace Cochrane ( hitherto a Minister without Portfolio ) . |
| 25 | A resolution was passed condemning direct action as a means of bringing about the Social Democratic Commonwealth , while the importance of support for the cooperative movement was recognised in spite of doubts on the advisability of its political involvement . |
| 26 | In a study in Oxford the effectiveness of home-based treatment was compared with treatment of outpatients ( Hawton et al. 1981a ) . |
| 27 | The concept of ‘ bargaining politics ’ was derived from examination of accounts of local politics in the United States . |
| 28 | It had been built for Mr King 's grandfather in the days when he was known as Collector of Mails . |
| 29 | Running to a very concise eight pages ( plus a pull-out accounts booklet ) , the report was praised for conservation of resources , good structure and excellent use of pictures , pie-charts and colour . |
| 30 | The actual work of constructing the Sighthill Bypass was undertaken by Messrs Balfour Beatty Construction ( Scotland ) Limited under the terms of a contract valued at just under £13 million and supervision of this work was provided by Department of Highways staff , the Director of Highways being the Engineer for the Works . |