Example sentences of "was [verb] [conj] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To do away with the evils of this system , as well as to guard against dangers of fraud and forgery , a Land Registry was established by the Land Transfer Act 1875 , which was amended and extended by the Land Transfer Act 1897 , both Acts being repealed and replaced by the Land Registration Acts 1925–1988 . |
| 2 | The decision of the House of Lords in Caldwell , in which the term recklessness was redefined and extended in the context of the Criminal Damage Act 1971 , has produced speculation as to the meaning of recklessness in rape . |
| 3 | The time spent on each activity over three weeks was calculated and converted to a percentage of the total time , as listed in Table 2 . |
| 4 | In the past , the farmer 's wife or daughters made the cheese and then it was matured and ripened on a shelf near the cooking range . |
| 5 | Most of Siberia was conquered and held without the serious levels of bloodshed experienced in the American West . |
| 6 | Wales was conquered and subjected in the middle ages , Scotland 's parliament and administration were absorbed in 1707 , Ireland lost all but local administration in 1801 and the British upper classes reacted in horror at the prospect not of Irish independence but of an element of internal self-government when it was proposed by Gladstone in 1886 . |
| 7 | When salaries were discussed again last December the original offer of 3% was not increased , but was withdrawn and replaced by a 19 month pay pause . |
| 8 | Car 68 was withdrawn and replaced in the following year by a modernistic design , which eventually became known as the Bandwagon . |
| 9 | The Land Rover was pitching and rolling over the southern brow like a small seagoing craft . |
| 10 | A Garden Committee was formed and agreed to the building of a greenhouse at a cost of £138 . |
| 11 | The STJ reported that " the small section [ i.e. the women 's breakaway union ] as has since been openly admitted , was formed and organised under a " West End " [ of Edinburgh ] suffragette banner … |
| 12 | Once he was stripped and put into a clean dry the featherbed . |
| 13 | Erdogan Kizilkaya claims that when he arrived at Kayseri Police Headquarters he was stripped and taken to an interrogation room where electric shocks were applied to his penis , hands and feet . |
| 14 | The startled midwife was blindfolded and placed on the back of one of the horses and taken through the stormy night to a large house . |
| 15 | At Cable Street the counter-demonstrators broke into a builder 's yard and a lorry loaded with bricks was overturned and used as a barricade . |
| 16 | Yet this ‘ distraction ’ , which the Commission 's own Court of Auditors Reports have warned , costs hundreds of millions of pounds , was dismissed as accounting for no more than 0.18% of farm spending . |
| 17 | In the ensuing power struggle over the right to dictate the newspaper 's political position , the newspaper 's editor was dismissed and replaced by the Communist Party 's own adherents . |
| 18 | In 1986 Farmers ' Weekly described the difficulties now overtaking land on the Isle of Grain in north Kent , where permanent pasture was drained and ploughed in the 1960s and early 1970s . |
| 19 | It was originally a swampy meadow belonging to the Hospital for Lepers , but the land was drained and enclosed as a deer park in the reign of Henry VIII , MC 14 ; NN 44 . |
| 20 | The following are the principal cases where that leave would be forthcoming : ( 1 ) relief is sought against any person domiciled in England or Wales ; ( 2 ) an injunction is sought ordering the defendant to do an act or refrain from doing anything ( whether or not damages are also claimed in respect of a failure to do something or for the doing of that thing ) ; ( 3 ) the claim is brought against any person duly served within or out of England and Wales and a person out of England and Wales is a necessary or proper party thereto ; ( 4 ) the claim is founded on any breach or alleged breach of any contract wherever made , which : ( a ) according to its terms ought to be performed in England and Wales , or ( b ) is by its terms , or by implication , governed by English law , or ( c ) contains a term to the effect that a court in England or Wales shall have jurisdiction to hear and determine any action in respect of the contract ; ( 5 ) the claim is founded on a tort and the damage was sustained or resulted from an act committed , within England and Wales ; ( 6 ) the whole subject-matter of the proceedings is land ( with or without rent or profits ) or the perpetuation of testimony relating to land ; ( 7 ) the claim is brought to construe , rectify , set aside or enforce an act , deed , will , contract , obligation or liability affecting land ; ( 8 ) the claim is made for a debt secured on immovable property or is made to assert , declare or determine proprietary or possessory rights , or rights of security , in or over movable property , or to obtain authority to dispose of movable property ; ( 9 ) the claim is brought to execute the trusts of a written instrument , being trusts that ought to be executed according to English law and of which the person to be served with the originating process is a trustee , or for any relief or remedy which might be obtained when such a claim is brought ; ( 10 ) the claim is made for the administration of the estate of a person who died domiciled in England or Wales or for any relief or remedy which might be obtained when such a claim is made ; ( 11 ) the claim is brought in a probate action within the meaning of Ord 41 ; ( 12 ) the claim is brought to enforce any judgment or arbitral award ; ( 13 ) the claim is brought against a defendant not domiciled in Scotland or Northern Ireland in respect of a claim by the Commissioners of Inland Revenue for or in relation to any of the duties of taxes which have been , or are for the time being , placed under their care and management ; ( 14 ) the claim is brought in respect of contributions under the Social Security Act 1975 ; ( 15 ) the claim is made for a sum to which the Directive of the Council of the European Communities dated 15 March 1976 No 76/308/EEC applies , and service is to be effected in a country which is a member of the European Economic Community . |
| 21 | The 1896 Convention was revised and replaced by a Convention on Civil Procedure of 17 July 1905 . |
| 22 | The geology of the Shetlands was revised and work on the Outer Hebrides is in progress . |
| 23 | He became irate after his jacket was ripped and acted in a stupid and regrettable way . |
| 24 | Mine was ripped and stained around the knees and elbows and had a bright yellow crutchpiece . |
| 25 | 15 years ago Mr Deakin was treated and cured of a spine tumour . |
| 26 | for example , would it be appropriate to attribute as an expression of parliamentary intention a ministerial assurance on the effect of a provision which was given and accepted in the Lords when considering a Bill which had already been passed by the Commons ? |
| 27 | Old servants of the railway company came into the signal-box from which the broadcast was given and spoke of the closing of the station as if for them it was the end of a world . |
| 28 | The application is made to the judge if the judgment or order was given or made by the judge and , if not , to the district judge ( Ord 37 , r 2 ) . |
| 29 | The plane was painted and repainted over the next 20 years with each change of ownership or brand of gasoline . |
| 30 | It was painted and embedded in a wall at the rear of Craigforth House , just outside Training Room 1 . |