Example sentences of "[vb past] be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the characters they met are portrayed by Minton in the book . |
| 2 | The circumstances in which this litigation arose are described in the judgment delivered by Vinelott J. on 19 December 1989 as follows : |
| 3 | The kinds of errors he made are illustrated by these responses : |
| 4 | Meanings he argued are created by differences . |
| 5 | The constancy effects Thouless demonstrated are built into our perceptual mechanism . |
| 6 | I am surprised to hear a defence spokesman ask that question , because he knows that the two cases to which I referred are covered by the negative security assurances which made the use of nuclear weapons in such circumstances inconceivable . |
| 7 | Sections analysed were separated by at least 18μm . |
| 8 | ‘ A pretty ’ manufacturing town , Dursley had several residents who look as though they operated the water trucking mills ; unusually for the area , more than half the fifty-two persons listed were rated at less than 40s. , some of them probably millhands , though others must have laboured in the stone quarry which caught Leland 's eye . |
| 9 | Less than half the wines listed were selected for awards making the standard set one of the highest in the world . |
| 10 | An unfortunate error also resulted in seventeen questionnaires with the question deleted being issued on a week day . |
| 11 | After extensive washing with equilibration buffer , the proteins retained were eluted by adding 10 ml a 0.1–1 M KCl gradient in Tris-HCl pH7.4 . |
| 12 | One of the more common Manhattan experiences of the early 1980s involved being approached by well-dressed individuals and asked to sign a petition helping the NAP get on the ballot in the name of democracy , and then being hit for a contribution . |
| 13 | Ricardou was particularly guilty of attempting to establish an officially sanctioned list of approved modernist precursors : the criteria he used were based on a simplistic and over-schematic distinction between writers who accepted a mimetic function and those for whom the materiality of language could be shown to be paramount . |
| 14 | The transition probabilities used were based on a text containing 10,000 letters , with zero probabilities converted to a small value to enable computation . |
| 15 | But if his reputation as one of the great Kings of French history is anything to go by , then the means he used were justified by the end , the destruction of the Angevin Empire . |
| 16 | Some of the antibodies we used were studied at the international workshop on blood group antibodies at Paris , 1987 . |
| 17 | Potten et al are the first to point out that their findings are based entirely on the study of patients with colorectal cancer and , although the specimens used were taken at least 5 cm from the primary carcinoma and did not show any unusual histological features , there may be differences with respect to the colonic mucosa of patients without carcinoma . |
| 18 | Added to these , all the bolts and nuts used were forged in the Smithy and threaded on the screwing gang in the machine shop . |
| 19 | Elements of the macroeconomic framework which he proposed were examined in Chapter 10 . |
| 20 | Baltic opinion , in particular , objected that the changes proposed were centralising in character and that the republics ' ( admittedly nominal ) right of secession had been prejudiced . |
| 21 | The councillors involved were expelled from the ruling Labour Group on the council . |
| 22 | I found being introduced to people individually , as they arrived , much easier than going into a room full of new babies and it was good to share experiences . |
| 23 | It also helped being married to bleached-blonde ball-busting pop star Madonna . |
| 24 | I stopped being embarrassed about him and thought . |
| 25 | Again , all the applications demonstrated were based on the published case studies . |
| 26 | Away from the roads , most areas we visited were populated by Indians : Cofan , Secoya and Siona in the north , Quichua and Huaorani ( Auca ) in the central part of the region , and the Shuar in the south . |
| 27 | In the North of England , nearly half of firms visited were found to be illegally underpaying workers . |
| 28 | The institutions and arrangements they built were driven by an idea of multilateralism . |
| 29 | Yes , now that kingdom is , is in the Lord 's prayer as we mentioned is gone into the air and |
| 30 | The harmonic sequence I mentioned is used as a rift . |