Example sentences of "[adj] was [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 USED FLEETINGLY in the military manoeuvres of September 1912 near Cambridge , Cody Biplane No 304 was presented to the Science Museum the following year .
2 In 1881 the 35th was linked with The 107th Regiment of Foot , which was raised in 1854 as part of the Bengal Infantry .
3 This was supported by the correlation between the male 's condition at the start of the season and the number of days he spent incubating eggs .
4 This was supported by the Political Declaration of the Conference of Non-Aligned Foreign Ministers in February 1981 , which called for a dialogue between the Southeast Asian states to resolve their differences and eliminate the involvement and threats of intervention by outside powers .
5 Construction of this was begun in the first half of the sixteenth century by the Donatory Captain Simão Gonçalves da Câmara .
6 This was recorded by the Hon.
7 This was acknowledged in the US Congressional Hearings on test-tube fusion held on 26 April , 1989 .
8 Most Tories favoured the establishment of a regency , with Mary exercising the regal powers on James 's behalf , but this was defeated in the House of Lords on 29 January by the narrow vote of fifty-one to forty-eight .
9 All this was to feed into the stream of sexual radicalism in the early twentieth century .
10 Despite several revolts during the eleventh century , Macedonia remained under Byzantine rule until this was challenged by the rising power of Serbia in the late thirteenth century , in the reign of Milutin ( 1282–1321 ) , and eclipsed by Dušan in the mid fourteenth century .
11 In a parliamentary debate on Aug. 28 this was challenged by the opposition Union of Democratic Forces ( which like all major parties roundly condemned the attack ) , the UDF secretary Petur Beron hinting instead that the attack might have been instigated by communist provocateurs .
12 This was exemplified by the league of the Iroquois which Morgan had studied in detail .
13 There was a narrow foreshore at the foot of the little cliff and this was littered with the rubbish of the colony-sticks , droppings , feathers , a broken egg and a dead nestling or two .
14 It laid down the general principle of comprehensive education which would have ended selection over a period ( but this was repealed in the 1979 Act ) .
15 This was repealed by the Theft Act 1978 , s.5(5) .
16 This was repeated throughout the night until 7am the next day .
17 This was repeated in the Court of Appeal decision , but was unanimously rejected by the House of Lords , in the next case .
18 An imposing entrance for this was built at the end of Kirby Road , and the inspection pits were only half the length of the depot to facilitate displays .
19 This was built at the personal expense of the Rev. G.P. Howes 1888–99 .
20 This was built into the developing environment from the start , and continued to receive attention as and when the opportunity arose to help the children expand their existing range of choices .
21 This was built in the 1550s for the Dryden family , but some of the banks and ditches still remain in the fields opposite the Hall .
22 I think some of this was lost on the non-Aryan members of our section , such as the Polynesians who could in no way pretend that their ancestry stretched back to the Vikings .
23 Hatcher , by contrast , prefers a 1377 figure in the 23/4–3 million range , and thinks it unlikely that this was exceeded until the second quarter of the sixteenth century .
24 This was exhibited at the Tate Gallery and Kunstmuseum , Basel under the title ‘ Douglas Cooper and the Masters of Cubism ’ in 1987–88 .
25 A large part of this was destroyed in the 1990 gales , but fortunately we had underplanted wherever possible and the magnolias which are such a feature of the garden survived remarkably well .
26 ( This was trumpeted under the holiday industry 's unofficial motto ‘ if you ca n't stand the heat , get off the beach ’ . )
27 This was funded by the Van Leer Foundation in the Hague and carried out under the aegis of the Child Development Unit in Bristol University .
28 This was replaced in the fourth-century by a church built by Sant' Ambrogio and dedicated , at a later time , to St Tecla .
29 The late nineteenth century saw the emergence of a model of human origins based very much on Haeckel 's linear progressionism , but this was replaced in the early years of the twentieth century by a theory more in tune with the new paleontology .
30 There was a car ferry across the narrows of Loch Long , a source of delay on the journey to Kyle and Skye in pioneering days : this was replaced by the present road bridge earlier this century , and passage through Dornie , once slow and halting , is now swift .
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