Example sentences of "[noun pl] was [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At that time the tax that banks deducted from interest payments to depositors was passed on to the taxmen each quarter . |
| 2 | Last July , when recovery of the bronzes was taken up with Richard Luce , Minister for the Arts , an MP was told that Britain ‘ has existing channels for international co-operation to help trace stolen works of art ’ . |
| 3 | On May 28 four people were killed when a demonstration in Freetown by students in support of teachers ' demands was broken up by police after a police station had been stoned ; earlier a meeting attempting to establish an independent teachers ' union was also broken up by the authorities . |
| 4 | He said arranging flowers and cleaning vases was carried out by crematorium staff and was becoming very time consuming . |
| 5 | On March 12 a civilian helicopter transporting 18 Georgian National Guards was shot down near Zugdidi and its occupants taken hostage . |
| 6 | In situ hybridisation with the lysozyme RNA probes was carried out with minor modifications of a standard protocol . |
| 7 | An almost finished game of snakes and ladders was laid out amongst top secret briefing papers . |
| 8 | A considerable part of these funds was passed on as dinar loans to domestic enterprises . |
| 9 | In 1749 for the first time a single system of tactics was laid down for the entire army , while in 1765 the Hofkriegsrath assumed the power to appoint to all ranks above that of captain and from 1776 an organized State military transport corps began to be built up . |
| 10 | The Provos , he claimed , had reserves of munitions and were determined to keep going , even though a debate of sorts was going on within the Republican movement . |
| 11 | The possibility of high chain extension in polymer solutions was pointed out by F. C. Frank in 1970 , and the experiments of Mackley using extensional flow fields generated by two opposing jets indicated that very high extensions were attainable , as was shown by the birefringence observed in the flowing solution . |
| 12 | In the meantime , as predicted , Croydon Corporation terminated the lease and from 1 June , the service provided by their cars was cut back to Selby Road on the South Norwood route . |
| 13 | Which is where everything starts to fuck up , because the moment we turn our attention to Herr Mayer he tells us that the money he used to pay the Iranians was put up by the son of a well-known local citizen . ’ |
| 14 | They warned ( after an army helicopter carrying Wijnaendts was fired on over Okucani on Sept. 11 and forced to land ) that they would leave Yugoslavia if their safety could not be guaranteed . |
| 15 | She was highly critical , however , of the terms under which the League of Nations was set up in 1919 , partly because the League was permitted the use of force and economic sanctions , and partly because it was committed to supporting the Versailles settlement , which she regarded from the start as an unjust and unstable peace . |
| 16 | The trees shook , even the ground beneath me shook , as I suddenly realised that a salvo of heavy shells was passing over at tree height , and everyone — including the prisoners — scattered in the direction of the dug-outs ; the salvo hit the ground a short distance away with an almighty roar , the explosions throwing debris over a wide area . |
| 17 | Lack of buying by US clients was singled out as a particular problem . |
| 18 | His approach to clients was summed up in a remark I overheard him make to a colleague at the bar : ‘ You know me — I believe everybody ’ . |
| 19 | The sample of schools was made up in such a way that the 50 schools , as a whole group , where representative of Scottish secondary schools . |
| 20 | The hatch opened and a set of steps was driven up to it . |
| 21 | In all areas of intervention the first step for purists was to speak out about sex . |
| 22 | The first English factory to manufacture looking glass plates was set up by Sir Robert Mansell in the reign of James I. |
| 23 | A year later Frederick I of Prussia ordered that in future deserters should have their nose and one of their ears cut off and be sent to hard labour for life , while after the Seven Years War a chain of military posts was set up on France 's frontiers to prevent the escape abroad of soldiers fleeing from their units . |
| 24 | His position as Minister in Charge of Relations with CTSP and Associations was taken over by Lt.-Col. Birama Sire Traore , who exchanged his portfolio of Secretary of State for Internal Security with Maj. Moussa Diabate , hitherto Minister of Territorial Administration . |
| 25 | Boni homines or échevins ousted them in the self-governing towns ; and slowly the day-to-day work of running courts in the non-franchised areas was taken over by knights or clerks with special knowledge of the law , leaving castellans to revert to their military role . |
| 26 | Re-mapping of economically important areas was carried out during and after the War , and much of the subsequent work has had an economic focus , restricted in the main to the highly populated Midland Valley of Scotland , which , perhaps not surprisingly , contains the country 's major economic mineral deposits — coal , oil-shale , fireclay , and bulk minerals , such as roadstone , building stone , limestone for cement and agriculture . |
| 27 | This was April 2nd , when Philip Morris admitted that one of the world 's most powerful ( and profitable ) brands was losing out to cheaper cigarettes most people have never heard of . |
| 28 | Inactivation of the N25 or UV5 promoters was carried out by restriction digestion with Dra 1 or BstN 1 respectively , as previously described ( 12,15 ) . |
| 29 | London 's later partner in the Brompton Park nursery , Henry Wise [ q.v. ] , was another of Rose 's apprentices , whose influence on the design of formal gardens was handed on in this way to the next generation . |
| 30 | A queue of about ten people wearing gym shoes was lined up in front of the ladder . |