Example sentences of "[coord] was [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whereas in RX and Pilkingtons union resistance was either negligible or was transformed into active cooperation , at Ford the quality circles foundered on the unions ' dismissal of the initiative as a heavy-handed attempt to short-circuit existing bargaining procedures . |
| 2 | The ages of the fetuses and babies are listed in Table I. The maturity of fetuses is given in weeks of gestation since the last menstrual period and was confirmed by antenatal ultrasound assessment and fetal foot length measurements . |
| 3 | He began work as a journalist with the Reading Newspaper Group , where he ‘ chased fire engines , attended excessively long council meetings and was trained in various styles of writing , layout and subbing ’ . |
| 4 | Air Chief Marshal Kaset Rojanani was relieved of two posts , as Armed Forces Supreme Commander and Head of the Air Force , and was appointed as Armed Forces Inspector-General . |
| 5 | Claire , of Gipsy Hill , south-east London , needed 10 stitches and was treated for black eyes and severe bruises at King 's College Hospital . |
| 6 | It had 21 jets of water , a main basin surrounded by 12 flower vases on pillars , and was edged by semi-circular flower beds . |
| 7 | At an earlier hearing French air force deserter Anthony Bourgois pleaded guilty to false imprisonment and was sent to Fairmile secure hospital near Wallingford for reports into his mental state . |
| 8 | Instead he managed the Privy Purse , retained his post at Portsmouth , sat upon the committee for Tangier , and was sent upon polite diplomatic errands . |
| 9 | His toneless voice caught fire and was blessed with new colour and depth . |
| 10 | President Hussein Mohammad Ershad has held effective political power since the military coup of March 1982 , and was elected by universal adult suffrage to the post of President for a five-year term in October 1986 ( see p. 34813 ) , having assumed that office in December 1983 . |
| 11 | On Jan. 29 Domingo Cavallo , hitherto Foreign Affairs Minister , took over the Economy portfolio and was replaced at Foreign Affairs by di Tella ; González became Defence Minister . |
| 12 | We estimate that since we in Grampian deliver about 1% of British babies there would have to be about 6500 extra caesarean sections in Britain each year if current practice is similar to ours and was replaced by routine elective caesarean section . |
| 13 | Jagmohan resigned as Governor of Jammu and Kashmir on May 25 and was replaced by Girish Chandra Saxena , security adviser to Prime Minister V. P. Singh . |
| 14 | The tsarist police force disintegrated and was replaced by local militias . |
| 15 | Jorge Chávez Alvárez , the president of the Central Reserve Bank of Peru , resigned in late April and was replaced by German Suárez Chávez . |
| 16 | Referee Neil Midgley ( Bolton ) , who retires in a fortnight 's time , pulled a calf muscle in the first half and was replaced by senior linesman Graham Bradbury ( York . ) |
| 17 | It flourished in the playgrounds of the newly schooled child population and was disseminated in unsterilized milk . |
| 18 | First the basic minimum was set at a very low level and was related to pre-war wages thus not reflecting the very steep increase in the prices of basic necessities . |
| 19 | This was announced at our February meeting and was met with great approval from the fifty or so members present . |
| 20 | Ally McCoist headed Rangers ' crucial second goal after 59 minutes and was met by stunned silence from 25,118 home fans . |
| 21 | Childhood sexuality , especially , within this harbour of emotional and sexual restraint ( ideologically at least ) , posed a particular challenge , and was met by simultaneous ( and of course , contradictory ) denial and control . |
| 22 | This was a sense of order that had to be worked hard for and was created with considerable effort . |
| 23 | In specimens from normal or alcoholic patients , expression of Lewis antigens was mainly in small bile ducts and showed a predominantly luminal pattern , while in the cholestatic disease groups , expression was mainly cytoplasmic and was seen in small and large ducts ( Fig 1(C) and ( D ) ) . |
| 24 | The vote for the 12 provincial legislatures was widely regarded as of national importance , and was seen in particular as a preliminary negative verdict by voters on a major austerity plan proposed by the government the previous month . |
| 25 | Turning his head , he bawled over his shoulder for his companions to follow him , and was answered by muffled shouts from deeper in the woods . |
| 26 | The dinner was attended by 500 leading business and professional people from the North East and was featured on local radio and television , and in the local newspapers . |
| 27 | Soviet leaders were concerned lest this Warsaw Pact state sanction the neutralisation of a state which had a socialist-inclined regime and was upheld by Soviet troops . |
| 28 | Thereafter he supervised many graduate research students , and was recognized by honorary fellowships at St Catherine 's and Pembroke colleges in 1966 , and an Oxford D.Litt. in 1969 . |
| 29 | This jurisdiction took a number of different forms and was exercised in different ways . |
| 30 | A drastic reform of the land tenure system was thus a primary objective of the Occupation authorities and was implemented in late 1946 . |