Example sentences of "and was [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | To the crowd 's consternation , Eve , dropping her red cloak , had hurled herself off the front of the cart and was pushing through the crowd , quite plainly a boy in breeches , shirt and felt boots . |
| 2 | While the Roman law had perhaps never died out in the north Italian cities and was studied in the early eleventh century at Pavia , where the great lawyer , Lanfranc , archbishop of Canterbury under William the Conqueror , taught for a while , an interest in the texts of Justinian was not widely aroused until the discovery of a manuscript of the Digest in c. 1070 . |
| 3 | This was the view taken in Nutricia v Zuid-Hollandse Conservenfabriek ( OJL 376/22 ) and was confirmed by the European Court of Justice in Remia & Nutricia v Commission ( Case 42/84 [ 1987 ] 1 CMLR 1 ) . |
| 4 | The belief that the NKLP possessed little if any independence and was a vehicle for the implementation of Soviet foreign policy was held by most American officials , including George Kennan , and was illustrated in the reactions to the events of 25 June 1950 . |
| 5 | But by misfortune his telescope had now wandered back again and was trained on the Cutcherry at the very moment that it exploded with a flash that burnt itself so deeply into the Collector 's brain that he reeled , as if struck in the eye by a musket ball And then there was nothing but smoke , dust , debris , and a crash which dropped a picture from the wall behind him . |
| 6 | When Rob broke a leg she was able to make up a lot of lost ground and was selected to the British Team two seasons before him in 1981 . |
| 7 | The rearrangements came too late for fly half Mike Robson , who was unavailable to travel to Kelso and was selected in the seconds . |
| 8 | Similarly , Amiel de Baux held office under the French crown , and was serving in the royal army when it entered Aquitaine in 1371 . |
| 9 | He served as editor of The Times while unable to type , as chairman of the Arts Council while unable to drive , and was appointed to the Broadcasting Standards Council unaware that one of Britain 's most popular television shows was named Jim 'll Fix It ( ‘ Who 's Jim ? ’ he once asked ) . |
| 10 | In 1852 he relinquished his teaching duties on grounds of poor health and was appointed to the sinecure posts of director of the College , secretary and resident governor . |
| 11 | Wounded in action , he was twice mentioned in dispatches , was awarded the MC ( June 1916 ) , and was appointed to the DSO ( June 1918 ) . |
| 12 | He received an honorary DCL ( Durham ) in 1908 , was elected a bencher of the Middle Temple in 1909 , was knighted for his Royal Society work in 1912 , and was appointed to the premier diocesan chancellorship , London , in the same year . |
| 13 | In 1932 he chaired a committee of enquiry on the Post Office and was appointed to the BBC board of governors , and in 1935 he became BBC chairman . |
| 14 | There is , however , no evidence that Ali Kuscu succeeded Molla Husrev , and Uzuncarsili 's statement that he had been transferred to the Ayasofya medrese ( which is not mentioned in the needs to be set against the report that Ali Kuscu accompanied Mehmed II on the campaign against Uzun Hasan ( began Shawwal 877/March 1473 ) and was appointed to the Ayasofya medrese only on their return ( mid-878/autumn 1473 ) . |
| 15 | He had been a non-executive director since September 1986 and was appointed to the LVMH Board of Directors in January 1989 . |
| 16 | Born in 1948 , Brendan O'Neill was appointed managing director of Guinness Brewing Worldwide in February 1993 , and was appointed to the main board in April 1993 . |
| 17 | After working in Armagh he became Recorder of Belfast in 1982 and was appointed to the High Court two years later . |
| 18 | Heng Samrin retained his post as President of the State Council and was appointed as the party 's " honorary president " . |
| 19 | By 1983 , Zimbabwe had approached the IMF and was presented with the standard package of reform measures , but by 1984 had reached a parting of the ways with the Fund . |
| 20 | Johnson took enormous pleasure in the honour , and reported it in both his book and , more touchingly , in his correspondence with Mrs Thrale : ‘ I had the honour of attending the Lord Provost of Aberdeen , and was presented with the freedom of the city , not in a gold box but in good Latin . |
| 21 | Peter Brown ( BA Business Studies , 1992 ) won the event with a score of 71 and was presented with the Craiglockhart Cup — a gift from the Alumni Office to the Society on its inception . |
| 22 | This , in finely-worked bronze inlaid with semi-precious stones , is thought to be by the twelfth-century French master Nicola de Verdun and was presented to the Duomo by Giovanni Battista Trivulzio in 1562 . |
| 23 | This dates from 1729 and was presented to the cathedral by Pope Benedict XIII . |
| 24 | To commemorate the visit , the Prime Warden the next year , Mr. John Prideaux ( whose father had been Clerk at the time of the 450th Anniversary ) , called at the School in April with designs of a second cup and cover , which was commissioned by the Company from Miss Jocelyn Burton and was presented to the Chairman and Headmaster in July 1974 . |
| 25 | Contraction at just one tenth of this rate seemed small beer to astronomers , and was presented by the popular media ( where they took any notice at all ) as another example of a way-out scientific idea that had been undermined by more careful studies . |
| 26 | The City and Guilds 201 certificate was for doing a course on the theory and practical aspects of machining and was presented by the director general of Lincoln Technology College , John A Barnes . |
| 27 | By 1970 the former was negotiating an ambitious first degree scheme with the CNAA , which was explained by the Vice-Provost as more fully meeting the needs of students , employers and society , and was presented in the belief that ‘ polytechnics should develop a degree pattern which includes an increasing amount of interdisciplinary study ’ . |
| 28 | One recent Saturday afternoon I was walking along High Row and was treated to the sight of a Labour Party vehicle giving out an election message closely followed by a similar van in Conservative colours broadcasting loud music , presumably to drown out the opposition . |
| 29 | A month ago he had a positive diagnosis and was treated at the Churchill Hospital . |
| 30 | As a 17-year-old , Daniel was diagnosed as suffering from testicular cancer and was treated at the Royal Marsden . |