Example sentences of "was [verb] [conj] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Proposed for 25,000 people , the building of the city was stopped because of the economic crisis after two ‘ superblock ’ units had been constructed , but sufficient was shown that a quite different form of residential layout was possible from that dependent on the provision of estate roads and traditional house frontage . |
| 2 | Did the Secretary of State read in the memoirs of Dr. Garrett FitzGerald that during the negotiations on the Anglo-Irish Agreement the Government had been prepared to allow judges from the courts in the Irish Republic to sit on the Bench in Northern Ireland as part of what are described as mixed courts , but that that was stopped because of the resistance of then then Lord Chief Justice , Lord Lowry ? |
| 3 | The original charge was of sending a fake bomb with intent , but the charge was amended because of the man 's mental state . |
| 4 | A Bill was actually introduced into the Commons in 1871 to disafforest it , but was withdrawn because of the strength of the opposition . |
| 5 | In 1991 there were fewer people killed on the roads in Lothian than at any time since 1975 when the Region was formed and at the same time the Region experienced the second lowest casualty total . |
| 6 | The information had also been disclosed in confidence to another shareholder who was using if for the purpose of making a bid for the plaintiff company . |
| 7 | The 35-year-old Bellaghy man , who was jailed in July in Dublin for armed robbery , strenuously denied that he was dismissed because of a financial dispute with his employers . |
| 8 | He had a period as a railway clerk at Bridge , but was dismissed because of a deficit of eleven pounds . |
| 9 | Two days later , he was dismissed and as a consequence of his dismissal , his unemployment benefit was stopped and he received reduced rate income support of , I understand , £23.79 a week . |
| 10 | The flight from Gatwick was diverted because of the scare , even though twenty-six year old Jason Reszeter ( Ressiter ) from Wootton near Abingdon immediately told the stewardess he was ’ winding her up . ’ |
| 11 | Oh yes anything that happened down the glen or way was heard that from the pack man so it was bound to be true . |
| 12 | From this point on , progress was limited because of the great instability of the inhibitory substance . |
| 13 | Now was the main race , a true International with 17 nations on the start line , something we have not seen in Britain for some time despite the fact that the entry was limited because of the following week 's World Sprint Championships which caused some potential entrants to opt out . |
| 14 | Passing sentence , the judge said the fact that he had confessed would be a matter to be considered in his favour when consideration was given as to the time of his release back into the community . |
| 15 | A false indication was given as to the mileage it had covered . |
| 16 | The support was given because of the EEC 's desire to obtain some sort of self-sufficiency in uranium supplies . |
| 17 | In the former case the profits arose where the property was situated and in the latter case where the rights were exercisable . |
| 18 | The son of former President Eduardo Frei Montalva ( 1964-70 ) , Frei was regarded as on the right of the PDC . |
| 19 | However , middle class observers were sensitive to the possibility that the working class husband might not provide ; after all , the bourgeois family model was favoured because of the work incentive it provided for working class men , which presupposed that such an incentive was necessary . |
| 20 | From the start , it was realised that for the branch of an American headhunting firm in London to gain credibility and attract clients unused to search , it was necessary to appoint British consultants and researchers rather than Americans , but nevertheless with strong support and detailed advice from the corporate headquarters across the Atlantic . |
| 21 | However it was realised that upon the accession of the UK to the EC a disproportionate financing burden would fall upon that country . |
| 22 | Diem was assassinated and in the space of 1962–64 , South Vietnam had three presidents . |
| 23 | There can be little doubt that this fact proved influential in reducing the strength of the cavalry ( a strength which , as we have seen , was contracting because of the new requirements of war ) and of turning many who might have fought on horseback into men-at-arms who rode into battle , dismounted , and then fought on foot . |
| 24 | This was delayed until after the rest day , taking much of the heat out of the situation , and a public hand-shaking by the two players concluded the issue . |
| 25 | Police acknowledgement that this had n't actually happened was delayed until after the press coverage . |
| 26 | The sugar harvest was delayed because of a dispute over terms for a new harvesting contract between the government-controlled milling company , Fiji Sugar Corp. , and the 22,000 ( pre-dominantly Indian ) sugarcane growers . |
| 27 | The move was delayed because of a serious knee injury … |
| 28 | Its completion was delayed because of the case . |
| 29 | The interesting fact was that it was recorded back in 1990 as part of a series of people at work and was delayed because of the Gulf War . |
| 30 | The announcement of the 1991 budget , expected on Dec. 31 , 1990 , was delayed because of the cost of the Gulf crisis ( estimated at $21,000 million by the end of 1990 ) and uncertainty over world oil markets ; the 1990 budget was to be extended for as long as necessary . |