Example sentences of "was [verb] [prep] [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Latin American countries voted in favour ( except Costa Rica , which abstained ) , and the United States was joined by most Western nations and the new Panamanian government in voting against . |
| 2 | He was joined by several other children , but there was no sign of the Post Office boy anywhere . |
| 3 | He was joined by several other people who assisted the Cheetah pilot from his aircraft . |
| 4 | The climbdown over averages was communicated to all chief executives of Water Authorities and Companies on 10 March and the derogations were formally rescinded in April . |
| 5 | But this is so only where the fence etc. was erected with reference to the highway and would probably not apply where the fence was erected for some other reason ( A.G. v Beynon , [ 1969 ] 2 All ER 263 ) . |
| 6 | The arterial-alveolar oxygen tension ratio was calculated with each arterial blood gas analysis over the first day . |
| 7 | Like Britain 's ICL , it was formed from several disparate companies offering different types of computer . |
| 8 | The Labour Party itself , in sponsoring vigilante sleuths within the social security system , was implicated in this political realignment of wage-earners against the wageless . |
| 9 | Far more significant and revelatory was the arrival of the wireless , in the sense that it meant for the first time the voice of the outside world and all that it encompassed — good and bad — was heard throughout this enclosed community . |
| 10 | But shortly after , to my surprise , I saw the female and two kits peering out from one of the branch holes , surveying the river , and for the rest of the day I was treated to some amazing mink behaviour . |
| 11 | That little knife slashed sharply , circumcising the very tip of the digit , and even before the Larramen cells could clot — or perhaps because the blade was treated with some special anti-coagulant — a sprinkling of bright blood fell like rubies from each fingertip to mingle in the chalice . |
| 12 | Bormann was treated by another notorious Nazi fugitive , medical doctor and Auschwitz concentration camp official Josef Mengele , at the end of 1958 , he wrote . |
| 13 | Seton , warned , would now of course do what he could to help the townsmen , but his actual authority was limited to this royal castle . |
| 14 | One predominant reason was given for this low level of concern about professional development amongst arts teachers , although two very distinct responses were given . |
| 15 | From day 11 to 20 a dose of 5 mmol sodium sulphate in gelatin capsules , was given with each main meal ( 15 mmol/day ) . |
| 16 | Consideration was given to several different job evaluation schemes and , finally , a points-rated scheme somewhat reminiscent of the Hay-MSL approach was adopted . |
| 17 | Initially this was given to both individual home buyers and investors , although this policy was later reviewed to exclude investors . |
| 18 | The trade name Permutit was given to this patented ion exchange process , it being derived from the Latin verb to exchange . |
| 19 | He was given to these sudden spurts of activity , running ahead to hide among the bushes and jump out at her , leaping across puddles , rummaging for broken bottles and cans in the ditch and hurling them with a desperate intensity into the water . |
| 20 | Yet it was this very stability which made them so potentially harmful , for their effects upon a whole ecosystem , as opposed to an individual species , were not considered before they were adopted and so , as farmers enthusiastically seized the opportunities which these new insecticides offered , little thought was given to any possible chain reaction which might follow . |
| 21 | The blessing at Bethel was given against all deserving . |
| 22 | The rest of the afternoon was tainted with that powerful awareness , and as they drove through the city Rachel was on edge , aware of the predator at her side . |
| 23 | It was recognized by all concerned that it would take at least three and more likely five years for any of the Brabazon types to come into production , so work also proceeded on interim types that could hold the gap until the newer types were in service . |
| 24 | He was hanging off that red ball for a four hundred at the end though cos |
| 25 | Particularly because it was only now , when he was so close to her , that every cell of her body was reacting in some primordial , incomprehensible way to his nearness , to the sheer magnetic pull of his very commanding presence , that she had become aware of the fantasy that had consumed her . |
| 26 | Then in June 1946 , the 1st Bucks Battalion was placed in that curious condition known as ‘ suspended animation ’ while stationed at Ghent . |
| 27 | The prejudice was compounded by some foster parents who had a bias against education : |
| 28 | The most influential view is that expressed by a report for the OECD , which sees the intensifying economic difficulties of these years as resulting from ‘ an unusual bunching of unfortunate disturbances unlikely to be repeated on the same scale , the impact of which was compounded by some avoidable errors in economic policy ’ ( McCracken , 1977 , p. 14 ) . |
| 29 | Clare was shaken by this unexpected confession . |
| 30 | Her portrait was painted by most leading artists of the day ; the best known being ‘ A Jersey Lily ’ by ( Sir ) John Everett Millais [ q.v. ] , which is in the possession of the Société Jersiaise in Jersey . |