Example sentences of "was [verb] [prep] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For those who stayed with the film , like Preston , it turned out that the underground was infested with such creatures . |
| 2 | Only days later news of a rights issue by British Airways was leaked to many newspapers . |
| 3 | Theo 's visit was intended by both brothers to heal a rift which had developed between them . |
| 4 | Robert had been called up in the First Militia , as it was named , the beginning of National Service which was to continue until some years after the war ended . |
| 5 | Indeed , in the 1970s , the theoretical influence of Jean Ricardou , who was aligned to both movements , extended even to the actual fiction produced by Robbe-Grillet and Claude Simon at that stage , and several of the concepts he formulated were regurgitated in critical interventions by these writers . |
| 6 | For most of his career after discovering the similia principle , he was inundated with more patients than the average practitioner could have coped with . |
| 7 | In 1975 , after it was launched in Finland , sixteen cases of agranulocytosis occurred , eight being fatal , and the drug was withdrawn in some countries . |
| 8 | However , it was withdrawn after several speakers said such a call would have little impact on Parliament . |
| 9 | However , it was withdrawn after several speakers said that such a call would have little impact on Parliament and might have an adverse affect on the reputation of the federation . |
| 10 | The Party was formed for those reasons . |
| 11 | Their Jewish inheritance apart ( and no serious understanding of his music interests can afford not to give this a very high place , as we shall see ) , was formed by such artists as Eddie Fisher , Gordon Jenkins , Vaughan Monroe , Patti Page , Dinah Shore , Frank Sinatra , Tony Bennett and Johnny Ray , who followed in the wake of the big bands . |
| 12 | The present Soviet economic system was formed in these years ; Mr Gorbachev and his colleagues , in endeavouring to reform the USSR , are deliberately seeking to build on the strengths and eliminate the weaknesses of the traditional system . |
| 13 | In September " Mr. John Wodrow , Minister of the Parish of Kildalton having Represented That the Church of Lagavullin was stripped of many slates , and otherwise much hurt by the Storm , and that it is absolutely necessary That the same be immediately Repaired , otherwise that the Church will become ruinous … " £7:4:0 was granted . |
| 14 | The nearest the Government came to bringing the judges and magistrates ‘ within the disciplines of efficiency and cost effectiveness ’ ( Guardian 1.10.90 ) , was to circulate to all courts details of the full costs of their sentencing decisions . |
| 15 | The Baker explanation was dismissed by some members of Congress as a lame attempt to deflect complaints , from both right and left , that the administration bungled a chance to remove General Noriega . |
| 16 | Throughout the 1970s he was involved in trade union activities in opposition to the communist regime , and as a result was dismissed from several jobs . |
| 17 | Although her candidacy was dismissed in most quarters as irrelevant , she was potentially the best-funded of the candidates ( although much of her wealth was believed to be inaccessible in frozen Swiss bank accounts ) and had the advantage of the remnants of her husband 's huge patronage network . |
| 18 | The criterion of the purpose of avoiding pregnancy was emphasized in most surveys and interpreted as avoiding pregnancy for the reason of contraception . |
| 19 | The genius of the Dalmatians showed itself particularly in architecture , sculpture and literature , and their artistic output was sustained over many centuries from the builders of the early Christian churches of the seventh and eighth centuries to the eighteenth-century cathedral of Dubrovnik , and from Historia Salonitana , by the thirteenth-century Thomas , Archdeacon of Split , to the black comedies of Vlaho Stulli-Stulić , written in the closing years of the Ragusan republic and still performed today . |
| 20 | Once the engine was exposed on both sides , hawsers were placed around it and it was then lifted from the hole . |
| 21 | No more was heard of these schemes , but on 9 August Croydon Corporation served notice on the B.E.T . |
| 22 | The sense of national community is not helped by exhortations to cheer for England in Test Matches and the implication that those who do not are in some sense not good British citizens , and yet this sort of crude and simplistic interpretation of the obligations of citizenship was heard from some politicians in 1990 . |
| 23 | The thought that an accident could follow such a clear and restricted pattern was treated by most objectors with complete disbelief . |
| 24 | Knowledge of the stock market was limited for most dealers . |
| 25 | Indeed , at first the Commissioner 's role was limited to those areas in the nature of public rights , now specified in section 109(1) of the Trade Union and Labour Relations ( Consolidation ) Act 1992 . |
| 26 | However , under the new regulations spending on infrastructure projects in Objective 2 regions was limited to those projects which directly provide " the basis for the creation or development of economic activity " of the area concerned . |
| 27 | Rostov 's authority was limited at all times by the secrecy requirements which surrounded every incomplete survey , and he had already concluded that his presence on the mission was actually of questionable value . |
| 28 | However , the quantity of metal available from native sources was limited in most parts of the world and consequently the major use of metals and alloys for artefacts was dependent on developments in smelting ( see also Chapter 4 ) . |
| 29 | But when at last the planes turned away and headed for land , the order was given for all passengers to get below . |
| 30 | Beauty and the Beast proved highly popular and was given with many casts during later seasons ; it has also been revived for several other companies , with various designers . |