Example sentences of "was [verb] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Giolitti lost power , and his government was pilloried by the socialists who whipped up public opinion in their newspaper , Avanti , edited by a young man with a future , Benito Mussolini . |
| 2 | A UN military observer , Colonel Walter van Dijk , who was with the convoy when it was stopped at a police and army barricade in Serbia yesterday , said the fate of the convoy had been ‘ resolved at the highest level ’ . |
| 3 | Badger gassing , the infallible and humane method of killing them recommended by Lord Zuckerman was stopped on the grounds that it was fallible and inhumane . |
| 4 | The light genoa was stopped to the lifelines and the staysail was ready to send up through the forehatch . |
| 5 | Chapman drove at 50 to 60mph before he was stopped by a police patrol car . |
| 6 | She was stopped by a police patrol car . |
| 7 | The first Clash gig in Belfast was stopped by the authorities . |
| 8 | He realised his mistake when he was stopped by the gates of Parliament Buildings at Stormont and turned back . |
| 9 | He was stopped by the police outside the Bakers Arms pub . |
| 10 | ‘ When he was stopped by the police at the roadside and given the breath test he was convinced he was going to fail and lose his licence . |
| 11 | In the summer he was stopped by the police for overloading his builder 's van . |
| 12 | Erm , and I mean , I I was just cringing after that , hearing all these , minor horror stories coming coming out , and then to cap it all , one little girl put her hand up and said erm , my daddy was stopped by the police once for not wearing his seat-belt . |
| 13 | Most of the Committee 's recommendations were speedily implemented in the Tribunals and Inquiries Act 1958 , which was amended by the Tribunals and Inquiries Act 1966 . |
| 14 | McKay was joined among the qualifiers by another West of Scotland girl , Janice Moodie . |
| 15 | Willie crept nervously on stage with the prompt book in his hand and was joined by the others . |
| 16 | The final version of the report was sent to the Polytechnic and — with Kerr assuring the Council that the responsibility could not have lain with the CNAA itself — was leaked to the Times Higher Education Supplement and appeared in its issue of 8 September , under the headline : ‘ Closure threat to poly in CNAA 's toughest-ever report ’ . |
| 17 | News of his arrest was leaked to the newspapers . |
| 18 | In the course of the trial Hayman was referred to only as ‘ a senior civil servant ’ , but his name was leaked by the police , surfacing in Private Eye . |
| 19 | Two days after the interview , Sutton 's appointment was ratified by the Founders , who had the right , as holders of the Golden Share , to veto his appointment if they chose . |
| 20 | And the central area plan was circumscribed by the rights of the city 's main shops . |
| 21 | The money that er we raised in the Soviet Union was intended for the families of miners who had suffered as a result of the strike . |
| 22 | Dobbs flight was headed for Birmingham airport , but police are in no doubt the cocaine was intended for the streets of Gloucester . |
| 23 | These and other statements indicated that a comprehensive computerised records management system was intended by the proposals , ie one that required all activities and events associated with the files , and the documents they contain , to be recorded . |
| 24 | In retrospect , it seems that genuine concern on the part of the experimenters was communicated to the subjects to provide a potent source of suggestion that they should suffer symptoms of paranoia and hallucinations , and a cumulative sleep loss over the six days of the experiment combined to provide a fertile ground for the production of these symptoms . |
| 25 | He unloosed the third and fourth and was struggling with the reins of the fifth when he heard voices on the path . |
| 26 | The Coroner was irritated with the proceedings , and with the transparent fact that not all the information that was held by the men in the court-room had been made available to him . |
| 27 | Diana was enrolled at a girls ' day-school , Charles at a nearby kindergarten . |
| 28 | In the 1870s , the Society was established in premises at Renfield Street where it remained until the splendid new building in West Regent Street was erected through the efforts of William Agnew in 1894 . |
| 29 | ft. building was erected for the machinists and cutters as well as for garment distribution . |
| 30 | On the morning of Easter Saturday the marquee , borrowed for the Easter Fete through Mrs Stead-Carter , arrived in the rectory garden and was erected by the men who brought it , as it always was . |