Example sentences of "was [verb] [prep] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He pointed out my Marvin as being a prototype he had made in 1964 , and said how the beech neck on my model was later fitted with a trim , and how the position of the 3-way selector switch was altered from vertical to horizontal following a request from Hank himself , knowledge that had hitherto been unknown to me . |
| 2 | No further light was shed in particular on the deaths of activists David Webster and Anton Lubowski in May and September 1989 [ see pp. 36647 ; 36885 ] . |
| 3 | Castro 's next move , designed to convince the Soviet leaders of his personal reliability , was his famous declaration of 1 December 1961 that ‘ I am a Marxist-Leninist , and I shall be a Marxist-Leninist until the last day of my life ’ ( a statement which was reported in full in the Soviet press ) . |
| 4 | He was carried off unconscious after accidentally clashing heads with a Plymouth defender , Gary Poole , in the fifth minute of the game at Rotherham . |
| 5 | At the age of 17 , Still was carried off injured on his debut for Leyton Orient against Torquay — and was never given another chance . |
| 6 | The 693 quarto reissue was a belated attempt to catch up ; and since much of that ( 44 text pages out of 52 ) was carried over unchanged from 1692 , it needs to be tested critically too . |
| 7 | But in 679 he himself was defeated by Æthelred of Mercia at the battle of the Trent , where Ecgfrith 's brother Ælfwine was killed . |
| 8 | The girl , accompanied by a policewoman and two social workers , was seen in private by Sheriff George Crozier , who sat with his gown and wig on . |
| 9 | The girl , accompanied by a policewoman and two social workers , was seen in private by Sheriff George Crozier . |
| 10 | The vote for the 12 provincial legislatures was widely regarded as of national importance , and was seen in particular as a preliminary negative verdict by voters on a major austerity plan proposed by the government the previous month . |
| 11 | First , education in state schools ( the largest component of local expenditure ) was moved from local to central government . |
| 12 | The ‘ Christ against culture ’ position was adopted by Tertullian in the fourth century and Tolstoy in recent times . |
| 13 | The only er solid part of the wardrobe was in fact the front part , which was made of Sorry about that . |
| 14 | A CLIMBER was saved from freezing to death by the light of his pencil torch . |
| 15 | One was shot near Ripe on 12 January 1876 ; one was shot on Pett Level on 6 January 1891 . |
| 16 | He even added a comment : ‘ This was written by Eled in an attempt to spoil the Book , but it will remain if I live to be 100 . ’ |
| 17 | So far , all the investigations of definitional overlap using the MRDs have been based on one sample of data , which was selected at random from a corpus of business letters . |
| 18 | At the ‘ Discerning Eye1992 ’ exhibition of contemporary art held in the Mall Galleries from 27 November to 6 December , The Art Newspaper was invited to single out four artists . |
| 19 | He was getting on fine with the Founders . |
| 20 | A young DC just out of uniform , name of Leakey , was getting in close on one of Scamp 's sordid little protection rackets . |
| 21 | It has also given legal effect to the judicial monitoring procedure , but there is no accountability of the Commissioner to Parliament despite the concern about this type of procedure which was raised in public after the Massiter affair . |
| 22 | A seventeen year old girl was seriously injured when the stolen car she was riding in crashed into a tree . |
| 23 | Therefore I was bound by certain of its manners and rules . |
| 24 | He was speaking in private in the chapter house of the abbey of St Paul's-without-the-walls . |
| 25 | Only when it became totally apparent that she would never reform and was bent on self-destruction for both of them did he leave her for the younger and more stable Lauren Bacall . |
| 26 | After washing in NT buffer containing 150 mM NaCl , bound protein was detected by probing with AP-conjugated rabbit antibodies followed by enzyme detection in situ . |
| 27 | The claim in relation to 1979/1980 which made up approximately $125 million of the principal ; was settled in full during 1992 by the payment of US$49 million plus US$131 million interest giving a total sum of US$180 million [ £102 million ] . |
| 28 | The cost , like that of penicillin , was reduced about seventyfold between 1946 and 1950 by improvements in large scale production . |
| 29 | What about the tramp that was found beside dead beside the road up the glen somewhere . |
| 30 | On Jan. 17 , 1991 , Heseltine announced the local government finance arrangements for 1991/92 , which provided for over £4,250 million more in extra support to local government than had already been granted in July 1990 for 1990-91 [ see p. 37623 ] In the budget , presented on March 19 by the Chancellor of the Exchequer Norman Lamont , a " substantial switch was proposed from local to central taxation , amounting to £4,250 million in 1991/92 , and the reducing net yield of local taxation to around £7,000 million [ see p. 38110 ] . |