Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [conj] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their official car , following behind the royals , was stopped and then forced into a police compound . |
| 2 | In 1876 a handsome suite of royal waiting-rooms was erected and often used for luncheon parties when the royal party was on a shoot . |
| 3 | The desaturation index was calculated as previously described according to the formula : UNID=S> ( fatty acid percentage×number of double bonds ) . |
| 4 | In France this process was halted and even reversed . |
| 5 | It peaked in the election years of 1983 and 1987 and even the collapse of optimism over the period 1978–80 was halted and temporarily reversed at the 1979 election ( The Economist , 1990 , p. 34 ) . |
| 6 | His wife , Paulina , recognises him , by his voice , as the man who tortured her 15 years ago while playing the Schubert song of the title ( she was blindfolded and never told his name ) . |
| 7 | The paper was dismissed and then ignored until , in the early 1960s , the crucial geophysical evidence supporting Wegener 's theory led to a rapid paradigm shift in the earth sciences . |
| 8 | Ata'i writes that Molla Abdulfettah , having been appointed to the Seyfeddin medrese in Ankara with 50 akce , was dismissed and then restored to that medrese " with [ an ] judgement " ( that is , that the medrese was to be judged to be in the and treated accordingly ) and continues : " His became and , by reason of the esteem [ due to/shown to a ] [ muderris ] , the mouth of his hope smiled . " |
| 9 | Radiotherapy was given as clinically indicated using either a 6 MV or 8 MV linear accelerator . |
| 10 | The number of sea birds killed , more than 1,500 , was regarded as low compared with similar disasters elsewhere . |
| 11 | And as before , the Club 's existence was regarded as seriously threatened . |
| 12 | Modernisation of the South Side of Imperial Dock was completed and officially opened on 3rd October by Lord Brabagon of Tara , Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport . |
| 13 | The advice of the County Federation was sought , a promptly reply was received but equally divided ; there was no clear guidelines . |
| 14 | He was forgiven and rapidly advanced by the Commons ' managers , joining the important recess committee ( September ) and chairing the inquisitorial information committee ( January 1642 ) . |
| 15 | An innovative solution to protect key facilities within the Channel Tunnel was developed and successfully installed against tight deadlines , resulting in further orders for 1993 . |
| 16 | The police were called in , the museum 's curator-in-chief , Mme Lydie Huyghe , was sacked and then indicted for ‘ complicity in embezzling public funds ’ . |
| 17 | After incubation the terminal leaflet of leaf 1 or leaf 2 , as required , was harvested and immediately frozen in liquid N 2 . |
| 18 | Following these conditions , seedlings were incubated at 30°C for 4h under fluorescent lights providing 200μmolm -2 s -1 photosynthetically active radiation before the terminal leaflet of leaf 1 was harvested and immediately frozen in liquid N 2 . |
| 19 | The real truth about Crabb will never be known , but it does seem that he was expected by the Russians , was caught and either died of a heart attack or was murdered , and his body dumped over the side as the ships left Portsmouth . |
| 20 | Kharg itself was reported as solidly defended , with Raytheon Hawk surface/air missiles and F-14 fighters operational in the area , and it was some time before significant damage was inflicted on the terminal . |
| 21 | As a consequence of the suggestion Laureen Williamson was approached and readily agreed to undertake the daunting task . |
| 22 | Owers helped Sunderland beat Port Vale at the beginning of their Cup run , but was substituted and then aggravated his groin trouble in the following 6–2 home win over Millwall in mid January . |
| 23 | ( 1 ) Heparin-bovine serum albumin(BSA) conjugate ( a model proteoglycan ) and VCAM-1 ( an endothelial ligand for VLA-4 ) were co-immobilized on plastic ; ( 2 ) MIP-1 β was added and then washed out to assess only the effect of immobilized cytokine ; and ( 3 ) we assayed binding of resting CD8 + T cells to all eight combinations of the three components : integrin ligand , proteoglycan and cytokine ( Fig. 2 a ) . |
| 24 | It was attacked and badly damaged by a patrolling Hurricane , Flt.Lt . |
| 25 | Halstead-based Pc Ian Masheder was attacked and almost strangled with his own pullover , it was alleged at Chelmsford Crown Court . |
| 26 | Girfriend Zoe had told him at first that she had seen punches being exchanged betweeen the two , then that she had not , but he said she was confussed and highly distressed . |
| 27 | The Lombard capital was at Pavia , but Milan was rebuilt and slowly regained its former significance . |
| 28 | It seemed about par for the course , so I applied , was interviewed and then offered the job , all in reasonably quick time . |
| 29 | His survival as a traditional monarch was exceptional in a period when , elsewhere in Africa , tribal authority was denigrated and often pushed aside as an antique obstacle to the path of modernization and national self-determination . |
| 30 | Again , currently there is no way , official way , of saying what plan has been made and whether the plan was met and then logging it into whatever system that you guys are going to dream up for recording what training you have given . |