Example sentences of "was [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , after completing the purchase , they were horrified to find that the cottage was infested with dry rot — this cost them £5,000 to deal with . |
| 2 | When I was heavily pregnant we lived in one room that was infested with red ants . |
| 3 | Jack Backhouse , a jet lad scarcely in his teens , was drunk and smashed up his father 's house A letter in 1853 claimed Whitby was infested with thieving ‘ city arabs , cast out of their homes , orphans by day and burthens by night ’ . ’ |
| 4 | This methof was effective at producing complete carbohydrate hydrolysis within two hours and was validated in preliminary experiments against an enzymatic method . |
| 5 | A hunting trip by Saudi Arabia 's Prince Bandar was stopped by environmental police in Niger after 55 bustard falcon carcasses were found . |
| 6 | Incubation was stopped by rapid washing ( 4×2 ml over 10 s ) with ice cold buffer . |
| 7 | Naturally , he was stopped by British Customs ; what gay men returning from Amsterdam ( or San Francisco , or … ) is not ? |
| 8 | We then voted on a lengthy Liberal resolution er , it was amended by Labour we voted on all of the separate points in the resolution , all were agreed and then Professor decided that he wanted to move a further amendment which after some consultation , some discussion with the legal people about it 's validity , he did which wiped out all of the things that we 'd just agreed and we turned to the original Conservative motion minus the beginning phrase and with a couple of things stuck on at the end and we thought well that 's it the Conservatives will vote for that , but no although it was their own motion in all but name , the Conservatives would n't vote for that unless Mr was allowed to move it . |
| 9 | In 1954 he completed the restoration of the chapel , which was ravaged by death-watch beetle . |
| 10 | In effect , Talabecland had ceded from the Empire , and was joined at various times by other provinces that were dissatisfied with the current elected Emperor . |
| 11 | During his visit to Shenzhen and Shuhai Deng was joined at various times by other high-ranking leaders , including President Yang Shangkun , Yang Baibing , President Yang 's younger brother and a member of the central committee secretariat of the ruling Chinese Communist Party ( CCP ) and secretary-general of the Central Military Commission , Qiao Shih , a member of the CCP politburo standing committee and central committee secretariat , and Zhu Rongji , a reformist Vice-Premier . |
| 12 | She was joined by Betsy M. Bryan , Alexander Badawy Assistant Professor of Egyptian Art and Archaeology at The Johns Hopkins University , Baltimore , who since 1984 has been collecting material on the position of women in New Kingdom society . |
| 13 | Dr Ashok Kumar was joined by Labour housing spokesman George Howarth on a visit to a community refurbishment scheme on the Hornsea Estate , Hemlington . |
| 14 | In the new government the PNV was joined by Basque Solidarity ( EA ) , with nine parliamentary seats , itself a splinter group of the PNV , and by Basque Left ( EE ) , with six . |
| 15 | It was joined by small shopkeepers , doctors , dentists , lawyers , and airline pilots not from some conspiracy but because of the damaging re-distribu-tive effects of inflation which all were experiencing . |
| 16 | When in the late 1980s that powerful musical expression was joined by African , Latin American and hundreds of varieties of indigenous folk music traditions around the world to form ‘ World Music ’ , the process of globalization of popular culture seemed complete . |
| 17 | Rebecca , dressed in a black mini-dress , was joined by joint leaders of the DHL Everest expedition Peter Earl and John Barry . |
| 18 | Soon he was joined by other Europeans and henceforth it became a common sight to see one or other of the ladies or gentlemen of the " confident " party slapping away at the trough where once the dhobi had slapped ( for on the day after the Collector 's appearance the dhobi had vanished from the enclave , either because he considered it too dangerous to remain any longer now that the commander of the garrison had assumed the caste of dhobi or , more likely , because he resented the competition ) . |
| 19 | Later , Mobbs was joined by other subject groups . |
| 20 | Matthew was joined by other members of his delegation and the pro-apartheid Conservative Party , the nominally independent homelands of Ciskei and Bophutatswna and four other groups . |
| 21 | She took me up to see her room , which she had to herself until she was joined by another-middle aged woman without children . |
| 22 | One included Red Square on its route , and was joined by Russian President Boris Yeltsin . |
| 23 | She was joined by leading actor Robert Downey Jnr and wife Debbie in Leicester Square , London . |
| 24 | Writing moved from ( i ) a supporting and recording function , in societies in which oral composition and tradition were still predominant , through ( ii ) a stage in which this function was joined by written composition for oral performance and ( iii ) a further stage in which composition was additionally written only to be read , to ( iv ) that later and very familiar stage in which most or virtually all composition was written to be silently read , and was at last , for this reason , generalized as ‘ literature ’ . |
| 25 | In December word was leaked to American newspapers that the president had resolved to fight , if war was necessary , even if it meant destroying his chances of re-election . |
| 26 | The archimandrite was rebuked by Metropolitan Stratimirović for keeping ‘ that blasphemer amongst your priests ’ . |
| 27 | In the longer term , it may be something aesthetic will be seen in what was intended as pure politics . |
| 28 | Mr Scargill says the Soviet pitmen 's present was intended for international purposes , but the Soviet democratic labour movement says it meant to ease the hardship of striking British miners . |
| 29 | A report of the work was typed by the school secretary but its informal style and the sometimes cryptic references to individual children make it clear that it was intended for internal circulation only . |
| 30 | THE American presidential campaign was plunged into new controversy last night when Hillary Clinton , wife of the embattled Democratic hopeful Bill Clinton , sought to counter allegations of her husband 's marital infidelity by airing the same charges against President Bush . |