Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The affair had come to light in late January when a United Kingdom businessman , Paul Pearson , representing a South African-registered company , Dove Trading International , was stopped and searched at Moscow 's Sheremetyevo Airport on his way out of the country . |
| 2 | The defendant was driving in Jermyn Street at 1.55 a.m. on 11 May 1990 when he was stopped and given a roadside breath test which proved positive . |
| 3 | After a further two hour chase the Sea Rover was within our territorial waters where she was stopped and arrested by Seeker . |
| 4 | Pen , coming once more at a run to see his mother , was stopped and held by her and persuaded to come instead and play with Pilade . |
| 5 | The polished surface of the dark mahogany desk was charred and pitted beyond all redemption , the wood splintered and rough . |
| 6 | This is no doubt because it is the Government which would , on the hypothesis that section 47 was invalid because inconsistent with article 30 , have failed to take the necessary steps to ensure that section 47 was amended or repealed as necessary . |
| 7 | To do away with the evils of this system , as well as to guard against dangers of fraud and forgery , a Land Registry was established by the Land Transfer Act 1875 , which was amended and extended by the Land Transfer Act 1897 , both Acts being repealed and replaced by the Land Registration Acts 1925–1988 . |
| 8 | This being found somewhat lukewarm , somewhat unsatisfying and unsatisfactory , the formulation was amended and became : that Bert and Jasper were empowered by those present to offer support to the Irish revolutionaries , and ask to be given concrete tasks . |
| 9 | The final list was amended and typed on lavender-coloured notepaper by his political secretary Marcia Williams , who had become Lady Falkender in 1974 . |
| 10 | At a convivial get-together one evening the company was joined and mingled among by Mr Big 's Billy Sheehan and Paul Gilbert , both confirmed Ampeg fans . |
| 11 | They prefaced their findings by the statement that they applied the objective test to determine whether the vehicle was intended or adapted for use on public roads and they asked the question which was suggested by Lord Parker in Burns v Currell 1963 2QB 433,440 . |
| 12 | A test was laid down in 1987 as to whether a vehicle was intended or adapted for use on roads . |
| 13 | His lecture is a very good example , therefore , of " pragmatic ambivalence " ( Leech 1983 ) , conveying , on one level , an academic argument which is appropriate to the speech event , but on another level , a strongly political protest which is not , and which he may deny was intended if challenged . |
| 14 | The decision of the House of Lords in Caldwell , in which the term recklessness was redefined and extended in the context of the Criminal Damage Act 1971 , has produced speculation as to the meaning of recklessness in rape . |
| 15 | Blanche was irritated and entertained by his nervous chatter in equal measure . |
| 16 | In the present chapter we consider some of the main issues of policy and strategy which the Leeds approach raises : the way PNP policy was formulated and communicated ; the substance and interpretation of the policy ; and the LEA 's own strategies for implementing the policy — as opposed to those adopted in the schools which have been considered in previous chapters — with particular reference to the INSET programme . |
| 17 | This chapter has made a number of points about the way in which PNP policy was formulated and communicated ; about the means and manner of its interpretation ; its substance ; and the strategies adopted to secure its implementation . |
| 18 | Everything was checked and locked up and it must have gone during the late night or early morning , Thursday night/Friday morning . |
| 19 | Carmichael and Dearborn ( 1950 ) demonstrated that continuous reading was likely to result in increased failure of concentration within an hour , but if the performance of the reader was checked and confirmed by asking questions at half-hour intervals then performance could continue for six to eight hours without signs of fatigue . |
| 20 | The time spent on each activity over three weeks was calculated and converted to a percentage of the total time , as listed in Table 2 . |
| 21 | The CAT reporter activity was calculated and referred to that of the wild type constructions . |
| 22 | Here , the claim that the empire of Charles V was calculated and designed by Spain is challenged on the grounds that ‘ there was no such thing in the late fifteenth century as a Spanish collective will ’ . |
| 23 | For example home help was costed at £2.92 per hour in Ipswich , and £4.17 in Newham ; most day care in Ipswich was provided in Residential Homes which was calculated as involving no extra cost unless transport was provided , whereas in Newham day care was usually provided in day centres , involving a cost of just under £5 per day on top of the cost of transportation ( see Appendix IV . |
| 24 | For example , if 500 cells were counted in one section and the number of cells of each intensity was as follows ; 0=20 , 1=150 , 2=230 , 3=100 , the mean count was calculated as follows : ( 0×20 ) + ( 1×150 ) + ( 2×230 ) + ( 3×100 ) =910/500 and the mean intensity in the section was rounded up to ‘ 2 ’ . |
| 25 | Latency was calculated as follows : Increased lysosomal fragility is indicated by a decrease in latency. ( ii ) Determination of the proportion of total enzyme released into the supernatant after resedimentation of lysosomes from the incubated samples by centrifugation at 16500 g fr 25 minutes . |
| 26 | In the past , the farmer 's wife or daughters made the cheese and then it was matured and ripened on a shelf near the cooking range . |
| 27 | Most of Siberia was conquered and held without the serious levels of bloodshed experienced in the American West . |
| 28 | Wales was conquered and subjected in the middle ages , Scotland 's parliament and administration were absorbed in 1707 , Ireland lost all but local administration in 1801 and the British upper classes reacted in horror at the prospect not of Irish independence but of an element of internal self-government when it was proposed by Gladstone in 1886 . |
| 29 | However , in 1965 it was given to the National Tramway Museum to care for , and it operated at Crich in the Derbyshire hills from 1965–1971 , when 59 was withdrawn as needing extensive overhaul . |
| 30 | The petition was withdrawn or dismissed . |