Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Proposed for 25,000 people , the building of the city was stopped because of the economic crisis after two ‘ superblock ’ units had been constructed , but sufficient was shown that a quite different form of residential layout was possible from that dependent on the provision of estate roads and traditional house frontage . |
| 2 | Did the Secretary of State read in the memoirs of Dr. Garrett FitzGerald that during the negotiations on the Anglo-Irish Agreement the Government had been prepared to allow judges from the courts in the Irish Republic to sit on the Bench in Northern Ireland as part of what are described as mixed courts , but that that was stopped because of the resistance of then then Lord Chief Justice , Lord Lowry ? |
| 3 | The original charge was of sending a fake bomb with intent , but the charge was amended because of the man 's mental state . |
| 4 | It was intended that with effect from Sept. 1 a " privatization account " worth 30,000 kupony ( coupons ) would be opened in savings banks for each citizen . |
| 5 | Also on March 21 it was announced that it was intended that from April 1993 all further education colleges offering full-time education and all sixth-form colleges should be taken out of local authority control , as the new sector of post-16 education funded directly by central government . |
| 6 | When meetings are held only once a year , or even less frequently , it is all too easy to forget why a particular provision was formulated and on what grounds one supported or opposed it . |
| 7 | In 1903 a hair room was erected and in 1905 a chemical laboratory . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , taking World Bank and IDA figures together , and including interest payments by borrowing countries , it was calculated that during fiscal 1991 developing countries had paid back $1,677 million more than they received . |
| 9 | It was calculated that in Prussia at the end of the century 1,700,000 men in a total population of 8,700,000 were completely exempt from military service ( 1,170,000 because of privileges possessed by most of the Prussian towns , 530,000 because of their social status or occupation ) . |
| 10 | For the evidence was perjured and by bringing a charge of treason in an English court , a conviction was secured . |
| 11 | A Bill was actually introduced into the Commons in 1871 to disafforest it , but was withdrawn because of the strength of the opposition . |
| 12 | One patient was withdrawn because of side effects ( see above ) , but , otherwise , side effects were few . |
| 13 | In 1873 the first Welsh Black Cattle Society was formed but in 1883/4 it was divided into north and south breed societies to improve the two Welsh types . |
| 14 | An All-Russian Peasants ' Union was formed and at its first congress , which met in secret in July , it demanded the abolition of private property in land and the convening of a constituent assembly . |
| 15 | In 1991 there were fewer people killed on the roads in Lothian than at any time since 1975 when the Region was formed and at the same time the Region experienced the second lowest casualty total . |
| 16 | In 1902 Lisboa CC was formed and in common with other cricket clubs played soccer in the off season . |
| 17 | This was the first case in Tanzania of its kind : she argued that she was dismissed because of her sex . |
| 18 | The 35-year-old Bellaghy man , who was jailed in July in Dublin for armed robbery , strenuously denied that he was dismissed because of a financial dispute with his employers . |
| 19 | But the case was dismissed because of delay in getting it to court . |
| 20 | He had a period as a railway clerk at Bridge , but was dismissed because of a deficit of eleven pounds . |
| 21 | Two days later , he was dismissed and as a consequence of his dismissal , his unemployment benefit was stopped and he received reduced rate income support of , I understand , £23.79 a week . |
| 22 | ‘ On the last day the professional psychologist was consulted as to whether she should be introduced again . |
| 23 | There was also a great spirit of unity among the workers and , although the statements were coloured with rhetoric , it was emphasized that at Wolverhampton , ‘ The whole of the workers stood firm and were prepared to fight to the bitter end ’ and that at Hull there was ‘ Alarm — fear — despair — a victorious army disarmed and handed over to its enemies . ’ |
| 24 | The flight from Gatwick was diverted because of the scare , even though twenty-six year old Jason Reszeter ( Ressiter ) from Wootton near Abingdon immediately told the stewardess he was ’ winding her up . ’ |
| 25 | In response to the children 's far more advanced views on integration the tutorial programme was revised and within two weeks the child was a member of the mainstream school . |
| 26 | Oh yes anything that happened down the glen or way was heard that from the pack man so it was bound to be true . |
| 27 | From this point on , progress was limited because of the great instability of the inhibitory substance . |
| 28 | Now was the main race , a true International with 17 nations on the start line , something we have not seen in Britain for some time despite the fact that the entry was limited because of the following week 's World Sprint Championships which caused some potential entrants to opt out . |
| 29 | A further charge was that practical and theoretical instruction , even on diseases of the horse , was limited and in some cases erroneous . |
| 30 | Based on what I thought were proper symptoms , Puls. was given but with only temporary relief , and slight lowering of the blood pressure . |