Example sentences of "[noun] was [verb] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A culture of gentility and manners was based on profit from rent and colonial investments . |
| 2 | He was MP for Downton from 1831 to 1832 , but the borough was destined for abolition in the Reform Act of 1832 . |
| 3 | The earlier approach is in some ways simpler , in that one can tell precisely what was and what was not a borough , because a borough was created by charter in a formal legal act . |
| 4 | His concern for religion was shown by service on the commission for the propagation of the gospel in Wales ( where he became a JP ) and by his part in petitions for toleration , which no doubt reinforced contacts with Oliver Cromwell . |
| 5 | Although the commitment to religion was stressed from time to time , often in response to the charge of militarism , the CLB always seemed to emphasize matters of social discipline and conformity . |
| 6 | His remedy was to sue for breach of contract . |
| 7 | This association was confirmed by analysis of early first-century BC Greek coins ( fig. 5.5 ) from the region ; some of these coins proved to be made of brass typical of the cementation process and they thus pre-date Roman use of the alloy . |
| 8 | Kukulkan was attended by spirits of earth , water and fire , and was responsible for the sprouting of maize crops and the mating of fish — in short , in his hands he held the key to the tribe 's survival . |
| 9 | On each of the six nights the auditorium was packed to capacity with a seating of 1,500 . |
| 10 | It was low at first , then we could hear it rising until the whole auditorium was engulfed in gales of laughter at the poor preacher who had been duped by the Mau Maus . |
| 11 | The system , which is also used for the borrowing and lending of stock and for the pledging of stock as collateral for short-term loans , has proved popular and , by late-1991 , some 70% of all outstanding gilt-edged stock was held in accounts with the CGO . |
| 12 | When the rabbit stock was reduced by myxomatosis to less than one per cent of what it had been , a number of warren systems inevitably became untenanted . |
| 13 | In 1911 , following six months ' military service with the Danish infantry , Rambush was invited to England by Arthur H. Lymn , who had formed a business in London to further develop and exploit commercially existing processes of gas production for industrial purposes . |
| 14 | J. G. C. Anderson was recruited in 1937 and T. R. M. Lawrie was transferred from England in 1939 . |
| 15 | The deal was cleared for take-off by British and European regulators , despite protests from BA 's rivals . |
| 16 | The deal was struck after talks between lawyers and Official Solicitor David Venables . |
| 17 | A story about the offender 's arrest nearly doubled the daily circulation of the New York Post In response to the public interest in the crimes , a deal was struck in respect to the rights to the story and a book produced . |
| 18 | The deal was won by TVMM against strong competition from Scottish Televison , which used to be part of the same organisation as Grampian . |
| 19 | A similar deal was signed with Yugoslavia on June 24 , allowing for the bilateral transit of 180,000 vehicles . |
| 20 | In America a journalist was sent to prison for refusing to disclose information which could have revealed the innocence of a person on trial , but prison would not normally be an option in a civil case . |
| 21 | An experiment was conducted as part of the fieldwork to contrast random and quota sampling . |
| 22 | Jesty 's experiment was met by hostility in the neighbourhood and , labelled inhuman , he was ‘ hooted at , reviled and pelted whenever he attended markets in the neighbourhood ’ . |
| 23 | Each experiment was performed in duplicate on each dog . |
| 24 | The history of conflict between the peoples of this region over the centuries was interpenetrated by episodes in which it was subject to the imperial development of Rome , Macedon , Byzantium and the various peoples that streamed out of Central Asia into Persia and beyond . |
| 25 | The presence of Barnes Wallis as a consultant guaranteed an innovative approach , but it was n't until the tendering was opened to competition outside the United Kingdom that things really began to move . |
| 26 | In the centre of the plan of the eastern half of the building , the original grain-storage silo structure of the warehouse was retained for use as a lift , staircase and refuse chute ( Fig 58 ) . |
| 27 | When the vastly popular Field Marshal Earl Alexander of Tunis was appointed to Canada in 1946 , Letson — as a soldier with wide connections in business and society — proved an admirable choice as Secretary to the Governor-General . |
| 28 | Just as Tite himself , it occurs to me , is going to be doing when he goes into the witness-box at Summerchild 's inquest later that summer and tells the Coroner — I turn back in my file to the copy I took of the cutting — that Summerchild was working on conditions of employment in the Civil Service at the time of his death . |
| 29 | The 23-year-old was working on designs for two Theatr Clywd , Mold , productions and was just sticking together his model box when I telephoned . |
| 30 | The same reasoning was used in Lewis v Lethbridge [ 1987 ] Crim LR 59 ( DC ) : The accused received £54 in sponsorship money for a colleague who entered the London Marathon . |