Example sentences of "[noun] was [verb] [adv prt] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Doctors said the biopsy was carried out in a different part of the brain to where the rupture of the aneurysm occurred and was not responsible for the death . |
| 2 | On this occasion , Plage was set up over a water-hole in a clearing in the jungle , hoping that a leopard would show up to hunt or drink . |
| 3 | The card was borne back on a silver tray . |
| 4 | An experiment was carried out with a mixed age group of macaques . |
| 5 | This experiment was carried out in a dedicated growth room with walls well masked with charcoal-grey cartridge paper . |
| 6 | The first ring was thrown out of a window after a row . |
| 7 | Mo was curled up in a bundle under the eiderdown . |
| 8 | But the recommendation was thrown out by an overwhelming majority , with only Coun Orwig and education committee chairman , Coun Handel Morgan , voting to close the three schools . |
| 9 | Although most Panamanians will welcome the departure of General Noriega , the fact that their new President was sworn in by a US army general at a US army base is likely to colour perceptions of the new government . |
| 10 | Then a motorcyclist was brought in on a blue light , a dispatch rider who had been burning along the Norwich road and hit a patch of oil . |
| 11 | It was here in 1911 , for instance , that the ruthless , reforming Russian First Minister Peter Stolypin was gunned down by a Jewish police agent in full view of the Tsar , at a gala opera night . |
| 12 | The tailwheel was made to be retractable and a third seat was added along with a gun position . |
| 13 | This seal was washed up on an oil covered beach . |
| 14 | Morse was conscious that his mind was drifting off into an interesting avenue of thought , but also that he was drifting off to sleep , as well . |
| 15 | This optimism was borne out of a confidence in the ability of the social sciences to provide the basis for social policies ; in the State to administer those policies ; in the superiority of middle-class culture ; and in psycho-medicine to understand and explain individual behaviour . |
| 16 | Undoubtedly Richard was handed over to a wet-nurse . |
| 17 | Two-thirds of the ground floor of each house in the terrace was taken up by a garage ; the door to Sybil 's stood open with the car inside but the other three were closed , revealing that the owners had differing and not particularly compatible tastes in colour . |
| 18 | The tea was handed round by a posse of mothers who greeted Agnes in a friendly but appraising way which infuriated her . |
| 19 | The parkland was laid out with a smooth lawn . |
| 20 | The monastery was borne along on a buoyant prosperity which , while it may have contributed to the dissatisfactions and distractions felt by the few , drew most of its members together in a sense of their importance and independence , and hastened the disappearance of earlier divisions . |
| 21 | The research was carried out for a doctoral dissertation on the princely sum of £410 per annum ( this was the ‘ married woman 's ’ rate of postgraduate grant at the time , £120 lower than the full grant ) . |
| 22 | Until a few weeks ago skin patients had to go for their treatment to the old dermatology hospital in this old TB ward , while research was carried out in a couple of temporary buildings . |
| 23 | For walking scenes involving the full-size model , only the upper half appeared , making things easier for the puppeteer underneath , since the weight was reduced by about a third . |
| 24 | In many respects the ‘ New Conservatism ’ in Britain and the United States was born out of a reaction to the high inflation of the mid-1970s . |
| 25 | But the study was carried out at a time of economic expansion and three out of four of the firms had experienced growth in the year prior to the study . |
| 26 | A study was carried out in a Bedfordshire village , i.e. a semi-rural environment , of predation by domestic cats over a one-year period and the results were published in a zoological journal in 1987 . |
| 27 | This study was carried out in a range of locations and tenures , and tested people 's awareness of energy saving products , conservation measures , and novel types of energy technology using ambient energy ( eg solar collectors ) , all rated against their costs of installation , running and maintenance . |
| 28 | But the whole study was set up within a much more general theoretical orientation : the theory of linguistic change ; it was not merely an attempt to demonstrate age , class and style differences , as Smith implies . |
| 29 | The intention was to hand over to a new social democratic party and a younger generation of leaders less tainted with the communist past . |
| 30 | When Otis Griffith 's car was written off in an accident , he was able to relax and let someone else fight his legal battle for compensation , thanks to a little preplanning |