Example sentences of "[adj] was [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1881 the 35th was linked with The 107th Regiment of Foot , which was raised in 1854 as part of the Bengal Infantry . |
| 2 | This was supported by the Political Declaration of the Conference of Non-Aligned Foreign Ministers in February 1981 , which called for a dialogue between the Southeast Asian states to resolve their differences and eliminate the involvement and threats of intervention by outside powers . |
| 3 | Construction of this was begun in the first half of the sixteenth century by the Donatory Captain Simão Gonçalves da Câmara . |
| 4 | This was recorded by the Hon. |
| 5 | Despite several revolts during the eleventh century , Macedonia remained under Byzantine rule until this was challenged by the rising power of Serbia in the late thirteenth century , in the reign of Milutin ( 1282–1321 ) , and eclipsed by Dušan in the mid fourteenth century . |
| 6 | It laid down the general principle of comprehensive education which would have ended selection over a period ( but this was repealed in the 1979 Act ) . |
| 7 | This was built at the personal expense of the Rev. G.P. Howes 1888–99 . |
| 8 | This was built into the developing environment from the start , and continued to receive attention as and when the opportunity arose to help the children expand their existing range of choices . |
| 9 | This was built in the 1550s for the Dryden family , but some of the banks and ditches still remain in the fields opposite the Hall . |
| 10 | I think some of this was lost on the non-Aryan members of our section , such as the Polynesians who could in no way pretend that their ancestry stretched back to the Vikings . |
| 11 | Hatcher , by contrast , prefers a 1377 figure in the 23/4–3 million range , and thinks it unlikely that this was exceeded until the second quarter of the sixteenth century . |
| 12 | A large part of this was destroyed in the 1990 gales , but fortunately we had underplanted wherever possible and the magnolias which are such a feature of the garden survived remarkably well . |
| 13 | The late nineteenth century saw the emergence of a model of human origins based very much on Haeckel 's linear progressionism , but this was replaced in the early years of the twentieth century by a theory more in tune with the new paleontology . |
| 14 | There was a car ferry across the narrows of Loch Long , a source of delay on the journey to Kyle and Skye in pioneering days : this was replaced by the present road bridge earlier this century , and passage through Dornie , once slow and halting , is now swift . |
| 15 | There had always been bad blood between Robert and Edward Bruce ; now this was transmitted to the next generation apparently . |
| 16 | The matter was referred to the Committee on Privileges which recommended that the matter was covered by absolute privilege but when this was debated by the whole House , it was accepted that writing to a minister was not a proceeding before Parliament . |
| 17 | This was separated from the other digits , giving their owners the ability to grasp and manipulate objects . |
| 18 | This was recognized in the 1430s by the author of The Libelle of Englyshe Polycye , when he advocated the use of a trade embargo to force Flemish compliance with English policies ( 43 , pp.5–6 ) . |
| 19 | There was always trenchant opposition to Japanese annexation of Korea and this was revealed on the left and the right of the political spectrum . |
| 20 | This was announced to the waiting press and supporters by Dr Helen Martini , who was to play an important role in the fight to get the children home in the weeks that followed . |
| 21 | This was to gather under the very roof of Darlington Hall the most influential of the gentlemen whose support had been won with a view to conducting an ‘ unofficial ’ international conference — a conference that would discuss the means by which the harshest terms of the Versailles treaty could be revised . |
| 22 | This was made in the following way . |
| 23 | Statutory provision for this was made in the Social Work ( Scotland ) Act 1968 . |
| 24 | This was met by the loudest burst of approval yet , followed by warm and sustained applause . |
| 25 | It was claimed that this was caused by the greater number of convictions , and the speed at which the increase took place , rather than from any perceptible changes in sentencing practice . |
| 26 | We are therefore left with the unsatisfactory position that the market maker may well be harmed but be the very person who is unable to prove that this was caused by the inside trade . |
| 27 | This was caused by the sudden interest of the water authorities in privately owned schemes using waterpower which , owing to the abundance of steep-flowing rivers in Wales , were proliferating at quite a rate . |
| 28 | This was given to the DC-10 as ‘ 51 , you are cleared to FL180 ’ but was miss-heard by the Concorde as ‘ 01 , you are cleared to FL180 ’ . |
| 29 | This was exploited by the Labour Party which , anticipating such a situation , had tabled a motion of no confidence in the government . |
| 30 | This was symbolized by the doomed attempt to restore the gold standard at pre-war parity as the basis of economic policy , which necessitated vigorous deflation to ensure financial rectitude in the altered conditions of the post-war world . |