Example sentences of "[adj] was [vb pp] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The final of the Carlsberg Tens was won by Aliens from Japan , who accounted for White Hart Marauders 24-12 . |
| 2 | This was supported by observations of approaches to models at a study plot where more than 400 colour-marked birds were present ; no marked individual approached more than once . |
| 3 | By early 1959 the County Council was proposing to designate Cramlington as a Comprehensive Development Area and this was supported by representations from the UDC . |
| 4 | An agreement was finally reached , only hours before the beginning of the new fiscal year , but this was defeated in Congress on Oct. 5 . |
| 5 | This was cited by 37% of respondents . |
| 6 | Under the agreement News Corporation was permitted to borrow a further US$600 million on condition that this was repaid as part of a US$800 million reduction in its debt burden by February 1992 . |
| 7 | This was replaced in turn by the immense station built on reclaimed land in the late 1920s and opened in 1930 . |
| 8 | This was transmitted by fleas from the rats that flourished in the trenches to man . |
| 9 | This was recognized by parliament in 1944 ( Dent , 1944 ) but was largely forgotten for two decades as subsequent Secretaries of State avoided its use ( Gordon and Lawton , 1978 , Davis 1980 ; Salter and Tapper , 1981 ; Raggatt and Weiner , 1985 ) . |
| 10 | This was amended to $100bn in a 1987 revision of the law , and now the Congressional Budget Office , which keeps track of such things , tells us that this too will be overshot , resulting in a deficit estimated at $117.8bn . |
| 11 | This was expressed by Crick as the ‘ central dogma ’ of molecular biology , that information can pass from DNA to protein , but not from protein to DNA . |
| 12 | This was expressed in terms of freedom to do certain things ( refer to hospitals of their choice ; spend money on new staff and equipment ) and freedom from externally determined policies and procedures ( for example , contracts set by the district health authority ) . |
| 13 | This was made in cooperation with the Terrence Higgins Trust , the British Association of Counsellors and the Centre for Aids Counselling . |
| 14 | This was met off Sandwich on 24 August 1217 by an English force under Hubert de Burgh [ q.v . ] . |
| 15 | Although Lagrange seemed to cherish hopes that his work would show the way to the solution of the general quintic the results obtained indicated a distinct possibility that there might be no corresponding formula in the case of equations of degree greater than 4 , and a supposed proof of this was given by Ruffini in 1799 . |
| 16 | However , this was dismissed in October by the Chechen National Congress ( CNC ) , an opposition body led by Gen. Dzhakhar Dudayev . |
| 17 | This was answered in part by a number of small-scale entrepreneurs operating in the shanty towns . |
| 18 | It could be argued that this was hastened in London by the Great Plague of 1665 when the familiar sight of cartloads of corpses contrasted with the decency and sanitary advantage of encoffining the dead . |
| 19 | George Wilson of Reddings , Moffat , and Neil Manning of Tweedshaws , Tweedsmuir , Biggar also spent 2,800gns for Barlaes Teviot , a two-year-old from R&M Fergusson , Barlaes , Dalry , and this was followed at 2,200gns by a bid from FA Waugh of Kilnstown , Carlisle , for the first prizewinning Huntly Yarrow shown by R&M McIntosh of Outer Huntly , Ashkirk , Selkirk . |
| 20 | This was followed by letters to The Times and the Daily Telegraph and , a year later , by an anniversary letter to The Times . |
| 21 | This was followed by construction from a series of concrete rings , 6ft in diameter , mortared together ; more recently , cesspools have been made from glass fibre ( glass reinforced plastic , GRP ) . |
| 22 | This was followed by provisions of £846m in 1989 . |
| 23 | This was followed by experience at the Capital Hotel , London , and the Toastmaster Inn , Burham , Kent , as chef de partie , before returning to the Capital Hotel as sous chef . |
| 24 | This was followed by neodymium-iron-boron from General Motors and Sumitomo in 1983 . |
| 25 | This was followed by productions in both New York and East Berlin . |
| 26 | This was followed by perforation of the thin bone of the skull and mandible , and of such bones as the pelvis and scapula , and then by attrition of the edges of the teeth , but not breakage . |
| 27 | This was followed by weeks of bargaining with the smaller parties over ministerial posts and policies . |
| 28 | This was followed by pamidronate in 500 mL 5% dextrose infused at a rate of 15 mg/h . |
| 29 | This was followed by shots of John from some pop videos Barbara had made and then some footage that Nick and I had discovered in Damascus of John 's farewell party in Beirut . |
| 30 | The advantages to the individual company entering international selling were discussed and this was followed by aspects of how different cultures affect the sales approach . |