Example sentences of "[was/were] raised [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some doubts were raised over Britain 's real motives for encouraging the foundation of , and entering , EFTA : economically , the smaller members were likely to benefit far more , which indeed did prove to be the case in the 1960s . |
| 2 | Drug and alcohol abuse were raised as issues which , because of their connection with crime , needed to be part of a programme for offenders . |
| 3 | FURTHER concerns were raised at ICI 's Millbank headquarters on Sir Denys ' comments on the company 's new meat substitute Quorn . |
| 4 | I 've listened very carefully to Councillor and I have n't learnt a thing about the answer to various questions which were raised at E I D and and I ask it again , why do you really reject the Scheme ? |
| 5 | Their homes ranged from the large subterranean winter lodges of the Nivkhs to light summer huts of branches , reeds and bark which in some cases were raised on stilts . |
| 6 | Hopes were raised on June 28 when French President François Mitterrand , immediately after the EC summit in Lisbon [ see pp. 38942-43 ] , unexpectedly paid a six-hour visit to Sarajevo , where he met Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic and Radovan Karadzic , leader of the Bosnian Serbian Democratic Party ( SDS ) . |
| 7 | Taxes were raised on vehicles and electricity prices increased . |
| 8 | Tensions were raised on Jan. 26 when Achmet Sadiq , a leader of the Moslem minority who had been elected to Parliament in June 1989 but disqualified from the November election on procedural grounds , and another Moslem parliamentary candidate were found guilty of " inciting violence and dissension " and using the word " Turkish " in their campaign manifestos . |
| 9 | Memorials to him were raised on Liddington Hill in 1938 and on Barbary Down in 1939 . |
| 10 | After last week 's defeat by Aston Villa , doubts were raised about Rangers ' ability to stay the pace . |
| 11 | What follows from this analysis , of course , is that concurrent interference as an explanation of latent inhibition is open to the same objections as were raised to Wagner 's theory . |
| 12 | Objections were raised to Lotze 's candidate for the position of ‘ local sign ’ on such grounds as that localisation was prompt and certain just where , according to Lotze 's theory , one would expect it to be difficult if not impossible . |
| 13 | At the same time the fees were raised to £4 a year to pay for this , and Book-keeping as a subject was dropped . |
| 14 | If the duty rate per degree of alcohol were raised for wines ( and beers ) and lowered for spirits , the standard rate for all alcoholic drinks , which would maintain the total tax take , would be much closer to the wine rate than the spirits rate . |
| 15 | This is partly because , at least in the cases of Montenegro and Kosovo , large foreign loans were raised for investments in infrastructure and heavy industry ( much of which turned out to be unprofitable ) . |
| 16 | When voices were raised against scandal in Sussex electioneering , they actually reinforced the role of the aristocracy in defining the boundaries of permissible behaviour . |
| 17 | It is said that invoices were raised against Wessex on behalf of Abbey and that when payment was received by Abbey the moneys were diverted by Mr. Tully and others and were partly dissipated in bribes and partly disguised and concealed in various bank accounts and other havens . |
| 18 | Expectations were raised by Forsyth 's second feature . |
| 19 | ONLY days after the European Community summit agreed to convene a conference next year to change the EC constitution and prepare for monetary union , demands were raised by EC leaders yesterday for a second such conference to extend the powers of the European Parliament even further . |
| 20 | Pensions and unemployment payments were based on an insurance scheme , the funds for which were raised by taxes levied on both workers and employers . |
| 21 | But they were being given permission to borrow up to £628 million provided £75 million were raised by way of ERDF grants . |
| 22 | The doubts were raised by councillor Brian Timms , who said he had read a press report stating that the council had not yet decided whether to support the scheme . |
| 23 | Various other lines of defence to this action were raised by Mr. Ashworth and I will now consider those in case I am wrong on what I regard as the central issue . |
| 24 | A precedent was set in 1337 when the commanders of an army going to Scotland were engaged by contract , but their troops were raised by array . |
| 25 | The Visby limitations of 10,000 Poincaré francs per package or 30 Poincaré francs per kilogram were raised by 25% . |
| 26 | Garden flowers received little attention at Thorndon , although asters were raised from seeds sent by Bartram . |
| 27 | Clearly the populace was taken by surprise and many voices were raised in dissent . |
| 28 | However , almost before the dust had settled on the Political Community , voices were raised in favour of further efforts . |
| 29 | Interest rates were raised in response to these problems ( refer to Chapter 12 ) — bank base rates were raised in steps from 7½ per cent in May 1988 to 15 per cent in October 1989 — and mortgage rates followed the interest rate trend . |
| 30 | But , although eyebrows were raised in April at the unexpected announcement that DG would be axing a further 1,000 jobs , reducing the total headcount to just over 7,000 , from 17,700 a few years ago , Skates maintains that these cuts — 600 to 700 of which have already been effected — would have been implemented regardless of the company 's financial performance . |