Example sentences of "[to-vb] was [vb pp] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Damage estimated at costing £100,000 to repair was caused by the blaze . |
| 2 | He further averred that the fact that he had not instructed Macfie & Alexander to send the offer to sell was known to the pursuer 's agents , Ferguson & Forster , since Mr Rae and Mr Alex D. Forster , the partners of Macfie & Alexander , were also the whole partners of Ferguson & Forster . |
| 3 | I am happy to accept that they did not know that the payment that they stood entitled to receive was limited by the list size criterion . |
| 4 | ‘ ( c ) Proceedings . ( i ) The case was tried before Judge Aglionby and jury between 3 and 4 July 1990. ( ii ) At the close of the prosecution case a submission of no case to answer was made by the respondent in respect of both counts . |
| 5 | At the close of the prosecution case before the trial judge , a submission of no case to answer was made by the respondent in respect of both counts . |
| 6 | Sensitivity to dexamethasone was suggested by the fact that the adverse reaction stopped on withdrawal of the drug , although an intradermal test to dexamethasone sodium phosphate gave a negative result . |
| 7 | For Field 's piano concertos , two of which O'Conor is playing with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra this week , contain astonishing music , material which it is hard to believe was conceived at the turn of the 18th to 19th century . |
| 8 | The quest to conquer was led by the leader of the clan , Paul , a modern conquistador of the Book of Life embodied in the writings of the Talmud which he meticulously followed . |
| 9 | A similar widespread refusal to co-operate was encountered in the diocese of Peterborough , where parishes such as Pattishall and All Saints ' , Northampton , witnessed prolonged battles between the churchwardens and the episcopal visitors over the position of the communion table . |
| 10 | That aversion to touch was coupled with the distance he could put between himself and others , the withdrawal . |
| 11 | The matter was thrown into further confusion , however , when leave to appeal was granted to the minority shareholders . |
| 12 | Eventually , a statutory right to disclaim was created by the Peerage Act 1963 and Tony Benn , as he later became , was enabled to pursue his political career . |
| 13 | The range of goods they were able to carry was welcomed in the area , as well as lunchtime sandwich facilities which had previously been missing in the neighbourhood . |
| 14 | Originally the class of persons entitled to claim was limited to the wife , husband , parent and child of the deceased but over the years the classes have been extended to enable all those classes mentioned in the 1976 Act to claim . |
| 15 | MR JUSTICE HUTCHISON said that the applicant was in effect asking the court to declare unlawful the FPC 's use of paragraph 19 provisions in order to put in place a policy for limiting the use of deputising services , save where the power to limit was used for the purpose of keeping the deputising services going properly . |
| 16 | Only inability to belch was associated with the state of the fundic wrap , being twice as common in cases with intact v defective wrap . |