Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Inspections were carried out by the Ceramic Industries Certification Scheme Ltd who are linked with the British Ceramic Research Association . |
| 32 | The settlers ' attempts at agriculture were frustrated , except on the southern steppe frontier , by frozen subsoil and the sub-arctic climate , and as they were carried out by the primitive ‘ slash-and-burn ’ method , were highly destructive of the forest environment . |
| 33 | Commander David Tucker head of the anti-terrorist squad believes both attacks were carried out by the same IRA unit . |
| 34 | It is finally stated in the report that the police believed the rapes were carried out by the same man , who is described quite fully . |
| 35 | But they were pegged back in the 41st minute when John Bumstead scored with a diving header from Scott Minto ’ s centre . |
| 36 | The controls were voted in at the annual meeting of the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources ( CCMLR ) . |
| 37 | The last two boxes were lifted on to the small boat , the men who strained under their weight cursing as they completed their task . |
| 38 | First , on the rateable value of the property , which was a value based on an assessment of what the property could earn if it were let out on the open market . |
| 39 | Then , to mark the end of the service , three enormous thunder-flashes were let off in the rear gatehouse . |
| 40 | They were walking on to the long ridge they had been able to see from the cottage window . |
| 41 | Unless the working classes were caught up in the new sectarian movements of Protestantism ( which were themselves a reaction and response to modernity ) , they were liable to slip into unbelief . |
| 42 | Many of the leading scholars amongst the South Slavs during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries were widely travelled and had studied in France , Germany , Austria and Italy , where they were caught up in the intellectual ferment which was abroad at that time . |
| 43 | Hundreds of thousands of people travelling home or heading out for the evening were caught up in the ensuing chaos . |
| 44 | On Jan. 2 fighters of the Fatah group ( loyal to Palestine Liberation Organization ( PLO ) chair Yassir Arafat ) , which had been deployed to protect two Palestinian refugee camps near Sidon , were caught up in the intra-Shia fighting . |
| 45 | The judges said they were won over by the sheer fun of its output . |
| 46 | It may be that they were climbing up into the older parts of the mine above the Grand Level to ascertain whether all the worthwhile ore had been taken out . |
| 47 | Most of their funds were lent back to the personal sector . |
| 48 | Enclosed monks and nuns , hermits and anchoresses , were sought out by the secular clergy and by the laity for advice and help . |
| 49 | But linguistic and other factors indicate that the oracles were written down by the 12th century BC . |
| 50 | The rest were written off to the Chinese , who did not take kindly to violation of their air-space . |
| 51 | Total restructuring costs of about $2.4 BILLION were written off in the fourth quarter of 1989 . |
| 52 | Then to the accompanying curious twitch of a dozen net curtains , and a wave and smile from Josey and Charlie , they were gliding off down the narrow little street , rather like , Lisa thought , a ship gliding across water . |
| 53 | A square vessel and parts of other domestic articles of wood were found about eight feet down in a peat moss at Strathmore , near Gruinart , and bones of a fifteen years old girl and a cow horn were turned up by the same peat diggers . |
| 54 | A few Bronze Age artifacts were turned up in the dark soil , but they had meant nothing to those who had seen them , and they had been turned back into the earth . |
| 55 | Battling Dave Cannon sprayed a whole trailer-load of the cow muck over a council building after plans for his retirement bungalow were turned down for the fourth time . |
| 56 | Similar proposals from the company for Hillington were turned down by the Scottish Secretary last March , after a public inquiry , on the grounds that the site is zoned for strategic industrial use . |
| 57 | In Nottinghamshire no less than 164,508 ‘ presumed pickets ’ were turned back during the first 27 weeks of the strike ’ ( Wallington , 1985 : 154 ) . |
| 58 | When our dad died , we were turned out by the Bridgewater agent . |
| 59 | They were looking down at the new Japanese car factory , Sakata , which had just opened in Humberside . |
| 60 | They were wedged in with the patient herd of people who were shuffling slowly and quietly up the stairs to the foyer , but Mark talked in a clear , excited voice , as if oblivious of their presence . |