Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [noun sg] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1902 the county councils were given responsibility for the planning and provision of secondary education . |
| 2 | Altogether complaints from various sources concerning 126 practices or other businesses for which members are responsible were given consideration by the Committee which resolved upon the terms of charges in respect of ten members . |
| 3 | These fears were given credence by the revelation that in at least one case in the March 1992 legislative elections local officials bribed voters to support an unsuccessful DLP candidate . |
| 4 | Twelve patients were given prednisolone during the study , and their rates of change for spinal bone density were lower , but values were not statistically significantly different from those who did not receive corticosteroids . |
| 5 | Lenders were exempt from this legislation if their basic business was banking , insurance , or primarily unconnected with lending ; friendly societies and building societies were subject to other laws ; various other lenders falling outside a commonsense view of what constituted a moneylender were given exemption by the Board of Trade . |
| 6 | Such demands were given urgency by the publication in 1915 of Maternity : letters from working women which described experiences of motherhood in harrowing terms ; they were also to set the agenda for the 1918 Maternity and Child Welfare Act and interwar policy . |
| 7 | Harvard Securities were paid to make a market in Towerbell Records , but as Tom Wilmot has pointed out , the dealer who sent that letter would not have known of the pending disaster since dealers were forbidden access to the firm 's corporate finance department by the so-called " Chinese walls " However Wilmot has sometimes blamed his dealers for breaching dealing regulations . |
| 8 | Rentokil were voted Company of the Year The Jibes about tackling dry rot in the Cabinet came thick and fast . |
| 9 | Second-row Jackson was sent off for the first time in his career along with South Wales Police hooker Colin Hillman after the two were caught wrestling off the ball . |
| 10 | None of the speakers suggested by the DUC were on the programme ; all the speakers , while ‘ allegedly neutral ’ , were considered pro-mining by the DUC . |
| 11 | Findings were considered representative of the situation generally in the UK and French upland LFAs . |
| 12 | Biochemical analysis and titration studies were done withoutknowledge of the diagnosis . |
| 13 | Between 10 and 16 live whales were seen milling around the mouth of the Nene at 8.30 that morning ; low water was at midday , and at about 5 that afternoon the pod was seen swimming off to the north on the rising tide . |
| 14 | ‘ We were granted ownership of the building in March and in just three months we have been able to get it ready . ’ |
| 15 | In return , Blackpool trams were granted access to the Company tracks as far as Lytham , but rarely exercised the privilege . |
| 16 | English language broadcasts remained but were made part of the country 's external radio services . |
| 17 | An order requiring the contravener to repay the purchase price of the shares would not be capable of restoring the parties to their respective former positions unless the obligation to repay were made conditional on the tender of the share certificates . |
| 18 | Pharmacists say that they were promised payment for the service . |
| 19 | Foreign companies would be able to remit part of their profits abroad , and were promised compensation in the event of " unavoidable " nationalization ; they would be given tax concessions during the initial five years of operation if they were involved in high-technology industries , resource development or infrastructure construction . |
| 20 | After many battles the Orcs were driven north into the Forest of Shadows and deep into the Great Forest itself . |
| 21 | Earlier , less advanced forms were driven south by the expansion of superior types in Asia , Africa and America , but occasionally a barrier appeared that held back the advance and allowed the earlier forms to take refuge in an isolated southern area . |
| 22 | Dr David Tregoning , who led the probe , said : ‘ Patients were refused admission to the unit but it is difficult to attribute the deaths to that directly . |
| 23 | In Foca , 50 miles south of the Bosnian capital , Sarajevo , residents sought refuge in schools and hospitals and European Community monitors were refused access to the town as the Serbian-dominated federal army mopped up Muslim opposition . |
| 24 | The bodies of Richard Paul , aged 20 , and his uncle Raymond Dragseth , aged 47 , a professor of computer science at Panama Canal College , were found shot through the back of the head in a building near the Vatican Embassy in Panama yesterday . |
| 25 | MacAllister , a miller at Ardnish on the Rinns , was named as one of the four men who were taken prisoner on the pirate ship " Bloody Yankee " when she is supposed to have sailed into Lochindaal , in 1813 . |
| 26 | Some of the demonstrators were denied access to the Diamond by police tenders drawn up across Shipquay Street but after a time the RUC withdrew altogether and the Diamond was filed by the vast crowd . |
| 27 | This was the plea of a young Eritrean boy as he was being dragged back to the plane that had just brought him to the UK , when in September 1990 , he and his sister were denied access to the asylum procedure . |
| 28 | Earl Siward 's ships were sighted south of the estuary two hours ago . |
| 29 | Around them grew up short streets of cottages for the workpeople , run up so quickly that they look as though they were planted flat on the surface , without any foundations ; but still there was no congestion . |
| 30 | Later on , the squadron was given permission by the King to have its own squadron badge and each member was presented by the Commanding Officer with a personal copy of it . |