Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [vb pp] [prep] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This seemingly irreconcilable impasse was resolved by President Carter and his staff who encouraged both sides to take the risk of thinking more critically and creatively about solving their joint problems , along the following lines . |
| 2 | We have , therefore , chosen a control group , which comprised patients with normal liver function tests and in whom the gall bladder was removed during liver resection . |
| 3 | A second plugged liver biopsy was performed with ultrasound guidance to assess necrosis . |
| 4 | The auction was conducted by Harry Phillips , auctioneer of New Bond Street , in July and August 1859 and raised some £95,000 in eighteen days : four pictures were bought by the National Gallery , and others by collectors of the calibre of William Douglas , eleventh Duke of Hamilton , Walter Scott , fifth Duke of Buccleuch [ qq.v. ] , the fourth Marquess of Hertford , and Baron James de Rothschild . |
| 5 | His purchase of Kidder Peabody soured when the New York investment bank 's top deal-maker was jailed for insider trading . |
| 6 | Q My 15-month-old Belgian Shepherd was put on Hills Science Prescription Diet owing to crystals in his urine . |
| 7 | A volume rich in provenances of Scottish association was presented by Mr Peter Eaton : a copy of A Rationale upon the Book of Common Prayer of the Church of England ( London , 1661 ) . |
| 8 | In January 1987 a branch of the Young Women 's Association was formed with Mrs Averil Capper as president , Mrs Norma Burke as vice-president , Mrs Sylvia Courtney as secretary and Mrs Gale Davison as treasurer . |
| 9 | The association was chaired by John Hume and drew on the self-help traditions of the credit unions . |
| 10 | The proposal for the formation of a National Deaf Association was discussed on Saturday morning in the presence of nineteen delegates . |
| 11 | The Standard of the Association was paraded by Mr J Kirkpatrick . |
| 12 | No association was found with cholesterol levels , but a distinction was made between macrovascular and microvascular complications in this study . |
| 13 | Another gesture symbolising true Christian Aid was made by Mr Moore , our dynamic Church Officer , who gave up a week of his annual holiday so as to be with us throughout . |
| 14 | The best policy would be a middle approach whereby economic and military aid was provided for south Korea in the hope that this could give sufficient strength for the regime to survive . |
| 15 | In the mid-1950s a company of the Girls ' Life Brigade was formed with Mrs J H Montgomery as Captain and by the end of 1955 a Lifeboy Team was in existence . |
| 16 | The fire brigade was called to Spencerbeck House in Middlesbrough in the early hours of yesterday morning where there was a fire in the bin room . |
| 17 | The fire brigade was called to Gulliver Road , Hartlepool , on Saturday night where a car was destroyed by fire . |
| 18 | The ACE/ID polymorphism was analysed by DNA amplification . |
| 19 | But a new Royal Daffodil was delivered to GSN Co in 1939 and the people of Wallasey were forced to call their 1934-built ferry Royal Daffodil II , until GSN scrapped their version in 1967 . |
| 20 | Amefia was replaced by Yao Tete Samuel Atikpo . |
| 21 | The first Christmas card was designed by William Maw Egley Jr. , on December 9th , 1842 , when he was only 16 . |
| 22 | And he revealed : ‘ A deal was agreed with Frank Williams before that race in front of a witness and I have to say that at the time I felt very , good about racing again with Williams in 1993 . |
| 23 | A GREAT deal was expected of Jonny Kane when he moved to England earlier this year to join the Swift team in the British Formula Ford championship . |
| 24 | ‘ They probably killed a lot of people , and I probably have a lot of blood on my hands , ’ the investigating journalist was told by Robert Martens , who had spent two years compiling the lists in the US Embassy in Jakarta . |
| 25 | Whilst the experiment was limited to trainee engineers and by the type of microcomputer used , the results of this investigation indicated that : 1 ) the mode of man-machine interaction which was most popular and has the fewest dissenters , was one in which the user directed the course of action , as in the modular program ; 2 ) a fast design time was most likely to be achieved by the use of an optimization technique ; 3 ) an optimum design was most likely to be achieved by a preprogrammed optimization technique , but only where the problem , design parameters and constraints were understood ; 4 ) the technique thought most likely to allow some gaining of insight was one in which the user has control of the program , as in the modular program . |
| 26 | The warehouse was opened by Dr. Cowan on 20th July with the first vessel to discharge being the S.S. Wilhelmina on 24th November when two new pneumatic elevators were commissioned giving a discharge rate of 400 tons per hour . |
| 27 | The older generation of both families remained in London ; the new partnership was managed by Joseph Nettlefold , his elder brother Edward , and the younger Joseph Chamberlain . |
| 28 | When the play ran at Stratford last year , their partnership was described by Charles Spencer , The Daily Telegraph 's critic , as ‘ one of the best things in the production , a superb study of a relationship in which passion and mutual vexation compete for dominance ’ . |
| 29 | An attempt to contact Sparrow Force was made by Bernard Callinan , with a Dutch native soldier , whose experience as a schoolmaster and whose knowledge of Portuguese , English and Malay were invaluable in translating the polyglot languages of the different people they met on the westward journey . |
| 30 | The deaths were the first among ECOMOG troops since the multinational force was deployed in NPFL areas under the April Geneva agreement [ see p. 38853 ] . |