Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Association was wound up in 1954 . |
| 2 | The more valuable emergency aid was siphoned off by foreign ministry officials for their own use or re-sale ( just as many of the outpourings of Western sympathy for the orphans and destitute of Ceauşescu 's Romania were purloined by the same fat-cats in the ministries early in 1990 after the fall of their master ) . |
| 3 | Wilson 's major misfortune was that the firm of Veitch declined rapidly before 1914 , when the stock was sold off before many of his new plants had been propagated or distributed : the Arnold Arboretum had fewer difficulties with his later collections . |
| 4 | A card was passed around for those present to send their good wishes for a speedy recovery . |
| 5 | After the dispute , the deal was called off by both parties . |
| 6 | An in vivo experiment was carried out with male Sprague-Dawley rats ( weight range 200–300 g ) as we previously reported . |
| 7 | The attacking force was made up of nine Blenheims from 105 Squadron and six from 107 Squadron at Great Massingham . |
| 8 | Since Japan 's constitution forbids the use of its troops abroad except in self-defence , its participation in the peacekeeping force was hedged around with tight conditions . |
| 9 | A charity dance held on the night of the theft was attended by over 300 people . |
| 10 | AS befitted an industrial training awards evening the ballroom of the Marton Country Club was decked out with glittery disco balls and flashing coloured lights . |
| 11 | The Straight Track Club was wound up in 1948 , but ideas were kept alive through Egerton Sykes ' Avalon Society . |
| 12 | Alan the Reddler was woken up by all the greetings : |
| 13 | On March 22 an anti-racist demonstration was attended by between 65,000 and 150,000 people , protesting in particular against the anti-immigrant rhetoric of the right-wing Flemish nationalist Vlaams Blok which had gained ground in the November election . |
| 14 | The hard central nib was pulled out about one inch and inserted through the bracket holes . |
| 15 | After the discovery that the Tramways Department had effectively been subsidising the Illuminations for years , a completely new Illuminations Department was set up in 1936 under Freddie Field . |
| 16 | The New Testament was born about in many men 's hands … ’ . |
| 17 | The tea was brought in by two of Louise 's house-maids . |
| 18 | Elongation of the transcript was carried out for 1,5 or 15 min , and was initiated by adjusting conditions to 2 mM of all four nucleotides and 400 mM KCl . |
| 19 | A major exploration programme was carried out between 1965 and 1973 by Exploration Ventures Ltd ( RioFinex and Consolidated Gold Fields ) and subsequently with Amax over the large basic-ultrabasic intrusions of Grampian Region in north-east Scotland The initial exploratory work is described by Rice ( 1975 ) . |
| 20 | The programme was set up in 1987 and named in memory of two employees — Ben Hajadi , an engineer who died in a car accident , and Solomon , who lost his life in a helicopter crash . |
| 21 | This argument was not expanded upon but the implication that there should be more evidence of ‘ class struggle ’ in the programme was picked up by Socialist Worker . |
| 22 | The research was carried out in two stages . |
| 23 | Formerly affiliated to the Psychopomps gangcult , her chapter was broken up in 1995 during a pitched battle with the Road Cavalry in Spanish Fork , Deseret , Jessamyn is now believed to be working alone . ’ |
| 24 | ROD LATHAM was run out for 119 as New Zealand finished on 325–3 after the second day of their rain-affected First Test against Zimbabwe in Bulawayo . |
| 25 | A similar , but slightly expanded , study was carried out with British interpreters ( Kyle , Llewellyn-Jones and Woll , 1979 ) . |
| 26 | Furthermore , this latter study was carried out on native Japanese , a population with a considerably lower incidence of colorectal cancer and probably not comparable with our population . |
| 27 | Celia Brown's(1986) study was carried out in two districts of Avon County ; 23 parents were interviewed and a further two completed questionnaires . |
| 28 | The study was carried out in 25 patients with acute liver failure admitted to the Liver Intensive Care Unit during a three year period . |
| 29 | The study was carried out in 21 male and 16 female volunteers . |
| 30 | The study was carried out in three subdivisions of different police forces . |