Example sentences of "[noun pl] was [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In April 1985 , interest paid to bank depositors was put on the same tax footing as for building societies : tax is deducted at source at a composite rate . |
| 2 | A JUDGE 'S refusal to let undercover police officers give evidence behind a screen at the trial of 19 Manchester United fans was upheld in the High Court yesterday . |
| 3 | The extensive studies on removal and transplantation of the ovaries by Knauer in Vienna ( see Chapter 5 ) appeared in 1900 and the more general concept of hormones or blood-borne chemical messengers was elaborated for the first time by Starling in his Croonian lectures a decade after Beatson 's observations ( see Chapter 5 ) . |
| 4 | ( One of her brothers was killed in the first . ) |
| 5 | A law giving the government the power to lift bans on direct links with China and to exchange representative offices was adopted by the Legislative Yuan , or parliament , on July 16 after almost two years of debate . |
| 6 | The precariousness of personal ties was demonstrated by the gradual reduction in the numbers of those in positions of influence in both countries who had gone through the great co-operative experience of the Second World War and the early stages of the Cold War . |
| 7 | Centralization of authority within the parties was seen as the major obstacle to the implementation of their demands . |
| 8 | The state of the political parties was reflected in the civil war . |
| 9 | A draft law lifting the ban on political parties was passed by the National Assembly after being approved by the House of Representatives and the Senate on July 5 and 23 respectively . |
| 10 | That a range of quarries was exploited in the Mediterranean area is not in doubt , but particular sculpted pieces can not always be attributed to particular quarries on purely visual grounds . |
| 11 | By the creek , the main force of the islands ' fighters was gathered for the simultaneous assault on Belmont , which was shaking the ground even at this range , like the bass drum of a ceremonial band . |
| 12 | Chain began working in the summer of 1938 on penicillin and pyocyanase , though by January 1939 , when an application for funds was made to the Medical Research Council , penicillin and ‘ actinomycetin ’ , an antibiotic which Waksman was studying , were mentioned . |
| 13 | A climax of sorts was reached with the British economic crisis of 1949 . |
| 14 | Palmer 's opening move was to oppose the introduction of a General Tax Ordinance for Nigeria , and , with the support of the Residents , to propose a return to the 1906 Native Revenue Ordinance , which stated that the tax paid in the Northern Provinces was levied by the native authorities with the approval but not at the direction of the governor . |
| 15 | Agreement in July 1906 , this batch of ten cars was transferred to the new South Metropolitan Company , who over the years carried out a number of modifications on them . |
| 16 | A general collocation dictionary of some 12,475 entries was produced from the 5 million-word general corpus , and separate domain dictionaries created for each of the five superfields . |
| 17 | IN A WARM UP TO THE EVENING Standard newspaper 's five a side football competition , a team from Guinness Brewing GB called the Harp Beaters was entered into the preliminary competition on the day before the main tournament . |
| 18 | A statistically significant difference between the two methods was found in the total number of cells per crypt column , the crypts appearing longer in the PCNA assay ( Table I ) . |
| 19 | The use of recordings of visiting speakers was discussed in the last chapter . |
| 20 | The conflict of styles was echoed in the huge high-ceilinged room , decorated in vibrant blues and greens . |
| 21 | Subsequent economic development in these newly independent nations was assisted by the overall growth of world trade and investment . |
| 22 | The oscilloscope graph of both voices was flattened in the lower register : tension was restricting the movement of their vocal chords . |
| 23 | The wording of the telegram was badly misspelt and like some local banknotes was stamped with the Imperial eagle . |
| 24 | Piers was standing in the small kitchen , dwarfing it with his presence . |
| 25 | By 1960 , the American space programme had launched a number of ‘ Mercury ’ spacecraft , and the first of their manned spacecrafts was launched in the early part of 1961 , once again with the Russians just beating them to that objective . |
| 26 | In the Republic , as in the North , a parents ' movement to set up integrated schools was started around the same time . |
| 27 | ANGER among Conservative backbenchers was voiced by the former prime minister Edward Heath last night as Tory MPs appeared to back away from a full-scale rebellion over the imposition of VAT on domestic fuel and power in the Budget . |
| 28 | When the Cullinan diamond of 3,106 carats was recovered from the Premier Mine , Pretoria , its size and quality ensured at that time only one destination , the regalia of the king-emperor . |
| 29 | By contrast , virtually none of the population of many rural areas was born in the New Commonwealth ( Commission for Racial Equality , 1985 ) . |
| 30 | We find the reference in section 12 to duties , etc. , ‘ not incident to the administration of justice in any court ’ particularly compelling as a pointer to the conclusion that the disciplinary jurisdiction of the visitors was transferred to the High Court pursuant to section 16 . |