Example sentences of "[vb past] be [vb pp] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The circumstances in which this litigation arose are described in the judgment delivered by Vinelott J. on 19 December 1989 as follows : |
| 2 | An unfortunate error also resulted in seventeen questionnaires with the question deleted being issued on a week day . |
| 3 | The transition probabilities used were based on a text containing 10,000 letters , with zero probabilities converted to a small value to enable computation . |
| 4 | But if his reputation as one of the great Kings of French history is anything to go by , then the means he used were justified by the end , the destruction of the Angevin Empire . |
| 5 | Added to these , all the bolts and nuts used were forged in the Smithy and threaded on the screwing gang in the machine shop . |
| 6 | The institutions and arrangements they built were driven by an idea of multilateralism . |
| 7 | Yes , now that kingdom is , is in the Lord 's prayer as we mentioned is gone into the air and |
| 8 | The harmonic sequence I mentioned is used as a rift . |
| 9 | The salvation it proposed was based on a reduction in the amount of first-class cricket to a 16-match one-day competition without over limitation , a reduction in county staffs and the involvement and use of part time cricketers . |
| 10 | The decent community solidarity and welfare socialism that Mr Kinnock embodied was caught on the horns of a terrible contradiction , which Labour in opposition did nothing to resolve , since it did not tackle early enough the low tax/public spending anti-welfare consensus that Thatcherism built . |
| 11 | Andy Stevenson 's powerful strike as half time approached was followed by an injury time free kick from Ian Helliwell . |
| 12 | For a claim to be recoverable the Policyholder must satisfy us that on the balance of probabilities the loss or damage sustained was caused by a peril insured against . |
| 13 | Ted was a child of the sixties , but he sounded as if he 'd been born in the Blitz . |
| 14 | ‘ He 'd been sent to a friend of mine to be sold , but he was a little bit difficult to place . |
| 15 | They 'd been separated in the fracas which followed their parachute descent into northern France , and she feared that Jeanne had been killed in the fighting . |
| 16 | But they had n't been made at Fords , they 'd been made in a subsidiary , taken up the road on long trailers , taken off the trailer onto the assembly conveyor , which er crawls round the assembly line and fitted like that . |
| 17 | He 'd lost weight , his eyes were staring and red as if they 'd been rolled in grit , and his clothes hung on him like a scarecrow 's ; it was almost as if , in the course of the past few weeks , he 'd been drained of the zest and the energy and the sense of confidence that she 'd steadily been picking up . |
| 18 | Lady Laetitia had forgotten all she 'd been taught in the morning and everything had to be rehearsed again . |
| 19 | He 'd been beaten about the head . |
| 20 | He 'd been beaten about the head . |
| 21 | He 'd been beaten around the head . |
| 22 | He 'd been beaten around the head . |
| 23 | He 'd been beaten around the head and his throat had been cut . |
| 24 | We 'd entered him in the Novice section , but he 'd been upgraded in the meantime . |
| 25 | Rain knew Oliver was picturing himself back in the wine bar in Chelsea telling everyone how he 'd been mistaken for a drug dealer and nearly done to death in a Mediterranean backstreet by an underworld rival . |
| 26 | Nine hours after she 'd been bundled into the room , they unceremoniously dumped Adam in with her . |
| 27 | I did put the landing light on , though , as I 'd been ambushed in the dark on those stairs before , barely escaping with my life . |
| 28 | ‘ If we 'd been pounced upon a year ago we 'd have had maybe one good song and we would have been shit and not ready , without our style defined . ’ |
| 29 | I left before the tour was over because it was time for Mott The Hoople to come and tour and I 'd been designated as the person to take care of them , so I went off before it was over . |
| 30 | must be when I looked at it they 'd been grown in the field , because it 's burnt , you can see it 's got this reddish muck where all the mud down |