Example sentences of "[det] was [vb pp] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was supported by the correlation between the male 's condition at the start of the season and the number of days he spent incubating eggs . |
| 2 | Of the remaining 40 cases , 38 complied strictly with their diet and this was supported by an improvement in the morphology of repeat small intestinal biopsy specimens or symptoms , or both and weight and laboratory indices . |
| 3 | It was proposed to lay the tramway extension along the broad Middle Walk , but this was defeated in a poll of the ratepayers , and the track had to be constructed along the narrow upper carriageway . |
| 4 | Some deputies proposed that footage of the exchanges concerning the ANT affair should be omitted from the coming evening 's edited television broadcast of Congress proceedings , but this was defeated in a vote by 1,250 to 637 . |
| 5 | Most Tories favoured the establishment of a regency , with Mary exercising the regal powers on James 's behalf , but this was defeated in the House of Lords on 29 January by the narrow vote of fifty-one to forty-eight . |
| 6 | In a parliamentary debate on Aug. 28 this was challenged by the opposition Union of Democratic Forces ( which like all major parties roundly condemned the attack ) , the UDF secretary Petur Beron hinting instead that the attack might have been instigated by communist provocateurs . |
| 7 | This was exemplified by the league of the Iroquois which Morgan had studied in detail . |
| 8 | There was a narrow foreshore at the foot of the little cliff and this was littered with the rubbish of the colony-sticks , droppings , feathers , a broken egg and a dead nestling or two . |
| 9 | This was repealed by the Theft Act 1978 , s.5(5) . |
| 10 | This was repeated throughout the night until 7am the next day . |
| 11 | This was repeated in the Court of Appeal decision , but was unanimously rejected by the House of Lords , in the next case . |
| 12 | An imposing entrance for this was built at the end of Kirby Road , and the inspection pits were only half the length of the depot to facilitate displays . |
| 13 | This was perceived as a threat to the Plantagenets in Aquitaine . |
| 14 | We shall see that there is evidence that this was perceived as a genre in its own right in England , and in English . |
| 15 | This was perceived as a source of inefficiency and uncompetitiveness through overmanning and other policies , which the government was determined to remove in its quest to create an ‘ enterprise economy ’ . |
| 16 | ( This was trumpeted under the holiday industry 's unofficial motto ‘ if you ca n't stand the heat , get off the beach ’ . ) |
| 17 | This was named after a village near Haverhill , Suffolk . |
| 18 | This was replaced in the fourth-century by a church built by Sant' Ambrogio and dedicated , at a later time , to St Tecla . |
| 19 | This was replaced by a stone structure , only partly examined in the excavated area . |
| 20 | Parkes ' Chemical Catechism of 1806 had a frontispiece of apparatus , engraved on glass with fluoric acid ; in the fourth edition ( 1810 ) this was replaced by a plate of the laboratory of the Surrey Institution , a less-successful version of the Royal Institution ; in later editions Parkes substituted a laboratory which a gentleman might copy for himself . |
| 21 | During the thirties ( presumably after the end of prohibition ) this was replaced by the can sealed by crimping and with the label printed directly on to the metal ( figure 7.3d ) . |
| 22 | This was said in a voice expecting contradiction , which Charles wilfully withheld . |
| 23 | All this was said in the context of that annual spring ritual , renewal of China 's most-favoured-nation ( MFN ) status under American law . |
| 24 | ‘ Your daughter — ’ this was said like an accusation — ‘ has agreed to go into a psychiatric hospital for a while , where we can assess her properly . |
| 25 | found shirtsleeve order the most comfortable dress for tropical campaigning ; and this was recognized before the end of 1898 by a concession allowing officers to attach the transverse shoulder straps from their blue coats directly to the blue shirt . |
| 26 | All this was recognized by an MBE . |
| 27 | This was recognized by the City of London polytechnic Learning Resources Centre about five years ago , when virtually the same orientation content was presented in five different self-instructional modes ( video.tape , programmed instruction , tape-slide , audio-tape and chart ) . |
| 28 | Considering that this was written at a time when Pound 's reputation was eclipsed as Eliot 's rose towards the zenith , the generosity of this essay , its lack of rancour , is admirable . |
| 29 | This was revealed in a survey carried out by Kelly ( 1987 ) for the Wagner committee . |
| 30 | This was personified by the ascendancy in the political sphere of Stanley Baldwin and the rise in the economic sphere of Montagu Norman , the Governor of the Bank of England . |