Example sentences of "that was [verb] by the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BP has already made one unsuccessful attempt to make use of its £500m in surplus advanced corporation tax with a North Sea-based scheme that was vetoed by the Treasury . |
| 2 | It 's a folly that was built by the Earl and Countess of Coventry so all their friends could see it for miles around . |
| 3 | Their common aim is to help introduce a more just and democratic society ; to bring into being the social transformation that was announced by the government as it took over the leadership of the newly independent Zimbabwe in 1980 . |
| 4 | They ate meat and bread that was hardened by the cold , but Bicker would not allow them to eat snow . |
| 5 | Well , yes , though there is no absolutely logical reason why , and indeed the book that was called by the poet T.S . |
| 6 | Sadly it was on Flensberg , the first PFF outing that was ruined by the weather , and did nothing to further this founding of target finding/marking . |
| 7 | The stage was set for some alignment between the individual , a single political authority , and a single territory , culture and language ; a passive patriotism that was defined by the existence of clear enemies abroad . |
| 8 | It is our understanding that were it not for the contact that was made by the state lottery with Scientific Games , that they would be a bidder , the Scientific Games system is a good system . |
| 9 | And also last Friday at education committee there was a long debate , both on the procedure which would be adopted by the working party , in discharging it 's remit and in particular the policy which it recommended regarding small schools , and also an extended debate on one of the areas which was a subject of recommendation by the er , district auditor which concerns the organisation of first and middle schooling in the Meer area , and there the working party did look very specifically at the recommendation that was made by the district auditor that decided on balance that that was n't likely to produce the best and most cost effective education in that part of the county . |
| 10 | Thus the judge , Mr Justice McCowan , seemed to equate the government with the state — a somewhat totalitarian view that was rejected by the jury . |
| 11 | Lonsdale finds that , as the century progressed , increasing refinement of taste led to a loss of the informality , humour and immediacy that he prizes most ; and it was precisely the strained and highflown verse that was eclipsed by the success of Lyrical Ballads . |
| 12 | That is the tax that was replaced by the poll tax ( a simple flat-rate tax per person ) in the reform of UK local government finance during 1988–90 . |
| 13 | It was raining outside , a thin veil of rain that was blown by the wind so that it appeared to undulate in the air like gossamer curtains . |
| 14 | Yet the one area that was ignored by the review was finance . |
| 15 | Nearby branches of Books Etc were untouched — although of course they could not avoid being affected by the disruption that was caused by the bomb to trading in the area . |
| 16 | In terms of the definition of er what is historic York I think again an issue we went over for some length of time at the greenbelt inquiry , I would draw your attention back to my earlier comments that York is basically a modern industrial city with a very precious historic core , that historic core er represents no more than actually five percent of the built up area , that something like eighty five percent of the city was built after eighteen hundred , the view that was expressed by the County in N Y Two , in terms of the definition of the greenbelt , the Greater York greenbelt and its purposes was not accepted by the City Council , we do not accept that all of the func elements of the York greenbelt contribute towards preserving the character of the historic city , we rely on the the fact that the two comments the Senior Inspector made at this , the the green wedges and historic core itself that establish the historic character of the city , there are many parts of the edge of York which could repli be replicated in many cities , historic or otherwise around the country and finally just coming back to the issue of scale of development erm the point I should have made earlier about the house builders figures for the city of York is that the house builders did suggest a figure of four thousand for the city , erm , I 'm not aware on what basis that was made , but clearly my evidence would quite clearly indicate that I believe that could not be accommodated , certainly on any known sites within the cit current city boundary , thank you Chair . |
| 17 | Sun Microsystems Inc 's Billerica , Massachusetts-based SunSelect personal computer-to-Unix integration company has acquired the assets of Praxsys Technologies Inc , the Norwood , Massachusetts company that was formed by the team that developed Phoenix Technologies Ltd 's VPix MS-DOS-under-Unix emulation environment after Phoenix abandoned that business . |
| 18 | However , SunSelect recently acquired the assets of Praxsys Technologies Inc , the Norwood , Massachusetts-based company that was formed by the team that developed Phoenix Technologies Ltd 's VPix MS-DOS-under-Unix emulation environment after Phoenix abandoned that business . |
| 19 | One of the few recommendations of the Monopolies and Mergers Commission report of 1989 into the supply of beer that was adopted by the government was to bring tenants under the protection of the Landlord and Tenant Act . |
| 20 | There was public outrage that so many lives were lost taking a hill that was re-occupied by the NVA within a month . |
| 21 | The fighting chair on her aft deck had thick white leather straps giving it the appearance of a padded electric chair , while the dazzle paint gave the boat an oddly military look that was completed by the number 666 that was painted on her bows in silver-edged black numerals like those warships use to display their commissioning numbers . |
| 22 | And in the end it was Leo 's formulation of the faith that was accepted by the Council fathers . |
| 23 | An area that was considered by the secretary of state as being five to seven miles of York City centre and is almost entirely within the greenbelt . |
| 24 | On 31 July 1987 the judge held that the Regulations were ultra vires and void , a decision that was reversed by the Court of Appeal but subsequently restored by the House of Lords . |
| 25 | And if you live in Faringdon then erm presumably you did n't contribute to the money that was spent by the City Council on the Medley boat station . |
| 26 | ‘ The newer cohorts entered a politics that was dominated by the class alignment and divided their loyalties along class lines more completely than did their elders , those who had entered politics half a century before . |
| 27 | The Policy Planning Staff opinion on Kremlin-directed strategy went word for word into the NSC report The position of the United States with respect to Asia ( NSC 48/1 ) whose conclusions were approved by the US President on 30 December 1949 ( NSC 48/2 ) , although in the NSC paper it was an expression that was qualified by the proposition that it was the colonial — nationalist conflict which had provided a fertile field for subversive communist activities . |
| 28 | Mr Franklin went there at the end of the 1970s , after the collapse of Keyser Ullman , the merchant bank where he was a director that was rescued by the Bank of England . |
| 29 | The distinction that was drawn by the Court between the norm-creating character of Articles 1 and 2 , as opposed to Article 6 , rested upon the nature of these Articles as well as the restrictions upon making reservations to the former . |
| 30 | He sent her a direct stare that was accompanied by the tightening of his jaw . |