Example sentences of "was [verb] [noun] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the express wish of Queen Mary herself , Florence , like thousands of women throughout the Empire , was knitting socks for soldiers at the front . |
| 2 | The APF held only 30 of the 350 seats in the Supreme Soviet but was demanding transfer of power from the Supreme Soviet to the National Council , which comprised 50 Supreme Soviet deputies , half from the APF . |
| 3 | The exceptionally rich soil here was producing carrots for London by the end of the century when , perhaps , the trade was already long-established . |
| 4 | I felt insulted ; Otto was confiding information about Jean-Claude to me . |
| 5 | His job was to interview pilots on return from their missions . |
| 6 | Each vidane was given forms in triplicate on which to record information about crimes . |
| 7 | Ealdred 's kinswoman could have been Abbess Aethelburh , daughter of a local lord , Aelfred , who was given Withington in Gloucestershire in the 770s ( CS 217 : S 1255 ) . |
| 8 | A less well-known example is of H. V. Hilprecht , an archaeologist at Pennsylvania University who in 1893 was given drawings of fragments of agate excavated from the Babylonian temple of Bal at Nippur . |
| 9 | He was given instructions to taxi to the holding point for runway 26 and subsequently took off normally at 1202 hrs . |
| 10 | ‘ I was given sanctuary in England in return for information about the Luciferi . ’ |
| 11 | In the end he was given office as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster . |
| 12 | Moreover , as Alexander 's reign proceeded the government was given cause for alarm by the most radical section of the educated public : the revolutionary wing of the intelligentsia . |
| 13 | Buckingham was made constable and steward of all the royal land in Shropshire , Herefordshire , Somerset , Dorset and Wiltshire and was given power of array in the same counties . |
| 14 | Buckingham was made constable and steward of all the royal land in Shropshire , Herefordshire , Somerset , Dorset and Wiltshire and was given power of array in the same counties . |
| 15 | In cases of manumission , the slave in the first place had a dispensation from the normal prohibition on bringing suit against his master ; furthermore , after the Trajanic SC Rubrianum the tendency of the whole process before the praetor fideicommissarius was towards a declaration by the judge , and if the declaration was in favour of freedom then it was given effect by means of a fiction that the slave had actually been given direct freedom under the testator 's will . |
| 16 | The course adopted , said Lord Hailsham , was to channel invitations for participation in journalism , appearances on the media , and other public engagements through the Lord Chancellor 's office . |
| 17 | The specific purpose of that Act , as of the Act of 1935 before it , was to enable claims for contribution to be made as between parties who had no claim to contribution under the general law . |
| 18 | A handful of scraps provided enough encouragement , and soon I was catching starlings in batches of up to a dozen . |
| 19 | Kerekou was to remain head of state during the transitional period , but with the defence portfolio removed from his responsibilities . |
| 20 | Clément Oumarou Ouedraogo retained his position as the Front 's secretary in charge of political affairs , while Capt. Gilbert Diendere was reappointed secretary in charge of defence and security . |
| 21 | The aim was to provide users with information on Microsoft Corp products and to run graduate and Masters courses in Microsoft technology . |
| 22 | During their stay the Juan Carlos and Salinas presided over the signature of a five-year treaty of friendship and co-operation in the context of which Spain was to provide aid to Mexico of 4,400 million pesetas ( about US$40,000,000 at current exchange rates ) over five years in the form of credits and investment in the private sector . |
| 23 | But Labov 's main concern was to obtain insights into processes of linguistic change and to challenge linguistic theories which modelled language as a static entity , identifying homogeneity with structure . |
| 24 | In 1981 , at the request of the Department of Administration , the Readers ' Services Division of the National Library of Scotland conducted a Survey , the object of which was to obtain information about visitors to the Library 's Exhibition Room , and about their response to the exhibitions which they saw . |
| 25 | Besides , the last thing she wanted was to come face to face with Rune again , especially if he was in the arms of a reconciled Lotta ! |
| 26 | The union disregarded the injunctions and was fined £50,000 for contempt of court . |
| 27 | Two years later the company 's crash was just as spectacular and Bloom was fined £30,000 on charges in connection with the affair . |
| 28 | Two years later in Ilchester , Somerset , she was again imprisoned , and the same year she was fined £280 for non-attendance at the local Anglican church . |
| 29 | Caesars Hotel Casino in Atlantic City was fined $250,000 on Wednesday for removing black women from a dice table for a high-stakes gambler who wanted to gamble only with white , male dealers . |
| 30 | Caesars Hotel Casino in Atlantic City was fined $250,000 on Wednesday for removing black women from a dice table for a high-stakes gambler who wanted to gamble only with white , male dealers . |