Example sentences of "was [verb] [prep] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On 3 March 1987 the originating summons was amended by adding the seventh and eighth plaintiffs , and on 19 March 1987 it was further amended to seek accounts of all transactions entered into , and of all dealings with the property of the plaintiffs by the first defendant , and of all moneys received by or payment made by the first defendant or by the second or third defendants , and an inquiry whether any sums were due from the first defendant to the plaintiffs . |
| 2 | With him come 13 exciting new hair products , including PN36 which keeps hair smooth , shiny and well protected — it was formulated after observing the well-groomed appearance of ducks ! |
| 3 | For a given histogram ( in this case the histogram from Fig. 1 c ) , an ‘ autocorrelation score ’ was calculated by subtracting the best-fitting smooth distribution ( in this and many other examples a single gaussian provided a good fit ) , filtering the resulting difference function in the Fourier domain , then detecting peaks in its autocorrelation function . |
| 4 | To adjust for the effect of clustering , χ 2 a d j was calculated by dividing the resulting χ 2 statistic by where m i represents the number of students in the n th cluster ( school ) and ρ represents the intracluster correlation . |
| 5 | Peak acid output was calculated by adding the two highest stimulated 15 minute outpts and multiplying by two . |
| 6 | It was formed by uniting the colour-sided Blacksided Trondheim with the old Nordland breed in 1943 , and the coat is basically white with black ( or sometimes red ) points and freckling on the sides , often merging to give the colour-sided type of the cline ( see Genetics section ) . |
| 7 | It was formed by altering the topographical aspect of the land immediately north of the River Welland and the running figure of the Bull from east to west across the town is reminiscent of a Cretan bull cult fresco at the Palace of Minos at Knossos or the same period . |
| 8 | In order to gain an understanding of the potential reservoir disposition within the Upper Carboniferous a broad stratigraphic analysis was undertaken by integrating the new seismic data with released well information . |
| 9 | Five grandfathers are less favourably remembered as drunkards : at least two passed down their habits to their sons — ‘ dad had a poor bringing up ’ — while a third son was provoked into signing the teetotal pledge . |
| 10 | The B I -B II transition was provoked by fixing the appropriate ε dihedral at values varying from roughly 180° to -70° . |
| 11 | A possible late arrival at Aberystwyth on the west bound leg behind Standard 4 No 75069 was averted by repeating the previous week 's curtailed stop at Machynlleth . |
| 12 | In July 1964 he was fined for singing the Irish national anthem , ‘ A Soldier 's Song ’ ( in Irish ) at a republican rally in Ballycastle , County Antrim . |
| 13 | Among the men the discussion of politics , the destruction of game , or the dissipation of the ale house was substituted for the duties of their occupation during the former part of the week , and in the remaining three or four days a sufficiency was earned for defraying the current expenses . |
| 14 | It is believed the woman teacher was attacked after keeping the two boys in detention . |
| 15 | Richard Solomon , US Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia and the South Pacific , repeated assurances that his country was committed to easing the environmental concerns highlighted by the Forum in its final summit comminuqué : the greenhouse effect , driftnet fishing and chemical weapons incineration on Johnston Atoll . |
| 16 | virtuous elderly senator who was prevailed upon to succeed the murdered Commodus as Roman Emperor in AD 193 . |
| 17 | It seems as though , when the need was felt again for a monument to adorn the last resting place of the rich and great , it was met by monumentalising the only existing art , that of painted pottery . |
| 18 | In a fourth condition subjects were given a description in which not only was sentence ( 3 ) removed but also the internal structure of the story was disrupted by altering the temporal sequencing of events and removing the causal connection between them . |
| 19 | She was absorbed in cleaning the arched windows when she heard the sound of a car engine . |
| 20 | The influence of lavage was evaluated by comparing the corresponding concentrations on both days . |
| 21 | This was done by regressing the natural logarithm of volatility on maturity ( M t ) , a weekend dummy ( D t ) and a proxy for the rate of information arrival . |
| 22 | Emphasis was made on explaining the benign nature of this common problem . |
| 23 | A major blunder was caused because , while negotiating with the coal miners over their pay demands , a significant error was made in calculating the true level of previous pay awards and various overtime rates . |
| 24 | Yet , while bureaucratic power over commoners remained capricious right into the nineteenth century , steady progress was made in entrenching the individual rights of noblemen . |
| 25 | The k'va was the colour of straw because it had been cooked over boiling k'vass , an ale which was made from fermenting the raw grain , and it steamed gently . |
| 26 | The derivation was made by calculating the usable floor area of the individual building and dividing the sum by the total area of the site , including ( where appropriate ) half the width of the adjoining streets . |
| 27 | In the case of multiple registrations among the larger firms , the allocation was made by matching the geographical location of the regulatory body with that of the audit firm offices ( as given in the Hambro Company Guide ) . |
| 28 | The difficulty was rationalised by describing the antecedent to the PB as being that Olwyn did not go to bed earlier in the evening . |
| 29 | The fragment containing putative P. anserina telomeric DNA was sequenced by using the synthetic primer shown in Fig. 1B . |
| 30 | The hammock , which was slung from a long pole carried on the shoulders of two men , was used for transporting the sick and infirm across rough country terrain and , in and around Funchal , for the rich and for the tourists who were carried through the dirty , and sometimes muddy , streets . |