Example sentences of "was [verb] [prep] the [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 The Table shows the extent of histological injury , which compares the damage seen immediately after ethanol perfusion was stopped with the damage seen 180 minutes after ethanol .
2 What was intended by the supplier had not in fact materialised , because the case had been tried on correspondence rather than a correctly drawn up agreement .
3 What they can do is to consider whether at the time the decision was made it was intended by the patient to apply in the changed situation .
4 So the question , where a wording which was not accepted by tradition was used , was always whether it was intended by the testator to give rise to a relationship at law ; and the words were examined for an intention to set up a trust .
5 Matthew was kneeling on the floor looking into her eyes beside the couch and his arm was around her .
6 Gradually you saw this self-absorbed monarch stripped down of all his trappings , until a wonderful scene when he was kneeling on the ground staring at his reflection , and suddenly he shattered the mirror against his foreheard .
7 The dose to the rectum was calculated from the planning computed tonography .
8 The fractional rate of protein synthesis in the tissue was calculated from the formula described by McNurlan et al ; where , k s is the fractional rate of protein synthesis ( % per day ) , P ( ) and P ( t ) are the enrichments of leucine in muscle protein at the beginning and end of the incorporation period ( atom % ) and A is the area under the curve for precursor enrichment ( atom % excess×time in days ) , assuming a linear increase from 0 to the measured value at 10 minutes .
9 The race was successfully held the following day , but with no major success for the British team and indeed that state of affairs was to continue at the world cups before Christmas , at Val d'Isere and Val Gardena , with the exception of my brother Graham 's reasonable 32nd place at Val d'Isere , just two seconds down on the winner .
10 Well it was but that was a long time ago I started that , it was tucked inside the book thank you .
11 A second attractive Beckmann , ‘ Blick auf das Meer ’ from a private collection in Switzerland was withdrawn from the auction to give the former owner , the Wallraf-Richartz Museum of Cologne the opportunity to buy it back .
12 Holland 's interpretation was that in the second phase of training an association was formed between the illness produced by the injection and a CS-evoked representation of the food that preceded it .
13 A BAe 146 plane was chartered by the company to fly 80 motorcycle enthusiasts from Speke Airport .
14 This does not mean that nothing was bought and sold in the independent sector , still less that the agricultural producers in it were self-sufficient , though it is probable that a rather high proportion of peasant agriculture was consumed on the peasant holding , or within the narrow limits of a local system of exchange , if only because the food demands of the small cities in so many areas could be supplied from within a radius of little more than one or two dozen miles .
15 On March 15 the Commissioner of the Royal Papua New Guinea Constabulary and Controller of the State of Emergency in the country 's North Solomons Province , Paul Tohian , was dismissed by the government following an attempted coup the previous night .
16 In 1844 Wordsworth was aroused by the proposal to construct a railway from Kendal to the shores of Lake Windermere :
17 In addition to this more or less regular sort of investiture , there seem to have been investitures on a number of special occasions , both state occasions such as the accession of a sultan , a victory or the birth of a prince , where the right of investiture extended to a number of scholars , and also more personal occasions such as a scholar 's acceding to a high learned office , where the right of investiture was limited to the individual involved .
18 The appeal was limited to the order depriving the appellant of his rights in the car .
19 Even the most generous US aid was limited by the value placed upon it by Congress in terms of American advantage .
20 Finally , permission was given for the ferry to resume its scheduled services from 9am today .
21 Compensation was given for the land taken , but this limited the programme as only 1% of the republican budget was allocated towards this .
22 ( Until recently the title Chairman was given to the person chairing meetings .
23 The loan , arranged by the Bank of Scotland and backed by the Government 's Export Credit Guarantee Department , was given to the company to rehabilitate an ailing state-run timber company in Ghana , African Timber and Plywood .
24 It was only later that the theory was refined to include anti neutrinos , when , for consistency with the conservation laws , the name ‘ antineutrino ’ was given to the variety produced by neutron decay .
25 This was the case notwithstanding the fact that all the information which was given to the expert had in fact been previously published .
26 Particular attention was given to the ability to assemble the data in a wide variety of different ways .
27 Postmasters could , and did , ensure that priority was given to the letter advising of these developments which was intended for their own particular political friend in London , and that his enemies ' letters would be delayed until the next post .
28 The Village Hall Consideration was given to the need to paint the hall .
29 The Village Hall Consideration was given to the need to paint the hall .
30 There were interviews of which oral evidence was given in the inquiry ordered by the visitor but these were found by Lord Jauncey of Tullichettle to be neutral so far as the question at issue falls to be considered .
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