Example sentences of "was [verb] [prep] the [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | He realised his mistake when he was stopped by the gates of Parliament Buildings at Stormont and turned back . |
| 2 | And the central area plan was circumscribed by the rights of the city 's main shops . |
| 3 | The money that er we raised in the Soviet Union was intended for the families of miners who had suffered as a result of the strike . |
| 4 | Dobbs flight was headed for Birmingham airport , but police are in no doubt the cocaine was intended for the streets of Gloucester . |
| 5 | He unloosed the third and fourth and was struggling with the reins of the fifth when he heard voices on the path . |
| 6 | In the 1870s , the Society was established in premises at Renfield Street where it remained until the splendid new building in West Regent Street was erected through the efforts of William Agnew in 1894 . |
| 7 | It was checked against the prints of George Taylor , who had been early on the scene , but they did not match . |
| 8 | This ceremony was witnessed by the members of the pope 's entourage , his erstwhile colleagues among the cardinals , with their attendants , and the clergy and people of Rome , plus those visiting the Holy City . |
| 9 | He was riveted by the newsreels of the intrepid yompers shown every night on television . |
| 10 | The row , which inflamed doctors , was immortalised by the pictures of ‘ battling Granny Esther Brookstone ’ , the leader of Charing Cross Hospital 's branch of the National Union of Public Employees , demanding that the new hospital 's ‘ penthouse floor ’ of private beds be turned over to the NHS . |
| 11 | At the time , a trust fund was formed with the aims of establishing a permanent memorial to , and annual scholarships for young people connected with the industry . |
| 12 | Legend has it that the lake was formed by the tears of a love torn nymph , and at the end of a luminous day , when the sun turns everything to delicate hues , even the sceptical are ready to admit they have seen the Trasimeno nymph — adding to the water level with a few tears more . |
| 13 | ‘ It stood for ‘ Wolność ’ i Niepodlegtność ’ , meaning Freedom and Independence in Polish , and it was formed from the remnants of the Polish Home Army . |
| 14 | Deaconess Tilley 's notions of the food proper for entertaining was formed from the needs of large families on small incomes crossed with Church ‘ does ’ of various kinds . |
| 15 | The difficulty was to agree on the proportions of atoms in particular compounds . |
| 16 | Helen Zeitlin , who worked in the haematology unit at the Alexandra Hospital in Redditch for five years , and was dismissed on the grounds of redundancy , has won her appeal against the decision . |
| 17 | Once the top section had been put into place and its edge tucked in as close to the body as possible , the lip of the base tray was eased towards the sides of the upper half and the joint soldered . |
| 18 | The seats included Sope 's own and that of President Fred Timikata who was appointed head of state after the imprisonment of his predecessor , a relative of Sope 's who was implicated in the events of 1988 . |
| 19 | These envisaged peace on four conditions : if the Russian protectorate over the Danubian Principalities was replaced by a European guarantee ; if Russian control of the mouth of the Danube came to an end ; if the Straits Convention of 1841 was revised in the interests of the European balance of power ; and if the protection of Ottoman Christians by Russia was replaced by the collective protection of Europe 's five Great Powers . |
| 20 | This school had enjoyed a brief period of success and national distinction in the first decade of the sixteenth century under the Mastership of John Stanbridge , who was well known when he migrated north from Oxford and whose Grammar was prescribed in the statutes of Manchester Grammar School . |
| 21 | A weak sun was rising off to the east over the distant buildings and its pale light was filtering through the branches of the trees about him . |
| 22 | Hence debates had an antiquarian tone : little was heard of the rights of man , a great deal about the rights of the crown of Aragon , of the Councils of Toledo and Leon , of the Goths as founders of liberty . |
| 23 | His voice was heard to the ends of the earth — at least the earth wherever cricket is played : Australia , New Zealand , India , Pakistan , Canada , and of course West Indies . |
| 24 | His wife Rita was treated for the effects of smoke . |
| 25 | For the time being , however , the impact of the voyage was limited to the kudos of returning laden with booty and important information about new trade routes . |
| 26 | This convention , re-negotiated in 1980 and 1985 , provided greater aid to the Third World states , but its value to them was limited by the effects of inflation and the restrictions on agricultural trade with Europe caused by CAP . |
| 27 | These men were taste-makers , whose judgements were important ; but the time available to them for writing was limited by the demands of negotiation and administration , so that they tended to write essays more than books , catalogue entries rather than articles . |
| 28 | Advertising was directed to restricting peak sales , and capital spending on the building of new shops was limited by the shortages of building materials . |
| 29 | ( b ) Holding outsalaried partners In the United Bank of Kuwait case no particular consideration was given to the consequences of the undertaking having been given by a salaried partner . |
| 30 | In the meantime consideration was given to the problems of control , particularly given the length of Italy 's seaboard . |