Example sentences of "was [verb] [prep] [art] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He began to aim at the other man , who was reloading his Luger , but was stopped by the Doctor 's hand on his shoulder . |
| 2 | Professor Martin Harris , who started his job at Manchester University last month , was stopped in the city 's red light district , police said . |
| 3 | Mr Milburn was joined by the party 's front-bench education spokesman Baroness Tessa Blackstone and Danish MEP Freddie Black claiming cuts in training investment and Britain 's education record compared with the rest of Europe . |
| 4 | There was a special , elaborately canopied seat high on the stern , which we may suppose was intended for the ship 's captain , and a row of twenty oarsmen on each side of the ship . |
| 5 | The note was uttered by a bricklayer 's labourer at work on a house in the neighbourhood . ’ |
| 6 | Diana was enrolled at a girls ' day-school , Charles at a nearby kindergarten . |
| 7 | The underside of the handle is slotted to receive a knife blade which was riveted at the dolphin 's tail . |
| 8 | However , it was only in 1929 that a separate Secretariat for Latin America was formed within the Comintern 's Moscow administration ; hitherto relations with Latin American Communist parties had been handled through a ‘ Latin Secretariat ’ which also covered Southern Europe . |
| 9 | It was formed from the Association des démocrates ( Democrats ' Association ) , Soisson 's France unie ( United France ) and the Performance et partage ( Performance and sharing ) parties . |
| 10 | She was clad in the Chancellor 's robe of pale blue Ottoman silk decorated with gold lace on the fronts , cape and hem , the sleeves embroidered in gold with scientific and technological emblems and wings incorporating the arms of the University . |
| 11 | Once the dealer gave his number under these circumstances , he was submitting to the client 's own terms , letting him off the hook . |
| 12 | Alice Perrers was removed from the royal household , and Neville was dismissed from the king 's council , though he was not imprisoned . |
| 13 | He was terrified of the Sultan , but for his own safety decided the best policy was to cling to the Tughluk 's fingertips ‘ and every time he said any encouraging word to me I kissed his hand , until I had kissed it seven times . ’ |
| 14 | From the Spanish Succession war onwards , for example , there was an increasing tendency for French soldiers to receive wounds in the left side — the part of the body which in line formation was exposed to the enemy 's fire . |
| 15 | Even when the inaccuracy was exposed by the Fund 's own statisticians , the IMF neither owned up , nor apologized to the government , nor publicly corrected its misinformation despite the implications of its judgement for foreign investment . |
| 16 | Its ability to respond was limited by the IBA 's programme requirements . |
| 17 | She also knew what was good for herself , so she kept for her own use the money that she was given for the children 's food . |
| 18 | In form it is an application at the suit of C.N.L. as a third party for the court to release the appellant from his implied undertaking pursuant to which discovery of the P.C.A. documents was given under the court 's order of 9 July 1991 — released that is to the extent of permitting him to disclose the documents to C.N.L. , they for their part undertaking to the court to hold them for the strictly limited purpose of defending the libel proceedings brought against them by Woodley and Clifford . |
| 19 | Further education in domestic science was given at the Women 's Department of King 's College , which opened in 1909 . |
| 20 | The Crown 's powers of inclosure were greatly limited , and statutory definition was given to the commoners ' rights , which they could freely exercise under the supervision of the verderers : the Court of Verderers was reconstituted for this purpose . |
| 21 | In 1940 , Jacques was finally appointed as a joint secretary to the Rural Areas Committee to represent WEA interests for the District 's Chapter III courses and through this overdue gesture formal recognition was given to the District 's indispensable position in the provision of liberal adult education in the region . |
| 22 | Support was given to the President 's Urban Design Initiative , and comments were made on more than twenty-five consultation papers from the DoE and others . |
| 23 | With the commitment to the completion of the SEM added urgency was given to the Commission 's " watchdog " role in anticipating the social consequences of restructuring . |
| 24 | No explanation was given in the SAC 's statement , but it is understood that once the recent problems of the orchestra have been resolved the SAC may be prepared to consider other funding . |
| 25 | The money was given by the council 's recreation committee . |
| 26 | Bone marrow is the source of immune system cells , and the transplant of new marrow was given after the patient 's own bone marrow had been destroyed by doses of radiation and chemotherapy . |
| 27 | The first was the knowledge that the bungalow was situated in the town 's radio ‘ black spot ’ and he had failed to report where he was going . |
| 28 | But instead , in a table filled with knights of his name , Nicholas was placed on the King 's right , and Nicholas ( Conella ) Morabit , on his left . |
| 29 | Some limit was placed on the company 's power to create charges having priority to the floating charge by the decision of Sargant J. that a company could not create a floating charge on the same assets ranking in priority to or pari passu with the original floating charge . |
| 30 | In the first phase he confirmed that when meat powder ( an unconditioned stimulus ) was placed on the dog 's tongue a natural reflex occurred and the dog salivated ( an unconditioned response ) , but that it did not salivate solely in response to a buzzer sounded for 30 seconds , a neutral stimulus . |