Example sentences of "was [verb] [adv] [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gordon Durie , the Tottenham striker , was withdrawn yesterday from the Scotland squad to face Malta on Wednesday at Ibrox after the player broke down in training . |
| 2 | RSVP was formed soon after the NRA announced it was considering building the reservoir in spring 1991 . |
| 3 | The Tentara Keamann Raykat ( TKR ) was formed out of the BKR . |
| 4 | Pelham 's experience in trade was recognized speedily in the Commons , for on 7 June 1641 he was named to the committee to regulate trade with Scotland . |
| 5 | The blame was placed squarely on the United States for having gone back on the Moscow agreement and on the basis worked out by Marshall and Molotov for renewing the meetings of the Joint Commission . |
| 6 | The customer was delighted and telephoned Ralph Edwards to say how pleased his client was with the service and that the cloth was flown out to The Yemen within a few hours . |
| 7 | As for Mary Alice , she was flown back to the USA in June 1945 , some 11 months after her original crew . |
| 8 | And if you recall when my Colonel read John plaque it attributes to him er the aid in assisting us at in the establishment of that memorial museum , John gave us a er and sort of took that apart and hauled it over to and it was flown back to the States and that 's going to be a briefing operations room for the museum itself . |
| 9 | It had found its first practical test in United States hostility towards Libya in 1986 and was developed further during the United States intervention in the maritime conflict in the Gulf on behalf of Kuwait in 1987 . |
| 10 | Then the dome was echoing with the last anthem : she was walking out into the September sunshine on João 's arm ; the crowds were cheering in the streets , gasping at the splendour of her dress and showering her with flowers and petals . |
| 11 | Once , on a day of snow and melting slush , he was walking back to the Marylebone Road when the Asshe carriage passed by , with Johnny at the reins . |
| 12 | The Youth League — banned for 30 years since 1960 — was legalised along with the ANC , PAC and SACP in February , 1990 . |
| 13 | Hectic political and diplomatic activity was reported ahead of the mid-December deadline for the establishment of a new government [ see p. 39146 ] . |
| 14 | A trial of lens implantation on 40 patients with extreme short sight was reported yesterday to the UK Intra-ocular Implant Society by Mr Peter Choyce , a private opthalmic surgeon in London . |
| 15 | In his final statements in the Venezuelan capital Caracas , his last stop , Bush repeated the central message of the tour , that a " new age " was opening up for the Americas . |
| 16 | The only let-downs are cabin styling which looks as if it was lifted directly from the Corolla and an overall lack of identity . |
| 17 | Darren Anderton slipped past Tom Cowan 's lethargic tackle and his low cross from the right was slotted in by the England player . |
| 18 | The Bank was tipped off by the West Germans shortly before the decision was announced , and evidently decided it would have to follow suit or risk a damaging run on the pound . |
| 19 | The proposal by the then second lieutenant was addressed directly to the Commander-in-Chief Middle East , as Stirling knew full well that ‘ going through channels ’ would be a total waste of time . |
| 20 | However , if he is a currency speculator he may be found to be trading in currencies and as he resides in the United Kingdom it would be very difficult to show that the trade was carried on outside the United Kingdom . |
| 21 | The most prominent of the dayis were captured and beheaded , their heads being sent to the sultan ( except for one which was carried away by the Danube whilst being washed by a gypsy in preparation for the journey to Istanbul ) . |
| 22 | In later years , a good deal of business was carried out with the Severn and Wye Railway Company , Hewlett supplying this trade for at least several decades . |
| 23 | Survival analysis was carried out with the Kaplan-Meier product limit method , and the log rank test was used to test the significance of differences between the treatment groups . |
| 24 | Servicing of steam locomotive No. 90 was carried out at the Severn Valley Railway Works at Bridgenorth where a complete new firebox and boiler was made and then shipped to Galway for installation . |
| 25 | This may be guided by the subsequent text pages which describe the intervention that was carried out by the Smiths . |
| 26 | Before rebuilding , an archaeological excavation was carried out by the Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust which established by radio-carbon dating that the site had been used as a burial ground for about one thousand years before Melangell 's time . |
| 27 | He took a taxi the twelve miles into Brighton , and was dropped off at the Willett Collection , housed in the town 's museum . |
| 28 | And then we had the er the battledress was issued , the khaki , and erm we was had our head headquarters were started , the headquarters were started in an office at , one of the office rooms at the at the Bloxwich Lock and Stamping Company by the , the top offices we used to call them , by the gates , we had one of the rooms there for and it eventually became the armoury when we got some equipment because rifles etcetera was in very short supply after Dun Dunkirk So eventually we had a few rifles and er when the er we got a few rifles and er the sirens went it was the practice at the beginning when the sirens went in this area for everything to stop and everyone down the shelter but it happened four or five times , everybody realized how non-productive this was , that the time that was lost and there was nothing happening in this area so it was decided by the R T B that we , the , the people off the shop floor would n't stop work until the attack was really imminent or it had started because if this , this was happening all over the Midlands area and of course if you , if you multiply that by the number of people at work you can imagine how much production was lost erm and also when the sirens went Major at the factory used to get the chappies out from off the shop floor , get the few rifles we 'd got , take we in to King George 's playing fields there was a , a brook running across King George 's playing fields then , it had n't and a trench which was extended to stop er aircraft from landing in King George 's cos it was just a big open space . |
| 29 | The semi-final was won deservedly against the Norwich Union , with the team playing well within themselves . |
| 30 | The conference was organised jointly by the Shropshire branch of the Council for the Protection of Rural England , ( C.P.R.E. ) the Shropshire Wildlife Trust ( S.W.T. ) and Shrewsbury Friends of the Earth ( FoE ) . |