Example sentences of "was [verb] [prep] [noun pl] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said : ‘ Inspectors sent to investigate the premises then found it was infested with cockroaches from infant to adult stage , alive and dead , on work surfaces , in the waste bins , around the cooker and behind two storage freezers . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ The sides of the hoary mountains were clad with spectators , and the glassy surface of the lake was variegated with numbers of pleasure barges , which , tricked out in all the gayest colours , and glittering in the rays of a meridian sun , gave a new appearance to the celebrated beauties of this matchless vale . ’ ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Need ’ was redefined in terms of learning difficulties significantly greater than those of the majority of children . |
| 4 | Seconds later he was struggling under yards of silk only 20 feet down the other side of the hill , wrestling beneath the parachute like an actor in a soft porn film . |
| 5 | But if appointment as a lord of session was major patronage at any period in Scotland 's history , there was in the eighteenth century considerable demand for any post which could make use of legal education , for there is some reason to believe that the country was oversupplied with lawyers in view of the desperate efforts which some of them made to obtain a salaried post , no matter how minor . |
| 6 | Matthew Belsham , of Sale Harriers has been added to England 's Commonwealth Games team , in the pole vault , taking the place of Michael Edwards , who was withdrawn on grounds of misconduct . |
| 7 | The resultant social unrest was highlighted by episodes of looting of supermarkets . |
| 8 | The Administration Order , which has existed for about 100 years with hardly anyone noticing , was limited to cases at present below the £5000 threshold . |
| 9 | With time , the intimate relationship described above was to go through periods of stress and change . |
| 10 | Similar work was undertaken by women in shoe-making . |
| 11 | If much land transport was undertaken by peasants as part of their multifarious labour services or to earn a little money on the side , much too , by land and sea , must have been undertaken by professionals . |
| 12 | The material from a number of north-west European countries was arranged by types for comparison from which conclusions about the connectedness of artefact types were drawn . |
| 13 | The young father ushered him round to the back where he was received with screams of delight . |
| 14 | This women 's protest was received with expressions of outrage and puzzlement by men within the dominant political culture . |
| 15 | But since the data needed to construct such a measure is difficult to elicit and interpret , a more easily verifiable and simpler measure was preferred ; for example a point was assigned for ties of kinship contracted in the neighbourhood . |
| 16 | Former LDP Cabinet Minister Toshiyuki Inamura , who served as Director-General of the Environment Agency in 1986-87 , resigned from the party on Dec. 26 , a day before he was indicted on charges of tax evasion . |
| 17 | Tom placed a bowl beside his feet , which was filled with scraps of meat and biscuits for Sammy who had already started chewing the end of one of the socks . |
| 18 | I idly picked up one of the leaflets which had two pictures on its cover ; the first illustration showed a happy black family , all neatly dressed and reading books around a table that was filled with platefuls of food and with jugs labelled ‘ milk ’ . |
| 19 | It was filled with sacks of corn and oats that mingled their scents with hay from the loft above and the lingering fragrance of the last of the stored apples . |
| 20 | He and Ford had a cannon on the roof loaded with everything that they had been able to lay their hands on : stones , penknives , pieces of lightning-conductor , chains , nails , the embossed silver cutlery from the dining-room , and even some ivory false teeth , picked up by Ford who had seen them gleaming in the undergrowth ; but the greater part of the improvised canister was filled with fragments of marble chipped from The Spirit of Science Conquers Ignorance and Prejudice . |
| 21 | Melvin Bernhardt , who had directed the show in Cincinnati , was sacked after differences of opinion with Dustin . |
| 22 | How many times did wee Norrie tell us that the only thing standing in the way of recovery was the uncertainty caused by the election when in truth the economy was wrecked after years of mismanagement , the pound weak because our manufacturing base had been destroyed ? |
| 23 | Her extraordinary enthusiasm for her work ( including regular contributions to the Guardian and Observer ) , was registered in guffaws of delight at new discoveries and scoops . |
| 24 | A recent case , where a woman was murdered for her dowry , was registered by police as suicide . |
| 25 | He turned and looked at Cranston , noting how the fat coroner 's face was dewed with drops of sweat . |
| 26 | As the son and grandson of miners , I was reared on stories of coal and collieries . |
| 27 | As usual , the finger was pointed at cases of corruption among leader figures in the Party , the State , and the |
| 28 | Immediately beside him Kegan was fussing with sheets of paper , arranging and rearranging them into neat aligned squares . |
| 29 | Initial progress was made in tracing water discharged at resurgences but this was succeeded by deductions of limestone erosion rates , by determination of drainage areas , by distinction of the significance of percolation water and of conduit flow and thence of application of the results of process investigations to the derivation of modified models of landscape development as proposed by Smith and Newson ( 1974 ) for the Mendips . |
| 30 | But their most famous victory , over the black Conservative John Taylor in Cheltenham , was clouded by suggestions of racism , and as our Political Editor Peter Hayes reports it was racism that also overshadowed the first day of the conference . |