Example sentences of "was [verb] [prep] [noun pl] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The impression of democratization thus given was , in fact , dispelled by the restrictive nature of the suffrage , which was limited to heads of households and married women . |
| 2 | The same low rating was given to standards by academics who rated research at 80% . |
| 3 | Most editions carried stories stressing the amount of money being spent on improving conditions for Africans in the country , and special attention was given to items concerning stories about the funds provided for health and education by the Colonial Development and Welfare Fund and other British official sources . |
| 4 | Maids took trays of drinks round , and a great banquet was placed on rows of tables that covered one whole side of the lawn . |
| 5 | The older children were to sit in the back half of the hall which was filled with rows of chairs . |
| 6 | Concern about the plight of young intellectuals was mixed with promises of improvements . |
| 7 | The client 's discourse was dominated by conceptions of kin-based relationships ; the lawyer 's discourse was dominated by conceptions of relations involving ownership potentialities and capacities . |
| 8 | The enormous steak was dominated by waves of potatoes , carrots and onions . |
| 9 | The official parade was cut back to just under an hour and it was preceded by speeches from workers and politicians . |
| 10 | The rigidity of what was expected from children in terms of compliance to religious and moral ideologies could have no more perfect expression than in the two small late 18th century carved wooden figures of the Blue Coat Schoolboy and Schoolgirl which until recently were to be found in All Saints Church , Maidstone . |
| 11 | The result removed any lingering doubt on this issue and showed clearly that while the outcome of the Westminster elections was distorted in terms of seats secured by parties by the X-voting system the voting pattern roughly reflected the division in public opinion , ( see page 20 ) . |
| 12 | On the same day Richard Gough was transferred from Spurs to Rangers for £1.5 million . |
| 13 | Most of the work was done by gangs of miners , many of them ‘ claykickers ’ who sat in the tunnel , leaning against a wooden backrest with their feet at the face , and dug out the clay with a light spade . |
| 14 | Her teacher had seen a small notice about a charity in Russia which was looking for hosts for children from the affected regions and had contacted a friend , originally from Russia , who helped investigate the charity . |
| 15 | Use was made of facilities for communications , intelligence gathering , and early warning systems . |
| 16 | Written application was made for photocopies of declarations . |
| 17 | INSIDE STORY : MULES looks at women who smuggle drugs and THE PRISONER looks like was made by men on drugs . |
| 18 | At Powick the strongly centrist mode of operation meant that the health authority and local authority service framework adopted was built on assumptions about needs that were established wisdom ( though whose , as was seen in Chapter 2 , was not clear ) . |
| 19 | It may well be the oldest crane in Britain , and it was operated by men on treadwheels . |
| 20 | THE standard of the Queen 's Birthday Parade as a spectacle fit for a monarch was threatened by cuts in troops available for ceremonial duties , a Tory warned in the Commons yesterday . |
| 21 | The problem was minimised in measurements on cells and tissues in vitro , however , and in small animals in vivo , by the ‘ flooding dose ’ technique , in which all amino acid pools are rapidly equilibrated to similar enrichments . |
| 22 | Not knowing about electricity , but knowing about hydraulic systems , Descartes suggested that the control of these reactions in animals was mediated by movements of fluids , initiated in the sensory nerves by stimuli , being carried to the ventricular system of the brain where contact was made with the motor nerves . |
| 23 | Another remarkable change in services was shown in slides of Sprinters standing in Ely station with Liverpool or Manchester on their destination boards . |
| 24 | One of the patients could not categorize the expression on faces that she was shown in photographs in terms of whether the expression was one of happiness , anger , surprise and so on . |
| 25 | The event , run by John Burgess formerly of Anstey County Junior School , was umpired by volunteers including members of the Alton Ants netball club . |
| 26 | The window was crammed with sweets in boxes and glass jars and she kept an amazing selection . |
| 27 | Lynx was sued after claims about conditions at a mink farm in Halifax , West Yorks , run by Ukrainian-born Leo Sawrij . |
| 28 | On and upward , slow now with the altitude telling on legs and lungs alike , the route was measured in numbers of steps before a rest was needed . |
| 29 | The hammer-beamed GREAT HALL was built by James IV in the sixteenth century and was used on occasions for meetings of the Scots parliament . |
| 30 | Unease and uncertainty was growing among Boards of Guardians throughout the country about their future responsibilities . |