Example sentences of "was [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two fights later , he was stopped in the sixth by Tyson , whom he had helped prepare for several fights as a sparring partner . |
| 2 | The cairn was erected in the 1870s by the local gamekeeper and named after him : it stands twelve feet high with an interior providing shelter , and occupies a vantage point from which Josse could survey the whole of his domain . |
| 3 | Lagos was conquered by the British in : |
| 4 | This national dairy breed was formed during the 1960s by the amalgamation of several red or red-and-white types after a gradual series of breed absorptions over the last 40 or 50 years . |
| 5 | It was formed over the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries by the Princes zu Salm-Reifferscheidt-Dyck , and displayed at Schloss Dyck , their picturesque Rhineland ‘ water-castle ’ in the north-west of the country near Düsseldorf . |
| 6 | This drift of thought was emphasized in the 1940s by the Beveridge Report recommending a comprehensive pattern of welfare organized on a national basis , by the new emphasis on Keynesian planning and by Herbert Morrison 's concept of the large national corporation as the best method of organizing nationalized industries . |
| 7 | Now if the matter arises on taxation in this way , it seems that a loan , the trial judgment was given on the twentieth of March nineteen ninety one , a minute of order was prepared and signed by counsel for both the plaintiff and for the defendants and that was forwarded by the defendant 's solicitors to the plaintiff 's solicitors under cover of a letter dated the twenty third of April nineteen ninety one , er Mr who is the defendant 's solicitor in the third paragraph , had a letter wrote as follows I enclose a copy of the draft minute board , approved by Mr , he of course was counsel for the defendant , you are now , you , you were presumably now attend a sealed order . |
| 8 | they do n't want to have some er official or or some management consultant who 's eager to get a job and get extra money paid for him by a dumb government department , if those people are going to tell us what sort of people we want on that on police authorities , I think it is total insolence and I trust that whatever happens to this Bill that that answer that was given on the 17th of January is removed and replaced by something else , if it has to be replaced at all . |
| 9 | 1 November ( All Saints ' Day ) is Pão-por-Deus ( ‘ Bread for God ’ ) when traditionally bread was given to the poor in the city to obtain a blessing on the souls of the departed . |
| 10 | I enjoy shocking people by describing how goods were introduced into households under the guise of gifts for children : the fridge in the house of the children we played with over the road was given to the youngest as a birthday present — the last thing an eight-year old wants . |
| 11 | This was given to the DC-10 as ‘ 51 , you are cleared to FL180 ’ but was miss-heard by the Concorde as ‘ 01 , you are cleared to FL180 ’ . |
| 12 | This was recognized in the 1430s by the author of The Libelle of Englyshe Polycye , when he advocated the use of a trade embargo to force Flemish compliance with English policies ( 43 , pp.5–6 ) . |
| 13 | No one was placed except the nine of us who were sitting at Robin 's table , and we were just asked quietly when we went in ‘ to go to the table with the birthday cake on it ’ . |
| 14 | According to Philo of Alexandria , a first-century Graeco-Judaic philosopher who wrote many works that still survive , including commentaries on the Old Testament , fifty was regarded as the holiest of numbers and ‘ the principle of the generation of the universe ’ ( De vita contemplativa , 65 ) . |
| 15 | The human rights situation in Guatemala , a major stumbling block in the peace negotiations , was regarded as the worst in the region . |
| 16 | The mapping was completed by the 1st of August . |
| 17 | Charles E. ( Buddy ) Roemer , the Governor of Louisiana , announced on March 11 that he was defecting from the Democratic to the Republican Party . |
| 18 | ‘ A Christmas-shopping outing to East Kilbride was arranged for the elderly of the parish , with transport , tea and coffee laid on ’ . |
| 19 | The control of consumption theory was developed in the 1950s by a French demographer , Sully Ledermann and has since been adopted by many neo-prohibitionists , notably in Scandinavia . |
| 20 | Such a cautious approach to the potential of genetic engineering is also to be applauded in the wake of the dilemmas that have been created by the harnessing of nuclear power , the science for which was developed in the 1940s in response to weaponry requirements in the Second World War . |
| 21 | Among the three patients with T0N0M0 staging , two had no endoscopic recurrence after 10 months , and an intraepithelial recurrence was diagnosed in the third after 7.5 months . |
| 22 | In the event , Gothic was succeeded in the 1890s by a variety of new styles . |
| 23 | His life was clouded from the 1880s by the onset of tuberculosis , which led him to spend his winters in Florida . |
| 24 | The plane with 20 passengers on board was caught in a strong down draught but managed to touch down safely ten metres short of the runway . |
| 25 | Some may be attributable to the initial aim of the binary policy to create a sector with a more applied or vocationally relevant emphasis and ethos , although the extent to which that was eroded in the 1970s by ‘ academic drift ’ is open to question ( Pratt and Burgess 1974 ; Donaldson 1975 ; Neave 1978 , 1979b ) . |
| 26 | He was hanged by the British in 1857 . |
| 27 | A girl was sunbathing on a lounger in the courtyard outside Culley 's window . |
| 28 | But to say it was superseded by the latter in the seventeenth century is not entirely true . |
| 29 | Even in this condition its buildings remained magnificent ; the chateau-inspired tower block was added during the 1860s by C.F. Bodley . |
| 30 | The deciding game between Angela Corry and Ruth was won by the latter after a time scramble . |