Example sentences of "was [verb] [adv prt] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The radioallergosorbent test ( RAST ) was carried out to detect the circulating cow 's milk specific IgE antibodies , and also the serum total IgE values were measured before starting the challenge . |
| 2 | This study was carried out to examine the two decade trends in the incidence and death from pancreatitis , and to evaluate the relations between the occurrence of pancreatitis and alcohol consumption , liver cirrhosis , and gall stone disease in Finland . |
| 3 | After a request for stamps , he describes a few enjoyable , healthy hours out of doors walking with Dad from ten to three without a rest : We met a country girl , pale faced , delicate , tall , wrapped up to her neck in winter clothes & feeling cold in spite of all ; her eyes were timid & weak ; evidently she was suffering as girls do , & was going out to get the fresh air . |
| 4 | Sometimes the sheriff , that medieval ‘ maid-of-all-work ’ , was called in to restrain the oppressive conduct of the Forest wardens . |
| 5 | At Moss Green , GIST was called in to address the second-year class before they made craft mini-options , to stress how important it was for girls to consider getting a grounding in technology . |
| 6 | But the Royal Navy , which was geared up to fight the Soviet Union rather than a country operating Western weapons , had not reprogrammed the computer to register Exocet as being hostile . |
| 7 | At such times , it may be useful to recall that the current financial services regime was set up to remedy the regulatory failures of the previous system , which was one of regulation under statute by a government department . |
| 8 | The FRPB has been concerned about the water quality of the River Almond ( Class 3/4 ) for some time and in June 1988 a River Almond Model Study Group was set up to monitor the deteriorating river quality . |
| 9 | It has been completed bang on time and within budget thanks to a special task force which was set up to lead the complex engineering job . |
| 10 | A Board of Associateship was set up to manage the new regulations for admission to the Register of Chartered Librarians , and delegated to the Association 's expert Sub-Committee on Training the task of detailed assessment of the training programmes designated to meet these new regulations . |
| 11 | After further discussion a small group consisting initially of Eileen , Maureen , Crawford and Leah , was set up to plan the next such gathering . |
| 12 | A commission was set up to oversee the new decisions . |
| 13 | Consequently , nuclear power was excluded from the government 's privatization plans and instead a state-owned company , Nuclear Electric , was set up to run the existing nuclear power stations ( eight Magnox , five AGR , and the PWR under construction at Sizewell ) and to continue generating around 20 per cent of electricity in England and Wales ( Scotland has a separate company ) . |
| 14 | Membership applications were received from all over the UK , and the MLA was set up to meet the growing demand for a central organisation . |
| 15 | A Franco-British Committee was set up in 1868 to consider a twin bored tunnel project developed by Thome de Gamond and the British engineers John Hawkshaw and William Lowe , and in 1875 an international commission was set up to consider the legal and regulatory implications . |
| 16 | This culminated in a call for the CUC to become a high-profile campaigning body and in 1985 a working party was set up to consider the future role and shape of the CUC . |
| 17 | Between 1882 and 1894 he was also chairman of the Basic & Dephosphorizing Patents Co. , which was set up to safeguard the many patentees with interests in the dephosphorization process and the agricultural disposal of the phosphorus-rich basic slag . |
| 18 | A standing committee was set up to co-ordinate the international relief effort . |
| 19 | It depends on whether the duty solicitor scheme was set up to help the unrepresented defendant or to diversify criminal work . |
| 20 | The Wilson Committee was set up to investigate the whole question of the provision of funds for industry and trade . |
| 21 | To his surprise a huge cake was wheeled out depicting the 1976 Olympic champion playing golf on one half of the cake and skiing on the other . |
| 22 | Marxist , Plekhanov , was brought in to defend the traditional position of the Polish Socialist Party against this impertinent young woman , Rosa Luxemburg ( in Vorwärts , 23 July 1896 ) . |
| 23 | When a purpose-designed cap was brought in to replace the humble condom , it was reported that the mine-laying frogmen were less than happy , having regarded the prior item as something of a ‘ perk ’ of the job . |
| 24 | Most of us probably think that the dole is what you live on when you 're unemployed , a statutory right which was brought in to bury the hated means test of the 1930s However , when the modern national insurance system was introduced in 1948 unemployment benefit was still not expected to be sufficient to maintain a wageless man with wife and children ; it was an arbitrary figure which could be topped up . |
| 25 | A long list of criteria was trundled out to justify the eminent reasonableness of their wage claims : their members had fallen behind in the league table of wage differentials ; the cost of living had increased ; productivity had risen ; firms ' profits were high and their members were entitled to their ‘ fair ’ share . |