Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [prep] [verb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The appellant was stopped on arriving in England by car ferry . |
| 2 | GPG was rebuked for complying with FRED 1 before it had become FRS 3 . |
| 3 | Up until the early twentieth century syphilis was treated by rubbing in mercury ointment . |
| 4 | But the principle of user autonomy was limited with regard to freedom to leave the building during opening hours . |
| 5 | Some of the older drivers were not impressed , and one was given to shouting to drivers of passing modern cars , ‘ Get off yer backside and drive ! ’ |
| 6 | She was given to playing with words in that way . |
| 7 | Mid-thirties and Jay was given to Falling in Love . |
| 8 | Did the Sunday trading laws pursue an aim which was justified with regard to Community law ? |
| 9 | In the Torfaen judgment the Court ruled , in relation to similar national legislation prohibiting the opening of retail shops on Sundays , that such a prohibition was not compatible with the principle of the free movement of goods provided for in the Treaty unless any obstacles to Community trade thereby created did not exceed what was necessary in order to ensure the attainment of the objective in view and unless that objective was justified with regard to Community law . |
| 10 | In the last chapter , this position was criticized by pointing to difficulties involved in any attempt to justify the inductive reasoning involved in the derivation of scientific laws and theories from observation . |
| 11 | For they had little in common , and Roy was furious with Julie when he was tricked into appearing on ITV 's This Is Your Life . |
| 12 | In the old method , barley grain was swollen by soaking in water for two or three days , then spread out on floors and exposed to air at a constant temperature to induce germination , which usually took two to three weeks . |
| 13 | The DNA was visualized by staining with ethidium bromide . |
| 14 | He was rescued after waving for help . |
| 15 | Griffiths , for example , wanted decisive central government action to ensure that clear objectives and priorities were set , but no such central direction was contained in Caring for People and no mechanisms were devised by which the government could ensure that local planning and implementation were consistent with national priorities ; indeed , no such priorities were set . |
| 16 | MIP-1 β was immobilized by binding to proteoglycan : a conjugate of heparin with bovine serum albumin and cellular proteoglycan CD44 were both effective . |
| 17 | There were certainly explosions in laboratories in Davy 's time , and Faraday 's chance came when his master was disabled after working with nitrogen trihalides ; here they did wear goggles , but in general precautions were few . |
| 18 | A new Act was prepared for placing before Parliament the inter-urban tramway link to Wolverhampton . |
| 19 | This was done by standing to attention outside the station building with the station-master 's staff of office held out in front of the body . |
| 20 | She was prevented from entering by people surfacing from the cellar bar . |
| 21 | However , voting was marred by violence and almost one-quarter of the population was prevented from voting by protesters demanding a federal state . |
| 22 | Heather appeared in court manacled and was prevented from talking to reporters after his hearing . |
| 23 | However , he was prevented from standing on Oct. 19 , when the Constitutional Court upheld the Supreme Court 's Oct. 12 ruling that anyone who had been the author or beneficiary of a military coup was debarred from participation in elections under Article 186 of the 1986 Constitution . |
| 24 | The return journey was made without stopping at Yakutsk ; it proved a dull uneventful day with nothing to do but watch the undulating Siberian tundra drift past beneath us . |
| 25 | Excellent progress was made in disposing of properties in Arizona when the market was considerably more bullish . |
| 26 | Bates was only playing because £100,000-signing Shane Westley was cup-tied after playing for Wolves . |
| 27 | Bates was only playing because £100,000 signing Shane Westley was cup-tied after playing for Wolves . |
| 28 | The Danes Camp hill-fort in Northamptonshire , for instance , was threatened by quarrying for ironstone . |
| 29 | The trend in cardiovascular mortality with external conjugate was abolished by allowing for head circumference . |
| 30 | Hatchards in Piccadilly was crammed to bursting with authors last Wednesday for its Authors of the Year reception , the annual event the bookshop stages to enable authors to get together with each other , and not a publisher in sight . |