Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A nearby tray was furnished with a mug and a large plate scattered with the crumbs of a large slice of cake . |
| 2 | A UN military observer , Colonel Walter van Dijk , who was with the convoy when it was stopped at a police and army barricade in Serbia yesterday , said the fate of the convoy had been ‘ resolved at the highest level ’ . |
| 3 | As a new-boy , he had already been labelled as the MP who found himself driving seven miles the wrong way on the M6 until he was stopped by a patrol and banned for six months . |
| 4 | There was a red light up , and he was stopped by a policeman as he reached the opposite pavement and duly asked for the appropriate number of marks . |
| 5 | Along the route he was stopped by a dwarf and led into the mountain , where he was told to empty his grain sacks and fill them with gold . |
| 6 | He said it was not clear whether the device was intended for an animal or a person ’ . |
| 7 | Even in Danish the brusque instruction was unmistakable as she was propelled across a threshold and with a fast movement of one strong arm sent revolving into a circle which ended when one of her calves struck the bed and she sat down heavily on its soft surface . |
| 8 | Patient compliance was checked with a diary and by counting the number of returned tablets or by calculating the quantity of amoxicillin suspension used , respectively . |
| 9 | Bryn was disguised as a priest and issued with false documents to deceive the enemy . |
| 10 | The youth hostel was closed , the only shop was disguised as a garage and had no window , a local quaker family had helped to close the only pub in the village in the 1950s , and a farmer I asked said he had none . |
| 11 | Dykstra started the season behind Billy Thomson in the pecking order at Fir Park , but even though the former Dundee United man was recalled for a game after Dykstra let in ten goals in three matches , the roles have now been reversed . |
| 12 | When OS/2 was announced , Unix was dismissed as a flop because there were almost as many versions of Unix as people selling it . |
| 13 | It was held ( a ) that it was a statement of present fact , namely that at the time the letter was sent the traveller had a definite and certain booking , ( b ) that that statement was false because the airline 's overbooking policy meant that the traveller 's booking was exposed to a risk that it might not give a seat on the aircraft , and ( c ) that the airline made the false statement knowingly ( and not merely recklessly ) since the airline was well aware of its own overbooking policy . |
| 14 | Whether the action was heard by a consul or by one of the praetores fideicommissarii , in either case it was not an action of the formulary system but of a kind which lay beyond that system ; the involvement of magistrates in assessing the cases was therefore known as cognitio extra ordinem . |
| 15 | THE issue of access for disabled people was highlighted in a Herald and Post article two weeks ago when a wheelchair-bound man experienced difficulty getting into a recently refurbished Comber bookies shop . |
| 16 | Coun Hughes said an ambulance had taken about 36 minutes to arrive in Barnard Castle after a man collapsed with chest pains outside his office on Thursday the man was treated by a doctor before the ambulance arrived . |
| 17 | I was treated like a servant so I asked Freddie to find me a place of my own . |
| 18 | Douglas Engelbart 's group published a paper in which each paragraph was prefaced by a number that exactly specified that paragraph 's position in the outline . |
| 19 | On the other hand a Stony Stratford shoemaker 's connexion with agriculture was limited to a cow and ( possibly ) a white horse ; his sideline was petty capitalism , if not simply money-lending , for his assets , totalling more than £28 , included £18. 1s. 8d. owed by seven different persons . |
| 20 | Sarella 's heart was wrung for a moment as she remembered how hard Marc was on his younger brother . |
| 21 | THE bitter tussle between Russia 's parliament and government appeared to be drawing to a close last night after preliminary approval was given to a compromise that would allow President Yeltsin 's administration to continue its reforms . |
| 22 | Because it 's not on T P S , and , and it was given , it was given to a great-aunt or something , and she hocked it off him . |
| 23 | The pond was situated in an area that necessitated walking though two dark , gloomy plantations that after dark were very spooky and the boys were always pleased to get through them . |
| 24 | He was shocked to find the puppy 's legs had been tied up with string before it was placed in a bag and dumped . |
| 25 | Lower School was opposite the Chapel and here , under the dark oaken beams and arches , I was taught in a classroom that had been in continuous use as such since 1443 . |
| 26 | It was important for him to build up a body of allies to ensure his succession on his father 's death , but he overreached himself , was regarded as a rebel and was killed , after being defeated in battle by Chlothar . |
| 27 | Even before the ink was dry on the main elements of reform , ‘ there is no doubt that the relative emphasis and priority accorded to democratization appreciably diminished from late 1947 onward or that this was regarded as a betrayal or serious dilution of earlier objectives ’ ( Ward 1968 p.503 ) . |
| 28 | The latter was regarded as a conservative and a Russian nationalist , as was Rasputin , a celebrated poet and the only non-communist in the Council . |
| 29 | Myanma 's military-dominated regime , however , which had refused to implement the results of the May 1990 general election won by the NLD , made it clear that Suu Kyi was regarded as a troublemaker and that she would remain under house arrest ; she had refused to renounce political involvement and go into exile . |
| 30 | Avraham Shochat , who became Minister of Finance , was regarded as a technocrat and as an advocate of increased privatization ; he first became a Knesset member in 1988 . |