Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [prep] the [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He realised his mistake when he was stopped by the gates of Parliament Buildings at Stormont and turned back . |
| 2 | In the summer he was stopped by the police for overloading his builder 's van . |
| 3 | ‘ When he was stopped by the police at the roadside and given the breath test he was convinced he was going to fail and lose his licence . |
| 4 | He was stopped by the police outside the Bakers Arms pub . |
| 5 | McKay was joined among the qualifiers by another West of Scotland girl , Janice Moodie . |
| 6 | And the central area plan was circumscribed by the rights of the city 's main shops . |
| 7 | The money that er we raised in the Soviet Union was intended for the families of miners who had suffered as a result of the strike . |
| 8 | Dobbs flight was headed for Birmingham airport , but police are in no doubt the cocaine was intended for the streets of Gloucester . |
| 9 | In the 1870s , the Society was established in premises at Renfield Street where it remained until the splendid new building in West Regent Street was erected through the efforts of William Agnew in 1894 . |
| 10 | It was checked against the prints of George Taylor , who had been early on the scene , but they did not match . |
| 11 | Contamination was calculated from the concentrations in the aspirated water ( Table IV ) ; this would have only minimally increased ( 0.2–7.4% ) these values , except for iron , for which the concentrations could therefore only be estimated ( 3.5 µM in normal gastric juice ) , assuming that about one third of the recorded values ( that is ca 1.7 µM ; Table III ) was a result of unavoidable contamination of samples . |
| 12 | This ceremony was witnessed by the members of the pope 's entourage , his erstwhile colleagues among the cardinals , with their attendants , and the clergy and people of Rome , plus those visiting the Holy City . |
| 13 | He was riveted by the newsreels of the intrepid yompers shown every night on television . |
| 14 | Yet pearls did not feature prominently in Egyptian jewellery until the country was conquered by the Persians during the fifth century B.C. and direct links were established with the fisheries of the Persian Gulf . |
| 15 | Having become a War Office civilian in 1925 , he was recalled to the colours as a lieutenant-colonel in September 1939 to command No . |
| 16 | The match in Ireland ended under something of a cloud when the reigning American Club Professional Champion Larry Gilbert ( right ) was withdrawn from the singles on medical grounds . |
| 17 | The row , which inflamed doctors , was immortalised by the pictures of ‘ battling Granny Esther Brookstone ’ , the leader of Charing Cross Hospital 's branch of the National Union of Public Employees , demanding that the new hospital 's ‘ penthouse floor ’ of private beds be turned over to the NHS . |
| 18 | At the time , a trust fund was formed with the aims of establishing a permanent memorial to , and annual scholarships for young people connected with the industry . |
| 19 | Legend has it that the lake was formed by the tears of a love torn nymph , and at the end of a luminous day , when the sun turns everything to delicate hues , even the sceptical are ready to admit they have seen the Trasimeno nymph — adding to the water level with a few tears more . |
| 20 | ‘ It stood for ‘ Wolność ’ i Niepodlegtność ’ , meaning Freedom and Independence in Polish , and it was formed from the remnants of the Polish Home Army . |
| 21 | Deaconess Tilley 's notions of the food proper for entertaining was formed from the needs of large families on small incomes crossed with Church ‘ does ’ of various kinds . |
| 22 | Helen Zeitlin , who worked in the haematology unit at the Alexandra Hospital in Redditch for five years , and was dismissed on the grounds of redundancy , has won her appeal against the decision . |
| 23 | The event was meant to have been a demonstration of the balloonist 's art and the accident was dismissed by the organisers as the exception which proves the rule . |
| 24 | Once the top section had been put into place and its edge tucked in as close to the body as possible , the lip of the base tray was eased towards the sides of the upper half and the joint soldered . |
| 25 | The seats included Sope 's own and that of President Fred Timikata who was appointed head of state after the imprisonment of his predecessor , a relative of Sope 's who was implicated in the events of 1988 . |
| 26 | These envisaged peace on four conditions : if the Russian protectorate over the Danubian Principalities was replaced by a European guarantee ; if Russian control of the mouth of the Danube came to an end ; if the Straits Convention of 1841 was revised in the interests of the European balance of power ; and if the protection of Ottoman Christians by Russia was replaced by the collective protection of Europe 's five Great Powers . |
| 27 | It was then explained that the present airstrip was improvised by the engineers as a front-line RAF base to take the Hercules , the slow transport which drones between Ascension Island and Stanley at £250000 per trip . |
| 28 | This school had enjoyed a brief period of success and national distinction in the first decade of the sixteenth century under the Mastership of John Stanbridge , who was well known when he migrated north from Oxford and whose Grammar was prescribed in the statutes of Manchester Grammar School . |
| 29 | Hence debates had an antiquarian tone : little was heard of the rights of man , a great deal about the rights of the crown of Aragon , of the Councils of Toledo and Leon , of the Goths as founders of liberty . |
| 30 | But strangely , nothing further was heard of the islands for several hundred years until the famous Dutch explorer Willem Barents rediscovered Svalbard in 1596 . |