Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the time of their demise the land was infested by the mammal-like reptiles , which had the looks and probably the habits of rats : we are the descendants of such creatures . |
| 2 | Whatever , when he arrived at the Ring , Niki was pilloried in the sporting press for his opposition to a great track in which all the other champions had raced : if he was so craven-hearted , they said , he should n't be racing . |
| 3 | It was furnished with a certain meanness of equipment that made them feel like poor relations . |
| 4 | They had a cavernous basement room which they had painted apricot and white , to cheer it up ; it was furnished with a double divan , two very old arm-chairs with curvaceous rolled arms and head-rests , plum and plushy and dusty , a second-hand stained-oak office desk , where Roland worked , and a newer varnished beech desk , where the typewriter sat . |
| 5 | He was furnished with a big drum and plenty of liquid refreshment meant that before long he not so much marched as fell around the city . |
| 6 | My imagination was furnished with the passionate martyrdom of the Protestant north . |
| 7 | It was furnished with an ancient iron bedstead and a wooden table so decrepit that it collapsed as I walked past it . |
| 8 | Since Dornie was now out of the question , I went on to the Kintail Lodge Hotel , where I was admitted and taken up to a single room which , mercifully , was furnished with an electric fire . |
| 9 | Jehana 's mare was stopped at the far end of it , and Alexei was at her side . |
| 10 | He drove out onto Mount Pleasant and was stopped at the temporary lights where the new sewer pipe was going in . |
| 11 | I was stopped at the horse-car entrance by a locked door and , in response to my repeated knocking , by a determined female who told me I was n't welcome . |
| 12 | An exhibition of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century watercolours from the Hermitage , which was planned for Kaliningrad , was stopped at the Latvian customs . |
| 13 | This car was stopped on the hard shoulder of the M4 just west of Swindon , after a motorway chase from South Wales . |
| 14 | Vlasman boxed superbly before a capacity crowd and was well on top when his opponent , G Reid ( Wolverhampton ) was stopped with a cut eye in the third . |
| 15 | He had taken only a few steps across the playground when he was stopped by a rough command . |
| 16 | He climbed the steps leading to the central lobby and was stopped by a burly policeman who asked the nature of his business . |
| 17 | Enjoying every minute of it we traversed right along a wide ledge sparkling with quartz crystals to an impasse , where the way ahead was stopped by a vertical wall suspended over immense space . |
| 18 | A short time later , on the other side of Hereford , a motorist was stopped by a white car with a blue light on top . |
| 19 | The following morning the convoy was stopped by a one-person LAG picket . |
| 20 | That training ( and the service that should have started with the Class 317 units at the beginning of the 1982 timetable ) was stopped by an industrial dispute about bonus payments for driver-only operation . |
| 21 | He was stopped by the urgent tone of Patrick 's voice . |
| 22 | The name St Petersburg had been given to the city by Peter the Great in 1703 ; in 1914 it was amended to the Russified form Petrograd , and in 1924 it was renamed in honour of Lenin after his death . |
| 23 | The Constitution of Polynesia was amended by the French Parliament with effect from July 1990 to increase the powers of the President of the territorial government and those of the Territorial Assembly , and to establish five consultative local councils composed of elected territorial and municipal representatives . |
| 24 | At the same time Article 130 of the Constitution , recognizing the Roman Catholic Church and lifting restraints on the clergy after more than 130 years , was amended after a three-week debate . |
| 25 | The feudal institutions of the ancien régime began to be dismantled under the bureaucratic reforms of the eighteenth century Carlist monarchy , and the process was hastened by the Napoleonic invasion , rather than by the pressure of new economic interests and the emergence of commercial agriculture . |
| 26 | Soviet specialists believed that the shift towards non-alignment in Latin America was hastened by the political situation in the region after the Falklands War which resulted in ‘ an open crisis of the inter-American system , including its military-political mechanism ’ . |
| 27 | Sometime in the not-so-distant geological past , perhaps as little as half a million years ago , it was joined to the great land mass to the north . |
| 28 | A dualism of spirit and matter , mind and body , was joined with a powerful determinism or predestinarianism : the Gnostics ( or ‘ people in the know ’ ) are the elect , their souls fragments of the divine , needing liberation from matter and the power of the planets . |
| 29 | Schwantz , winner of 19 Grands Prix in a fruitless search for the world title , was joined on the front row by fellow American Wayne Rainey , bidding for a fourth successive crown , and Australian prospect Daryl Beattie . |
| 30 | She was joined for a short time by another dancer back from war service , Alan Carter . |