Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [prep] [noun pl] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said : ‘ Inspectors sent to investigate the premises then found it was infested with cockroaches from infant to adult stage , alive and dead , on work surfaces , in the waste bins , around the cooker and behind two storage freezers . ’ |
| 2 | He said he was to get £30,000 to £40,000 for his role , and added : ‘ I went down the A82 via Fort William before I was stopped by police at Doune . ’ |
| 3 | Amphetamine powder was found in a car containing five youths including Wilson , the driver , who was stopped by police in Middlesbrough last May . |
| 4 | Kevin John Porter , 28 , was stopped by police in Commercial Street , Darlington , last summer after drinking with a friend who asked him to fill up the car . |
| 5 | As the Waaagh roamed freely over the Worlds Edge Mountains it was joined by multitudes of Goblins including the Night Goblin tribes of Red Eye Mountain and many Forest Goblin tribes from the Great Forest . |
| 6 | ‘ The sides of the hoary mountains were clad with spectators , and the glassy surface of the lake was variegated with numbers of pleasure barges , which , tricked out in all the gayest colours , and glittering in the rays of a meridian sun , gave a new appearance to the celebrated beauties of this matchless vale . ’ ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Need ’ was redefined in terms of learning difficulties significantly greater than those of the majority of children . |
| 8 | The monument was erected by friends of Camus after his death . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , he was reinstated by envoys of Charlemagne and Pope Leo in 809 . |
| 10 | But if appointment as a lord of session was major patronage at any period in Scotland 's history , there was in the eighteenth century considerable demand for any post which could make use of legal education , for there is some reason to believe that the country was oversupplied with lawyers in view of the desperate efforts which some of them made to obtain a salaried post , no matter how minor . |
| 11 | Matthew Belsham , of Sale Harriers has been added to England 's Commonwealth Games team , in the pole vault , taking the place of Michael Edwards , who was withdrawn on grounds of misconduct . |
| 12 | Cirencester , Gloucestershire-based start-up , Beaver Valley Systems Ltd , has signed to market Precision Visuals International 's PV Wave visual analysis software : BVS , an X-Windows specialist was formed by refugees from Meiko and DEC . |
| 13 | The resolution was dismissed by aides of Israel 's Prime Minister Itzhak Shamir , who asserted that it was " a pity " that the UN found it necessary repeatedly to condemn Israel when the real Middle East crisis was in the Gulf . |
| 14 | In November 1990 the Harms Commission , set up by the government to investigate allegations of political murders , had recommended an investigation of allegations that the CCB was implicated in assassinations of ANC activists . |
| 15 | The resultant social unrest was highlighted by episodes of looting of supermarkets . |
| 16 | Mr Connor was treated for burns at Hereford General Hospital and later discharged . |
| 17 | The Administration Order , which has existed for about 100 years with hardly anyone noticing , was limited to cases at present below the £5000 threshold . |
| 18 | The impression of democratization thus given was , in fact , dispelled by the restrictive nature of the suffrage , which was limited to heads of households and married women . |
| 19 | Particular consideration was given to developments in Cambodia . |
| 20 | The same low rating was given to standards by academics who rated research at 80% . |
| 21 | In consultation with GLC staff , attention was given to parts of London where changes over the decade were especially relevant to foreseeable issues of transport and planning policy , such as possible changes in transport or the location of homes and jobs . |
| 22 | Most editions carried stories stressing the amount of money being spent on improving conditions for Africans in the country , and special attention was given to items concerning stories about the funds provided for health and education by the Colonial Development and Welfare Fund and other British official sources . |
| 23 | Assistance was given by brigades from Stony Stratford and Newport Pagnell . |
| 24 | Stratford , a royal diplomat , had been provided to Winchester in 1323 against the wishes of the king and paid a heavy penalty for it : his temporalities were seized and exploited for a year , and even after they were restored Stratford was placed under recognizances of £10,000 to the king ( £2000 down and the rest conditional upon his good conduct ) , £1000 to the Despensers , and 1000 marks to the chancellor , Robert Baldock , a clerk for whom Edward had intended the bishopric ; moreover , Stratford was summoned to answer in the King 's Bench for his conduct of a royal mission to the papacy . |
| 25 | Maids took trays of drinks round , and a great banquet was placed on rows of tables that covered one whole side of the lawn . |
| 26 | In the run-up to the country 's first multiparty elections for 43 years , scheduled for March 25 , the ruling Hungarian Socialist Party ( HSP ) was shaken by revelations during January that the Interior Ministry 's security police had not stopped covert surveillance of the activities of opposition politicians , despite the enactment during the past 12 months of laws and constitutional amendments creating a multiparty system [ see pp. 36399 ; 36960-61 ] . |
| 27 | Most recently of all , the industry was shaken by signals from Whitehall last year that the size and shape of the armed forces might be transformed . |
| 28 | Similar work was undertaken by women in shoe-making . |
| 29 | If much land transport was undertaken by peasants as part of their multifarious labour services or to earn a little money on the side , much too , by land and sea , must have been undertaken by professionals . |
| 30 | The process of free elections for republican assemblies , begun in Slovenia and Croatia in April 1990 , was completed with elections in Yugoslavia 's four other constituent republics in November-December . |