Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [prep] [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Acid output was calculated by allowing for the amount of juice produced in each time interval , and was expressed as mEq/h . |
| 2 | Public outcry followed the revelation that Ben Silcock , who was mauled after climbing into the lions ' compound at London Zoo , was severely mentally ill and was not getting adequate treatment . |
| 3 | Within a few days a unit was formed in Halling under the command of Captain Wanstall . |
| 4 | The agricultural export economy was not regarded as needing a skilled workforce and little priority was given to schooling for the majority of the population . |
| 5 | A number of the male houses were little better ; the Benedictine house of Sele had a non-resident prior in the 1460s who was given to selling off the moveable goods to keep up his life style . |
| 6 | At an extraordinary plenum of the Tadjik CP central committee on Feb. 16 Makhkamov 's resignation was refused and Vaadad was criticized for contributing to the destabilization of the situation in Tadjikistan ; indeed a special commission was set up to investigate allegations that a group of Tadjik communists allied to Vaadad had plotted at the height of the Dushanbe unrest to seize power from Khayeyev 's government and install as Prime Minister Buri Karimov , currently a Deputy Prime Minister but also the Vaadad chairman . |
| 7 | The view is that Salmond was duped , that he was tricked into voting for the Government on Maastricht and got next to nothing in return . |
| 8 | In practice , if there is any doubt whether it is appropriate to charge theft or obtaining property by deception , it will be natural to charge the latter ; and in our opinion it would be wise to do so , because this will be a much easier offence to establish than is the present offence of obtaining by false pretences , as it will be unnecessary to show that the owner was deceived into intentionally passing the ownership but sufficient to show that he was tricked into parting with the possession . |
| 9 | Andy Douglas , however , ensured the Melrose revival was delayed by crossing on the right after his colleague Liddle had been thwarted by a well-executed Ross Brown tackle . |
| 10 | Joyce was committed to providing for the two daughters of his first marriage , to whom he was a conscientious father , as well as supporting his second wife . |
| 11 | Matthew , now in his 20s , was caned for bullying by the then headmaster , William Blackshaw . |
| 12 | This was done by looking at the spectrum of laser light scattered off the electrons in the plasma . |
| 13 | This was done by co-operating with the Warwickshire Conservation Trust . |
| 14 | But on his recent visit to the Mission base he was prevented from meeting with the newly contacted group . |
| 15 | Hau 's appointment was due to be confirmed by the National Assembly on May 25 , but he was prevented from speaking to the chamber by protesting opposition legislators . |
| 16 | Despite denials that efforts to block challenges to Bush were being co-ordinated from either the White House or the Republican Party 's national leadership , Duke threatened to contest the presidential election as a third party candidate if he was prevented from campaigning for the Republican nomination . |
| 17 | Three years later , another new ‘ Bluebird ’ was prevented from going for the record by floods at Lake Eyre , Australia , a delay which brought much criticism of Campbell from his backers , led by Sir Alfred Owen . |
| 18 | The worried son of a deceased benefice-holder mobilised two great magnates , one of them well-placed at court , to ensure his succession to a beneficium non grande when he himself was prevented from coming to the palace . |
| 19 | Mozart was particularly angered when on one particular occasion he was prevented from playing to the emperor and was thereby deprived of a fee equal to half his annual salary . |
| 20 | Buckby wrote to every head teacher in Cleveland last year seeking support after Langbaurgh runner Adam Mead , the county champion , was prevented from running in the English Schools because the departure date of a school skiing trip was brought forward 24 hours . |
| 21 | ‘ During the whole of her illness , prayer was made without ceasing by the whole Church on her behalf , and I felt persuaded that the Lord would yet hear us and for His name 's sake appear as the one prayer-hearing God — for the heathen around knew what was done , and would say , ‘ Where is now your God ? '' ’ |
| 22 | He was saved from answering by the DI . |
| 23 | She was saved from answering by the sound of knocking at the door , and turned with relief to see Dane 's face light up in welcome . |
| 24 | Christopher Baker of Hill Samuel said the plan was presented in writing to the Ferranti board on Friday . |
| 25 | It 's ( more or less ) official : Ken Olsen was pushed into resigning by the board : the Wall Street Journal hears of a meeting with employees at which Olsen discussed how he was unable to make the necessary organisational changes at DEC , in particular failing to get engineering groups to report to marketing , and then said ‘ that 's why I was fired ’ . |
| 26 | A compact disc player was suspected of interfering with the flight management of a McDonnell Douglas MD-87 which caused an uncommanded change of modes . |
| 27 | Mr Waite , formerly the Archbishop of Canterbury 's envoy , had been trying to secure the release of Western hostages when he was himself captured because he was suspected of spying for the Americans . |
| 28 | Later his doubts revived when the exiled King James was suspected of making over the Kingdom of Ireland to Louis XIV of France . |
| 29 | The 49-year-old Alloa man said : ‘ I was awakened by knocking on the bedroom window and my daughter shouting : ‘ Dad , dad ’ . |
| 30 | For example , at the lowest level a phoneme lattice was produced for processing by the lexical access component . |