Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] [noun] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The morning of the celebrations dawned and the whole day was given over to ironing best robes , practising on broomsticks and chanting . |
| 2 | It was given by about I 6 per cent of all concerned . |
| 3 | With the government and ruling Parti Démocratique de la Côte d'Ivoire ( PDCI ) under continuing pressure from opposition parties , unions and students [ see pp. 38278-79 ] , it was given out on July 30 that disaffected junior soldiers had attempted a coup d'état a week earlier . |
| 4 | Well-paid for his services to Gen Noriega , Harari was known in Panama as ‘ Mr Sixty Percent , ’ according to Panama 's former Ambassador to Tel Aviv , Mr Eduadro Herero Hassan , who was flown back to Panama this week by the US to help rebuild a new Panamanian security force . |
| 5 | He is believed to have acted as a kind of broker for that dangerous spy-ring that was broken up in Holland last year . |
| 6 | The Nazi-Soviet non-aggression pact of 1939 , however morally repugnant , did at least provide the USSR with a breathing-space in which military preparations could be accelerated ; the pact , however , was broken off in June 1941 when German forces invaded the USSR 's western borderlands , and in the four years that followed the USSR lost over 26 million citizens and suffered material damage on an unimaginable scale . |
| 7 | The increase in the numbers claiming benefit since 1979 , is , as was pointed out in Part I , greater than the whole of the increase in the years up to the election of the first Thatcher Government . |
| 8 | It was pointed out in Chapter II that the standard procedure of Roman civil law had difficulty in recognizing trusts , for they fell into a mould which was not that of the civil law . |
| 9 | It was pointed out in Chapter 4 that most patients who take overdoses or injure themselves do not require psychiatric inpatient care because they are able to take responsibility for themselves or have sufficient support available . |
| 10 | As was pointed out in chapter 4 through Lévi-Strauss 's example of the Australian Churinga , material objects are often the principal means of objectifying a sense of the past . |
| 11 | ( World-system theories are less relevant here because , as was pointed out in Chapter 1 , they pay little attention to the internal structure of national economies . ) |
| 12 | It was pointed out in Chapter 1 that geography was not integral to the theory of long waves , apart from the descriptive fact that different countries have taken the lead in successive cycles . |
| 13 | This is clearly an over simplification because , as was pointed out in Chapter 6 , a considerable proportion of public expenditure in the modern economy is demand-determined , at least in the short term . |
| 14 | As was pointed out in Section 1 , one of the functions of the present study is to cater for the interests of those seeking replicable materials for English-language teaching . |
| 15 | In that sense the production and reproduction of uneven development is not just a reflection of changes in the wider economy and its division of labour , it is , as was pointed out in section 2.4 , integral to those changes . |
| 16 | Several airframes had to be placed into store to allow for a less cramped-looked and these left via the small side door through which the new exhibits arrived — witness the tight fit of the HS.125 that was squeezed in on June 28 . |
| 17 | Bullock Bank station in the Dover Strait , for example , was reported out of position last January and was eventually recovered 61 nautical miles away . |
| 18 | In a symbolic gesture of the KGB 's demise , the statue of Felix Dzerzhinsky , first head of the Cheka ( forerunner of the KGB ) , in front of its Moscow headquarters ( the Lubyanka ) was torn down on Aug. 22 . |
| 19 | The new car was rolled out on March 31 1982 in time for the retirement of its designer , Chief Engineer Stuart Pillar . |
| 20 | A fruitless correspondence between Paton and Henderson was carried on throughout July 1931 . |
| 21 | This prospective study was carried out between January 1985 and December 1990 . |
| 22 | A major military reshuffle was carried out on Sept. 9 involving 557 senior officers down to the level of colonel . |
| 23 | A minor Cabinet reshuffle was carried out on Feb. 19 — the first since Namibia 's independence on March 21 , 1991 [ see pp. 37296-97 ] — when two new ministries were created . |
| 24 | An underground nuclear test , the first by the Soviet Union for almost a year , was carried out on Oct. 24 on Novaya Zemlya island inside the Arctic Circle . |
| 25 | Immunocytochemistry was carried out on paraffin embedded tissue sections , using the following antibodies : ( a ) a rabbit antihuman lysozyme antiserum ( DAKO ) and ( b ) a mouse antihuman monoclonal antibody KP1 ( kindly provided by Dr D Y Mason ) , detecting a formalin resistant epitope of the CD68 cluster , a highly glycosylated intracellular protein expressed by most tissue macrophages . |
| 26 | The second government reshuffle in less than six weeks was carried out on Jan. 31 . |
| 27 | A nationwide census was carried out on Nov. 27-29 during which time almost the entire population was subject to a dawn-to-dusk curfew and all cross-border activity was prohibited . |
| 28 | All were given intravenous heparin and cardiac catheterisation was carried out at I 014 days . |
| 29 | The report said that £20.2m was spent unlawfully on highways maintenance since 1988 as it was carried out by Lambeth Direct Labour Organisation ( DLO ) without being put out to competitive tender . |
| 30 | That survey , which was carried out by Research International and is the largest and most detailed survey ever commissioned by the Revenue , is now complete . |