Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In each building , one end was partitioned off for single girls , the other end for single men , and the middle section was for families . |
| 2 | So it failed to turn the heating element off … and the oil was boiled up to 185 degrees centigrade … turning the liquid into explosive vapour . |
| 3 | He was propped up on three pillows , which felt strange to him . |
| 4 | In the first experiment nasal mucus from the patient , with coryza , was shaken up with five times its volume of normal salt solution , and the mixture was centrifuged . |
| 5 | He was cheered along by proud parents and his then girlfriend , Rosanne . |
| 6 | A demonstration led by the Greek Orthodox Patriarch Diodoros I on April 12 was broken up by Israeli police using tear gas ; demonstrations continued on a daily basis . |
| 7 | Subject-matter , in the Skinnerian teaching machine , was broken down into small steps which built upon one another into a great complexity , the student making successive responses and receiving the reinforcement of immediate confirmation at each stage . |
| 8 | The grant was broken down for individual lines , as with the pre-1974 British system ( RENFE 1984a : 55–7 , 82 ) . |
| 9 | This suggestion is supported by the fact that the Ψ40-synthesis in mutant a207 was delayed by about 24 hours ( Fig. 2C ) , a time required for almost complete modification of G26 to m 2 2G26 . |
| 10 | He had an open mind and said there were pluses and minuses and for it , I think if it was pointed out in future years , that an extra mil one point four million pounds could be available for school budgets he would look at it perhaps a little differently . |
| 11 | This was pointed out in clear terms in a case which merits more attention than it sometimes receives , namely , Reg. v. Heston-Francois [ 1984 ] Q.B . |
| 12 | The marble floor was scattered about with individual rugs . |
| 13 | That was not too bad but , like most ideas ahead of their time , I am afraid that it was voted down by 182 votes to 170 . |
| 14 | One is the magnanimous view that the DES was caught out by economic circumstances and a declining birth rate and that circumstances combined to overthrow its carefully planned reorganization . |
| 15 | Much ill-feeling was vented out on former collaborators , many of whom faced summary execution before government authority was fully established . |
| 16 | Not that she intended accepting any favours from him , but she knew he was booked in for two nights , which gave her time to return his hospitality if she could not manipulate tonight into a Dutch treat . |
| 17 | One of the worst winters we had was at the start of the war , in 1940 , when the river was frozen over for six weeks right to the end of March and there was two feet of snow . |
| 18 | Up to about 1730 most of this enclosure was carried through by private agreements between the owners of the land in question . |
| 19 | Three operations did not succeed in curing his glaucoma , and he had to give up his business in 1878 , although it was carried on for some years by his daughters , Eleanor , Elizabeth , and Catherine , as E. E. Dancer & Company . |
| 20 | Farming was carried on in open fields that had not changed basically since the thirteenth century , and beyond the arable fields and their meadows lay great tracts of common pasture , much of it covered with gorse and furze , rising in places to moorland and mountains . |
| 21 | The medical model of militarized efficiency was carried over into key areas of civil society . |
| 22 | Hybridisation was carried out for 18 hours at 50°C in a humid environment . |
| 23 | This analysis was carried out for mixed schools only ( there were four single-sex schools in the sample , three boys ' and one girls ' ) . |
| 24 | A similar , but slightly expanded , study was carried out with British interpreters ( Kyle , Llewellyn-Jones and Woll , 1979 ) . |
| 25 | In situ hybridisation with the lysozyme RNA probes was carried out with minor modifications of a standard protocol . |
| 26 | This test was carried out on six patients with peritonitis , and the severity of bacterial peritonitis was expressed quantitatively . |
| 27 | A study at the unit was carried out on 80 women under the age of 40 who were pregnant for the first time . |
| 28 | A more serious investigation was carried out on blue babies who required surgery soon after birth to correct congenital heart defects . |
| 29 | While this might be thought to have a major impact , the effects would have been lessened if the cremating was carried out at dispersed homes . |
| 30 | This test was carried out after 12 hours fasting with patients in the supine position . |