Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Double Silk , owned and still ridden at home by retired , 66-year-old farmer Reg Wilkins , was plunged on from 7–2 to 5–2 favourite . |
| 2 | This was whittled down to three for this event , including me . |
| 3 | Formerly affiliated to the Psychopomps gangcult , her chapter was broken up in 1995 during a pitched battle with the Road Cavalry in Spanish Fork , Deseret , Jessamyn is now believed to be working alone . ’ |
| 4 | The third sitting member , Alan Montgomery , made it clear that he would not be running , but Mr McGimpsey was squeezed out for one of the other two Unionist nominations . |
| 5 | By sheer good luck , the first desk she had tried had informed her that yes , a Lori Templeton was booked on to one of their flights . |
| 6 | Analysis of covariance for possible factors affecting mean hearing thresholds was carried out for each of the four different types of ear . |
| 7 | The original base mapping was carried out for most of Scotland between 1865 and the start of the First World War . |
| 8 | The pilot was carried out at two of our locations , Greenock in Scotland , where we have a manufacturing and development site , and Bristol . |
| 9 | This means blanket testing , which was carried out by 52 of the 92 LEAs who gave information . |
| 10 | Only the north side of the scheme was carried out in 1825–6 as the Privy Council Offices and the Board of Trade , and it was at the Treasury 's instigation that Seward in 1833 produced a scheme to house various governmental offices in a block on the south side of the street , following Soane 's lines . |
| 11 | The research reported here was carried out in 1992/93 as part of a programme of mental health research funded by the Department of Health at the PSSRU . |
| 12 | Subsequent PTCA was carried out in 11 of these patients because of the recurrence of their pain and I patient went on to bypass grafting . |
| 13 | Coronary arteriography was carried out in 10 of these patients and in 8 there was an open vessel . |
| 14 | There have been a number of major studies measuring the degree of social mobility in British society , the most recent of which was carried out in 1972 by Nuffield College , Oxford . |
| 15 | A review of current practice in the assessment of low attainers in mathematics was carried out in 1983–4 as an adjunct to the main project in its first year . |
| 16 | She made her way up to the hotel bedroom and was let in by one of the porters . |
| 17 | Their partnership average of 69 was picked up by three of the four papers ; and the fact that 69 was inferior , among English openers , only to the average of Hobbs and Sutcliffe . |
| 18 | Kept going only by subsidies , it was wound up in 1846 in circumstances which seem to have been anything but harmonious . |
| 19 | Following the establishment of the motor museum , part of the main block was turned over in 1984 to the ‘ Village Life Exhibition ’ . |
| 20 | Another version of this Trojan origin legend was written down in 727 by the author of the Liber Historiae Francorum . |
| 21 | When an agreement was drawn up in 1922 between the Vatican and the Soviet government for a Catholic famine relief mission , some Orthodox leaders in Western Russia declared that the Communists hoped that Catholic propaganda would bring about the downfall of the whole Orthodox Church . |
| 22 | The treaty of Kutchuk-Kainardji was drawn up in 1774 in both Russian and Turkish versions but with a master copy , which was to be authoritative in case of dispute , in Italian . |
| 23 | Wilson 's major misfortune was that the firm of Veitch declined rapidly before 1914 , when the stock was sold off before many of his new plants had been propagated or distributed : the Arnold Arboretum had fewer difficulties with his later collections . |
| 24 | There was little public knowledge of the extent to which intelligence tests had already become part of the machinery of secondary selection by 1940 , nor how far their use was tied in with that of standardised tests of attainment in English and arithmetic , which were provided , marked and correlated by the same person or organisation . |
| 25 | The De Obsessione says that Malcolm assaulted Durham and was driven off by Uhtred during Æthelred 's reign , and the Irish Annals of Ulster record fighting between Scots and English in 1005 ( recte 1006 ) . |
| 26 | It is said that he was found out by one of the groups of civilian vigilantes who sprang up spontaneously on 22 December : apparently he had disguised himself in ordinary working clothes and was driving a Dacia 1300 when stopped , but suspicion was aroused when a search of his car revealed citrus fruits , like oranges and pineapples , in the boot — no ordinary Romanian had access to them . |
| 27 | The Foyle Fisheries Commission is a cross-border statutory body which was set up in 1952 under parallel legislation introduced in Northern Ireland and the Republic . |
| 28 | The Hazards Forum was set up in 1989 by the engineering institutions to assemble and exchange ideas on the management of risks and hazards . |
| 29 | Cooperative was set up in 1989 by old hands from Tandem Computers Inc , including VP of research Kim Worsencroft and CEO Dennis McEvoy , so Ellipse is inherently resilient to errors and failures . |
| 30 | Interactive Home Systems ( IHS ) was set up in 1989 in Redmond , Washington , with the aim of selling high quality visual information to homes , schools , public institutions and businesses , drawing on a constantly expanding visual information library which includes not only art but also history , science , travel , current affairs and popular culture . |