Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cAMP produced was measured by radioassay . |
| 2 | The data from the other three course involved was restricted to progression beyond first year . |
| 3 | For a claim to be recoverable the Policyholder must satisfy us that on the balance of probabilities the loss or damage sustained was caused by a peril insured against . |
| 4 | I am in favour of somewhat greater powers of disposal being given to some of our national museums and galleries so that if an item was clearly surplus to a collection there would be power to dispose of it , provided that the funds realised were reinvested in the acquisition of other , perhaps contemporary material . |
| 5 | ‘ The man who had Carrie and Mikey kidnapped was trained at Balashikha . ’ |
| 6 | After extensive washing with equilibration buffer , the proteins retained were eluted by adding 10 ml a 0.1–1 M KCl gradient in Tris-HCl pH7.4 . |
| 7 | The instrument used was derived from discussion with four groups of members of the general public ( with and without incontinence ) who explained their attitudes and the perceived effect on lifestyle . |
| 8 | The data used was based on the 1972 , 1973 and 1974 intakes of all UK Universities and was provided by The Universities Statistical Record . |
| 9 | The data used was taken from two separate surveys carried out in 1977 and 1981 . |
| 10 | The data collected were analysed by the department of general practice at the United Medical and Dental Schools of Guys and St Thomas 's Hospitals . |
| 11 | Apart from the two singles , the only new non-Ukrainian songs fans heard were contained on a John Peel session broadcast in May , and one of those was a madcap cover of Altered Image 's ‘ Happy Birthday ’ . |
| 12 | Everything upon which her eyes focused was obscured by a heavy veil . |
| 13 | One Street development Sue loved was working in Alf 's grocery shop with her long-term adversary , The Street 's pint-sized puritan Ivy Brennan , played by Sue 's great pal Lynne Perrie . |
| 14 | GST-pou[c] was bound to 32 P-end labelled 143 bp fragments containing either the ICP4 motif ( lanes 1–7 ) or the Ad2 motif ( lanes 8–13 ) at different positions from the ends of the fragments and the complexes formed were analysed by gel electrophoresis . |
| 15 | The data presented were drawn from detailed clinical interview of new patients at the point of initial assessment . |
| 16 | She turned on the television to watch the midday news and learned that an impasse had been reached between the American and Icelandic leaders during their discussions about the reduction of nuclear weapons . |
| 17 | Mrs Singh had been visited at home and the head had arranged for me to be present so that I could explain and reinforce any suggestions . |
| 18 | The head told me that Mrs Singh had been coming to school regularly to express concern about Balbinder 's lack of progress . |
| 19 | A further step towards the creation of an Inuit homeland had been taken on April 27 when government and Inuit negotiators announced that they had initialled the Nunavut Political Accord . |
| 20 | In reality , it was part of a wider problem , perhaps best expressed in the Quadrilogue invectif of the Norman , Alain Chartier , written in 1422 when his homeland had been overrun by the English . |
| 21 | He was not conscious of having had any contact with a clergyman since school , where religion had been regarded as an unavoidable mixed dose of discipline , cissiness and mild buffoonery . |
| 22 | The growth of liberal assumptions of free speech and tolerance meant that the anticlerical challenge came just when religion had been deprived of much of its legal protection . |
| 23 | The chair was slipping , although its first speed had been checked by the fact that she had fallen in front of the wheels . |
| 24 | However , examination of the microstructure of the metal at a convenient break provided conclusive proof that the stands had been made by casting : the structure is typical of a cast bronze , with 15 per cent lead in the alloy ( fig. 511c ) . |
| 25 | The crowd in the stands had been roused to fever pitch by the drama of the finish and the almost unbelievable manner in which Dawn Run had come through to win , and now complete mayhem broke out . |
| 26 | His pace quickened as the accents changed ; City gents in long black coats and bowlers gave way to professional men in dark suits and trilbies , to be taken over by rough lads in ill-fitting clothes and caps , until Charlie finally arrived in the East End , where even the boaters had been abandoned by those under thirty . |
| 27 | Khmara had been arrested inside the Supreme Soviet on Nov. 17 , 1990 , as a result of an incident during the October Revolution holiday on Nov. 7 when he and his co-defendants had been involved in a scuffle with an undercover KGB ( State Security ) officer in a pedestrian subway in Kiev . |
| 28 | Instrument zu singen gesetzt ( Königsberg , 1638–50 ) which enjoyed enormous popularity ; by 1652 the first five Teile had reached their third or fourth editions and a number of separate songs had been republished in other people 's miscellanies . |
| 29 | The Old Stopfordians ' Association had been trying for many years to raise sufficient money to build the Pavilion , and indeed had sold the Harrison Towns field some three years previously for this very reason . |
| 30 | The Betting Shop association had been looking into the circumstances surrounding the horse 's win at Lingfield two weeks ago . |