Example sentences of "[conj] was [vb pp] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everything that was written spoke to me . ’ |
| 2 | The Estonian parliament , influenced by these concerns , adopted a constitutional amendment on 16 November providing for the right of veto over all legislation that was intended to apply to the USSR as a whole . |
| 3 | But these rooms were much altered between 1865 and 1868 in a neo-Rococo style that was intended to blend with the 18C Rococo designs of Pacassi for the proposed coronation of Emperor Franz Josef I. In the end the emperor refused the crown of Bohemia deeming it too dangerous to accept it and upset the Hungarians . |
| 4 | His officials were talking about " the man who came to dinner " and making it clear that he would just have to go before the Islamic summit that was scheduled to meet in Morocco in April . |
| 5 | A typical locust swarm can easily contain 40 thousand million individuals and the record swarm — one that was said to stretch for 2,000 miles — was estimated at about 250 thousand million insects . |
| 6 | Not the cover on him there might have been , the sort of er chance clear chance that was given say to in the local derby match the other Saturday , and really made it count . |
| 7 | Hitchcock 's fondness for artifice , and latterly for extended European holidays combined with location filming , met with a setback in Torn Curtain ( 1966 ) , a spy story that was meant to comment on the Burgess and Maclean scandal of the early 1950s , but went wrong in scripting and casting . |
| 8 | As I say the first one that was found had to , it was his turn to be on next . |
| 9 | ABOVE LEFT This is a tawny owl that was found injured by the side of the road and brought to my neighbour , Maureen Edwards , for help . |
| 10 | To find out I looked closely at all the reptile faunas known from the Triassic ; that is , I looked at each separate assemblage of reptiles that was known to live in any one place at any one time . |
| 11 | Colour came back into his weathered cheeks ; the volcano of prophecy that was known to burn in him had cooled and crusted over . |
| 12 | The ballroom was now immaculate , its inlaid decorative wood floor gleaming , all the facets of the chandeliers sparkling in the sun that was permitted to stream through the clear glass of the French windows . |
| 13 | The one that was caught bonking in the very beginning sort of thing . |
| 14 | The equivalent of an admissible algorithm in a distributed processing system would be one that was guaranteed to settle into an optimum stable state . |
| 15 | This indicates how the proponents of ‘ law and order ’ have picked up and run with the ball that was set rolling by the Justice Model , with very different effects from those that the Justice Model 's original advocates desired or expected . |
| 16 | I can see that perhaps if they want to have a er they may feel they need to stray into other boundaries but I did feel that when I read what Huntingdon district council proposed which was if you like , to completely re-drawing the electoral map for the entire county I was n't actually looking at something that was designed to deal with the interests of the citizens of Huntingdon district council , I was looking at the straightforward political proposal which would be far better to come from a political party than from a district council . |
| 17 | I said today to my right hon. Friend the Member for Sparkbrook that if the Oliver Twist story were translated from the workhouse to a prison , the person who drew the short straw and was sent to protest about the food would come within the net of the Bill . |
| 18 | After a domestic fight , his son Matthew was taken into care by the NSPCC , and was summoned to appear before Gateshead Magistrates Court , charged with child abuse . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , this peculiar combination had a long life and was destined to reappear in the Middle Ages as the Albigensian heresy that flourished for a while in southern France but was eventually crushed in the first quarter of the thirteenth century by the northern French at the command of the most powerful of the medieval Popes , Innocent III . |
| 20 | Eve had n't known that Mr Burns in the hardware shop was inclined to take to the drink or that Dr Johnson had a very bad temper and was heard shouting about God never putting a mouth into the world that he did n't feed . |
| 21 | She tried to get in , then smashed the driver 's window with a knife and was seen stabbing towards Mr Lockwood , who was trying to defend himself , said Mr Stevenson . |
| 22 | The unemployed 18 year-old had turned to prostitution and was seen soliciting in the Chapeltown area of Leeds on July 9 , 1991 . |
| 23 | The car plunged into the ocean in the Bahamas and was seen emerging off Corsica — with an ordinary sweeping brush covering up the tell tale tracks in the sand left by the cable pulling it from the sea . |
| 24 | He subsequently served as its legal adviser , and it is thanks to him that it obtained its Light Railway Order and was enabled to operate under a lease agreement until purchase negotiations were concluded . |
| 25 | The choice of exhibition grew out of Dr Bialler 's Yale dissertation on Goltzius and was timed to coincide with the publication of her book Hendrick Goltzius and his Time , a complete catalogue raisonne of all the woodcuts together with a discussion of the genesis and development of the technique in Germany and Italy , published by Snoeck-Ducaju & Zoon , Gent ( price BFr3800/DFl.200 ) . |
| 26 | Mr Watson worked as a lead miner and was inspired to write by his upper Teesdale surroundings . |
| 27 | Mozart was to send the recitatives to Milan by October , and was instructed to arrive by 1 November to write the remaining music . |
| 28 | Also involved was the veteran Communist , Tan Malaka , who returned from abroad only in 1942 and was employed to speak on ‘ Radio Tokyo ’ ( actually at Bantam ) . |
| 29 | I went to the castle and was asked to wait in a comfortable room . |
| 30 | She joined the Labour party in 1918 and was asked to stand for Parliament ; she refused , feeling that she could accomplish more through journalism . |