Example sentences of "[noun pl] was [vb pp] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An actuarial analysis of the probability of disappearance of all fragments was performed according to the life table method of Kaplan and Meier . |
| 2 | The Royal Commission on Assizes and Quarter Sessions was enjoined to inquire into the arrangements for the administration of justice at Assizes and Quarter Sessions , and |
| 3 | Divergence between related pairs of ZNF11 and ZNF33 sequences was calculated according to the two-parameter method of ref. 21 . |
| 4 | When Waits was discovered singing in a Los Angeles club in 1971 , he was working part-time as a fireman : ‘ See , I got into music by chance . |
| 5 | The Board of Directors was reconstituted to consist of a chairman and five other members appointed by the Secretary of State for the Environment , a General Manager of the Authority , and two members being full time officers of the Authority . |
| 6 | Many of the commandos , though , died out on the river : Regimental Sergeant-Major A. Moss leading the tiny reserve of 2 Commando 's assault troops was killed swimming in the river after giving his place on a life-raft to a young soldier ; many were burnt in the pools of flaming petrol . |
| 7 | One of the large sprocket attaching bolts was found fractured at a position closely corresponding with the top surface of the sprocket ( i.e. in the lower face of the plain washer ) . |
| 8 | And most of that 14 days was spent travelling at the foot of the mountains . |
| 9 | The geometric mean of the anterior and posterior counts was calculated to correct for tissue attenuation . |
| 10 | Arising out of the UFC Review carried out in 1989 , research in UK Universities was rated according to ‘ attainable levels of excellence ’ in a number of subject areas . |
| 11 | The 46-year-old commodity broker who worked for M16 and the CIA for nearly 10 years was found slumped in the family 's four-track safari vehicle 100 miles from civilisation . |
| 12 | The price of fertilizers was expected to rise by 20 per cent and that of grain by between 21 and 27 per cent . |
| 13 | As well as Winemark 's specially selected own label wines , several of which were awarded medals , a broad range of wines was entered ranging from the humblest Vin de Pays to the grandest Grand Crus and the Red Wine of the Year — Albor Rioja Tinto 1991 , a firm wine coated with black cherry aromas and flavours and lots of fruit echoing in the finish . |
| 14 | " This group of machines was specified to work on digital networks-which do n't yet exist . |
| 15 | A new range of private law orders was introduced to provide for the care and upbringing of children . |
| 16 | The endoscopic staging of ulcers was done according to the standard Japanese protocol : Briefly , the active stage of ulcer has a crater without surrounding regenerative mucosa , the healing stage of ulcer has an area of deformity , a patch of erythema , and a small residual crater , and the scar stage of ulcer has radiating folds but no crater . |
| 17 | An unselected , but approximately consecutive , series of 44 patients was studied presenting with colorectal cancers between June 1989 and November 1990 to the University Department of Surgery in Liverpool . |
| 18 | On the one hand , as far as the criminal law was concerned , they removed one set of controls entirely , whilst on the other hand , a new and sometimes increased set of controls was introduced to deal with those forms of homosexual conduct which were still considered to be ‘ public ’ and criminal . |
| 19 | The antidote to these ills was thought to lie in the institution of a core or common component in the curriculum of all pupils . |
| 20 | A special Court of Governors was requested to meet at the infirmary on Saturday February 19th 1814 at 1 o'clock to elect a physician . |
| 21 | In 1979 a residential working party of users was arranged to talk about their practical experiences with the TL . |
| 22 | A Labour movement looking to the 1990s would have been been debating single union , no-strike deals and profit-related payment systems rather than how best to call strikes and whether a system of labour tribunals was needed to compensate for the supposed bias of the capitalist courts . |
| 23 | The old Five Nations competition , an unofficial series of matches was put to rest on Saturday . |
| 24 | The extent of these differences was found to correlate with the extent of the differences between their natural and artificially enforced habitats . |
| 25 | The amount payable in annual damage compensation to West German landowners was expected to fall by more than $20,000,000 . |
| 26 | Within the Review , which was the scholarly organ of this establishment , the capacity to make value discriminations was assumed to arise from the " taste and tact " associated with gentlemanly breeding , fortified by " zeal , devotion and learning " rather than " critical ingenuity " , In contrast to this , the voice of Scrutiny represented a new petit-bourgeois presence within professional English studies whose source of cultural authority derived , not from gentlemanly taste and tact , but from the pulse of their own sensibility ; from their " intelligent " and " discriminating " capacity to " enforce " their value judgements . |
| 27 | After Oldsmobile 's factory burned down in 1901 , Ransom E Olds was forced to turn to contractors for the assembly of his single cylinder engine , and gave Leland the opportunity to prove his theory . |
| 28 | The DUP/Vanguard arrangement of the Assembly elections was extended to take in anti-power-sharing Unionists in a ‘ United Ulster Unionist Coalition ’ which fought the election on the slogan ‘ Dublin is only a Sunningdale away ’ and won every seat except the West Belfast constituency of Gerry Fitt , the leader of the SDLP and the Deputy Chief Executive in the executive . |
| 29 | As a result , the Commission for Ecclesiastical Causes was established to deal with recalcitrant clergy , its first act being to suspend Henry Compton from his bishopric for refusing to discipline John Sharp , Dean of Norwich and rector of St Giles in the Fields , for preaching against popery . |
| 30 | Between 1985 and 2025 the number of pensioners was set to rise from 9 million to over 12 million ; and the total cost of pensions for the public would rise from £17 billion a year to almost £36 billion if pensions were linked with prices and to a colossal £50 billion if they were linked , as Labour wanted , to the higher of either prices or earnings . |