Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [vb pp] [subord] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Government 's chances of forcing debate into the small hours against Labour and rebel Tory opposition were boosted when the Liberal Democrats threw their weight behind the procedural Commons motion . |
| 2 | Between 38 to 20 million years ago large sections of the present-day west coast were formed when a chunk of a long-vanished continent adhered to the coastline . |
| 3 | Any doubts about BOSSO 's usefulness were dispelled when the upcoming Blood In … |
| 4 | The piquancy and paradoxes of this dilemma were illustrated when the victim of the matricide was hauled out , praised , sent into battle like a version of El Cid , and then , with mingled relief and regret , seen off to the New World . |
| 5 | Liver biopsy was performed if the prothrombin time and general state of the patient allowed . |
| 6 | There was no effective management of the woods for profitable timber production , and regeneration was prevented because the young shoots were eaten by the deer and by commoners ' cattle , which roamed the forests at will . |
| 7 | Mary Brien was ordered to be sent to the Dublin Institution for the Deaf and Dumb for evaluation and to have her story checked , but the defendant was acquitted because the court ruled that the plaintiff could not utter the oath . |
| 8 | Here it was held that the chain of causation was broken where the buyer continued to use the goods with actual knowledge of the breach , as regards subsequent consequential loss ( compare Basildon District Council v JE Lesser ( Properties ) Ltd [ 1985 ] QB 839 ) . |
| 9 | For a mad moment , Mildred thought that perhaps , for some unknown reason , it was only a statue of Miss Hardbroom , but this illusion was shattered when the statue spoke . |
| 10 | The other surprising result was observed when a stable RNA was expressed after removal of the 3' sequences ; three proteins were apparently generated . |
| 11 | Polling for one Moslem seat was postponed after a candidate was shot dead before the vote . |
| 12 | The Royal Green Jacket soldier was drowned when a helicopter carrying 30 troops ditched into the freezing South Atlantic waters . |
| 13 | Savary was asked whether a bill of lading that did not state for whose account the goods had been shipped was valid . |
| 14 | This judicial tinkering was justified because the court was ‘ sure that the altered decision represent[ed] that which the decision-maker would have enacted had he appreciated the limitation on his powers ’ . |
| 15 | However , Mr Clayton said more research was needed before the possibility of health risks could be ruled out . |
| 16 | A BBC spokesman ‘ totally refuted ’ the allegation of anti-Irish bias yesterday and said the piece was cut because the show over-ran . |
| 17 | The appearance of the car was modified when the new bogies raised it higher from the ground , a housing for the equipment was built within the tower , and tinted windscreen panels were fitted to protect the vision of a seated driver . |
| 18 | And I can only surmise that the green gear was ordered before the Premier League learned there 'd be no sponsorship from Harry Ramsden 's ! |
| 19 | So , for example , the rule was broken when the court heard one side in the absence of the other . |
| 20 | Although Mamaloni successfully defeated a motion of no confidence in May , a second vote was scheduled when the legislature reconvened in October . |
| 21 | The occupants , including the patient 's daughter , refused to open the door ; entry was gained after a panel in the door was broken and ( according to the Crown ) the appellants both assaulted the police officers . |
| 22 | That was before Stonehenge , in 1980 , became enclosed in a concentration camp cage , designed to keep people out , not in , and that fence was built before a Frenchman proposed to preserve the crumbling Sphinx by encasing him/her/it in a transparent plastic skin . |
| 23 | New material from the ‘ Bizarro ’ album was previewed when the band played the massive Reading Festival in August 1989 , alongside bands like New Model Army , The Wonderstuff and New Order . |
| 24 | Barrett 's oesophagus was diagnosed if the columnar mucosa extended 3 cm or more into the oesophagus above the gastro-oesophageal junction . |
| 25 | However , even that figure was waived after the court heard that Ms Pledger had no realistic chance of being able to pay . |
| 26 | The review was triggered when the US Environmental Protection Agency confirmed its intention to ban further use of maneb , mancozeb and zineb on most foods because the fungicides , used widely for 40 years , have been strongly linked with cancer . |
| 27 | The Committee of Privileges found this to be a contempt but no action was taken when the General Secretary of the Union gave assurances that sanctions would not be imposed on M.P.s . |
| 28 | They had been suggested as early as 3 August by VTsIK , but typically no action was taken until the Communist Party had time to look into the question . |
| 29 | Action was promised as the minister said , in October nineteen ninety two by the former chancellor when the Bingham report was published , but I believe that these proposals are under the bear minimum requested by Bingham and they hardly live up er to the er minister 's announcement at the beginning of his speech . |
| 30 | Only where the demands of the Anglo-Norman and then the Angevin empire dictated it was there regular delegation of the prince 's judicial rights to an official ; even then , this delegation was revoked when the king-duke visited . |