Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The impasse was deepened by the refusal of Quebec 's Liberal Premier , Robert Bourassa , under pressure from the growing separatist Parti Québecois opposition , to contemplate a revision or excision of the " distinct society " clause . |
| 2 | The gall bladder was inspected with a rigid cholecystoscope ( Olympus , Keymed , Southend-on-Sea , UK ) and stones up to 10 mm in diameter were flushed out or removed with forceps . |
| 3 | Bovine gall bladder was obtained from the local abattoir and transferred on ice to the Laboratory within 20 minutes of slaughter . |
| 4 | A percutaneous cholecystogram was done and then the fundus of the gall bladder was punctured with a Kellett needle ( 152 mm long dwell sheathed needle , Becton Dickinson , Ontario , Canada ) , using a combination of ultrasound and fluoroscopic guidance . |
| 5 | The Hermopolitan cosmology was linked with the city of Hermopolis and the god Thoth . |
| 6 | In the 1960s , however , interest in the large-scale problems of astronomy and cosmology was revived by a great increase in the number and range of astronomical observations brought about by the application of modern technology . |
| 7 | It was only after a considerable struggle that the diver was dragged to the deck . |
| 8 | The water wheel was constructed from an electric cable spool . |
| 9 | The wheel was fed from a large lake at the rear of the mill , the water exiting under the adjacent road through a substantial stone tunnel . |
| 10 | It seems the brick and tile building consisted of two storeys and a loft , and that the wheel was fed from a dam which is now dry . |
| 11 | This wheel was worked by a man getting inside and walking forward rapidly . |
| 12 | At Main Road , Bicknacre , a wheel was stolen from the boot of a Ford Escort XR3 . |
| 13 | The wheel was designed by a team from the US chemical company Du Pont . |
| 14 | A drive wheel was attached above the cycle 's rear wheel and , after a day 's use , the battery is repowered overnight , using a standard home charger . |
| 15 | A spare wheel was taken from a Ford Escort Eclipse parked in New England Close , Bicknacre , and £20 damage caused . |
| 16 | A Charter making Stockport a free borough was granted by the Earl of Chester in about 1220 ; and a second Charter granted in 1260 gave the right to hold a market each Friday and an annual Fair , commencing on St. Wilfred 's Day and running for the seven days following . |
| 17 | Society was now based on complicity in the common crime ; religion was based on the sense of guilt and the remorse attaching to it ; while morality was based partly on the exigencies of this society and partly on the penance demanded by the sense of guilt . |
| 18 | After seventy years of atheism , religion was re-emerging in the Soviet Union . |
| 19 | This biopsy was taken from the anterior surface of the right lobe of the liver . |
| 20 | No biopsy was performed in the other cases but the lung opacity on the chest x ray or computed tomogram had the same macroscopic aspect as in the cases of proved lung lymphoma and responded to chemotherapy as well as the gastric lesion . |
| 21 | As the Prime Minister reproached Mr Nigel Lawson for resigning the Chancellorship ‘ with such suddenness and haste ’ — and over personality not policy — her isolation was highlighted by the ex-minister whose enforced resignation in the Westland affair of 1986 is being likened by disaffected MPs to the recent sacrifice of Mr Lawson . |
| 22 | Plasmid DNA for ethidium bromide-CsCl equilibrium density gradient centrifugation and for rapid small scale isolation was prepared by the alkaline lysis method . |
| 23 | Or was the change a more superficial one in which a crude , but no longer viable , form of isolation was replaced by a more subtle variant , in which the techniques of the West were adopted to preserve and strengthen an essentially unchanged sense of cultural uniqueness and social order , and ensure survival in an unpredictable and hostile world ? |
| 24 | The government 's growing sense of isolation was heightened by the damaging outcome of the Turkish War of 1877–78 . |
| 25 | Following his death in January 1970 , an estate auction was held over a three day period the following September . |
| 26 | No remedy was provided by the statute for enforcement . |
| 27 | The final remedy was found in the convoy system . |
| 28 | They told him that his only remedy was to work as a government agent . |
| 29 | An alarming crack also appeared in the nose Plexiglas but nothing vital fell off , no serious damage resulted and the idea 's feasibility was proven with the expenditure of more rounds . |
| 30 | Changez and Jamila sat apart , and although I tried to catch them looking at each other , I can guarantee that not a single surreptitious glance was exchanged by the future bed-mates . |