Example sentences of "[vb past] be [vb pp] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The circumstances in which this litigation arose are described in the judgment delivered by Vinelott J. on 19 December 1989 as follows : |
| 2 | I am surprised to hear a defence spokesman ask that question , because he knows that the two cases to which I referred are covered by the negative security assurances which made the use of nuclear weapons in such circumstances inconceivable . |
| 3 | An unfortunate error also resulted in seventeen questionnaires with the question deleted being issued on a week day . |
| 4 | Ricardou was particularly guilty of attempting to establish an officially sanctioned list of approved modernist precursors : the criteria he used were based on a simplistic and over-schematic distinction between writers who accepted a mimetic function and those for whom the materiality of language could be shown to be paramount . |
| 5 | The transition probabilities used were based on a text containing 10,000 letters , with zero probabilities converted to a small value to enable computation . |
| 6 | But if his reputation as one of the great Kings of French history is anything to go by , then the means he used were justified by the end , the destruction of the Angevin Empire . |
| 7 | Some of the antibodies we used were studied at the international workshop on blood group antibodies at Paris , 1987 . |
| 8 | Added to these , all the bolts and nuts used were forged in the Smithy and threaded on the screwing gang in the machine shop . |
| 9 | The councillors involved were expelled from the ruling Labour Group on the council . |
| 10 | Again , all the applications demonstrated were based on the published case studies . |
| 11 | The institutions and arrangements they built were driven by an idea of multilateralism . |
| 12 | Yes , now that kingdom is , is in the Lord 's prayer as we mentioned is gone into the air and |
| 13 | The harmonic sequence I mentioned is used as a rift . |
| 14 | The salvation it proposed was based on a reduction in the amount of first-class cricket to a 16-match one-day competition without over limitation , a reduction in county staffs and the involvement and use of part time cricketers . |
| 15 | The decent community solidarity and welfare socialism that Mr Kinnock embodied was caught on the horns of a terrible contradiction , which Labour in opposition did nothing to resolve , since it did not tackle early enough the low tax/public spending anti-welfare consensus that Thatcherism built . |
| 16 | Andy Stevenson 's powerful strike as half time approached was followed by an injury time free kick from Ian Helliwell . |
| 17 | The data used was based on the 1972 , 1973 and 1974 intakes of all UK Universities and was provided by The Universities Statistical Record . |
| 18 | The recipe she used was taken from the WI Book of Bread and Buns . |
| 19 | Within the general framework of his attack on the humanistic Hegelian tradition of Western Marxism , Althusser 's specific objection to Sartre 's attempt to mediate Marxism with existential subjectivity was that such a move went against the crucial discoveries which had founded Marxism in the first place ; in an extension of Lévi-Strauss ' argument , he maintained that the notion of ‘ man ’ that Sartre used was derived from a particular ideological definition of the human subject which represses Marx 's insight that the human subject is not the centre of history , together with Freud 's that the subject is not centred in consciousness . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | But the five-shot lead he created was trimmed to a manageable three shots for today 's third round which the English Ryder Cup man starts on a 13-under-par total of 131 . |
| 22 | He fled and fled , and every door he found was painted with the black plague cross and every face he pleaded with was tinged with the red of plague fever . |
| 23 | Moreover , he noticed an electric lighting cable passing over the wall to an adjoining house , which he found was occupied by a senior official . |
| 24 | Strange , she thought crossly , that the Copenhageners were n't all wearing ankle bandages , but then they 'd been born to the decorative but tricky pavements and attuned their footwear accordingly . |
| 25 | But she 'd been born at a better time and there were arts councils and they had been good to her . |
| 26 | I was in the last category , I reckoned , which did n't stop me wishing I 'd been born into the first . |
| 27 | Ted was a child of the sixties , but he sounded as if he 'd been born in the Blitz . |
| 28 | ‘ He 'd been sent to a friend of mine to be sold , but he was a little bit difficult to place . |
| 29 | They 'd been separated in the fracas which followed their parachute descent into northern France , and she feared that Jeanne had been killed in the fighting . |
| 30 | But they had n't been made at Fords , they 'd been made in a subsidiary , taken up the road on long trailers , taken off the trailer onto the assembly conveyor , which er crawls round the assembly line and fitted like that . |