Example sentences of "[vb past] was [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The data used was based on the 1972 , 1973 and 1974 intakes of all UK Universities and was provided by The Universities Statistical Record . |
| 3 | The recipe she used was taken from the WI Book of Bread and Buns . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The strategy adopted was to begin with the best analysed corpus available when we started work ( Alvar Ellegard 's 128,000 word analysed subset of the Brown Corpus of American English ) , convert it into a format that could be used in practice , and improve and extend it in various ways . |
| 6 | Much of the substantial loss which Coleridge suffered was borne by the uncomplaining and insufficiently thanked Cottle , whose verdict on the Watchman was brief and to the point . |
| 7 | He 'd was stationed with the Royal Army Medical Corps in Bosnia protecting the UN headquarters in Sarajevo . |
| 8 | On 6 December 1990 , the case stated was signed by the Special Commissioner and sent to the taxpayer . |
| 9 | The two , sometimes three , hours spent in the College quadrangle when , we are told , the Professor would courteously listen and give an intelligible answer to every question , and when the instruction he communicated was stamped on the memory by the good temper and joke and repartee with which it was accompanied , these were periods which an old student liked to call to memory , for they were hours pleasantly and usefully passed . |
| 10 | The party structure followed was based on the Irish civil war antagonism of 1922–3 , with the pro-Treaty party more or less in power until the anti-Treaty party entered politics in 1930 . |
| 11 | It is , indeed , doubtful how much help Gloucester could have commanded explicitly in order to take the throne : some , almost certainly , but much ( if not most ) of the backing he enjoyed was given to the protector for the maintenance of stability — a distinction of which Gloucester himself seems not to have been fully conscious . |
| 12 | It is , indeed , doubtful how much help Gloucester could have commanded explicitly in order to take the throne : some , almost certainly , but much ( if not most ) of the backing he enjoyed was given to the protector for the maintenance of stability — a distinction of which Gloucester himself seems not to have been fully conscious . |
| 13 | The African colony to which he returned was regarded by the British government as ‘ advanced ’ — in African terms — which meant that it had made a start on the road to self-government ; however , the Colonial Office reckoned that the goal was still distant . |
| 14 | The money raised was given to the Holy Childhood and the scheme was adopted by Australia and Scotland . |
| 15 | The £798 raised was donated to the hospital 's radio station Crystal Radio . |
| 16 | On the fifth of September nineteen thirty nine a control of timber ordered was made by the Ministry of Supply , followed by controls on all raw materials used by the furniture industry and allied trades . |
| 17 | One of the three supermarkets looted was razed to the ground . |
| 18 | ‘ He said what I needed was throwing on the floor and to be given a good seeing to , ’ she told the Norwich hearing . |
| 19 | The optimistic view of mankind that Peto favoured was generated in the 18th Century by the French philosophers of Enlightenment . |
| 20 | A Dec. 21 announcement by the authorities that a new border police force was to be created and military patrols strengthened was followed by the deportation of thousands of Albanian nationals over the next week . |
| 21 | The government agency withdrew facilities for 160 centres countrywide , because the beef they handled was deemed below the required level . |
| 22 | The depth of the resentment Mrs Thatcher aroused was occasioned by the challenge she represented . |
| 23 | The decision to have the three executed was taken at the very top by a Cabinet sub-committee . ’ |
| 24 | In Shell UK v Lostock Garage Ltd [ 1976 ] 1 WLR 1187 Lord Denning MR explained what he thought was meant by the proposition that reasonableness is to be considered at the time when the contract is made : If the terms impose a restraint which is unreasonable in the sense that it may work unfairly in circumstances which may reasonably be anticipated , the courts will refuse to enforce the restraint : but it will not hold it to be unenforceable simply because it might work unfairly in certain exceptional circumstances outside the reasonable expectation of the parties at the time of making the agreement . |
| 25 | Instead she pointed out what she thought was happening in the session and the need for all of them to look at the problems in a constructive way . |
| 26 | In 33 of these the diagnosis offered was confirmed by the consultant , giving a diagnosic accuracy of 61% compared with the 27% quoted by Russell Jones . |
| 27 | The easy sociability which it offered was fostered by the fact that all its pubs , clubs , restaurants and delicatessens were squeezed into an area no larger than a square mile . |
| 28 | ''' That was exactly what the average person called on to make self-criticism thought : all that mattered was getting through the ritual humiliation , and then going for a drink . |
| 29 | The relief they felt was emphasised by the way Gustafsson 's team-mates jumped on to the court , picked him up and tossed him high in the air in celebration at the end . |
| 30 | His scream echoed madly inside the tunnel as he fell was slammed against the brickwork then bounced back against the speeding train , his body pulped by the impact . |