Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mother of one of the victims maintained that although the girls were referred to in court only by their first names to protect them from reprisals , she was particularly worried that people in the court 's public gallery knew who the girl was . |
| 2 | The purpose of this provision for what were referred to in discussion as ‘ subsidiary authorities ’ was to cater for the needs of composite States such as the United Kingdom , where different systems of law are to be found within the same State . |
| 3 | Soon nine seats in the House of Commons were in his gift : his M.P.s were referred to in Parliament as ‘ Sir James 's ninepins ’ . |
| 4 | Site Inscrit and Site Classe were referred to in Chapter 4 . |
| 5 | In 1986 21 per cent ( 158000 ) of 755000 live births in the United Kingdom were registered outside of marriage ; 66 per cent of these were jointly registered by cohabiting parents who had chosen not to marry ( Central Statistical Office , 1988 ) . |
| 6 | The next part of the meeting concentrated on the link between poor housing and ill health and a number of reports were commented upon as evidence of a clear link existing in this area . |
| 7 | Three techniques were looked at in outline : Network Analysis , Simulation , and Inventory Control . |
| 8 | Er , the forty , fifty sites in and around the urban area , and in villages were looked at in detail , as Mr Frost said , by tramping around in terms of of of I think er twelve criterium , although the part of er York City Council 's erm er evidence . |
| 9 | ( Earlier in June experts had complained to Izvestiya , the organ of the presidium of the Supreme Soviet , that there were still no proper mechanisms for giving these farms land or credit , and that they were discriminated against in equipment supplies . ) |
| 10 | Hulme agreed , ‘ If you were to come from up north and work for certain London councils and come in one morning and say ‘ Hello , chucky ducky lover ’ it would be instant dismissal . ’ |
| 11 | Piece by piece , the Conti estates , insignificant at first , were added to by purchase . |
| 12 | When approval is granted to a package using option 1.5.3 , all DCs , which were transitioned to IN APPROVAL when the package was submitted for approval , change to APPROVED state . |
| 13 | Okay then , back to the video we were looking at before break . |
| 14 | What we were looking for in Committee , and what the children 's legal aid centre was looking for , was a declaration that the Government 's signature to the United Nation convention on the rights of the child would be enshrined in the spirit of law in this country and that there would be independent panels that could look after the welfare of the children to ensure that their welfare was the primary consideration . |
| 15 | For them , the expansion of the labour movement was perceived as a threat of communism , so various measures were resorted to in order to control labour , ranging from crude repression to legal limitations on union activity . |
| 16 | Frequently generals thought it best if they were outmanoeuvred to in effect accept an honourable surrender er and er bargains of this kind occurred from time to time between largely mercenary armies . |
| 17 | When much of the country was maintained as a game preserve for shooting , all predators , including Polecats , were thought of as competition and ruthlessly trapped by game keepers . |
| 18 | When asked what happened , 62% said they were touched in a sensual way ; 42% experienced someone touching their sex organs ; 33% were masturbated ; 28% were forced to show their sex organs to another person ; 25% were shown another person 's sex organs ; 24% touched another person 's sex organs ; 21% were talked to about sex in an erotic way ; 21% were shown pornographic material ; 16% took part in oral sex ; 10% were flashed at in a public place ; 5% were involved in sexual intercourse ( sometimes including anal sex ) ; and 3% were involved in kissing in a sensual way . |
| 19 | The main focus of the programme will be an exhibition providing information on mental illness and an historical view of how patients were cared for throughout history right up to the recent changes in local provision . |
| 20 | Fund accounting is a practice we were introduced to in Chapter 7 . |
| 21 | Because it was one that we were doing with in conjunction with an E P three bearing . |
| 22 | ‘ Father , we were set upon in woodland , south of Leicester . |
| 23 | Trusts were dealt with under cognitio , but legacies and inheritances were the concern of the ordinary courts . |
| 24 | No well more or less the branches had the opportunity to send in resolutions to the national agreement which were dealt with at conference . |
| 25 | Reflecting the pattern of the conference , our report contains the contributions of the invited speakers , of the subsequent discussions in the workshops where particular issues were dealt with in depth , and finally the general debate in the afternoon which was open to everyone present . |
| 26 | The provisions of clauses 14 , 17 and 18 relevant to the issues before me have been helpfully set out in the affidavit of Mr. McKeown in which I have interpolated three numbers to indicate the particular passages which were dealt with in argument . |
| 27 | These subjects were dealt with in detail in the first part of the chapter and should be recognised as background knowledge relevant to nursing in relation to the AL of maintaining a safe environment , so are not discussed further . |
| 28 | Some of the undernoted terms were dealt with in Chapter 2 on LDCs . |
| 29 | Very few enclosures were dealt with by act of parliament . |
| 30 | Successive crises were dealt with by Law without resolving the fundamental disequilibrium of the situation , for the conflict between coalition and party was as real in Law 's own mind as in the minds of a host of Unionists who continued to give general support to the government . |