Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [noun] [prep] [n mass] " in BNC.

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1 None of the 5HT antagonists or the 5HT 4 agonist , SC53116 , significantly altered ICJ transit when they were given ip during ia infusion of saline ( Table II ) .
2 All three were given prizes of £20 vouchers .
3 They were fined £1,000 with £365 costs — and asked for 28 days to pay .
4 Two of the men from outside the region were fined £80 with £20 costs , the rest were each fined £100 with £20 costs .
5 The chairman of the Central Authority was paid £8500 , his deputy chairmen £5000 and other full-time members £3500 , while Area Board chairmen were offered salaries of £4000 .
6 In one set of experiments subjects were shown photographs of people they did not know and were asked to indicate whether they thought the person in each picture was a successful person or a failure .
7 And one in ten were awarded bonuses of 29pc or more of basic salary .
8 Outside there were covered stands for fish salesmen .
9 In cases of manumission , the slave in the first place had a dispensation from the normal prohibition on bringing suit against his master ; furthermore , after the Trajanic SC Rubrianum the tendency of the whole process before the praetor fideicommissarius was towards a declaration by the judge , and if the declaration was in favour of freedom then it was given effect by means of a fiction that the slave had actually been given direct freedom under the testator 's will .
10 He was fined £84 with £30 costs .
11 Fairlie Arrow , 28 , who vanished in a publicity stunt to boost her career , was fined £2,300 plus £8,000 costs by a Queensland court for wasting police time .
12 He was fined £48 plus £25 costs and was given a one-year ban .
13 He was fined £120 with £20 costs and had three penalty points put on his licence .
14 Thames Water Authority was fined £3,000 with £1,000 costs by Newbury magistrates after it admitted pumping ‘ virtually raw ’ sewage into a stream flowing through land owned by Peter Palumbo , chairman of the Arts Council , at Bagnor Manor , Winterbourne , Berkshire .
15 He was fined £250 with £20 costs and given eight penalty points .
16 He was fined £250 plus £25 costs , had his licence endorsed and was disqualified for one year .
17 A DOCTOR was fined £750 with £213 costs yesterday after a child visiting his surgery was left with severe internal burns when he drank from a bottle of acid that should have been locked away .
18 Doran of Galloway Road , Waterloo , was fined £80 with £50 costs on four offences .
19 Mr Siddle , of Brighton Road , Darlington , admitted driving with excess alcohol and was fined £300 with £25 costs and disqualified from driving for five years .
20 Mr Siddle , of Brighton Road , Darlington , admitted driving with excess alcohol and was fined £300 with £25 costs and disqualified from driving for five years .
21 * The UKAEA was fined £8,000 with £10,500 costs after the exposure of workers at the Harwell nuclear laboratory to radiation .
22 A WOMAN was fined £231 with £30 costs yesterday after she admitted fraudulent use of a car tax disc .
23 Sir Angus , 64 , of Richmond Park , Surrey , was fined £150 with £25 costs .
24 Knowles , who was sacked after 14 years with BR , was fined £150 plus £30 costs after admitting being drunk at work .
25 Schmit was fined £700 plus £30 costs .
26 Andrew Watson , 25 , also of RAF Catterick , was fined £200 with £20 costs after he admitted allowing Young to use his car without insurance .
27 The magistrates imposed a new 12-month ban and Powney was fined £200 plus £25 costs .
28 In 1364 Hugh was granted wages of 8d. a day when working at Westminster .
29 Jacques Lanxade , 56 , was named Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces in place of Gen. Maurice Schmitt , who had reached retirement age in early 1991 but had stayed on because of the Gulf crisis .
30 In addition , Deputy Secretary for Health Mary Grant was appointed a member of the PNDC , and Col. Jeff Asmah , hitherto the ambassador to Libya , was made chief of staff at PNDC headquarters .
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