Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hersant — later the ‘ bete noir ’ of many French journalists , and the press baron whom the socialists love to hate -was condemned for activities during the occupation as a collaborator in late 1945 and lost his civic rights . |
| 2 | He added : ‘ The odds were stacked against Fiji in the World Cup , having to play in France , in the mountains at night , in the freezing cold of Grenoble in the Alps . ’ |
| 3 | Calls made from it were traced by police to the homes of witnesses due to give evidence in trials on Tyneside . |
| 4 | The thick fingers were spattered with blobs of bright paint . |
| 5 | Some of them were spattered with blood from the carcasses that hung on a row of meat-hooks nearby . |
| 6 | The larger troops , plausibly , were developed as protection from diurnal predators . |
| 7 | It is important to remember , for example , that our main concepts of the functional organization of primary visual cortex were developed in studies on cats rather than monkeys . |
| 8 | The new line includes the first air-cooled machines in the C90 series , a two-processor C92A and a four-processor C94A , which it says were developed in response to demand from Japanese commercial users . |
| 9 | The new line includes the first air-cooled machines in the C90 series , a two-processor C92A and a four-processor C94A , which it says were developed in response to demand from Japanese commercial users . |
| 10 | The previous chapter argued that the ideological terms of antislavery were developed in part through contesting a pro-West Indian intellectual barrage , often presented in the rhetoric of national and imperial interest . |
| 11 | From that time , a long series of rigorous studies were developed in cognizance of the methodological problems , many of the recent ones using the WFS surveys and computerized data processing and analytical techniques ( see for example , Wray , 1971 ; Fedrick and Adelstein , 1973 ; Wolfers and Scrimshaw , 1975 ; Spiers and Wang , 1976 ; Gray , 1981 ; Baldion , 1981 ; Swenson , 1981 ; Carlaw and Vaidya , 1983 ; Fortney and Higgins , 1983 ; Hobcraft , et al , 1983 ; Martin et al , 1983 ; Cleland and Sathar , 1984 ; De Sweemer , 1984 ; Palloni and Tienda , 1986 ) . |
| 12 | ProActive 's products were developed in collaboration with Mohr general partner , William Davidow . |
| 13 | Originally , these were developed in connection with university extension courses in the late-nineteenth century and established the tradition of summer meetings for study at Oxford , Cambridge and at other universities . |
| 14 | Essentially , I am suggesting that what I am calling private metaphors were developed by managers as a means of coping with the dissonance between what is commonly accepted as being management theory and what they thought for themselves it ought to be in actuality . |
| 15 | Because employers can increase their profits when they have greater control over the labour process it has been suggested that in the USA internal ‘ job ladders ’ of promotion and wage benefits were developed by managements within some large firms as a deliberate control strategy to counter unionism and increase the dependence of workers on their companies . |
| 16 | Like the triumphal arches these were erected in honour of victorious generals . |
| 17 | At home the television reports were prefaced with warnings about the shocking content to give viewers the option of switching off . |
| 18 | On the assumption of a two-firm market and that a rival would not enter the market if it faced zero NPV , NPVs were calculated for investment by the price-setting firm based on the limit prices needed to prevent the rival from entering the market and the cost levels that could be achieved by moving down the experience curve . |
| 19 | Bowel habits , irritable bowel syndrome symptoms , and whole gut transit time were calculated from records of three defectations . |
| 20 | Both regression analyses were calculated from data on 448 women because of missing values in one of the exposure or confounding variables . |
| 21 | Briefly , the count of argyrophil cells and the count of raster points coinciding on the mucosa were calculated in areas of standard length and whole thickness of mucosa . |
| 22 | Results were calculated by reference to a standard curve . |
| 23 | Relative retention times and response factors were calculated by comparison of authentic standards to coprostanol . |
| 24 | The CIs for the rate ratios were calculated by means of a formula for determining the confidence interval of the ratio of two normal means . |
| 25 | Suemitsu Ito , a property developer and former Itoman board member , and Ho Yung Chang , an Osaka businessman , were indicted on charges of criminal breach of trust . |
| 26 | New centres at Harpenden and Old Welwyn were established and Tutorial Classes were arranged at branches in Letchworth and Welwyn Garden City . |
| 27 | Jesus waved in the direction of one of the stalls where fish were arranged on beds of ice . |
| 28 | XXVIII PRESBYTERY OF ISLAY BOWMORE After the Disruption in 1843 , occasional services were arranged for Bowmore in connection with Killarrow . |
| 29 | Short courses , for teachers already in post , were arranged from time to time , though they assumed nothing like the significance that in-service provision was to have later . |
| 30 | Some threatened evictions , it should be added , were arranged by collusion between farmers and workers in order to force the hand of local authorities who otherwise would not admit tied cottage tenants to their housing waiting lists . |