Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [prep] a [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seven 50 minute Medau sessions were given at a Kent County Council Fun Day for girls , part of the ‘ Ever thought of Sport ’ campaign at Buckmore Park Activity Centre , near Maidstone . |
| 2 | An idea of the costs involved were given in a Coventry officials ' confidential report to councillors and fellow officials in the seventies . |
| 3 | Problems of declining care and vandalism at one of the earliest Edward I castles in Wales were highlighted in a Commons Select Committee Report . |
| 4 | An emergency session of EC Foreign Ministers held in Oslo ( where most were gathered for a NATO meeting ) nevertheless ruled out any renegotiation of the Treaty while declaring that the " door remains open for the Danes to come back " . |
| 5 | The tissue sections were examined in a Leitz Orthoplan fluorescence microscope equipped with a Ploem-type epi-illuminator , an ×25 Leitz immersion objective , and an ×10 ocular . |
| 6 | On the fourth day we were joined by a Lady Diana , who had come to spend the weekend with her aunt and uncle . |
| 7 | Apart from the two singles , the only new non-Ukrainian songs fans heard were contained on a John Peel session broadcast in May , and one of those was a madcap cover of Altered Image 's ‘ Happy Birthday ’ . |
| 8 | Two ‘ products ’ were previewed in a UK briefing which embody this approach . |
| 9 | TRANMERE ROVERS , of the Third Division , forced a replay against a shaken Spurs side who were rescued by a Higgins own goal in the 69th minute of this Littlewoods Cup fourth-round tie . |
| 10 | They were addressed to a Mrs Dorothy Soper . |
| 11 | Most of the senior officials of the Board of Education were evacuated to a Bournemouth hotel , leaving as their man in London , R. S. Wood . |
| 12 | Some news in brief now — around two hundred and fifty people were evacuated from a Glasgow nightclub when a fire ripped through the basement of the building in the early hours of the morning . |
| 13 | Around two hundred and fifty people were evacuated from a Glasgow nightclub when a fire ripped through the basement of the building in the early hours of the morning . |
| 14 | The re-routing of the 126 service follows repeated pleas from the company for youngsters to stop hurling the stones Hostel blaze : Up to 30 people were evacuated from a DSS hostel in Sunderland after a fire in a bedroom . |
| 15 | Nearly two-thirds of the town 's 36 property qualifications were owned by a Warwickshire gentry family , the Goughs of Edgbaston . |
| 16 | Three managers of the German firm Imhausen-Chemie were sentenced by a Mannheim court on Oct. 9 to suspended prison terms ranging from 10 to 16 months for contravention of foreign trade laws in exporting materials to Libya between 1984 and 1988 for use in a chemical weapons factory at Rabta , south of Tripoli . |
| 17 | The sections were evaluated in a Leitz Orthoplan microscope equipped with a Ploem type vertical illuminator with interference filters for selective observation of fluorescein ( green ) or rhodamine ( red ) emission ( Fig 1 ) . |
| 18 | The report , whose findings were presented by a US congressman , James Traficant , was described by many as a Pan Am smokescreen to avoid responsibility for poor security . |
| 19 | THOUSANDS of pounds were saved by a Middlesbrough school when industrialists offered to develop its new technology block . |
| 20 | In October 1991 the company ceased trading in the United Kingdom and its business , assets and liabilities there were transferred to a United Kingdom company . |
| 21 | At the time the L & B railway was built there were no railway carriage building firms so that underframes for original stock were constructed at Euston or , as it was then called , Euston Grove Station , while bodies were built by a West End road vehicle builder and carted from his works to the station . |
| 22 | Both Mielke and Tisch ( who was under investigation for abuse of confidence and embezzlement and was formally arrested on July 20 for disloyalty detrimental to national property ) were moved to a West Berlin prison hospital on Oct. 4 . |
| 23 | Some species are named after their collectors , so if our new species of Tyrannosaurus were collected by a Mr Jones it might eventually be christened Tyrannosaurus jonesi . |
| 24 | The final sessions of the talks were attended by a United States delegation . |
| 25 | The company moved there from its ' Manchester , UK base after allegations that it damaged workers health by exposing them to mercury were made on a BBC Newsnight progamme two years ago . |
| 26 | Measurements were made with a Wayne Kerr B642 a.c. transformer bridge operating at 1,592Hz . |
| 27 | Measurements were made with a Wayne Kerr B642 a.c. transformer bridge operating at 1,592Hz . |
| 28 | The first Pakamacs were made by a Manchester company in 1949 . |
| 29 | Oh I thought they were closed on a Monday . |
| 30 | Using a further sample from donor Z 87 , fresh ( unrestimulated ) PBL were used in a CTL assay on cp29-pulsed targets but no lysis was observed . |