Example sentences of "[vb past] be closed [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were no non-sick ( workhouse ) beds at the Bedford Institution ; they had been closed at the beginning of the war . |
| 2 | Richborough Castle had been closed for the day by the Department of the Environment . |
| 3 | The European Parliament voted by a large majority in January 1990 to freeze scientific co-operation between EC countries and Israel until universities on the West Bank , which had been closed since the beginning of the uprising , were reopened . |
| 4 | Vietnam and China officially re-opened on April 1 the Friendship Pass border crossing between China 's Guangxi and Vietnam 's Lang Son provinces , which had been closed since the border war in 1979 . |
| 5 | All I knew was that North Yemen was on the south western coast of the Arabian peninsula , that the language was Arabic and that the country had been closed to the West until 1962 when a revolution overthrew the ruling Imamate . |
| 6 | Chief Superintendent Wycliffe 's driver pulled into the car park , which had been closed to the public , and joined a line of police vehicles . |
| 7 | The last of the mines had been closed around the time of Tace 's birth and the entrances to the shafts had been closed or blocked by rockfalls . |