Example sentences of "was [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , after completing the purchase , they were horrified to find that the cottage was infested with dry rot — this cost them £5,000 to deal with . |
| 2 | The ‘ Ritz Bedroom ’ , for example , ‘ so named by the Ashleys because the bath in the adjoining bathroom was exactly like those in their favourite hotel , the Paris Ritz ’ , was furnished with some choice pieces of Louis XV vintage . |
| 3 | It was furnished like any room . |
| 4 | If the process was stopped at that point and the Chart was examined , would be best interpretation of that segment . |
| 5 | Incubation was stopped by rapid washing ( 4×2 ml over 10 s ) with ice cold buffer . |
| 6 | It was stopped after one minute with 25 µl of 9% SDS sample buffer ( 0.0015% bromophenol blue , 10 ml of 2% SDS , 25 mM TRIS pH 6.8 , and 20% sucrose ) . |
| 7 | Now Mr , in the light of what Mr has said , do you understand that if the structure plan key diagram was amended in that way , it will still yo leave you and your clients open to challenge , or you would have a better chance of challenging er the er preferred option of the County Councils at the next stage , which is either through the local plan channel or through the er the the planning application stage for the highway ? |
| 8 | In 1954 he completed the restoration of the chapel , which was ravaged by death-watch beetle . |
| 9 | Gibson was joined in this research by E. W. Fawcett [ q.v . ] . |
| 10 | She was joined by Betsy M. Bryan , Alexander Badawy Assistant Professor of Egyptian Art and Archaeology at The Johns Hopkins University , Baltimore , who since 1984 has been collecting material on the position of women in New Kingdom society . |
| 11 | Dr Ashok Kumar was joined by Labour housing spokesman George Howarth on a visit to a community refurbishment scheme on the Hornsea Estate , Hemlington . |
| 12 | In the new government the PNV was joined by Basque Solidarity ( EA ) , with nine parliamentary seats , itself a splinter group of the PNV , and by Basque Left ( EE ) , with six . |
| 13 | Later , Mobbs was joined by other subject groups . |
| 14 | It was joined by another voice ; he realized it was his own . |
| 15 | In one game , against Nottingham Forest , Stephenson was joined by another player who was to take a leading role in Chapman 's future — Grenadier Guardsman Charlie Buchan of Sunderland , whom Chapman met for the first time . |
| 16 | The waiter was joined by another waiter , equally stoic ; their faces were grained by evening shadow . |
| 17 | She was joined by leading actor Robert Downey Jnr and wife Debbie in Leicester Square , London . |
| 18 | Writing moved from ( i ) a supporting and recording function , in societies in which oral composition and tradition were still predominant , through ( ii ) a stage in which this function was joined by written composition for oral performance and ( iii ) a further stage in which composition was additionally written only to be read , to ( iv ) that later and very familiar stage in which most or virtually all composition was written to be silently read , and was at last , for this reason , generalized as ‘ literature ’ . |
| 19 | The archimandrite was rebuked by Metropolitan Stratimirović for keeping ‘ that blasphemer amongst your priests ’ . |
| 20 | We sang , a little earlier on , a song of er Wesley 's and back those two hundred and twenty , two hundred and thirty years ago , when Wesley was preaching in this country and in America , there was another preacher every bit as famous then , perhaps not quite so famous today , preacher by the name of George Whitfield and George Whitfield , he went around and he was preaching , and he preached on this , this text , John er , i in John three , you must be born again ! |
| 21 | Protestant — loyalist domination , successor to the ascendancy , was circumscribed to one corner of Ireland while the catholic — nationalist alliance asserted total domination in the remainder . |
| 22 | In the longer term , it may be something aesthetic will be seen in what was intended as pure politics . |
| 23 | It was intended at one stage to extend the line as far as Portsmouth ! |
| 24 | A report of the work was typed by the school secretary but its informal style and the sometimes cryptic references to individual children make it clear that it was intended for internal circulation only . |
| 25 | There is , to my mind , no doubt that Mr Bloch and his locksmith would not have been permitted by Mr Clayton to interfere with the existing lock if Mr Clayton had been told that that act was intended in any way to interfere with his rights under his existing sub-lease . |
| 26 | But the more precise use of the word ‘ State , ’ the use to be expected in a legal context , and the one which I am quite satisfied … was intended in this statute , is to denote the organs of government of a national community . |
| 27 | THE American presidential campaign was plunged into new controversy last night when Hillary Clinton , wife of the embattled Democratic hopeful Bill Clinton , sought to counter allegations of her husband 's marital infidelity by airing the same charges against President Bush . |
| 28 | THE Government was plunged into fresh turmoil over the troubled Maastricht treaty last night after a successful parliamentary ambush by Labour ended in scenes of chaos and confusion in the House of Commons . |
| 29 | JOHN Major was plunged into another U-turn row last night after a marathon Cabinet meeting over spending cuts deteriorated , according to some , into a ‘ dogfight . ’ |
| 30 | JOHN Major was plunged into another U-turn row last night after he was accused of backtracking over public spending cuts . |