Example sentences of "was [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For those who stayed with the film , like Preston , it turned out that the underground was infested with such creatures . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | When I was heavily pregnant we lived in one room that was infested with red ants . |
| 4 | Branded a " police spy " by Thorez , Nizan was pilloried on two counts : first , for spreading the pernicious doctrine of " National Communism " , that is , communism in word and nationalism in deed " secondly , for enacting in the reality of his life the treachery and cowardice portrayed in the fiction of his literature . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It was furnished like any room . |
| 7 | This methof was effective at producing complete carbohydrate hydrolysis within two hours and was validated in preliminary experiments against an enzymatic method . |
| 8 | If the process was stopped at that point and the Chart was examined , would be best interpretation of that segment . |
| 9 | For eight of the 13 partial responders , treatment was stopped at 24 weeks . |
| 10 | Ireland 's representation has already been halved due to first round defeats by Antrim 's Mark Winters and Ardoyne 's Eamon Magee who was stopped with 40 seconds to go in the final round . |
| 11 | A hunting trip by Saudi Arabia 's Prince Bandar was stopped by environmental police in Niger after 55 bustard falcon carcasses were found . |
| 12 | Incubation was stopped by rapid washing ( 4×2 ml over 10 s ) with ice cold buffer . |
| 13 | Naturally , he was stopped by British Customs ; what gay men returning from Amsterdam ( or San Francisco , or … ) is not ? |
| 14 | Graham , 33 , was stopped in nine rounds on Wednesday by Bradford 's unrated Frank Grant . |
| 15 | The second trial was going well for the Masons when it , too , was stopped after 11 weeks . |
| 16 | Only one of nine patients with stone recurrence received adjuvant bile acid therapy and treatment was stopped after two weeks in this patient because of side effects from the therapy . |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | Prednisolone was stopped after seven months treatment and a cumulation dose of 8.6 g , and the bowel disease stayed quiescent . |
| 19 | The digestion reaction was stopped after 12 seconds by addition of 4µl formamide containing 10mM EDTA and 0.1% ( w/v ) bromophenol blue . |
| 20 | A toxic hepatitis was suspected and the amiodarone was stopped after 24 hours . |
| 21 | The reaction was stopped after 3 minutes by addition of 4µl 80% formamide containing 10mM EDTA . |
| 22 | 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 ? |
| 23 | In 1954 he completed the restoration of the chapel , which was ravaged by death-watch beetle . |
| 24 | In effect , Talabecland had ceded from the Empire , and was joined at various times by other provinces that were dissatisfied with the current elected Emperor . |
| 25 | During his visit to Shenzhen and Shuhai Deng was joined at various times by other high-ranking leaders , including President Yang Shangkun , Yang Baibing , President Yang 's younger brother and a member of the central committee secretariat of the ruling Chinese Communist Party ( CCP ) and secretary-general of the Central Military Commission , Qiao Shih , a member of the CCP politburo standing committee and central committee secretariat , and Zhu Rongji , a reformist Vice-Premier . |
| 26 | Gibson was joined in this research by E. W. Fawcett [ q.v . ] . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Dr Ashok Kumar was joined by Labour housing spokesman George Howarth on a visit to a community refurbishment scheme on the Hornsea Estate , Hemlington . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | It was joined by small shopkeepers , doctors , dentists , lawyers , and airline pilots not from some conspiracy but because of the damaging re-distribu-tive effects of inflation which all were experiencing . |