Example sentences of "was [verb] [prep] [art] [no cls] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was stopped on the M6 last week , at an alleged 105mph . |
| 2 | Christian Vilaseca , 57 — who lives in Paris and heads imports of Jaguars into France — was stopped on the M6 in Lancashire by a police Range Rover after allegedly travelling at 105mph . |
| 3 | When Henry II of Germany was crowned emperor at Rome in 1014 , his procession making its way to St Peter 's was joined on the Via Cornelia by twelve senators , six of them clean-shaven and six with beards . |
| 4 | Look at Dr the leading Presbyterian was persecuted to the Jeho the Jehovah 's Witness you know . |
| 5 | Traffic was diverted onto the A166 as emergency services cleared the wreckage between Dunnington and Kexby , near York . |
| 6 | Traffic was diverted along the A69 and through Tedale . |
| 7 | However , I did actaully sorta enjoy singing ‘ On the dole , on the dole , on the dole ’ , as Turnip was whinging about the non sending off incident . |
| 8 | This aircraft was firing at the Ju88s from astern . |
| 9 | In any event the ‘ Far East ’ solution depended , with rather specious simplicity , on the ability to separate communist sheep from nationalist goats and even though the distinction was recognized as the sine qua non of a solution , it assumed that those who would not support genuine independence , once it was granted by the French , would identify themselves as communists : and would thereby distinguish themselves from the rest of the ‘ nationalist elements ’ who comprised the major part of the resistance forces . |
| 10 | Chairman , can I say briefly that the merger and I 'm quite pleased that we 've finally er there is a death knell to this this awful word , it 's been bandied on for far too long , it 's been perhaps the single most controversial issue that has been debated by this authority along with some other mediocre issues and no one here would not admit er to the fact that it has been opposed on such massive scale and even today we 've had a further petition of three hundred and ninety five people opposing er this this this dreadful merger decision that was hanging over the er the the two centres and I 'm pleased that er this this er amendment , this er er erm this petition was brought forward today because it does indicate the continuing support and opposition to er the the kind of things that we should be doing and and those that we should n't . |
| 11 | I was posted to the er ack-ack brigade and I was posted to Norwich , just at Norwich , Coldershaw really . |
| 12 | In accordance with standing order A twelve C enforced at the time , Councillor m notice of motion on car parking was referred to the Cou by the Council on the twenty third of April 1991 to the Community and Environment Services Committee . |
| 13 | Film and video production ( for TV channels , but also for the cinema and other clients ) was assigned to the Societe Française de Production ( SFP ) ; research , training , sound and film archives , and a limited production role , to the Institut National de l'Audiovisuel ( INA ) . |
| 14 | The art of mime was developed by the commedia dell'arte and is still being developed by such artists as Marcel Marceau and the mime theatres of Poland and Czechoslovakia . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm very touched , if I might say so , ’ the prince said , as he was cheered by a 10,000-strong audience . |
| 16 | For the first time the role of the Church of England was explained as the Via Media Anglicana , a middle way between Rome and Geneva . |
| 17 | A question asking pupils to interpret a 2-D depiction of a 3-D situation was included in the GT4 reference test and reported earlier ( p.40 ) . |
| 18 | The new trial was reopened before the Juzgado Quinto de Primera Instancia Penal de Sentencia ( Fifth Criminal Sentencing Court of the First Instance ) , and new evidence admitted which led to a guilty verdict . |
| 19 | CRP , so called because of the proteinic nature of the C-reactive substance was first discovered when a precipitate was formed where pneumococcal C-polysaccharide was added to the sera of ill patients . |
| 20 | The contract was won by the Graham/Farrans joint venture by tender against stiff competition from Holland , Germany and France . |
| 21 | The conference , entitled ‘ Is West Belfast Working ? ’ , was organised by an ad hoc committee of local community groups and individuals . |
| 22 | Shortly after this he was attacked by a Bf110 , but as this approached to about 100 yards it received a direct hit from an anti-aircraft shell and blew up . |
| 23 | In 1968 Bentley car formerly owned by Sir George ‘ Gubby ’ Allen and sold for £8000 at auction recently , gave new owner Jacob Rees-Mogg ( son of former Times Editor Lord Rees-Mogg ) a shock when the brakes failed while he was driving along the M4 motorway recently . |
| 24 | A friend of mine was driving on the M1 when he came up behind everybody 's un-favourite motorist , the one who sits resolutely in the middle land and refuses to move left , no matter how empty the inside lane . |
| 25 | founded in 1652 as a cossack zimove to collect yasak from the Buryats and Tungus ( Evenkis ) , in 1661 it was rebuilt into an ostrog . |
| 26 | An aliquot of each reaction ( 5 µl ) was resolved on a 1.3% agarose gel and the position of the cDNA visualized by autoradiography . |
| 27 | b , DP-1 associates with p107 ; DRTF1/E2F was resolved in an F9 EC cell extract in the presence of either the control monoclonal antibody ( A7 ; track 1 ) , anti Rb ( IF8 ; track 2 ) , or anti-p107 ( SD9 ; track 3 ) ; note that anti-p107 reduced level of DRTF1a . |
| 28 | A savage backlash was expected from the 10,000strong Protestant organisation which has murdered more than 700 people . |
| 29 | Michael was transferred to the QE2 after two days and then began the long voyage home . |
| 30 | Yes , I I would like to come in to say how our er scheme was transferred from the er British Steel Pension Scheme to the new scheme in nineteen ninety . |