Example sentences of "was [verb] [prep] [noun] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the decision to allow the board to continue was cloaked in Ministers ' remarks suggesting that the statutory provision would be short-lived . |
| 2 | The operation , officially described as a humanitarian act to protect the health of the women and children in the camp , was criticized by immigrants ' groups and human rights organizations . |
| 3 | The Director of Studies expressed an interest in how much three dimensional ( 3D ) work was included in pupils ' experience and was dissatisfied with what he was told . |
| 4 | This programme was organised by Courtaulds ' operational development department in London . |
| 5 | I was reminded of Camus ' comment : " What does eternity matter to me ? |
| 6 | The hunt was met at Parks ' Lodge from where , at this time of year provided the scent was good , it was inevitably a red letter day . |
| 7 | the , the , Daniel was living , you know , you know better than I do how many years , how many centuries Daniel was living before Jesus ' birth then ? |
| 8 | Fortunately little damage was done to Roles ' Builders Yard , but the Steam Laundry was almost completely destroyed . |
| 9 | All the dispatching was done from Liveseys ' . ’ |
| 10 | After nine months , Henry was adopted by Thomas ' older brother , the ninth Earl , whose own marriage was childless . |
| 11 | One section of the list , " Statistical Ideas ' , was not included in the test development although one of the microcomputer tasks was built around pupils ' ideas on probability . |
| 12 | We report here the results of a case-control study set up to investigate whether the excess was related to parents ' employment in the nuclear industry . |
| 13 | The letter from Industry Minister Tim Sainsbury to Michael Portillo , Chief Secretary of the Treasury , was revealed by miners ' leader Arthur Scargill and the Coalfield Communities Campaign . |
| 14 | Authorities said 16-year-old Hattori was shot outside Peairs ' home after he and a friend , Webb Haymaker , knocked on Peairs ' front door while looking for a costume party being held in the same street . |
| 15 | An article by him advocating a national Nonconformist congress appeared in Hughes ' Methodist Times on 20 February 1890 and was written at Hughes ' request . |
| 16 | The character Mr Micawber was based on Dickens ' father and according to Dickens , Mr Micawber said , ‘ Annual income twenty pounds , annual expenditure nineteen and sixpence , result happiness . |
| 17 | That assessment was shared by Barnicoats ' managing director Jonathan Barnicoat . |
| 18 | She added that 80 per cent of the annual education budget was spent on teachers ' salaries . |
| 19 | This was followed by Workers ' Playtime — Arthur English and Ken Platt with his catch phrase , ‘ I wo n't take my coat off , I 'm not stopping . ’ |
| 20 | An eight wicket defeat at Calcutta was followed by innings ' beatings in both Madras and Bombay as England 's batting technique against spin was exposed on turning pitches . |
| 21 | I just assumed he was making for Otters ' Bay . ’ |
| 22 | She was taken to Queens ' Building detention centre at the airport where Aszal was waiting for her . |
| 23 | Creevey was educated at Newcome 's School , Hackney , which favoured ‘ the sons of noblemen and gentlemen ’ , from c .1780 to 1787 , when he was admitted to Queens ' College , Cambridge , whence he graduated in 1789 as seventh wrangler . |
| 24 | In Women 's Body , Women 's Right : A Social History of the Birth Control Movement in America , Linda Gordon showed that the impetus for ’ family planning ’ in the US was motivated by eugenicists ' desires to stop Black women from reproducing . |
| 25 | This sentiment was confirmed by Saints ' boss Ian Branfoot who admitted that the attacking Town tactics had taken him by surprise . |
| 26 | I was thinking of Robins ' house and then my own before I left home ; his mother making a sailor suit , my mother forever — in retrospect , anyway — making patchwork quilts . |
| 27 | At his death he was unknown as a poet ; on 8 December 1975 , the centenary of the wreck of the Deutschland , a plaque to his memory was unveiled in poets ' corner , Westminster Abbey , honouring a Roman Catholic there for the first time since John Dryden [ q.v . ] . |
| 28 | Novello , who had initially developed The Rat for Brunel , was to join with Cutts ' assistant , Alfred Hitchcock , in demonstrating that adapted stageplays did n't need to constrict cinematic invention as long as script and direction were entrusted to someone who could convey ideas in visual terms . |
| 29 | Even in the wet , it was almost impossible to get the test car 's tail moving as it was fitted with Mercedes ' Anti-Skid Control ( German acronym ASR ) , which works like anti-lock brakes but in reverse . |
| 30 | This argument was refined by Lukács ' ( 1971 ) suggestion that only certain historical transformations could bring the proletariat to realize their true interests and thereby allow them to commence revolutionary action . |