Example sentences of "was [verb] [prep] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem of insufficient staff to be able easily to absorb absences from the workplace to attend group training sessions was commented on by all except the largest libraries , with some libraries apparently regarding this lack of ( indirect ) staff resource as paramount to preventing any in-service training programmes being carried out , although as was emphasized by The Library Association Working Party on Training : |
| 2 | The global restructuring of capital was referred to by another participant . |
| 3 | Occasionally he was referred to by those who saw him at services as ‘ the old canon ’ though he was much the youngest of the canons . |
| 4 | The lead coffin itself was filled to within one inch of the brim with a tacky ochre-coloured liquid , somewhat the colour of heather honey but not quite so solid . |
| 5 | So far natural selection had kept the group small enough to be manageable ; usually it was filled from among those who came to her monthly entertainments . |
| 6 | A pensioner 's home at Knockdara Park was broken into between 12 noon and 5pm . |
| 7 | Stuart Wilson , previously honorary secretary was voted in to take the office of captain and Gordon Keith , previously treasurer , was voted in as honorary secretary . |
| 8 | Dovercourt was designed for at most 500 residents but was providing for up to twice as many . |
| 9 | The new currency was pegged to within 3 per cent of a rate of DM1=8 kroon . |
| 10 | One particular disclosure that was objected to by many respondents to the Discussion Paper was that of the market value of capital instruments ( other than equity shares ) . |
| 11 | Three points lying in a straight line were stimulated in quick succession and the subject 's task was to indicate from among four alternatives the orientation of the line in which the stimuli had been presented . |
| 12 | However , there had been a long and consistent course of dealing which was adhered to on this occasion . |
| 13 | The rate of growth for 1990 was forecast at between 4.8 per cent and 5.2 per cent compared with 5.6 per cent in 1989 . |
| 14 | The original Communion plate , donated in 1958 , was added to by further gifts in 1985 and 1990 . |
| 15 | Norman 's invitation to this year 's Masters was looked at with raised eyebrows by many , especially since , at this writing , the ever-steady Tom Kite needed to win New Orleans to get in on the Georgia garden party . |
| 16 | When the morning came they saw all the gardeners and weeders coming up to the wall and every one was looked at by three guards . |
| 17 | This picture was looked at in more detail and the two lowest mathematics sets in each school were focused upon . |
| 18 | The Santuario was looked after by Dominican monks , and they were a pretty shrewd lot when it came to business . |
| 19 | Although a minor error in the recitation of the Vedas was looked upon with strong disapproval , passing events were regarded by the Hindus as devoid of real significance and so it is not surprising that no importance was attached to providing them with accurate dates . |
| 20 | The extent of the crisis in the Soviet economy was illustrated in November and December by the introduction of food rationing in many parts of the country , including Leningrad , its second largest city , and by an international airlift of emergency food aid which was looked upon by some as a national humiliation . |
| 21 | He was attended to at last and returned to his table with the drinks . |
| 22 | Thankfully she was attended to by another lady . |
| 23 | He was sentenced to between five and 15 years after a trial which exposed the privileged lifestyle of rich New York youngsters . |
| 24 | Her hair was done up in fat rollers and there were white dabs of anti-wrinkle cream under her eyes . |
| 25 | In this particular respect Morse ( suggesting the likelihood of the Botley Road area ) had got things quite wrong , for it was at the Hertz ‘ Rent-a-Car ’ offices at the top of the Woodstock Road where Dixon had finally spotted the name he was looking for with all the excitement of a young angler just hooking a heavyweight pike . |
| 26 | Have you found this chair that he was looking for in that ? |
| 27 | They are is the qualities which Robert Reid , Chief Executive of Shell UK was looking for in new recruits , as he told the North of England Education Conference in the Isle of Man in 1989 . |
| 28 | She remembered the lover made up out of books and poems she had dreamed of all summer ; he crumpled like the paper he was made of before this insolent , off-hand , terrifying maleness , filling the room with its reek . |
| 29 | Standing at this window of his college he was shot at from Madgalen Bridge |
| 30 | No , even with my gardening gloves on I got nettled when I was pulling at around that honeysu |