Example sentences of "was [verb] [prep] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is this that I was hinting at in the previous chapter , when I referred to the queen ant as the central data bank . |
| 2 | The trend towards non-legislative constraints of guidelines for land application of sewage sludge was commented on in the Report of the Sub-Committee on the Economics of Sewage Sludge Disposal which surveys legislative and other constraints affecting sewage sludge disposal . |
| 3 | Clause 5 was commented on by the hon. Member for Sedgefield and by my hon. Friend the Member for Waveney ( Mr. Porter ) . |
| 4 | And when a ratepayer challenged a local authority 's conduct of its policy to sell council houses and invoked his statutory right to complain to the District Auditor , he was debarred from at the same time pursuing the alternative remedy of applying to the courts for judicial review . |
| 5 | Eventually the day consecrated by the Romans to the sun was identified with the Jewish first day , and given a Christian interpretation where Christ was referred to as the ‘ Sun of Righteousness ’ . |
| 6 | In those days , the model was referred to as the Saber and boasted one of the thinnest necks around . |
| 7 | He used to be in the board meeting with us , and was referred to as the ‘ sleeping partner ’ by the directors ! ’ |
| 8 | What was referred to as the ‘ second kind of discrimination in West Belfast ’ i.e. discrimination against women was a recurring theme . |
| 9 | The room in which we lunched was referred to as the ‘ salon ’ . |
| 10 | It consisted of a stage , a small open space which was referred to as the dance floor , and a bar selling a limited selection of alcoholic drinks in plastic beakers . |
| 11 | In a manifesto published in the Co-operative paper Reynolds News on 20 March 1938 , this projected coalition was referred to as the " United Peace Alliance " . |
| 12 | With regard to the remit of the STUCC , which was referred to by the Hon. |
| 13 | The sponsored event was referred to by the NDO . |
| 14 | The defendant was employed as a sales representative who sold the service of renovating and repairing office furniture and commercial seating and the judge correctly decided that that must be the business which was referred to by the restraint of trade clause . |
| 15 | I think he gave a figure of one pound , fifty nine was what was referred to by the phrase management charges in that sentence |
| 16 | Payment of that sum and other monies from the Deanses to the club was referred to by the outgoing financial director , Clive Scott . |
| 17 | This was called ‘ ganging a sitting ’ in Hawkshead , and it was referred to in the same terms across the country at Dent . |
| 18 | With its livid , dangling wattles and its ability to kill with a glance , the cockatrice was referred to in the Bible as typifying evil . |
| 19 | None of these allegations was referred to in the Hearing on 31 October . |
| 20 | Although the now frequently-used concept of ‘ the right to resistance ’ was referred to in the older religion-based natural law theories , it is mainly the more recent , secularised version of natural law with its emphasis on human rights that seems to provide a theoretical underpinning for some of the assertions about the illegality of nuclear war and the justifiability of nuclear protest . |
| 21 | She was referred to in the temple archives at Knossos , although as far as we know her nearest sanctuary was the Cave of Eileithyia at Amnisos ( Figure 16 ) . |
| 22 | The Rhodesia Metals case was referred to in the Hang Seng Bank case [ 1991 ] 1 A.C. 306 and it follows that when Lord Bridge used the words ‘ place where the property was let ’ he must have been referring to the place where the property let was situated and not to the place or places where the lease happened to have been signed . |
| 23 | It was held that , because the car was referred to in the contract as a new car , this was an express term and since the exclusion clause sought to exclude liability for implied terms only , the defendants were liable . |
| 24 | Erm , the erm , the erm , the erm , er , settlement of the anti tr civil anti trust law suit that was referred to in the statement was erm , costs of about six million dollars this year on a class action law suit which we have reached a tentative settlement on in the last few days and , in fact , there were some , there was about six to seven million dollars of additional provision made at the end of last year in the one time charges that we referred to at that time but could n't really identify with erm , lawyers breathing down your necks in the United States and er , this is a class action law suit , would have been in a Texas Court and erm , you know , the boiler plate language is that you want to get rid of the , you know , the expense and uncertainty of this type of litigation and if you think that what a Texas jury did to Texaco , it 's probably a prudent decision to close the matter off at this time . |
| 25 | The continuous variable weight for height expressed as standard deviation score was adjusted for in the analysis of lung function . |
| 26 | The house was broken into in the early hours of Friday morning and the intruders carried off the rock and pop CDs in a Head sports bag which they also stole from the house . |
| 27 | Rank Film Distributors Ltd. v. Video Information Centre [ 1982 ] A.C. 380 was relied on by the plaintiffs both in the Court of Appeal and before your Lordships but , as Neill L.J . |
| 28 | That Johnson had so much social significance as a black man challenging white oppression , albeit in a symbolic way , was attested to by the scenes following his dismissal of Burns and after his defence against the revered bastion of white pride , Jim Jeffries . |
| 29 | On July 22 the search for survivors in Baguio city was abandoned by foreign rescue teams , but local volunteers continued the search and , as late as July 30 , a man was rescued from beneath the ruins of a hotel . |
| 30 | Typically , most Windows spreadsheets perform better doing what Windows was designed for in the first place — graphical presentation . |