Example sentences of "was [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the time of their demise the land was infested by the mammal-like reptiles , which had the looks and probably the habits of rats : we are the descendants of such creatures . |
| 2 | Whatever , when he arrived at the Ring , Niki was pilloried in the sporting press for his opposition to a great track in which all the other champions had raced : if he was so craven-hearted , they said , he should n't be racing . |
| 3 | My imagination was furnished with the passionate martyrdom of the Protestant north . |
| 4 | After this first study , the resulting model of prediction of outcome at six weeks was validated on the next 28 patients admitted between January 1989 and May 1990 with their initial variceal bleed . |
| 5 | Jehana 's mare was stopped at the far end of it , and Alexei was at her side . |
| 6 | He drove out onto Mount Pleasant and was stopped at the temporary lights where the new sewer pipe was going in . |
| 7 | I was stopped at the horse-car entrance by a locked door and , in response to my repeated knocking , by a determined female who told me I was n't welcome . |
| 8 | An exhibition of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century watercolours from the Hermitage , which was planned for Kaliningrad , was stopped at the Latvian customs . |
| 9 | This car was stopped on the hard shoulder of the M4 just west of Swindon , after a motorway chase from South Wales . |
| 10 | It was begun in 1794 , but the first borings were a total failure , due to unsatisfactory design and materials , and unforeseen and excessive seepage of water into the workings , and work was stopped on the proposed two-mile-long tunnel in 1796 . |
| 11 | Jasbir Singh was stopped for the second time in two days driving his blue Ford Escort van . |
| 12 | He was stopped by the urgent tone of Patrick 's voice . |
| 13 | After winning his first 13 fights , Ferguson 's career slump started when he was stopped in the 10th round by former contender Carl Williams in August 1985 . |
| 14 | He conceded 12lb and paid the penalty when he was stopped in the third round . |
| 15 | McMillan was stopped in the eighth round because his left arm had been viciously dislocated from its shoulder socket — but at the time our Colin was hanging on for grim life . |
| 16 | His reign as champion , however , lasted only two months and he was stopped in the tenth round of a return contest in New York City . |
| 17 | The three judges each scored it 100–86 for Panamanian Duran who was stopped in the sixth round by Pat Lawler in his last fight in March , 1991 . |
| 18 | Two fights later , he was stopped in the sixth by Tyson , whom he had helped prepare for several fights as a sparring partner . |
| 19 | The name St Petersburg had been given to the city by Peter the Great in 1703 ; in 1914 it was amended to the Russified form Petrograd , and in 1924 it was renamed in honour of Lenin after his death . |
| 20 | The Constitution of Polynesia was amended by the French Parliament with effect from July 1990 to increase the powers of the President of the territorial government and those of the Territorial Assembly , and to establish five consultative local councils composed of elected territorial and municipal representatives . |
| 21 | The feudal institutions of the ancien régime began to be dismantled under the bureaucratic reforms of the eighteenth century Carlist monarchy , and the process was hastened by the Napoleonic invasion , rather than by the pressure of new economic interests and the emergence of commercial agriculture . |
| 22 | Soviet specialists believed that the shift towards non-alignment in Latin America was hastened by the political situation in the region after the Falklands War which resulted in ‘ an open crisis of the inter-American system , including its military-political mechanism ’ . |
| 23 | Six weeks after battle was joined over the proposed ‘ rectification ’ of French spelling , the resistance fighters appear to have won the day . |
| 24 | Sometime in the not-so-distant geological past , perhaps as little as half a million years ago , it was joined to the great land mass to the north . |
| 25 | Schwantz , winner of 19 Grands Prix in a fruitless search for the world title , was joined on the front row by fellow American Wayne Rainey , bidding for a fourth successive crown , and Australian prospect Daryl Beattie . |
| 26 | Labour was joined in the new government by the left-Zionist Meretz grouping and the ultra-orthodox Shas ( International Organization of Torah-observant Sephardic Jews ) . |
| 27 | Musical director of Art Blakey 's Jazz Messengers from 1978 to 1981 , where he joined a select musical fraternity in the band 's history that included Horace Silver , Benny Golson and Wayne Shorter , he was joined in the front line by Wynton Marsalis , whose brother Branford took over the saxophone chair after Watson left to concentrate on ‘ Horizon ’ and other projects . |
| 28 | Farrell pushed the agent inside and was joined by the other intruder . |
| 29 | President Violeta Chamorro was joined by the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Managua Cardinal Miguel Obando y Bravo to witness the disarming , which took place in San Pedro de Lóbago , 160 km east of the capital Managua . |
| 30 | Suddenly their random bleating was joined by the rhythmic thud of drumming hooves . |