Example sentences of "was [verb] [v-ing] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bone density was calculated using a calibration phantom containing known concentrations of K 2 HPO 4 solution and expressed in grams per litre . |
| 2 | A test was arranged involving a detachment of Guards who lined up along the WCs and flushed in unison . |
| 3 | But in January this year , Ironside was caught driving a Renault 14 car at Milford . |
| 4 | In other incidents a security officer was attacked leaving a betting shop in Scotland Road and a social security employee was attacked at Lloyd 's Bank , Huyton . |
| 5 | The problem was resolved using a trick called isotopic substitution . |
| 6 | Beside them , only 20 metres from Ralph , part of the swimwear section was sucked leaving a hole through which orange , red-hot flames leapt up . |
| 7 | Poly-A RNA was prepared using a mRNA purification kit ( Stratagene La Jolla , CA ) and random primed with poly hexanucleotides ( Pharmacia ) for the preparation of cDNA using M-MLV reverse transcriptase ( BRL ) ( 100 units/µl ) . |
| 8 | Intrinsic factor and hydrogen-potassium ATPase activity were mapped using murine monoclonal antibodies ( Dr Smolka , University of South Carolina , Charleston , South Carolina , USA ) and gastrin activity was mapped using a rabbit antiserum to human gastrin ( Dako , High Wycombe ) . |
| 9 | Once again the formula was applied giving a slope value of 0.5327706575 . |
| 10 | There is no conclusive case on the point but in Ogwo v Taylor [ 1987 ] 2 WLR , Brown LJ ( obiter ) was of the opinion that where a fireman was injured fighting a fire at the defendant 's premises , which was not due to a defect in the premises , the Act had no application . |
| 11 | During the TV programme , Marshall was seen conducting a board meeting with his usual mixture of arrogance and honesty . |
| 12 | In Briggs [ 1987 ] Crim LR 708 the accused was seen riding a motorbike two days after it had been taken without lawful authority . |
| 13 | WPC Helen Smith has been banned from cell duties after she was seen getting a shoulder massage from one prisoner . |
| 14 | When Mr Boesky arrived at the Brooklyn centre earlier this week , he was seen wearing a suit , carrying a duffel bag and with his hair short and his face shaven , although the sleek look of his heyday in the early eighties was gone . |
| 15 | First , in November he was seen sporting a badge saying ‘ Birmingham — European Summit 1992 . ’ |
| 16 | McMeekin went on a drinking spree in Darlington and ended in Presto , where he was seen hiding a bottle of Southern Comfort under his jacket . |
| 17 | The two bombs were attached to the hull of the Rainbow Warrior , berthed at Marsden Wharf , at around 8.30 p.m. and at about 9.30 p.m. a man wearing a red woollen hat was seen abandoning a Zodiac dinghy near the Outboard Boating Club in Hobson 's Bay and then climbing up the embankment to Tamaki Drive where he was picked up and driven off in a camper van . |
| 18 | When a run was done using a lexicon without letter names , the number of paths produced was a few orders of magnitude less than when these words were included.2 Similarly function words could be treated differently from content words . |
| 19 | The test was done using a 16-mile loop of glass fibre , lasers , amplifiers and filters to prove that solitons can provide the key to future ultra-high capacity transmission . |
| 20 | The histologic greading of oedema was made using a scale ranging from 0 to 3 ; 0=no oedema , 1=interlobular oedema , 2= interlobular oedema and moderate intralobular oedema , and 3=interlobular oedema and severe intralobular oedema . |
| 21 | At the Dhoon Quarry , where the engine was given a drink from a convenient fire hydrant , the turnround was made using a crossover and helped by a gravity shunt . |
| 22 | One was made using a toilet roll . |
| 23 | Only a year after the invention of balloons , a book was written describing a voyage , by balloon , to the newly discovered planet Uranus . |
| 24 | And he was shown wearing a pair of collosal flared jeans that left one simply astonished . |
| 25 | The enrichment of plasma free leucine was measured using a VG 12–250 quadrupole gas chromatograph mass spectrometer ( VG , Masslab , Manchester , UK ) , after conversion to the tertiary butyldimethylsilyl derivative . |
| 26 | The intensity of the radioactivity was measured using a Fujix BAS2000 Bio-image Analyzer within the linear range of intensities . |
| 27 | was measured using a Bartington MS1 susceptibility meter . |
| 28 | Radiation was measured using a Bicron Labtech Scaler with an EWGM ( end-window-Geiger-Müller ) probe ( Bicron , Newbury , Ohio , USA ) and a type 44B NaI scintillation probe ( Mini-Instruments , Essex , England ) . |
| 29 | HT-29 cells were cultured with 50 U/ml IFN γ with or without drug , and northern blot analysis was performed using a probe for the β chain of the DR molecule . |
| 30 | Oesophageal manometry was performed using a catheter containing five solid state transducers located at 5 cm intervals along its length and oriented radially around the circumference of the catheter ( Gaeltec Ltd , UK ) . |