Example sentences of "was [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It is also possible that some research is directed towards developing a technique , methodology , computer program , or piece of equipment which has wide applicability , but whose initial testing was carried out within some field of Scottish geology . |
| 32 | It is also possible that some research is directed towards developing a technique , methodology , computer program , or piece of equipment which has wide applicability , but whose initial testing was carried out within some field of Scottish geology . |
| 33 | Evaluation by achievement Performance measurement was carried out after each series of courses , by means of examination of each student 's list of references , in order to see whether the students were able to carry out a practical literature search . |
| 34 | The result was a system in which the government never changed hands , but instead was carried out by those who could be trusted to look after the affairs of state . |
| 35 | After this initial rebuild , further work was carried out by several resident archbishops , most particularly San Carlo Borromeo who used his favourite architect Pelligrino Tibaldi ( Il Pellegrini ) . |
| 36 | Because the transaction was carried out in this way , the loser was Derbyshire 's pension fund . |
| 37 | However , when the company was considering the service and repair of machinery and was thinking of sending it abroad to Scandanavia , it was willing to listen and to ensure that the work was carried out in this country . |
| 38 | The Liverpool manager was seething with rage after his defender David Burrows was carried off in this Coca-Cola Cup tie with a severe knee injury that will keep him out for at least three months . |
| 39 | After taking a series of measurements I put a numbered ring on each bird 's leg so that if one came to grief and was picked up at some time in the future , its identity could be established . |
| 40 | ‘ I was climbing up through this favela ; I should n't even have been there . |
| 41 | When trade was good , Brookhouse expanded and thrived and when times became hard , it lost value and was leased out to many different tenants . |
| 42 | ( The fact that a huge lorry was passing by at that time must have been coincidental , I 'm sure . ) |
| 43 | It was simply out of duty to his only child that he was venturing out at all . |
| 44 | Then I drove into his space well then somebody else came and drove in behind me and the car in front then was sort of , oh yeah , then somebody else came and reversed in in front of him , so the car in front it was across the drive was boxed in by this time , I did n't box him in I just |
| 45 | It was filling up with more and more people . |
| 46 | About twelve years later , when I was looking back on that meeting with Dana , I wrote the following poem : |
| 47 | and she was arched over like this , yeah , and they were getting off and she went for his belt yeah and she was gon na undo his belt and Jules went Laura Laura not now , you know , just do n't undo my belt . |
| 48 | I used to find my bed set at an angle from the wall , and though I straightened it , always it was moved back into this odd position . |
| 49 | The case was turned over to another policeman with a mean , bony face and narrow eyes . |
| 50 | She travelled via Canterbury to London , where she spoke ‘ boldly and mightily ’ against the vicious , did a good deal of sobbing and crying , and was turned out of several churches . |
| 51 | Hirst may well be fired up for the job against Manchester United , whose £3.5 million bid by fax was turned down amid some acrimony last month by Wednesday manager Trevor Francis . |
| 52 | The Metropolitan Police have said that Courtney offered his services — but he was turned down for any work . |
| 53 | Mr Clarke said his office tried ‘ several times ’ to arrange a meeting , four months before the bombshell announcement that 31 pits were to close with the loss of 30,000 jobs , but was turned down on each occasion . |
| 54 | Bright was turned down on both counts by Field , whose principal consideration was the weather . |
| 55 | I was turned down by all the universities on my UCCA application form , because I had received a bad report from my headmaster at Downside School who said I took drugs , which was true , but was also an admission made to him in confidence . |
| 56 | It was also of course , we were put forward for objective two , this was turned down by these two commissioners simply because they sliced off two percent of the application . |
| 57 | A Section was made up of those who had passed the 2ème Bureau interview , and we were given red strips of cloth to wear on our epaulettes to show that we had passed our selection . |
| 58 | In it , the Welsh Office stated that a solution for Wales had to take into account four major factors which distinguished it from England : the Welsh Office had been responsible for public sector higher education in Wales since 1978 ; the scale of the problem was quite different in that only eight local authorities and a small number of colleges were involved ; the Regional Advisory Council for the whole of Wales , the WJEC , was made up of these local authorities ; and it did not make sense , either on economic or educational grounds , to expect colleges in Wales to provide as wide a range of provision as would be expected in England . |
| 59 | The sample of schools was made up in such a way that the 50 schools , as a whole group , where representative of Scottish secondary schools . |
| 60 | Much of central Cheltenham was built out of this deep bed of fine-grained Oolitic limestone . |