Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [prep] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Digestion was stopped by incubating the slides with 0.2% glycine in water for 30 seconds . |
| 2 | After incubating for 30 minutes at room temperature , the reaction was stopped by washing the sections in cold water . |
| 3 | On 3 March 1987 the originating summons was amended by adding the seventh and eighth plaintiffs , and on 19 March 1987 it was further amended to seek accounts of all transactions entered into , and of all dealings with the property of the plaintiffs by the first defendant , and of all moneys received by or payment made by the first defendant or by the second or third defendants , and an inquiry whether any sums were due from the first defendant to the plaintiffs . |
| 4 | If a ship was intended for patrolling the sea , it had to be equipped to take part in action against the enemy : the building of castles , fore and aft , and , in the fifteenth century , the possible installation of cannon on the deck ( guns were placed below decks , to fire out of ‘ ports ’ , only in the very first years of the sixteenth century ) had to be carried out . |
| 5 | With him come 13 exciting new hair products , including PN36 which keeps hair smooth , shiny and well protected — it was formulated after observing the well-groomed appearance of ducks ! |
| 6 | Basal acid output per hour was calculated by doubling the acid output during the 30 minutes of infusion of saline only . |
| 7 | For a given histogram ( in this case the histogram from Fig. 1 c ) , an ‘ autocorrelation score ’ was calculated by subtracting the best-fitting smooth distribution ( in this and many other examples a single gaussian provided a good fit ) , filtering the resulting difference function in the Fourier domain , then detecting peaks in its autocorrelation function . |
| 8 | Biliary recovery of the compounds was calculated by subtracting the amounts of biliary PABA measured without HCl hydrolysis from those with hydrolysis . |
| 9 | Specific binding at each concentration was calculated by subtracting the cpm in the presence of excess IFN γ from the cpm without excess IFN γ . |
| 10 | Basal acid output was calculated by taking the mean of all three 15 minute samples before gastrin releasing peptide infusion . |
| 11 | The number of DP thymocytes was calculated by multiplying the number of total thymocytes with the percentage of DP thymocytes . |
| 12 | When a development proposal was submitted , the maximum permissible floor space was calculated by multiplying the area of the site by the FSI applicable , and consent given on condition that the area of floor space should not be exceeded . |
| 13 | Acid output was calculated by multiplying the hydrogen ion concentration by the volume of the gastric aspirate . |
| 14 | If a successful parse was obtained then its probability was calculated by determining the product of the probability of each rule used to achieve the derivation . |
| 15 | To adjust for the effect of clustering , χ 2 a d j was calculated by dividing the resulting χ 2 statistic by where m i represents the number of students in the n th cluster ( school ) and ρ represents the intracluster correlation . |
| 16 | To describe size selective absorption from the intestinal lumen , a recovery ratio ( PEG 766/458 ) was calculated by dividing the recovery of a large PEG molecule ( PEG 766 ) with the recovery of a smaller PEG molecule ( PEG 458 ) . |
| 17 | Each cluster 's mortality rate was calculated by dividing the number of deaths by the child-years of follow-up . |
| 18 | Peak acid output was calculated by adding the two highest stimulated 15 minute outpts and multiplying by two . |
| 19 | The percentage of biliary cholesterol carried by the vesicular and non-vesicular fractions was calculated by measuring the area under their respective peaks , as a proportion of the total area under the cholesterol radioactivity curve eluted from the chromatographic column . |
| 20 | A figure of about 500,000 was calculated after establishing the amount of shoeing steel produced for local consumption by British Steel and dividing by an average of four new sets a year . |
| 21 | After independence , the curriculum was altered by changing the content of some subjects — for example , history and geography — and by introducing new subjects such as political education and ‘ social areas ’ . |
| 22 | At one level , Nizan was reprimanded for confusing the reader , particularly in the concluding stages of the novel , with an excess of petty-bourgeois metaphysics . |
| 23 | It was formed by uniting the colour-sided Blacksided Trondheim with the old Nordland breed in 1943 , and the coat is basically white with black ( or sometimes red ) points and freckling on the sides , often merging to give the colour-sided type of the cline ( see Genetics section ) . |
| 24 | It was formed by altering the topographical aspect of the land immediately north of the River Welland and the running figure of the Bull from east to west across the town is reminiscent of a Cretan bull cult fresco at the Palace of Minos at Knossos or the same period . |
| 25 | Third , the plasma has to retain its energy for at least a second in order that enough reactions take place to deliver more energy than was consumed in setting the system up . |
| 26 | Shankar Guha Niyogi had begun work in Bhilai in 1962 , but was dismissed for organising the workers against the AITUC . |
| 27 | The most significant Cabinet change was in July 1991 when Rabuka rejoined the government [ see also below ] , and Public Utilities Minister Apisai Tora was dismissed for accepting the presidency of a newly created political party . |
| 28 | Ajirno was treated by resting the stomach ( fasting ) . |
| 29 | In 1628 , when his colleague , the senior revenue auditor of the Upper Exchequer , was savagely attacked , expelled from the House , and committed to the Tower , Pye 's defence of Buckingham was limited to assuring the Commons that it was the favourite 's mother and not his wife who was a recusant Catholic . |
| 30 | In some cases , such as Lower Framilode , steam was used to power everything in the mill , whereas in others , such as Stoke Orchard Mill , it was limited to providing the power for ancillary equipment . |