Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [prep] [adj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We then voted on a lengthy Liberal resolution er , it was amended by Labour we voted on all of the separate points in the resolution , all were agreed and then Professor decided that he wanted to move a further amendment which after some consultation , some discussion with the legal people about it 's validity , he did which wiped out all of the things that we 'd just agreed and we turned to the original Conservative motion minus the beginning phrase and with a couple of things stuck on at the end and we thought well that 's it the Conservatives will vote for that , but no although it was their own motion in all but name , the Conservatives would n't vote for that unless Mr was allowed to move it . |
| 2 | But because the case was heard in private it is not known whether the teenager is returning to her mother or remaining with her 18-year-old boyfriend 's family . |
| 3 | John Hey 's eldest son , Melling ( 1808–65 ) , was described as a fancy weaver when his elder children were baptised between 1836 and 1842 , but when his last child was baptised in 1846 he was working as a labourer and in the 1851 census returns his occupation was given as groom . |
| 4 | I was fascinated by all I saw on my way . |
| 5 | The oak pews and present pulpit were installed at the turn of this century and hot-water heating was installed in 1899 it a cost of £75 . |
| 6 | Her commitment to women 's causes continued for the rest of her life , and when female suffrage was granted in 1918 she was one of the first women to contest a parliamentary seat , standing unsuccessfully as Labour candidate for Rusholme in 1918 . |
| 7 | If it was seen like that you ca n't actually solve a erm a linear problem which occurs between these two sets of units . |
| 8 | Pembroke himself spent three years -in captivity , and although he was ransomed in 1375 he died soon afterwards of an illness worsened by the rigours of his imprisonment . |
| 9 | I have just bought a SWB Petrol III although it was made in 1977 I do n't think its had a very hard life , it has only 45,000 miles on the clock and going by its condition I think that 's about right . |
| 10 | Sandy , at three in the morning , watching Boy : ‘ If I was built like that I would n't wait until three o'clock to take my shirt off . ’ |
| 11 | Our other main base was at Gravesend on the Thames , but until the new pier and floating pontoon was built in 1980 it was not a convenient place for laying up the cutters . |
| 12 | And it was in fifteen it was built in fifteen I think about fifteen sixty . |
| 13 | Time was saved in that it became less necessary to put down formal amendments designed to probe government intentions . |
| 14 | Columbia 's ‘ X-P High-Speed ’ cylinders ran at 160rpm , and this fact was pushed for all it was worth . |
| 15 | He seems later to have returned ; possibly an attempt on the throne was being planned when he died , for the C text 's statement that Cnut afterwards had him killed is followed by Florence , who adds that he was betrayed by those he held dearest . |
| 16 | When a new manual pump was supplied in 1909 it was named after Miss Gladys Park , daughter of the then Superintendent . |
| 17 | When Toscanini was told about this he doubled their winning for them . |
| 18 | Mr Roberts was thanked for all he had done for the Society since its inception . |
| 19 | He sounded so utterly unlike the Leo she thought she was used to that she automatically obeyed . |
| 20 | During and Spencer 's study differs from earlier ones in which microdialysis was used in that it involved chronic monitoring ( up to 16 days ) in conscious patients . |
| 21 | Scott was so successful in styling the building in fine brickwork with ‘ jazz-modern ’ fluting ( as John Betjeman called it ) that , when the Battersea ‘ A ’ station was opened in 1934 it was widely acclaimed as a supremely successful modern treatment of a building type that seemed quintessentially twentieth century . |
| 22 | Although the TOM was opened in 1978 it was not tested until 1986 when Gemmill and Dickens used the Black and Scholes model to test for mispricing . |
| 23 | ‘ When the Institution was founded in 1824 it cost a guinea a year to be a Governor . |
| 24 | I am not exaggerating when I say that I was inspired by all I saw at the adult education centres in Croydon . |
| 25 | After James was born in 1983 she intended to return after maternity leave fairly quickly , but at the time Edelman 's was in the process of changing — two senior partners had died , and two others had gone into industry . |
| 26 | Since the legislation was introduced in 1965 it has been revised , more recently in recognition of its discriminatory nature . |
| 27 | Since halofantrine was introduced in 1989 we do not see how data collected in 1990 go against our hypothesis that drug pressure led to the resistance we observed in 1992 . |
| 28 | When the National Insurance Act was introduced in 1911 it also provided sickness benefits of 10s. per week for men , 7s. 6d. for women ( because their loss of earnings during sickness was lower than that of men ) for the first thirteen weeks of sickness , although nothing was paid for the first three days , the aim being to help long-rather than trivial short-term sickness ; 5s. per week was paid to men and women for the following thirteen weeks . |
| 29 | When the present National Insurance scheme was introduced in 1946 it was hoped that the benefits paid under it would be adequate for subsistence . |
| 30 | Germany already pays a staggering 68% of the Community s income : the system of ‘ concentric circles ’ would only increase her influence over the Community even more and if the club was reduced to eight she would unavoidably become dominant . |