Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When , in 1986 , I collected a new Nissan car that a sponsor had bought for me , I was stopped four times in one day because the car was new and , as I had been told frequently enough by the police when I worked on Ealing Community Relations Council , black men ca n't afford new cars . |
| 2 | In his Mercedes he was stopped four times in the first few days . |
| 3 | He was joined last week by a handful of defeated Liberal Democrats including Nicol Stephen , who won Kincardine and Deesside the same night Dr Kumar won Langbaurgh November 7 . |
| 4 | He went on to regard the presence of more than two rows to be an indication of adult growth , but , whilst this may sometimes occur it is just as likely that the unfortunate whelk was checked several times during its immature life . |
| 5 | The scheme was halted last year after an alliance of environmentalists and native Americans succeeded in obtaining a judicial order on the grounds that a number of endangered species , including the purple warty back mussel , had been found about a mile from a planned drainage pipe outlet . |
| 6 | Three failed to comply with the protocol restrictions ; one patient continued to use H 2 receptor antagonists until she was withdrawn three days after entry and another was unable to keep his alcohol consumption below 40 U/week ; a third ( asymptomatic ) patient withdrew her consent within a month of randomisation . |
| 7 | New journal : The Institute of Management , which was formed this week by the merger of two previous management bodies , has launched Professional Manager , a bi-monthly journal for its 75,000 members . |
| 8 | The Janata Dal was formed last year in an attempt to unite the national opposition . |
| 9 | The AEEU was formed last May after the Amalgamated Engineering Union merged with the Electrical , Electronic , Telecommunication and Plumbing Union . |
| 10 | The cave was formed some time during the early part of the Pleistocene , over one million years ago , and it became filled with sediment during the middle Pleistocene approximately 350 to 400 thousand years ago . |
| 11 | The congregation here was formed some time after 1690 though the present church building only dates from 1879 . |
| 12 | After the coup , absolute power rested with the military junta , and increasingly with Pinochet , who in June 1974 was designated Supreme Chief of State , and in December President of the Republic ( although he did not formally assume that title until March 1981 ) . |
| 13 | Further north in Staffordshire the ancient market town of Lichfield founded in 1149 on the line of one of the main London to Chester roads , declined into cosy respectability as the new Holyhead road was diverted sixteen miles to the south . |
| 14 | Elsewhere , during protests yesterday by farmers and fishermen , a British ferry was diverted 125 miles to Cherbourg after 500 Breton fishermen occupied the quayside railhead at Roscoff . |
| 15 | ‘ It is not often recognized ’ , said Maine in 1885 ‘ how excessively rare in the world was sustained legislative activity till rather more than fifty years ago ’ , but law-making had by 1880 already become the characteristic activity of the modern state . |
| 16 | THE horror of life in Serb concentration camps was exposed last night in a harrowing ITN film which showed a new Holocaust in the making . |
| 17 | The need for low cost housing in East Cleveland generally was highlighted this week with the publication of the results of a housing needs survey . |
| 18 | The severity of the depression was highlighted this week by the decision of the Automobile Association to pull out of the retail package holiday market , creating 400 redundancies . |
| 19 | The most recent sequence of excavations has established that there was limited pre-Roman occupation of the site , in the form of a round house , which may have been associated with areas of ploughed fields , found below Roman levels in Annetwell Street , even though they had apparently reverted to pasture immediately before the arrival of the Romans . |
| 20 | The Attorney General of the Federal District , Ignacio Morales Lechuga , was given 72 hours by President Carlos Salinas de Gortari to find the culprits . |
| 21 | As a result , he had to be taken away from school and was given private tuition in the evenings from the local school teacher . |
| 22 | Every policeman was given a pint mug and on night duty we were , have n't , we , each of us was given one pint of coffee . |
| 23 | Here I was given one piece of advice : ‘ For you , the simplest is the best . ’ |
| 24 | The dolphin received further protection in 1975 , when the District Magistrate of Sukkur made trapping or killing of dolphins illegal under a Criminal Procedure Code , which was given extensive publicity by drums , through radio and newspapers , and by placing posters in key locations . |
| 25 | English Estates was given increased funds for extending its workshop programme , and a simpler government grant system was introduced : the three existing grants have been replaced by a single ‘ city grant ’ with simpler application procedures . |
| 26 | Deng 's campaign was given prominent support by a large number of provincial governors attending the session , many of whom promised to press ahead with economic reforms regardless of central policies . |
| 27 | MPs had been pressing for an enquiry following the publication of a damning report on the state of school discipline by the Professional Association of Teachers in 1987 , which was given prominent coverage in the press . |
| 28 | He was given folic acid by mouth . |
| 29 | This was given practical effect through the Court 's warning that in implementing the duty of non-recognition , States should not refuse to apply multilateral treaties where the adverse consequences of non-performance would fall directly upon the people . |
| 30 | In Suger s case , this power was given sharper focus by its place at the apex of the terrestrial hierarchy ; for , as he had learned from the presumed patron of his monastery , Pseudo-Dionysius , this was the proper ordering of earthly political authority . |