Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [prep] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is appropriate here that I quote from passages in the report of the headmaster Mr which was furnished to Norwich City College . |
| 2 | Mr Morris was joined by Cleveland County Council education chairman Keith Legg in calling for public help to catch the vandals . |
| 3 | The report , which was leaked to Environment Business magazine , was written for Environment Secretary Michael Heseltine by John Hobson , head of the department 's pollution control and waste directorate . |
| 4 | The Town Clerk wrote the letter of acceptance on 8th June , and a Scheme of Administration drawn up by the Charity Commissioners , now involved because of the change in status of the School , was ratified at Stockport County Court on 20th January 1860 . |
| 5 | Verse 24 : the pit , here mercifully dry , was intended for water storage . |
| 6 | Of the country 's three nuclear reactors in Yongbyon , one 50-100 megawatt plant was not connected to the national grid , thereby indicating that it was intended for weapons production . |
| 7 | The funding amounted to some US$60,000,000 annually , of which about half was intended for weapons acquisition . |
| 8 | The message of the way ahead in 1993 was communicated via Team Briefing and a special newsletter . |
| 9 | After his arrest , in 1989 , he was remanded to Brixton prison hospital wing . |
| 10 | He was remanded to Cardiff Prison . |
| 11 | Douras was remanded into police custody and is due to reappear before magistrates on July 7 for committal . |
| 12 | A 14-year-old youth was remanded into county council care today when he appeared in court charged with unlawfully killing two pensioners who died in a department store blaze . |
| 13 | Joseph Slatter was remanded in police custody . |
| 14 | The first power loom shed in the area was erected at Staffords Mill in 1831 . |
| 15 | The Duke 's gardener , Joseph Paxton designed the Crystal Palace which was erected in Hyde Park for Prince Albert 's 1851 Great Exhibition , and later transferred to Sydenham in southeast London . |
| 16 | Just two weeks before his sixty-seventh birthday , Hogarth died at Leicester Fields , but his conspicuous monument — by David Garrick — was erected in Chiswick churchyard . |
| 17 | A plaque to the memory of another William Paul ( 1844–1912 ) praising the Christian virtues of one who was ‘ beloved and trusted by all who knew him and who went about doing good ’ was erected in Edenderry Memorial Church ( now the Memorial Hall ) in 1913 , the Reverend George R Wedgewood , Superintendent of the Circuit and Vice-President of the Conference , presiding . |
| 18 | The first we hear about his steam engines is that one was erected near Dudley Castle in the Black Country area of the Midlands in 1712 . |
| 19 | The percentage cell viability was checked by dye exclusion with 0.4% trypan blue under normal light microscopy . |
| 20 | This was checked by cDNA cloning and sequencing of the 3' end of the transcript , which showed that polyadenylation had occurred at the wild type beta-tubulin polyadenylation site ( position 1710 of the sequence in Kimmel et al ( 30 ) ; data not shown ) . |
| 21 | Briefly , a nasogastric tube was passed , resting juice was aspirated , and the position of the tube was checked by water recovery . |
| 22 | The purity of the subfractions was checked by aluminium lactate starch gel electrophoresis . |
| 23 | The amount of glucose given was calculated from body weight . |
| 24 | Shipping , including Isle of Wight ferry and hydrofoil crossings , was halted on Southampton Water last night after inert gas leaked from the tanker Mobil Petrel as it discharged crude oil at the Fawley Esso oil refinery . |
| 25 | I was hidden in a coffin and taken to a cemetery.Then I was disguised in priests garb . |
| 26 | I was hidden in a coffin and taken to a cemetery.Then I was disguised in priests garb . |
| 27 | The name of Leith , Hull and Hamburg Steam Packet Co. was altered to Currie Line Ltd as business was concentrated on the Baltic Ports . |
| 28 | THE tragic death of a baby was recalled at Londonderry Crown Court yesterday . |
| 29 | Shortly afterwards , Harrison was recalled to Rochester Row and was appointed Adviser in VD to the War Office . |
| 30 | The Second Line maintenance of 192 Washingtons , which included Major and Minor Servicings , was carried out by Marham ASF but when the Washington was withdrawn from Bomber Command service , this responsibility was transferred to Watton . |