Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said : ‘ Inspectors sent to investigate the premises then found it was infested with cockroaches from infant to adult stage , alive and dead , on work surfaces , in the waste bins , around the cooker and behind two storage freezers . ’ |
| 2 | Wilde , depicted as the leader of the aesthetic movement , with its unnatural taste for the sensual and the erotic , was pilloried in court as a foreign parasite . |
| 3 | The works of art were recovered when a car was stopped at roadworks on the A19 near Cleveland Tontine , Northallerton , on Thursday . |
| 4 | The reaction was stopped by addition of 800μl of 0.25M NaOH and the absorbance at 410nm ( A 410 ) was measured . |
| 5 | The reaction was stopped by addition of 10% fetal calf serum in DMEM , cells were pelleted by centrifugation ( 300 g/ 10 min ) and resuspended in serum free medium . |
| 6 | Samples were incubated for 10 minutes at 37°C before the reaction was stopped by removal of substrate and dilution by addition of 1.5 ml of 1:1 ( vol:vol ) H 2 O:Dowex-50W ( 200–400 , 8% cross linked , Na + -form ) . |
| 7 | A DEAF mute who was stopped by police for erratic driving told a court yesterday that he 'd been ‘ chatting ’ to his passenger in sign language . |
| 8 | A MOTORCYCLIST on a stolen bike was stopped by police for not wearing a crash helmet , Colwyn Bay magistrates heard yesterday . |
| 9 | Mikel Marku , a 62-year-old lawyer from Péc , was stopped by police on the evening of 31 October 1991 while driving a friend 's car . |
| 10 | Yesterday magistrates heard Mr Siddle was stopped by police at 11.30pm on Christmas Day as he drove his Toyota Celica along Whinfield Road , Darlington . |
| 11 | Yesterday magistrates heard Mr Siddle was stopped by police at 11.30pm on Christmas Day as he drove his Toyota Celica along Whinfield Road , Darlington . |
| 12 | He said he was to get £30,000 to £40,000 for his role , and added : ‘ I went down the A82 via Fort William before I was stopped by police at Doune . ’ |
| 13 | The charge relates to an incident in February when he was stopped by police near Middle Barton . |
| 14 | Amphetamine powder was found in a car containing five youths including Wilson , the driver , who was stopped by police in Middlesbrough last May . |
| 15 | Kevin John Porter , 28 , was stopped by police in Commercial Street , Darlington , last summer after drinking with a friend who asked him to fill up the car . |
| 16 | Net water absorption , in the absence of luminal SCFA , was stopped in patients with acute diarrhoea ( 59 ( 81 ) nl/cm/min ) compared with healthy controls ( 322 ( 63 ) nl/cm/min ) ( p<0.01 ) . |
| 17 | This was amended to $100bn in a 1987 revision of the law , and now the Congressional Budget Office , which keeps track of such things , tells us that this too will be overshot , resulting in a deficit estimated at $117.8bn . |
| 18 | It could be argued that this was hastened in London by the Great Plague of 1665 when the familiar sight of cartloads of corpses contrasted with the decency and sanitary advantage of encoffining the dead . |
| 19 | Antarctica was joined to Australia , and India was joined to Africa via Madagascar . |
| 20 | Up until about 100 million years ago , then , South America was joined to Africa in the east and to Antarctica in the south . |
| 21 | Originally the island was joined to Purbeck by a Chalk ridge the ends of which are still visible in Purbeck and in the Needles at the western end of the Isle of Wight . |
| 22 | In Hebrew religion , and in that religion alone , man was joined to God by a quasi-legal covenant , as a result of which the ancient bond between man and nature was destroyed . |
| 23 | Amelia was joined in Florida by her 13-year-old brother Ashley , who had his right leg amputated after a cancerous lump was found in his heel bone . |
| 24 | John was joined in business by a George Cary in 1820 . |
| 25 | He was joined in business by his grandson Samuel Lee Smith who in 1881 took into partnership , William Lee Henry Roberts , a cavalry officer and friend of the Prince of Wales . |
| 26 | As the Waaagh roamed freely over the Worlds Edge Mountains it was joined by multitudes of Goblins including the Night Goblin tribes of Red Eye Mountain and many Forest Goblin tribes from the Great Forest . |
| 27 | In April 1945 , while the division was stationed near Graz under the command of the SS Gen Freytag , it was joined from Berlin by Gen Pavel Shandruk , President of the German-sponsored Ukrainian National Committee and Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian National Army ( of which the 1st Ukrainian Division was the most important component ) . |
| 28 | ‘ The sides of the hoary mountains were clad with spectators , and the glassy surface of the lake was variegated with numbers of pleasure barges , which , tricked out in all the gayest colours , and glittering in the rays of a meridian sun , gave a new appearance to the celebrated beauties of this matchless vale . ’ ’ |
| 29 | THE copy of the confidential Department of Trade and Industry report into the House of Fraser takeover which was passed to the Observer newspaper was leaked by officers of the Metropolitan Police fraud squad , it was alleged yesterday . |
| 30 | In January 1944 he was parachuted into Yugoslavia as a member of the ( Sir ) Fitzroy Maclean mission to support General Tito . |