Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [prep] [noun prp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Antarctica was joined to Australia , and India was joined to Africa via Madagascar . |
| 3 | Up until about 100 million years ago , then , South America was joined to Africa in the east and to Antarctica in the south . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | In January 1944 he was parachuted into Yugoslavia as a member of the ( Sir ) Fitzroy Maclean mission to support General Tito . |
| 9 | This treaty was ratified at Calais on 24 October 1360 , with one important modification . |
| 10 | Aethelbald was rebuked by Boniface for his failure to take a lawful wife and more especially for his violation of nuns and virgins . |
| 11 | Konrad Adenauer , West Germany 's Chancellor , suspected that Korea was intended by Stalin as a ruse , to draw attention to the Far East whilst he launched into violent action in Europe . |
| 12 | " Unity " was redefined by Pollitt at the Second Left Book Club rally on 16 January 1938 . |
| 13 | Among them is Senator Orlando Mercado , who was hounded and jailed as a broadcaster , and Senator Wigberto Tanada , whose family was persecuted by Marcos through much of his rule . |
| 14 | The Sexual Offences Act of 1967 was also limited in its geographical scope , for it was not until 1980 , and the passage of the Criminal Justice Bill of that year , that the law was altered in Scotland in this regard . |
| 15 | Jacek Kozlowski , director of the government press office under Prime Minister Jan Krzysztof Bielecki 's government until its replacement in December 1991 [ see pp. 38685-86 ] , was reinstated by Suchocka on Aug. 4 . |
| 16 | Jacek Kozlowski , director of the government press office under Prime Minister Jan Krzysztof Bielecki 's government until its replacement in December 1991 [ see pp. 38685-86 ] , was reinstated by Suchocka on Aug. 4 . |
| 17 | Daniel was recalled to Germany for discussion , and it appears that he decided to throw in his lot with the mining in England . |
| 18 | The United States ambassador Thomas Stroock was recalled to Washington on March 5 for consultations , in protest at the failure of the government of President Vinicio Cerezo to contain an upsurge in assassinations widely attributed to right-wing extremists in the Army . |
| 19 | The United States ambassador was recalled to Washington during the campaign to discuss the allegations of intimidation , and the teams of Western observers recorded many irregularities in the conduct of the poll . |
| 20 | He was recalled to Bombay by the East India Company in February 1854 and put on trial for fraud and embezzlement ; although twice acquitted he was nevertheless cashiered . |
| 21 | In 1798 Murdock was recalled from Cornwall to the Soho Works . |
| 22 | UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher called the execution " an act of barbarism " , and the British ambassador was recalled from Iraq for consultations ; planned ministerial and trade visits were cancelled and Iraqi students attending Ministry of Defence training courses in the UK were sent home . |
| 23 | It was withdrawn from BR in 1987 , its last depot being Gateshead . |
| 24 | It was withdrawn in Britain in 1973 by its director , Stanley Kubrick , after it was blamed for a string of violent crimes . |
| 25 | This budget was withdrawn by Waigel on Aug. 9 , however , in response to the pace of unification negotiations , and he promised that a new budget would be presented to the Bundestag soon after unification had occurred . |
| 26 | THE Class 47 Locomotive Society came a step nearer today to preserving 47401 , the pioneer ‘ Generator ’ engine of the class when it was withdrawn by BR from the petroleum fleet at Immingham depot , writes PETER HILL . |
| 27 | The centre was christened in July with an adult education summer school and a series of master classes aimed at the professional caterer and taught by Jermey 's Shanghai Institute of Tourism counterpart chef Xu Zhengcai , on his first visit to Britain , and Professor Dai Xin-Huan , his colleague and interpreter . |
| 28 | He bought the property of Camsiscan in Craigie Parish and married an elder sister of Hugh Montgomerie of Coilsfield , the man whose name was immortalised by Burns as ‘ Sodger Hugh ’ , and who became the 12th Earl of Eglinton . |
| 29 | From this joke the seed began to germinate and the whole idea of Norseman Park was formed with CF–DRD as the centre-piece of the whole complex . |
| 30 | When the Vietnamese Revolutionary Youth League was formed by Ho in 1925 its nucleus consisted of Vietnamese terrorists , the Tam Tam Xa , who had already attempted the assassination of a French Governor-General on a state visit to Canton , and Canton became a staging-post for the return of young Vietnamese revolutionaries who might now declare themselves to be Marxists as well . |