Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [prep] a [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems entirely likely that the giving of a mevleviyet was intended as a means of making possible — both in hierarchical terms and in terms of offering an inducement — the appointment of a scholar more highly qualified , and therefore , perhaps , more to be respected , than the normal run of kasabat kadis . |
| 2 | It was intended as a staff information bulletin , and it may be that electronic mail will reduce the requirement for it . |
| 3 | Total RNA was heated in a 65°C water bath for 10 minutes . |
| 4 | The parent company , as it now exists , was formed through a series of mergers in the late 1960s . |
| 5 | Figure 5 is the PAS-score trajectory for Lowndes Queensway , the second largest furniture and carpet retailer in the UK , which went into administrative receivership in August 1990 , exactly two years after it was formed from a £450M leverage buy-out . |
| 6 | Kirov had missed him at first glance , understandably , for-the young pilot was clad in a pair of light grey slacks and a faintly-patterned blue sports shirt . |
| 7 | Dr Macdonald was consulted on a series of cases which gave him clues to what was to become an accepted theory . |
| 8 | Since the evidence was limited to a series of sexual relationships with specific individuals , the judge concluded that there was no basis to prosecute a charge of being a common nuisance . |
| 9 | At the end of last year , the FDA was persuaded that the Utah Medical Center had evolved a plastic and aluminium ‘ heart ’ ( known as the Jarvik 7 , after its designer , Dr Robert Jarvik ) which stood a chance of sustaining some kind of life , and permission was given for a series of seven experiments , employing the new toy , after which the instrument 's worth was to be reviewed . |
| 10 | Briefly , 0.5 mL water was placed in a series of test tubes . |
| 11 | In each appeal reliance was placed upon a series of cases in which it has been affirmed that where the liberty of the subject is in issue , the proper procedures must be strictly observed . |
| 12 | I was taught by a series of governesses . ’ |
| 13 | Although in the middle of the seventeenth century Muscovy was racked by a series of civil rebellions , peasant wars , religious turmoil and military mutiny , it was also during this period that the foundations for the political , social and economic structures of the tsarist imperial system were laid down . |
| 14 | Three years ago the serene Tokyo dormitory town of Hanna was shaken by a series of grisly crimes . |
| 15 | The Conservatives ' legislation to impose legal constraints on picketing , industrial action , the closed shop , the use of political funds , and so on , was justified as a means of removing impediments , both to the flexible operation of the labour market , and to the ‘ rights ’ and liberties of individual workers . |
| 16 | From time to time however there were vivid flashes of US policy-making which suggested that Indo-China was regarded as a means to an end , rather than an end in itself ; and those of a philosophical disposition may see this as the flaw which turned idealism into tragedy . |
| 17 | The concept of the ‘ community ’ school was regarded as a means of widening the role of the latter , making it a ‘ community resource ’ with a special stress on the provision of adult education and resources for community development — an educational powerhouse in each community . |
| 18 | A list of the heads of households in Upper and Middle Fisher Row in 1772 shows that the area was inhabited by a series of closely-related families . |
| 19 | The firm they had nursed so devotedly was wrecked by a series of hammer blows : |
| 20 | He was carrying out a routine inquiry when his hand was severed by a Samurai sword . |
| 21 | Insurance group Sun Alliance was clouded by a £466m loss on the back of its exposure to mortgage indemnity insurance . |
| 22 | He was evicted from a £45-a-week bedsit in Oatlands Road , Oxford , in 1989 . |
| 23 | More than one was caught by a pair of squealing girls , who gleefully anointed them with kitchen grease and then fled with the warrior clanking in pursuit . |
| 24 | Wembley blamed the Gulf war and the recession for trading profits falling a third to £14.6m and the gloom was deepened by a £7.5m exceptional charge against its investment in Leisure Resource Group , redundancy costs and a £3.2m restructuring of its American ticketing business . |
| 25 | The wartime routine was enlivened by a series of afternoon musical concerts for secondary school pupils at the Davenport Theatre ; by potato-picking at harvest time ; by Christmas work at the General Post Office ; by firewatching duties with the ARP , both at School and at Stockport High School ( the latter venue being very popular , a girls ' school and not to be confused with its short-lived 19th century boys ' predecessor ) ; and by the various fund-raising " War Weeks " : " War Weapons Week " in 1941 raised £5,729 ; " School Warships " in 1942 £5,900 ; " Wings for Victory " in 1943 £10,571 ; " Salute the Soldier " in 1944 £10,785 ; and " Thanksgiving Week " in 1945 raised £14,100 , and also won the boys an extra half-holiday . |
| 26 | The 60,000-tonne Aegean Sea was shattered by a series of explosions , setting the surrounding seas ablaze . |
| 27 | In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century the fabric of mid-Victorian hegemony was shattered by a series of structural contradictions , from economic retardation and industrial unrest , to growing socialist and feminist political militancy and intensification of anxiety over a whole range of social issues . |
| 28 | The EDC had been suggested and was designed as a means of preventing West German military parity . |
| 29 | Thomas , 43 , was born in a sharecropper 's shack in rural Georgia and was educated in a series of Catholic schools before reading law at Yale . |
| 30 | Recently , it has emerged from studies of Upper Permian fluviolacustrine deposits throughout southern Africa that the geography was dominated by a series of giant lakes , perhaps interconnected within major fluvial frameworks . |