Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According the Wellcome the study was set up to look at the effect of acyclovir against cytomegalovirus , a type of herpes virus , and was stopped after no difference was found in frequency of CMV disease between patients taking acyclovir and those taking a placebo . |
| 2 | Treatment was stopped after the electroencephalogram was found to be iso-electric . |
| 3 | At the recent Parish Council meeting there was a request from a local resident that the bridle way leaving the Trough Road opposite the entrance to Salisbury Farm ( Grid Ref SD 522 511 ) which was stopped when the gas pipe line was laid should be reopened . |
| 4 | A spokesman said a substantial amount of Derv was spilled while a rail tanker was being filled at the North Tees road and rail terminal . |
| 5 | He was irritated when a cue to speak interrupted his imagining . |
| 6 | It contains a stage in the creative process before the emergence of the sun and therefore perhaps was formulated before the cult of Re gained widespread recognition in the Fourth Dynasty . |
| 7 | Ours has n't been decorated since it was erected because every year is supposed to be its ‘ last ’ year . |
| 8 | This afternoon , the trial was halted when the Judge , Mr. Justice Auld , called in the jury after several hours of legal argument and told them , ’ I apologise for the long delay . |
| 9 | He was probably one of a number of bishops whom Guntram intended to exile , but he was reinstated after the king fell ill . |
| 10 | MN&N , which was formed after a number of senior managers left Watson & Philip in 1991 , now employs 215 people throughout Scotland . |
| 11 | The Manufacturing Improvement Team was formed because the plant had to improve its manufacturing capability to survive . |
| 12 | However , the attempt to revive the CPSU and RCP — and to discredit Yeltsin — was overturned when the Court ruled by nine votes to three to discuss also the constitutional legality of the activities of the CPSU and RCP . |
| 13 | In 1976 , the film Ilsa , She-wolf of the SS was brought before the courts of New York State on a charge of obscenity , but the case was dismissed because the judge found nothing which could properly be covered by the Miller test , no ‘ lewd exhibition of the genitals ’ , no representations of ‘ ultimate sexual acts , normal or perverted ’ . |
| 14 | Perhaps the Minister of State will be kind enough to inform the House who was consulted before the Government introduced the Bill , and who approves of it . |
| 15 | It is said that he was found out by one of the groups of civilian vigilantes who sprang up spontaneously on 22 December : apparently he had disguised himself in ordinary working clothes and was driving a Dacia 1300 when stopped , but suspicion was aroused when a search of his car revealed citrus fruits , like oranges and pineapples , in the boot — no ordinary Romanian had access to them . |
| 16 | A certain amount of ill-feeling was aroused when an inquest was held on a patient who had died after transfer from the County Hospital to St. Peter 's . |
| 17 | Interest was aroused when the University of Cambridge declared that it was prepared , if the necessary funds could be made available , to consider the establishment of an Institute of Criminology . |
| 18 | An example that pinpoints the problem was exposed when a map of all trees over 20 cm diameter at breast height in 2 sq km of the semi-deciduous forest of Barro Colorado Island was made . |
| 19 | It was limited because the company and hence the managers running the company were seen to exercise no greater power than any other ordinary individual participant in the product market in which the company operated . |
| 20 | In Northern Ireland , its impact was limited as the newspaper circulates among the minority community and has a reputation for anti-British bias . |
| 21 | The signed statement was held to be ineffective since it was given after the contract was made and therefore could not incorporate terms into the contract . |
| 22 | The final seal of royal approval was given when the Prince built his own holiday retreat in Brighton . |
| 23 | Thirteen patients did not enter the study : two did not want to , two were pregnant at the time of colposcopy , and nine were not treated in accordance with the study protocol ( no cervical scrape or no biopsy specimen was taken or no treatment was given when the biopsy specimen showed cervical intraepithelial neoplasia ) . |
| 24 | The haemoglobin and packed cell volume were checked at least once daily , and a blood transfusion was given if the haemoglobin dropped to less than 9 g/dl or if the vital signs deteriorated . |
| 25 | Special protection was given because the site provides refuge to one of Britain 's rarest birds , the honey buzzard , a migrant from West Africa . |
| 26 | ‘ And I , ’ said Auguste eagerly , ‘ heard of a man who was poisoned because the coffee he drank was strained through a linen cloth which months earlier had been soaked in atropine solution , and mistakenly used again . |
| 27 | This judicial tinkering was justified because the court was ‘ sure that the altered decision represent[ed] that which the decision-maker would have enacted had he appreciated the limitation on his powers ’ . |
| 28 | His concern was justified when the no confidence motion was defeated by only 447 votes to 412 . |
| 29 | The monument , by Barzaghi , was completed when the writer was old and in poor health , as can been seen . |
| 30 | Because by then he was stoned before the scene began , and instead of having to play normal and act stoned , he was having to act normal and play stoned . |