Example sentences of "this was [vb pp] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the Labyrinth 's south-west entrance a paved ramp , now eroded beyond recognition , led down to a bridge over the Vlychia stream ; on the south side this was supported on a finely built stone viaduct , which carried the road on south-eastwards along the north front of the Pilgrim Hostel and then southwards between yet more Minoan houses . |
| 2 | This was supported by the correlation between the male 's condition at the start of the season and the number of days he spent incubating eggs . |
| 3 | This was supported by the Political Declaration of the Conference of Non-Aligned Foreign Ministers in February 1981 , which called for a dialogue between the Southeast Asian states to resolve their differences and eliminate the involvement and threats of intervention by outside powers . |
| 4 | Of the remaining 40 cases , 38 complied strictly with their diet and this was supported by an improvement in the morphology of repeat small intestinal biopsy specimens or symptoms , or both and weight and laboratory indices . |
| 5 | Construction of this was begun in the first half of the sixteenth century by the Donatory Captain Simão Gonçalves da Câmara . |
| 6 | This was recorded over a two week period . |
| 7 | This was recorded by the Hon. |
| 8 | This was acknowledged in the US Congressional Hearings on test-tube fusion held on 26 April , 1989 . |
| 9 | It was proposed to lay the tramway extension along the broad Middle Walk , but this was defeated in a poll of the ratepayers , and the track had to be constructed along the narrow upper carriageway . |
| 10 | Some deputies proposed that footage of the exchanges concerning the ANT affair should be omitted from the coming evening 's edited television broadcast of Congress proceedings , but this was defeated in a vote by 1,250 to 637 . |
| 11 | A general election held in June 1987 resulted in the return to power of a coalition government led by Paias Wingti , but this was defeated in a parliamentary vote of no confidence on July 4 , 1988 , and replaced by a coalition led by Namaliu . |
| 12 | Most Tories favoured the establishment of a regency , with Mary exercising the regal powers on James 's behalf , but this was defeated in the House of Lords on 29 January by the narrow vote of fifty-one to forty-eight . |
| 13 | Despite several revolts during the eleventh century , Macedonia remained under Byzantine rule until this was challenged by the rising power of Serbia in the late thirteenth century , in the reign of Milutin ( 1282–1321 ) , and eclipsed by Dušan in the mid fourteenth century . |
| 14 | In a parliamentary debate on Aug. 28 this was challenged by the opposition Union of Democratic Forces ( which like all major parties roundly condemned the attack ) , the UDF secretary Petur Beron hinting instead that the attack might have been instigated by communist provocateurs . |
| 15 | This was exemplified by the league of the Iroquois which Morgan had studied in detail . |
| 16 | There was a narrow foreshore at the foot of the little cliff and this was littered with the rubbish of the colony-sticks , droppings , feathers , a broken egg and a dead nestling or two . |
| 17 | This was surmounted by a gilded griffin and bore a crudely painted canvas of hell 's mouth . |
| 18 | It laid down the general principle of comprehensive education which would have ended selection over a period ( but this was repealed in the 1979 Act ) . |
| 19 | This was repealed by the Theft Act 1978 , s.5(5) . |
| 20 | This was repeated throughout the night until 7am the next day . |
| 21 | This was repeated in the Court of Appeal decision , but was unanimously rejected by the House of Lords , in the next case . |
| 22 | An imposing entrance for this was built at the end of Kirby Road , and the inspection pits were only half the length of the depot to facilitate displays . |
| 23 | This was built at the personal expense of the Rev. G.P. Howes 1888–99 . |
| 24 | This was built into the developing environment from the start , and continued to receive attention as and when the opportunity arose to help the children expand their existing range of choices . |
| 25 | This was built over a long period — both Peter Parler and Rejsek worked on it . |
| 26 | This was built in the 1550s for the Dryden family , but some of the banks and ditches still remain in the fields opposite the Hall . |
| 27 | I think some of this was lost on the non-Aryan members of our section , such as the Polynesians who could in no way pretend that their ancestry stretched back to the Vikings . |
| 28 | This was perceived as a threat to the Plantagenets in Aquitaine . |
| 29 | This was perceived as a source of inefficiency and uncompetitiveness through overmanning and other policies , which the government was determined to remove in its quest to create an ‘ enterprise economy ’ . |
| 30 | We shall see that there is evidence that this was perceived as a genre in its own right in England , and in English . |