Example sentences of "[was/were] raised [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is partly because , at least in the cases of Montenegro and Kosovo , large foreign loans were raised for investments in infrastructure and heavy industry ( much of which turned out to be unprofitable ) . |
| 2 | When voices were raised against scandal in Sussex electioneering , they actually reinforced the role of the aristocracy in defining the boundaries of permissible behaviour . |
| 3 | It is said that invoices were raised against Wessex on behalf of Abbey and that when payment was received by Abbey the moneys were diverted by Mr. Tully and others and were partly dissipated in bribes and partly disguised and concealed in various bank accounts and other havens . |
| 4 | But they were being given permission to borrow up to £628 million provided £75 million were raised by way of ERDF grants . |
| 5 | However , almost before the dust had settled on the Political Community , voices were raised in favour of further efforts . |
| 6 | Interest rates were raised in response to these problems ( refer to Chapter 12 ) — bank base rates were raised in steps from 7½ per cent in May 1988 to 15 per cent in October 1989 — and mortgage rates followed the interest rate trend . |
| 7 | But , although eyebrows were raised in April at the unexpected announcement that DG would be axing a further 1,000 jobs , reducing the total headcount to just over 7,000 , from 17,700 a few years ago , Skates maintains that these cuts — 600 to 700 of which have already been effected — would have been implemented regardless of the company 's financial performance . |
| 8 | On the one hand , the antisemitism of ‘ anti-immigrant ’ fascist parties might be seen as an anachronism , arising from the fact that for a number of years such parties were led by a generation who were raised in conditions of widespread antisemitism . |
| 9 | Voices were raised in support of rounding up all foreigners , but the government was unwilling to go the way of its predecessor in the first world war and order a general internment . |
| 10 | In brief , antibodies to pepsinogen A and pepsinogen C were raised in goats against pepsinogen A and pepsinogen C purified from human gastric resection specimens and were used in final dilutions of 1:300000 and 1:200000 , respectively . |
| 11 | Most duties were raised in line with inflation ; those on spirits and ( non-pipe ) tobacco were increased by 10% . |
| 12 | Even though reactionary voices were raised in opposition to this , both in Parliament and by some campaigners , ( particularly the National Schizophrenia Fellowship , who wished to reverse the policy on the basis of the misguided notion that this would remove the problem of homeless , drifting , mentally disordered people ) , the disasters of the past thirty years of unplanned discharge can not be reversed by bolting the stable door now . |
| 13 | When puppies for research were raised in isolation in laboratory , it was noticed that the ill-effects of such rearing could be somewhat offset by cutting a window into the side of their box so that they could see out into the busy laboratory . |
| 14 | Interest rates were raised in response to these problems ( refer to Chapter 12 ) — bank base rates were raised in steps from 7½ per cent in May 1988 to 15 per cent in October 1989 — and mortgage rates followed the interest rate trend . |
| 15 | A number of points were raised in connection with meeting expenses on capital account out of trust income . |
| 16 | The number of teams more than doubled as word spread round the pubs , and £120 was raised through sponsorship for charity . |
| 17 | A low wooden balustrade was raised on pillars above a tangle of sculpted rock , forming a square about the circle of the lake , the wood painted bright red , the pictogram for immortality cut into it in a repeated pattern . |
| 18 | Last year £1 , was raised for projects at home and in the overseas missions . |
| 19 | Opinion : ‘ New nuclear stations were uneconomic when the discount rate was raised to 8% in 1988 … |
| 20 | Previously the limit was £20 , but it was raised to £250 by the Insolvency Act 1976 , now replaced by the consolidating Insolvency Act 1986 . |
| 21 | The issue was raised by members of Cheshire 's police committee who fear that since BT has re-routed reception of emergency calls , sometimes to centres as far away as Newcastle , the receptionists may not understand local accents and place names . |
| 22 | The money was raised by bids from the star studded audience , including Prince and Princess Michael of Kent … the theme of the show … |
| 23 | Of total central government income , only 26 per cent was raised by taxes on personal income . |
| 24 | The rabbit antiserum LW60 was raised by immunisation with preprogastrin 87–101 coupled to bovine thyroglobulin using glutaraldehyde as previously described . |
| 25 | It was raised by Dudek in somewhat different form when he said that Leonard ‘ always had an image of himself as a rabbi . ’ |
| 26 | The army was raised by conscription from all the countries of the empire and thus contained 11 different nationalities , with an even greater number of languages and several different religions . |
| 27 | An earnings means test was introduced for the old age pension , and the age of entitlement was raised in stages from 60 to 65 years . |
| 28 | At the end of the Gulf war , millions of pounds was raised in Britain for Kurdish refugees in northen Iraq . |
| 29 | Kathie is a doctor who tracks the source of illness outbreaks in the community and was raised in Cornwall by a Scots mother and a Polish Jewish father . |
| 30 | The matter was raised in parliament by Labour 's environmental spokeswoman , Ann Taylor . |