Example sentences of "was [verb] [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , it 's difficult to stop a fish eating completely in a mature planted tank , but normal feeding was stopped and small pieces of orange ( no peel ; tease out individual cells ) were added to the tank . |
| 2 | After 60 minutes , the reaction was stopped and radioactive RNA was isolated and analyzed . |
| 3 | was joined as second defendant , but the statement of claim disclosed no cause of action against C.T. , as it failed to plead the covenant contained in the licence of 18 February 1974 . |
| 4 | It was intended that all parties should agree on two new treaties at the December 1991 European Council meeting at Maastricht , Netherlands , which would then require approval by member country parliaments before they entered into force . |
| 5 | The Consumer Congress called for a working party to draft a code of good practice and it was intended that working party should make use of the information generated by the 1988 transport workshop , whose discussions were reported to the congress . |
| 6 | However , it seems unlikely that it was intended that less disclosure should be made to private customers than to professionals . |
| 7 | However , as it was intended that this study should be of particular use to the suppliers of information , it was therefore biased towards the first stage of environmental scanning ; that is , the gathering of information . |
| 8 | It was intended that these measures should provide the tenant with a defence against the unscrupulous landlord , both in terms of protection against unfair eviction and also as a guarantee of ‘ fair ’ rents , especially for those on low incomes . |
| 9 | If the will had been there and secure accommodation and prison accommodation had been available , I suggest that magistrates would have applied the law in the way that was intended when that legislation was passed . |
| 10 | It is a defence for the accused to prove that he did not know , and had no reason to suspect , that the published material was intended or likely to identify the child ( s97(3) ) . |
| 11 | ‘ I was irritated because all I got from him was yes-and-no answers . |
| 12 | When the new Institution for the Deaf and Dumb was opened in Edinburgh in 1810 with John Braidwood , grandson of Thomas Braidwood , as Principal , Walter Geikie was enrolled as one of the first students . |
| 13 | The girl had n't been born into this archiac world ; she had n't been prepared for a lover who was demanding and possessive , as Nicolo must have been . |
| 14 | It was calculated that 170 per cent more on books and other educational materials was spent on grammar than on secondary-modern pupils . |
| 15 | It was calculated that each child needed one pound a week for food and clothing . |
| 16 | It was calculated that 65,000 of the country 's registered 76,000 road vehicles were used by or for tourists . |
| 17 | It was calculated that 80 per cent of patients would need to be moved between wards to achieve sectorization . |
| 18 | Using the end point of investigator 's assessment of remission , it was calculated that 226 patients were required to show that fluticasone propionate was at worst 15% inferior to prednisolone . |
| 19 | The Pilgrim Trust 's survey of a sample of unemployed men included some 170,000 wives and it was calculated that these women ate only 70 per cent of the calories consumed by men , rather than the 85 per cent recommended by dieticians . |
| 20 | It was calculated and clinical , the worst kind of violence that with the stamp of a society 's approval . |
| 21 | Her mother would have been happier if she had seen her walking or going off swimming , but after all , she was resting and that 's what she had brought her here for , and perhaps she was turning things over in her mind . |
| 22 | Indeed , the child was rattling and bubbling , coughing weakly and obviously in great discomfort . |
| 23 | Demonstrations flared up again after the Tajik Supreme Soviet accepted in emergency closed session on April 30 a proposal from Nabiyev to introduce a six-month period of presidential rule ; Kenjayev was reinstated as Supreme Soviet Chair on May 3 . |
| 24 | If the relationship between recall and other measures is entirely mediated by characteristics of the different junctions we would expect to find that within an individual junction there would be no consistent differences between those occasions when it was recalled and those when it was not recalled on any of the other variables . |
| 25 | The application for an export licence was withdrawn as each leaf was now worth less than the limit of £35,000 , beyond which an export licence is required . |
| 26 | Thirdly , establishing that an admissible statement should be adopted as an expression of parliamentary intention requires establishing a negative , namely that the subsequent parliamentary proceedings do not reveal that the statement was withdrawn or varied or that a relevant inconsistent amendment was successfully moved . |
| 27 | Liza was withdrawn and preoccupied , hardly able to converse with either her mother or Edna and almost ignoring Celia 's presence altogether . |
| 28 | This arrangement was , however , in many ways inefficient , and in January 1987 the Harwich-Zeebrugge service was withdrawn and all train ferry traffic routed via Dover . |
| 29 | All support for military equipment purchases , worth some $30,000,000 , was withdrawn and economic aid was reduced by 76 per cent , from $12,500,000 to $3,000,000 ; food aid would not be affected . |
| 30 | I was withdrawn and sullen when he bade me farewell . |