Example sentences of "was [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rest was all hand operated , which was , was infested by stockinger 's shops in those days . |
| 2 | Wilde , depicted as the leader of the aesthetic movement , with its unnatural taste for the sensual and the erotic , was pilloried in court as a foreign parasite . |
| 3 | It was furnished with gilt , bevelled mirrors , chandeliers , gold-plated telephones , gold cigarette boxes studded with jewels , gold pens and inkwells . |
| 4 | The Queen 's sleeping compartment , beautifully appointed , was furnished with bedstead , dressing table , wardrobe , and armchairs . |
| 5 | In 66 per cent of the public referrals anyway this concern was validated on investigation . |
| 6 | The influence of pragmatism on the realist 's call for a social scientific approach to the study of law can also be readily detected since a basic tenet of pragmatism was to view practical judgment as an instrumental method of inquiry which was validated by society . |
| 7 | A Peruvian man with drug-resistant tuberculosis was advised to come to Britain for treatment , but warned not to bring any medication in case he was stopped at immigration . |
| 8 | For eight of the 13 partial responders treamtent was stopped at week 24 and viral replication rebounded to pretreatment values . |
| 9 | The reaction was stopped by addition of 800μl of 0.25M NaOH and the absorbance at 410nm ( A 410 ) was measured . |
| 10 | The reaction was stopped by addition of 10% fetal calf serum in DMEM , cells were pelleted by centrifugation ( 300 g/ 10 min ) and resuspended in serum free medium . |
| 11 | The Doctor led Howard to the door , but was stopped by Petion . |
| 12 | Samples were incubated for 10 minutes at 37°C before the reaction was stopped by removal of substrate and dilution by addition of 1.5 ml of 1:1 ( vol:vol ) H 2 O:Dowex-50W ( 200–400 , 8% cross linked , Na + -form ) . |
| 13 | The intruder , in his early 20s , was stopped by security staff in a private area of the May Day Hospital , South Norwood , south London , yesterday . |
| 14 | ‘ He was stopped by security staff and while they were speaking to him they were informed that he was earlier spotted with a gun in the hospital 's social club , ’ said a Scotland Yard spokesman . |
| 15 | Crane Holdings did not achieve a Stock Exchange listing , but the share price collapsed when Eyas Securities , on A-Day ( 29 April 1988 ) , was stopped from trading . |
| 16 | Her assailant 's fist was stopped in mid-air . |
| 17 | The list was amended by committee and on reflection , I think another important target should be added to several of the flow charts , namely , potential sponsors . |
| 18 | The retreating army was ravaged by hunger , cold , disease , and ever more audacious and vicious assaults by peasant partisans . |
| 19 | They date from a period of cataclysmic turmoil , when Palestine was ravaged by war , the Holy City and most sacred shrine of Judaism was destroyed , all records were scattered and people 's memories of events were blurred or modified by more recent occurrences . |
| 20 | The departure of Macaraig , who was also the government 's energy co-ordinator , was hastened by confusion and discontent caused by sharp cuts in retail price subsidies for petrol announced earlier in the month . |
| 21 | And so in the sanctuary of the triune Godhead , whose secrets we can never know , and whose mystery we must never probe , God the Father prepared him a body , and the Word from the beginning , the Son , humbly said , ‘ I come ’ and the Holy Spirit overshadowed a young woman of Israel so that the uncreated one was joined to creature-flesh and became man . |
| 22 | She was joined in court today BY her husband George , seen here in the white jacket . |
| 23 | John was joined in business by a George Cary in 1820 . |
| 24 | He was joined in business by his grandson Samuel Lee Smith who in 1881 took into partnership , William Lee Henry Roberts , a cavalry officer and friend of the Prince of Wales . |
| 25 | Action by secondary school students in Paris and other cities , originally staged for better conditions , more teachers and improved security in schools , gathered force during October and was joined by university students as the new term began , continuing into November . |
| 26 | She was joined by lithographer Lisa Rhodes from Barlaston . |
| 27 | It was joined by silver and platinum , both of which also slipped back . |
| 28 | As the army swung westwards by the forest below the Dwarf Hold of Everpeak it was joined by Forest Goblin tribes riding giant spiders and whooping their savage war cries . |
| 29 | The report , which was leaked to Environment Business magazine , was written for Environment Secretary Michael Heseltine by John Hobson , head of the department 's pollution control and waste directorate . |
| 30 | Wynne-Jones shuddered ; Tallis thought he was coughing with pain , but he was laughing . |