Example sentences of "was [verb] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Branded a " police spy " by Thorez , Nizan was pilloried on two counts : first , for spreading the pernicious doctrine of " National Communism " , that is , communism in word and nationalism in deed " secondly , for enacting in the reality of his life the treachery and cowardice portrayed in the fiction of his literature . |
| 2 | Colin Blakemore was pilloried in 1987 and 1988 not just because his work was considered ( wrongly ) to be excessively cruel but also because it was thought to be useless . |
| 3 | It also had a smoking room , which was furnished with one electric light and pressurised to prevent hydrogen seeping in . |
| 4 | For eight of the 13 partial responders , treatment was stopped at 24 weeks . |
| 5 | Ireland 's representation has already been halved due to first round defeats by Antrim 's Mark Winters and Ardoyne 's Eamon Magee who was stopped with 40 seconds to go in the final round . |
| 6 | Boldwood turned the gun on himself , but was stopped by one of his men . |
| 7 | This actually was stopped in 1766 , but they still went down as a job — emancipation . |
| 8 | Graham , 33 , was stopped in nine rounds on Wednesday by Bradford 's unrated Frank Grant . |
| 9 | According to the Nepali Election Commission , 25 people were injured in election-day violence and voting was stopped in 21 rural stations after charges of " booth capturing " . |
| 10 | Museums will have the first pick of a huge art mountain which has been allowed to accumulate over the years as the result of an income support scheme for artists which was stopped in 1984 . |
| 11 | The second trial was going well for the Masons when it , too , was stopped after 11 weeks . |
| 12 | Only one of nine patients with stone recurrence received adjuvant bile acid therapy and treatment was stopped after two weeks in this patient because of side effects from the therapy . |
| 13 | It was stopped after one minute with 25 µl of 9% SDS sample buffer ( 0.0015% bromophenol blue , 10 ml of 2% SDS , 25 mM TRIS pH 6.8 , and 20% sucrose ) . |
| 14 | Prednisolone was stopped after seven months treatment and a cumulation dose of 8.6 g , and the bowel disease stayed quiescent . |
| 15 | The digestion reaction was stopped after 12 seconds by addition of 4µl formamide containing 10mM EDTA and 0.1% ( w/v ) bromophenol blue . |
| 16 | A toxic hepatitis was suspected and the amiodarone was stopped after 24 hours . |
| 17 | The reaction was stopped after 3 minutes by addition of 4µl 80% formamide containing 10mM EDTA . |
| 18 | For reasons to be explained , the original legislation was found to be defective , and was amended in 1976 ( and placed into the legislative context of the Public Order Act 1936 ) , but even after amendment it still gave rise to complaints that it fell short of the aspirations of its promoters in its effects . |
| 19 | This was amended in 1980 — notice now only has to be given to the House and Senate Intelligence committees . |
| 20 | As part of a process of " democratization " the Constitution was amended in 1987 to provide for direct election of the President and the National Assembly deputies , the election to public office of independents and candidates put forward by " organizations with recognized representation " , and the re-creation of the post of Prime Minister . |
| 21 | The scale set by the Inland Revenue and the law for agents dealing with public authorities is known as Ryde 's Scale , and was amended in 1984 by the ‘ Revised Annex to Ryde 's Scale ’ . |
| 22 | The Sherman act was amended in 1982 to exclude trade or commerce with foreign nations . |
| 23 | The frequency with which controversial legislation is amended by Parliament itself ( as witness the Act of 1974 which was amended in 1975 as well as in 1976 ) indicates that legislation , after it has come into operation , may fail to have the beneficial effects which Parliament expected or may produce injurious results that Parliament did not anticipate . |
| 24 | The town is now part of the City of Edinburgh to which it was joined in 1920 . |
| 25 | He was joined in 1808 by his nephew , another Quaker , 25-yearold Thomas Fowell Buxton . |
| 26 | Shadowlands stars Sir Anthony Hopkins , who was joined by hundreds of extras for a scene recreating university life in the 1950's . |
| 27 | The Bloc was founded by Lucien Bouchard , the former Environment Minister who resigned from the federal government in May 1990 [ see p. 37519 ] , who was joined by six other defectors from the PCP and the Liberals . |
| 28 | ‘ I went to a tavern in Inverkeithing where I was joined by one of the King 's squires . ’ |
| 29 | The driver sauntered back from the office , and was joined by two labourers who would load his cart . |
| 30 | Mr Sutton , 28 , gave chase as the raider ran off and was joined by two friends from Tom Pepper 's pub nearby — joint licensee Ian Hewitt and bar manager Paul Archer . |