Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [prep] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each time the oil was replenished to at least the original amount . |
| 2 | The trend towards non-legislative constraints of guidelines for land application of sewage sludge was commented on in the Report of the Sub-Committee on the Economics of Sewage Sludge Disposal which surveys legislative and other constraints affecting sewage sludge disposal . |
| 3 | The conflict with -ine meaning a basic group ( especially alkaloid names ) does not seem to have worried the participants , although it was commented on by Armstrong . |
| 4 | The problem of insufficient staff to be able easily to absorb absences from the workplace to attend group training sessions was commented on by all except the largest libraries , with some libraries apparently regarding this lack of ( indirect ) staff resource as paramount to preventing any in-service training programmes being carried out , although as was emphasized by The Library Association Working Party on Training : |
| 5 | Clause 5 was commented on by the hon. Member for Sedgefield and by my hon. Friend the Member for Waveney ( Mr. Porter ) . |
| 6 | The lack of public confidence in the police and the declining status of the police profession was commented upon by a police constable : ‘ I want to leave the station wearing my uniform and feel proud , that it means something , honour and dignity . |
| 7 | But if , if libido was aroused by for example seduction in childhood it could go nowhere , it was repressed in the unconscious , where it transformed itself by some kind of psychological chemistry into anxiety . |
| 8 | Take Boris Yeltsin 's description of the official dacha he was treated to on joining the Soviet politburo in 1985 : |
| 9 | I ventured to express exactly the opposite opinion and was stared at as if I were a hawker of ladies ’ underwear who had accidentally strayed into a monastery . ’ |
| 10 | And when a ratepayer challenged a local authority 's conduct of its policy to sell council houses and invoked his statutory right to complain to the District Auditor , he was debarred from at the same time pursuing the alternative remedy of applying to the courts for judicial review . |
| 11 | So I said well sir I find maths really boring and I walk into this classroom and it 's all painted the same with this blackboard in front and I just find it boring , he goes yes guess who he was taught by at rugby ? |
| 12 | The Groves were an old West Country family , among whom Miss Phillipa was referred to as ‘ Aunt Grove ’ . |
| 13 | Port Salut is a washed rind cheese of a fairly mild flavour , originally made by Trappist monks when it was referred to as Port du Salut . |
| 14 | In Wales , Caerphilly was referred to as ‘ new cheese ’ , as it could be ready for sale within ten days of making . |
| 15 | Brentford has a colourful history , its Market and Fair being recorded at the beginning of the fourteenth century , when the area was referred to as ‘ the Manor of Bratnford ’ . |
| 16 | Eventually the day consecrated by the Romans to the sun was identified with the Jewish first day , and given a Christian interpretation where Christ was referred to as the ‘ Sun of Righteousness ’ . |
| 17 | His fielding was also , to put it mildly , pedestrian , and for many years , in local club cricket , a leisurely single to a none-too-agile mid-on was referred to as ‘ One to Sir Julien ’ ! |
| 18 | He was about to explain , how a whoremaster in Glasgow slang , was referred to as a stickman , when Winnie said , ‘ I think I understand . ’ |
| 19 | In those days , the model was referred to as the Saber and boasted one of the thinnest necks around . |
| 20 | Anne 's ex was referred to as Captain Phillips and her children — unlike all the other young royals — are untitled despite being the Queen 's eldest grandchildren . |
| 21 | He used to be in the board meeting with us , and was referred to as the ‘ sleeping partner ’ by the directors ! ’ |
| 22 | Time , in Frederick Bissett 's private world , the world of H3 , was referred to as a ‘ shake ’ . |
| 23 | What Americans came to call ‘ the movies ’ and what in Britain was referred to as ‘ the pictures ’ had emerged out of a complex and distinctive metropolitan and urban culture which was very much achieving its quiddity as the nineteenth century came to a close . |
| 24 | What was referred to as the ‘ second kind of discrimination in West Belfast ’ i.e. discrimination against women was a recurring theme . |
| 25 | The room in which we lunched was referred to as the ‘ salon ’ . |
| 26 | The house in Long Island was referred to as Xanadu in the specialized trade that supplied her . |
| 27 | ‘ I always found it very funny when I was referred to as Mr Laura Ashley , especially as I hated my own name , Bernard . ’ |
| 28 | It consisted of a stage , a small open space which was referred to as the dance floor , and a bar selling a limited selection of alcoholic drinks in plastic beakers . |
| 29 | In later work it was referred to as a " contiguity factor . " |
| 30 | Scarborough , adequate flexibility of land supply , that 's a quote , it was referred to as a reason for greatly increasing the allocation above that which emerged from the er statistical work , paragraph seventy six of N Y seven and erm in Selby 's case erm , land potentially available is recognized to be an important consideration , paragraph seventy eight of N Y seven . |