Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [num ord] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The contest between the two candidates was first fought out before cardinals Gaucelin and Luke in England , but in 1318 the case was revoked to the Roman curia at Avignon , where Hamo was himself constrained to go in early 1319 . |
| 2 | This area of study was first opened up by Professor Kurt Lewin in the United States in the mid 1940 's with the use of so-called ‘ T-groups ’ as a device for the study of inter-personal relations within groups . |
| 3 | The input cursive line data was first filled in to a consistent thickness . |
| 4 | Lifelong friend Stan Cardwell said that when youth hostels were first set up in 1930s , Mr Lear helped form a Darlington branch and often used the hostels in his cross country expeditions . |
| 5 | Milling was last capped back in 1988 but with Waringstown 's Alan Nelson already ruled out of the Kenya trip due to work commitments , must feature strongly in the selectors ' minds . |
| 6 | It is easy to ‘ feed ’ a black hole in the early days of the Universe , when galaxies were first forming out of gas . |
| 7 | But erm it was diagnosed late , you see , having polyneuritis for three months , that the er the movement was last to come back in the toes and feet . |
| 8 | These private verses were first collected up in the Nonesuch Collected Papers vol. 2 ( see MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS ) . |
| 9 | Such a relation was first pointed out by Kinnersley ( 1975 ) , and by Fisher ( 1980 ) . |
| 10 | The possibility of a bypass was first mooted back in the 1930s , but the notion was recently resurrected as a solution to the picturesque village 's traffic problems . |
| 11 | Pricing criteria were first laid down in detail in the 1967 ( second ) White Paper — prices should be related to ( long-run ) marginal costs , without arbitrary cross-subsidization , but should be sufficient to cover full accounting costs including the opportunity cost of capital . |
| 12 | This house was first built back in the 1890s as a residence for the local missionary . |
| 13 | The social care programme at Thomas Danby College in Leeds was first set up in 1978 . |