Example sentences of "[adj] was [verb] [adv prt] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was made up of a £621,800 increase in the specific provision and a reduction of £98,000 in the general provision against residential property , and a £4,740 increase in the specific provision against unsecured loans . |
| 2 | This was followed up by a deputation to the governors on 10 June 1840 , led by Thomas Turner . |
| 3 | And this was followed up by a point-blank refusal to deal with Fells 's next query . |
| 4 | One major consequence of Communist International neglect of Latin America during the 1920s was that inadequate literature was made available in Spanish for the dissemination of Communist ideas ( this was pointed out by a Mexican delegate at the Sixth Congress ) . |
| 5 | This was hooked up to a DC-2031 cached IDE host adaptor with 2Mb of RAM . |
| 6 | This was edged around with a framework of masking tape to reserve bands of the white ground that I would later paint gold . |
| 7 | He said : ‘ There were more than a dozen enquiries about the tender and this was whittled down to a list of six . |
| 8 | This was sparked off by a federal Collective State Presidency order on Jan. 9 , apparently aimed principally at republican-controlled forces in Slovenia and Croatia , which required that all " unauthorized " armed units should surrender their arms within 10 days to the JNA . |
| 9 | This was going on for a couple of days , so I was getting worried and I took him to the prison doctor and he says , ‘ It might be with you breastfeeding , try him on the bottle . ’ |
| 10 | This was sorted out by a ravishingly beautiful air hostess who distributed boiled sweets to all concerned and reprimanded a tovarich for smoking . |
| 11 | Well I did hear that point , it 's , it 's interesting because in fact Lithuania er President Boris Yeltsin signed an agreement in July , er which effectively Russia recognise Lithuania as an independent state , it was the second country in the world to do that , er all of this was sorted out in a very er , good , er peaceful , sensible way , there , obviously Russia has concerns in Lithuania er not least the district . |
| 12 | This was backed up with a mountain of sweetcorn ( from the local cash and carry ) . |
| 13 | This was carried out over a three-week period using a mixture of interviews and questionnaires covering a representative sample of persons from the CSSU and the departments . |
| 14 | This was carried out with a sample of some 2,000 establishments in 1980 and in 1984 ( see , Daniel/Millward , 1983 ; Millward/Stevens , 1986 ) . |
| 15 | This was set up by a Henley member , the late Stephen Bertram , who lost his left arm in the Second War and who joined the Society in 1955 . |
| 16 | This was set out in a section headed ‘ Dress and Deportment ’ , and illustrates Foucault 's point ( ibid. ) that in such situations the body is ‘ docile ’ to authoritative orders from above . |
| 17 | This was put down to a ‘ Fichtesterben ’ , or progressive spruce death , but a year later it appeared in other species too , such as beech , oak and the mountain ash , and foresters grew alarmed . |
| 18 | All this was topped off by a tricorne hat decorated by a plume . |
| 19 | Below right : ATS of 1963 was born out of a Ferrari breakaway group but only managed to finish one race |
| 20 | There was a long series of public meetings in 1980 and one of these was set up as a sort of week-end rally to which the anti-nuclear people were invited from all over Ireland , and at a big indoor public meeting during that weekend where you would normally have expected about 400 people to turn up , only about two locals turned up and the rest were all outsiders . |
| 21 | The latter was set up in a tent and foregrounded five white bigots beating a black man in the glare of automobile headlights . |
| 22 | Leading after three rounds , the fourth was washed out without a ball being hit . |
| 23 | The background to the above was set out in a letter from the Operations branch at MEHQ dated 22 February , in which they proposed the use of L Detachment as parachutists in a tactical role , for seizing and holding ground in co-operation with other forces landing by sea or advancing across the desert . |
| 24 | The first was coming back from a fruitless wait for Gríshnakh the orc , dead and burnt that same day , with the smoke from his burning ‘ seen by many watchful eyes ’ . |
| 25 | The first was passed by with a view to concentrating efforts on the second . |
| 26 | With IBM Corp 's stock in the cellar and as hopes dim it will ever again return as the flagship of the US stock market , The New York Times last Sunday 20th was searching around for a successor and came up with — you guessed it — Microsoft Corp . |
| 27 | A review and analysis of SSAP 15 was carried out by a working party of the institute 's research committee following a request from the Accounting Standards Board . |
| 28 | His knock-down was finished off by a crisp strike from the centre-forward . |
| 29 | Mark Cameron ( 1987 ) came to believe , after studying these frescoes intensively , that the West Wing of the Knossos Labyrinth in particular was given over to a whole programme of initiation rites and ordeals . |
| 30 | Shown here is the Queen Mother looking at the display relating to Frank Griffiths , the sole survivor of a Halifax that was shot down on a supply mission , and who was successfully hidden by the local Resistance . |