Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [adj] for the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Patients were interviewed monthly for the first five months and every three months thereafter . |
| 2 | It is also possible that with the decline in activity in Norfolk , other eastern counties were considered attractive for the next phase in development , perhaps because the ground in the west appeared to have been secured through Shearman and Miss Green . |
| 3 | With the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls , however , a corpus of Essene material was made available for the first time , and it is now possible to assess the Essenes on their own terms . |
| 4 | Hanrott was made responsible for the first ‘ Council ’ visits , at which they saw some quite ‘ unsuitable environments ’ , information from these visits being fed at first into the subject boards rather than into the Council itself' . |
| 5 | Thirdly , he was declared bankrupt for the second time in 1912 on a creditor 's petition . |