Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] [verb] [adv prt] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | They called for the temporary suspension of activities by all political parties , who were further requested to draw up a code of conduct to regulate their activities . |
| 2 | When Sir Keith Joseph approved the rebuilding of St Augustine 's School , officers of the county council were still attempting to make out a case for the sale of the site based on their assessment of demand for places . |
| 3 | The researchers met the social workers at the start of the study , and after each completion of the schedules , when they were also asked to fill in a brief checklist . |
| 4 | Chelmsford Pest Control service technicians Ron Long and Danny O'Mara were recently asked to carry out a fly treatment at a water treatment plant . |
| 5 | Sometimes , when we got back rather later than usual , my father was already preparing to send out a search party in — as I thought then , not knowing about Grandma 's lapses — his usual agitated way . |
| 6 | Portsmouth manager Jim Smith was yesterday preparing to hold off a bid from Nottingham Forest for £1.5 million rated striker Guy Whittingham . |
| 7 | I mean I can give you a little example erm I was once trying to add up a series of figures in the middle of an admissions exercise , and one of the other one of the men said to me ‘ oh , come on , you 're far too pretty to do mental arithmetic ’ and I completely lost my train of thought , I got rather confused . |
| 8 | It was also decided to draw up a new party programme along social democratic lines in advance of multiparty elections in Slovenia in April . |
| 9 | I still kept the idea of being a lawyer through studying at night school , but , after a short while I decided I was really going to follow up a boxing career . |
| 10 | The local authority to which he applied refused to provide the necessary grant , and the person was sadly compelled to turn down a place on a one-year post-graduate course which had already been offered to him . |
| 11 | The display easel originated in the 19th century and was commonly used to show off a painting . |
| 12 | The display easel originated in the 19th century and was commonly used to show off a painting . |
| 13 | It was therefore decided to set up a Royal Commission to review the whole problem of criminal behaviour and of the means of dealing with it . |