Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] was [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The flexible Doppler probe ( 1.6 mm in diameter ) was passed down the biopsy channel of the endoscope and was positioned under direct vision over the lesion . |
| 2 | The stone wall which was inserted in front of the existing rampart was just over 2 m ( 6½ ft ) in width and was constructed of Kentish ragstone faced with dressed blocks ; bonding courses of tile have been recorded in places . |
| 3 | Of course his office overlooked the harbour and was hung with enlarged photographs of yachts and of sailing occasions . |
| 4 | Merle Latham , from the local St John Ambulance , said : ‘ The man was supposed to have lost a lot of blood and was covered in gory make-up . |
| 5 | It differed from the Mk 5 in having no armament and was equipped with British sonobuoys and equipment , whereas the Mk 5 was fitted with American gear . |
| 6 | The sale was aimed particularly at small investors in accordance with the government 's commitment to wider share-ownership and was preceded by heavy advertising . |
| 7 | Yrtle himself fell in battle and was buried with great honour . |
| 8 | Referee Neil Midgley ( Bolton ) , who retires in a fortnight 's time , pulled a calf muscle in the first half and was replaced by senior linesman Graham Bradbury ( York . ) |
| 9 | If n' required pointer adjustment and was found on CLOSED reopen it . |
| 10 | By contrast , the scene in ET The Extra-Terrestrial ( 1982 , NA $228.6 million ) where ET and the children ride their bicycles off the ground and across the sky is clearly fantasy and was accomplished with two-foot-high ( 60-cm ) models , using computer-controlled 3-D animation . |
| 11 | She , too , had suffered from Clarissa 's neighbourly concern about the behaviour of her child and was waiting with calm anticipation for the time when Clarissa 's children , who were at present eleven and twelve , should enter puberty . |
| 12 | On Jan. 29 Domingo Cavallo , hitherto Foreign Affairs Minister , took over the Economy portfolio and was replaced at Foreign Affairs by di Tella ; González became Defence Minister . |
| 13 | The very first XP–59 to fly , affectionately ( or otherwise ) known as Miss Fire , survived the rigours or early jet testing and was put on public display in the Smithsonian collection during June , 1945 , and remained on display until 1958. she was then moved to the Silver Hill facility for storage , eventually reappearing in the new NASM building 's ‘ Flight Testing ’ gallery in 1976 and is currently on display . |
| 14 | The service was revived at the beginning of the 1960s by the injection of government funding and was stimulated by honourable mention from two major inquiries . |
| 15 | First the basic minimum was set at a very low level and was related to pre-war wages thus not reflecting the very steep increase in the prices of basic necessities . |
| 16 | School F is in a new town and was opened in purpose-built premises in 1959 as an 11–18 comprehensive . |
| 17 | It is made of lead and was found on ploughed land . |
| 18 | The girl lingered at a secondhand clothes shop and was looking at grubby petticoats displayed on iron rods by the doorway , when a young man dressed in a shabby tail coat and check trousers came along and paused beside her . |
| 19 | It flourished in the playgrounds of the newly schooled child population and was disseminated in unsterilized milk . |
| 20 | The ages of the fetuses and babies are listed in Table I. The maturity of fetuses is given in weeks of gestation since the last menstrual period and was confirmed by antenatal ultrasound assessment and fetal foot length measurements . |
| 21 | This was announced at our February meeting and was met with great approval from the fifty or so members present . |
| 22 | It became quite clear that the less immediately obvious tendency to back /a/ , which had also been observed , was a much more regular process and was associated with young ( chiefly male ) speakers . |
| 23 | However , their most alarming quantitative forecast , of 4.5 million unemployed in Britain by 1990 , came from forecasts made by the Cambridge Economic Policy Group and was based on economic factors which had nothing to do with new technology . |
| 24 | The meeting was organized by the Mining Awareness Group and was addressed by retired geologist Gerry Wilson . |
| 25 | was one of the pioneers of embalming and did much to promote it within the Co-operative Funeral Service and was held in high esteem by colleagues for his long standing service to the Institute . |
| 26 | He was in command of the airship station in Howden , Yorkshire , when on 21 January the R34 struck some high ground and was buffeted in strong winds off the Yorkshire coast , later breaking up . |
| 27 | The script provides natural examples of the language in use and was written after considerable research into video teaching methods . |
| 28 | She could feel them hardening under his tongue and was caught between pure ecstasy and an urge to run from the room . |
| 29 | Iris had stopped crying and was sitting with hunched shoulders , tear-stained and dejected , but calm . |
| 30 | This general pattern of growth was subject to regional variation and was punctuated by devastating epidemics — of which bubonic plague was only the most notorious — and by harvest failures that were so catastrophic that people died of starvation . |