Example sentences of "[det] [was/were] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If all this were laid on with a trowel , the reader 's patience would quickly wear thin . |
| 2 | Following the report of its working group , recommendations concerning this were passed on to the newly appointed UKCC on its inception in July 1983 . |
| 3 | The Mayor and Corporation flapped about like mud skippers and some were swirled round by the eddies and then flung on to sprawling tree roots where they hung about like wet washing . |
| 4 | Some were taken back to the dungeons of Black Crag where they remain to this day , to the anger of Kazador . |
| 5 | Although as the largest parliamentary party the CEDA might have expected to dominate government after the November 1933 election , this was ruled out by the President of the Republic , Alcalá Zamora , on grounds of the CEDA 's non-republicanism . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | This was made up of the organic residues of farms , forestry , industry and domestic refuse . |
| 8 | This was made up by the Head Girl mixing together oxide of zinc , glycerine , rosewater , a touch of yellow ochre and methylated spirits , the latter helping to dry it on the legs . |
| 9 | This was not designer stubble , this was getting up in the morning and not being bothered . |
| 10 | Shortly afterwards came the Chronica Gentis Scottorum of John of Fordun , again stressing the achievements of the Scots , and the villainy of Edward I. This was followed up in the early fifteenth century by the verse chronicle of Andrew of Wyntoun , prior of Lochleven . |
| 11 | This was followed up by a deputation to the governors on 10 June 1840 , led by Thomas Turner . |
| 12 | And this was followed up by a point-blank refusal to deal with Fells 's next query . |
| 13 | ‘ This was propped up against the body , on the front doorstep . ’ |
| 14 | When this was pointed out to the organisers , they replied : ‘ It is an unimportant section , it does not matter ’ . |
| 15 | The basic philosophy is the same , however , in that both views illustrate the fact that there is in intonation some organisation at a level higher than the isolated tone-unit ; this was pointed out in the discussion of Trim ( 1959 ) ( notes on Chapter 16 above ) ; see also Fox ( 1973 ) . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | This was hooked up to a DC-2031 cached IDE host adaptor with 2Mb of RAM . |
| 18 | When this was fed back to the operators , they were quickly able to see how their actions were contributing to the effluent and to make substantial reductions in the amount of ammonia leaving the plant . |
| 19 | This was edged around with a framework of masking tape to reserve bands of the white ground that I would later paint gold . |
| 20 | ‘ This was blown out of the water by the Supreme Court in 1990 , when it said Irish unity is a constitutional imperative . |
| 21 | He said : ‘ There were more than a dozen enquiries about the tender and this was whittled down to a list of six . |
| 22 | They demanded bracket construction for the overhead wires , but this was turned down for the same reasons as those in Mitcham . |
| 23 | This was borne out on the Wednesday when insurgent soldiers pressed the Soviet to issue an order — Order No. 1 — which severely circumscribed the authority of officers both by sanctioning the election of soldiers ' committees with control over weapons and by laying down that officers ' orders were to be subject to the Soviet 's approval . |
| 24 | This was borne out by the very subjective observation that no used fertiliser bags were noted anywhere in the Auvergne uplands whereas such discarded litter is commonplace in the Welsh uplands ( unless French farmers are innately tidier ! ) . |
| 25 | This was borne out by the tests on ‘ bootiful ’ Norfolk turkeys which needed an hour at half microwave power to cook right through without drying the breast meat . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | This was bought out by the private cleaning firm BET , which then had to compete with other firms for the contracts to clean schools . |
| 28 | 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 . ’ |
| 29 | All this was mixed up with the newspapers and the money . |
| 30 | This was brought out in an incisive account of the impact of the Bauhaus on modern society by Baudrillard ( 1981 : 185–203 ) , in whose view this principle of creating order through style has become dominant over social interest , as a kind of structuralism imposed on everyday life . |