Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [was/were] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The phrase " new licence " is defined in s.139(1) of the Act as meaning " a licence granted in respect of premises for which , at the time of the application for such grant , either no licence was in force or a licence different from the form of licence so granted was in force . |
| 2 | Physical and experimental considerations implied that and so the following values for were established : The results so obtained were in good agreement with predictions from fibre reinforcement theory ( Equations ( 4.21 ) or ( 4.22 ) ) provided that a value of 0.37 for Poisson 's ratio for the butadiene phase was used rather than the more usual figure , for a rubber , of 0.5 . |
| 3 | The recommendations finally made were of a highly practical nature , but they established a tradition of careful selection which was easily glamorized in both the public and the official mind . |
| 4 | She had no doubt her entry had been heard , that the soft sound she had only just noticed was of someone ducking out of sight . |
| 5 | The sympathetic link finally envisaged was between the individual subjectivities of members of the popular classes and an " English culture " or national identity , to be achieved by English as a vehicle for state policy . |
| 6 | In some areas the surveyors coloured their maps to depict the boundaries of the various rock formations observed , but the geology thus shown was of a very general nature . |
| 7 | The clearance of the portion of the site already authorized was in hand at this stage , but progressing slowly . |
| 8 | The analysis of the data thus obtained was in two parts . |
| 9 | The Titfords , as we know only too well , were very far from being rich and powerful tycoons ; nevertheless , the trend we have just outlined was at work in a much more modest way even in their fortunes as time went by . |
| 10 | The only romance the Timelord ever enjoyed was in the 1964 William Hartnell four-parter , The Aztecs . |
| 11 | The classical piece Cale always claimed was in him never emerged , mainly because the showman in him would n't let it go : ‘ there was just so much chaos going on , in my personal and creative life , that I could n't finish … |
| 12 | ‘ But if all the Rime Giants ever spawned were after me I would still sit here , for I need some hot food in me to fight the ice in my bones . ’ |
| 13 | Everything he had ever done was for the woman he could not forget . |
| 14 | The British Steel Challenge inspired him , too , although the only sailing he had ever done was on a windsurfer . |
| 15 | AMERICAN journalist William Shirer 's Berlin Diary records on September 18 that year : ‘ The longest Red Cross train I 've ever seen was at the Potsdamer Bahnhof . |
| 16 | One of the most impressive examples of one-room living that I have ever seen was in a long , narrow space approximately 7.5 m by 3 m ( 24 ft by 10 ft ) . |
| 17 | The worst times I 've ever endured were with a tax-dodger in Castletown . |
| 18 | ‘ The best times I 've ever had were with my kids . |
| 19 | The first complaints to be formally filed were by British Columbia , Canadian raspberry producers and an Ontario paving company on April 6 , 1989 . |
| 20 | Performance-wise , I suppose the best Bill ever managed was on a sunny spring weekday in the early 80s , when he 'd already passed his 60th birthday and I coaxed him up a few 5c slab routes at about E3 on Froggatt : Long John 's Slab , Great Slab , Armageddon . |
| 21 | Almost all the colonies the English ever acquired were of one or another of these three types , and in a number of other ways the overseas activities undertaken between the 1550s and the 1640s laid down the pattern for all that was to come . |
| 22 | At first she sat in silence , stirring her tea as though to get it thoroughly stirred was of the utmost importance . |
| 23 | The last time that I heard that argument so brazenly presented was by Mr. Neville Chamberlain 's spokesman before the war . |
| 24 | The Party ordered 30,000 leaflets , capable of being used as window posters , and then discovered that the ‘ imprint ’ publisher 's details which must , by law , be openly displayed was on the wrong side . |
| 25 | Except that a lot of the information we have both lost was about the Lucy Ghosts . |
| 26 | THE best sermon I have so far heard was on the subject of ‘ ontological anxiety ’ . |
| 27 | This usually involves over 1,000 birds , and the highest count so far recorded was of 1,535 in Chichester Harbour on 30 January 1972 . |
| 28 | The last time Hambros was so well placed was in 1986 when it advised on another mega-bid , by Hanson for Imperial Group . |
| 29 | ‘ Doctors said the fact that I am well built was in my favour , ’ said Ged , of Barn Hey Farm , Netherley , near Liverpool . |
| 30 | The sentences were enlarged as much as possible , but sizeable gaps were left between each sentence so that the temptation to interpret contiguous sentences as meaningfully related was to some extent avoided . |