Example sentences of "[noun] was [verb] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , a new 375g pack at £1.19 was introduced on February 8th and until the old stock was used up the two packs were on sale side by side . |
| 2 | A deal was struck whereby the LCC obtained part of the Monico site for road improvements ; Cotton would have permission to redevelop . |
| 3 | The purpose of the experiment was to investigate how the wearing of prisms affected perception and motor response under certain circumstances . |
| 4 | The complementary experiment was carried out a decade ago in the laboratory of the influential German school working on the origin of life under Manfred Eigen . |
| 5 | They had granted her permission to move tents once she 'd heard that an unconscious soldier named Trumper was lying down the line . |
| 6 | The result was to force up the price both of renting and of buying land . |
| 7 | A suitable break-point was taken on the death of Magnentius in 353 , and of the reports examined from 334 buildings , no less than 199 offered no satisfactory evidence and it could be argued that the remaining 135 hardly offer a sufficient quantity for any serious statistical study . |
| 8 | The German soldier was holding out a box of cigars . |
| 9 | His agent was sorting out the fine print . |
| 10 | Working at the top end of the market as he did , Roche was taking on the most difficult assignments , but they were also the most remunerative and had the greatest publicity value . |
| 11 | Radio Bangladesh quoted an official spokesman as saying on Aug. 10 that the independent Mecca-based Islamic body , Rabitah , had agreed to fund half the estimated US$50,000,000 cost of repatriation and rehousing , and Pakistan was to make up the rest . |
| 12 | The photograph was taken on a favourable day or it could not have been taken at all . |
| 13 | G-GWYN was pulled out the hangar , topped up with fuel and taken skyward . |
| 14 | Cos of the design of this crusher affair , the whole weight was carried on the c what could be the bap of the bearing you know , the bearing cap . |
| 15 | She was having to repeat herself , and even then Lucy was picking up the wrong costume or completely mistaking what had been said . |
| 16 | David was walking up the garden path , half an hour earlier than expected . |
| 17 | The full course of study was to last only a year . |
| 18 | Thus , the aim of this study was to evaluate retrospectively the characteristics and outcome of 56 cases of primary gastric lymphoma that have been morphologically reclassified according to recent knowledge of the MALT derived lymphomas . |
| 19 | The aim of this study was to evaluate how the proliferation index obtained by PCNA ( 19A2 ) correlates with that determined by conventional BrdU immunocytochemistry . |
| 20 | Until this study was carried out the individual elements of the FAOR methodology had been developed and tested in isolation , each being the responsibility of different organisations within the FAOR partnership . |
| 21 | As Laura Davies was struggling with a right hand injured in a cricketing accident on the eve of the tournament , registering a 79 in the first round , Pam Wright was putting together the most meticulous of level-par 73s . |
| 22 | His intention was to pick up the 18,000 troops assembled in the area behind Quiberon known as the Morbihan and transport them to Scotland , as the first stage of the great invasion plan . |
| 23 | I suddenly realised the air was filled with soot from the chimneys above and the snow was taking on the appearance of cottage cheese sprinkled with black pepper . |
| 24 | As Hennessy was opening up the grey lockers at the end of the room , Donaldson spelt Bobo again . |
| 25 | Lowestoft College was set aside a lake so there was no trouble in finding a good source . |
| 26 | The loss of this old lady 's vote was cancelled out a few streets further on , by a young chap who came to the door and told me he was a soldier . |
| 27 | Moreover , no staining was seen when the primary antibodies were omitted or when the anti-Bcl-2 antibody was replaced with an IgG1 monoclonal antibody against bromodeoxyuridine ( culture supernatant , diluted 1:1 ) . |
| 28 | Folkestone was a pocket borough of the Rothschilds , Southend was falling under the control of the Guinness family , Plymouth was learning to love the Astors , and Samuel Roberts was building up the influence in Sheffield that was to provide a seat for his family until 1966 . |
| 29 | The overall effect was to speed up the disintegration of the larger estates , but to leave the smallholdings virtually untouched but constantly threatened . |
| 30 | The long-term effect was to damage severely the profitability of the county 's coastal trade , to raise the levels of taxation and to cause a lengthy period of economic decline . |