Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [was/were] [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1839 this political credo was given definitive form in the Idées Napoléoniennes , which served not only as a resumé of the history of his uncle but sketched , in some detail , a possible future regime . |
| 2 | But neither course was considered prudent by Bejing and Downing Street . |
| 3 | Nutritional assessment was performed weekly by recording body weight , percentage of ideal body weight ( % IBW ) , mid-arm muscle circumference ( MAMC , % standard ) , triceps skinfold thickness ( TSF , % standard ) , and serum albumin concentration . |
| 4 | The Belfast club were facing an estimated loss of £15,000 on their preliminary round ties with conquerors Dinamo Tbilisi — before the Georgian side were found guilty of trying to bribe match officials . |
| 5 | The 11-year-old cow was found dead in its paddock at a remote farm near Gargrave , North Yorkshire , yesterday . |
| 6 | Yet this discontent was denied political or institutional expression . |
| 7 | By 1973 this measure was considered inadequate and the government took total control of the mining companies . |
| 8 | The ceiling in the old kitchen was painted dark grey and etched with circles , some enclosing helixes and geometric foliate forms , while the fireplaces were surrounded by brickwork , itself painted over and ornamented in all kinds of ways . |
| 9 | ‘ At the time this decision was made high energy physics took a major slice of government research budgets . |
| 10 | To my delight , this hypothesis was proved wrong . |
| 11 | Yesterday morning , at Mithian , another horse was found injured . |
| 12 | This deal was made acceptable to those provinces which would lose seats in the new Senate by increasing their representation in a House of Commons expanded from 295 to 337 members . |
| 13 | Gardai launched a full scale search for the men when their empty boat was spotted adrift in the water on Friday night . |
| 14 | Gardai launched a full scale search for the men when their empty boat was spotted adrift in the water on Friday night . |
| 15 | When Cardinal Wolsey fell , he had n't finished the building of Tom Quad , the whole of this side was left open because he 'd planned a very grand perpendicular chapel like King 's College Chapel , and erm the ruins , well no , not the ruins , the foundations were still to be seen apparently in the 17th Century John Gomley tells us . |
| 16 | ( At their first overhaul , this batch were given full internal bulkheads and an extra seat was squeezed in on the top deck . ) |
| 17 | Even this pleasure was rendered impure , since , as we had no heating in our bedrooms , we were forced into the family sitting-room , and felt , out of courtesy , obliged to join from time to time in the general conversation — a pursuit not very rewarding to either party . |
| 18 | We , when the papers for this Committee were made public , we did alert people to them , the potential erm , effects of these proposals . |
| 19 | The cost of this exercise was considered prohibitive , and the time factor to effect the alterations involved had it been financially acceptable , would have taken a couple of years . |
| 20 | This attitude was kept alive by the strong sense of the permanence of human arrangements in the matter of property , which seems to us of all things the least permanent : gifts to the Church were made to last till the Day of Judgement , and many of the documents in the Canterbury archives invoked God and all his saints on the Day of Judgement to destroy those who violated their provisions . |
| 21 | A court 's been hearing how a four year old girl was found battered and half-starved after her parents locked her up in a bedroom for months on end . |
| 22 | This requirement was made explicit in 1946 when the Bank of England was nationalized . |
| 23 | Three civilians of Iraqi nationality were reported killed and at least 35 wounded . |
| 24 | A tribal chief and another civilian were shot dead in demonstrations at Kévé , 50 km north-west of the capital on April 8 . |
| 25 | In a large-scale Swedish study of intervention with self-poisoners , patients in one group were offered psychiatric , social , and psychological help whereas another group was offered traditional care ( Ettlinger 1975 ) . |
| 26 | If the fasting breath hydrogen was greater than 12 ppm fasting was continued for up to 14 hours and a breath hydrogen persistently greater than 12 ppm at the end of this period was considered abnormal . |
| 27 | The hopes with regard to smychka that were current in this period were proved utopian once again . |
| 28 | This article was written prior to publication of the Finance Act and is , therefore , subject to any amendments appearing therein . |
| 29 | The nasty , smooth , clean , man-smelling peg was laid bare to the length of a rabbit 's ear , but still it did not come loose . |
| 30 | This affluence was made possible not only by higher wages ( in real terms ) but because new mass markets in non-essential goods were also opened up for the population at large . |