Example sentences of "[adj] [was/were] [vb pp] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | To this were added the effects of the transformation of the social structure by industrialization and urbanization in the more advanced areas ( Austria , the Czech lands , etc . ) . |
| 2 | If to this were added the effects of a special pension at 60 for those who were unemployed , a new invalidity pension , the raising of the school-leaving age to sixteen and a uniform forty-hour week , a total of 2,000,000 jobs would be redistributed to the unemployed . |
| 3 | The French were granted an occupation zone mainly thanks to Britain . |
| 4 | Some were given a glucose drink to start their day while others had to make do with a ‘ dummy ’ drink with no nutritional content . |
| 5 | It is also fair to suggest that the Labour Party benefited from the rising unemployment of the 1920s for it claimed , successfully in the 1920s , that although it could not solve unemployment , which was a product of a capitalist society , it would at least ensure that the unemployed were guaranteed a level of benefits which would ensure healthy life . |
| 6 | Thus the British were denied the chance of a monarch who would have been more cultivated than any of the other Hanoverians , while Sophia , born in exile , died without ever visiting the country to whose throne she was heir . |
| 7 | This became increasingly unpopular , and when the British were granted a monopoly over the sale of Iranian tobacco , massive protests followed and the government was forced to cancel the agreement . |
| 8 | When this was discovered the respondent was arrested on 19 October 1990 . |
| 9 | This was made the payoff in the Sunday Correspondent 's interview with the PM , though it has since emerged that the sequence of the conversation was altered . |
| 10 | The chip Shop is going to extend into the vacant shop next door and this was given the go ahead for a trial period of one year . |
| 11 | The Chip Shop is going to extend into the vacant shop next door and this was given the go ahead for a trial period of one year . |
| 12 | This was followed a week later by a dinner , then a ball , and after that regular outings took place , culminating in an invitation to spend the weekend with his parents in Berkshire . |
| 13 | At first the students achieved a certificate on qualifying , but this was called a diploma from 24 June 1808 . |
| 14 | On the other was the abbey of St Martial and the castle of the Viscount ; this was called the citadel , the castrum . |
| 15 | The second session began in March and finished at the end of July , and this was called the Summer Term , though in fact it was still extremely cold and wintry when term began . |
| 16 | On the Von Neumann computer this was called the arithmetic register ( AR ) ; but it is more commonly referred to as the multiplier-quotient ( MQ ) or quotient ( Q ) register . |
| 17 | On an outside wall of this was painted a Madonna and Child . |
| 18 | On top of this was scrawled the man 's name ‘ John Irvine ’ and a list of victuals and wine bought from his own pocket at a tavern called the Sea Barque near the Town Wall in Leicester . |
| 19 | It may have been an attempt to clear the wood of all the trees , but before this was achieved the attempt was abandoned . |
| 20 | In neither form of action could the plaintiff be sure of recovering his goods in specie since the judgment in trespass was for damages and in detinue gave the defendant the option of giving up the goods or paying damages but it is unlikely that this was considered a defect and it should be noted that the remedy of specific restitution of chattels has remained unusual right up to modern times . |
| 21 | Many framework knitters were said in 1778 to work from 5 a.m to 10 p.m. in summer , but this was considered a departure from the more usual start at 6 a.m and finishing at dusk in the winter . |
| 22 | For Tsongas this was considered a reward for his diligent and intelligent campaigning in the state , whilst for Clinton it represented a powerful resurgence for a campaign which , in early February , was being widely written off as doomed . |
| 23 | In Prince Charles 's circle this was considered the norm . |
| 24 | The officer on duty on the night he died Tony Strong said it was not normal practice to peer on prisoners through the cell doors because this was considered an invasion of privacy . |
| 25 | To this was added the promise to privatise British Coal if the Conservatives were re-elected for a fourth term . |
| 26 | To this was added the proviso that the GLC had not acted arbitrarily and had considered both its duties to the ratepayers and the statutory duties imposed by the 1969 Act on it and on the LTE . |
| 27 | Upon this was laid a course of marble cement in which the mosaic pavement was bedded ; alternatively marble slabs were laid . |
| 28 | When all this was accomplished the Community would , in the language of economic integration theory , constitute a Common Market . |
| 29 | The driver of the same express was killed a year earlier when his locomotive careered into the rear of a stationary train from Basingstoke which had stopped to report a signals fault . |
| 30 | At the Potsdam Conference of Allied leaders , the Japanese were given the deadline of 3 August for surrender . |