Example sentences of "[adj] [was/were] [vb pp] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the west , a woman could only have an abortion if this were approved by a doctor on medical , genetic or psychological grounds . |
| 2 | The English were taught in a different school to the Chinese . |
| 3 | Most households left the cities through unplanned decentralization , but some were moved as a result of specific planning policies . |
| 4 | Some had a heavy , lizard-like form , some were shaped like a crocodile , and many were small and bipedal . |
| 5 | Some were dragged by a foot still caught in the stirrup , round in a circle in the turf . |
| 6 | Q Our Piranhas have recently bred and we have a few fry left ( some were eaten by a Plec , which was in turn eaten by the Piranhas ) . |
| 7 | A sign of the importance attached to shells at this time is that some were obtained from a distance . |
| 8 | Many specimens are made from mammoth ivory , but some were made from a variety of stones or even from fired clay . |
| 9 | Most of the dressers were on a basic daily rate but some were paid on a measure of their work done . |
| 10 | The possibility that some were produced in a royal secretariat can not be totally excluded , although the evidence for the existence of such an office under Cnut is far from compelling . |
| 11 | There are hints that certain sets of dies were used to decorate pots made from specific fabrics , while some were retained for a later occasion and occur again on another fabric . |
| 12 | Young people approaching the age when they would no longer be the formal responsibility of the local authorities became the primary consumers of residential care for several reasons : first , many had been placed with a family and temporary readmission to residential care was needed when such placements broke down ; second , some did not wish to join a new family and preferred group living amongst other young people and appointed caregivers ; and third , some were admitted to a residential setting for help with specific problems or as part of a strategy to prepare them for independent living . |
| 13 | Their style seems Scandinavian , and although some were rebuilt after a fire , this type of building has remained in use here since the sixteenth century for storing nets and other equipment . |
| 14 | At least 24 people died and 300 were injured after a series of tornadoes and storms ripped across Texas , Louisiana , Mississippi , Alabama , Georgia , Tennessee and Kentucky on Nov. 21-22 . |
| 15 | The previous day a 22 year old , a 19 year old and a 17 year old were shot by a state trooper when they tried to sell cocaine worth $50,000 to a couple of undercover policemen in a car park . |
| 16 | ALL of the leading Temps who gathered to witness the Earl of Carlisle opening their Institute in Gladstone Street on September 23 1903 were captured by a cameraman . |
| 17 | Point mutations in the first two base pairs of K-ras codon 12 were sought by a method previously described , and modified from the non-radioactive restriction enzyme technique of Jiang et al . |
| 18 | From the Labyrinth 's south-west entrance a paved ramp , now eroded beyond recognition , led down to a bridge over the Vlychia stream ; on the south side this was supported on a finely built stone viaduct , which carried the road on south-eastwards along the north front of the Pilgrim Hostel and then southwards between yet more Minoan houses . |
| 19 | This was recorded over a two week period . |
| 20 | It was proposed to lay the tramway extension along the broad Middle Walk , but this was defeated in a poll of the ratepayers , and the track had to be constructed along the narrow upper carriageway . |
| 21 | Some deputies proposed that footage of the exchanges concerning the ANT affair should be omitted from the coming evening 's edited television broadcast of Congress proceedings , but this was defeated in a vote by 1,250 to 637 . |
| 22 | A general election held in June 1987 resulted in the return to power of a coalition government led by Paias Wingti , but this was defeated in a parliamentary vote of no confidence on July 4 , 1988 , and replaced by a coalition led by Namaliu . |
| 23 | This was surmounted by a gilded griffin and bore a crudely painted canvas of hell 's mouth . |
| 24 | This was built over a long period — both Peter Parler and Rejsek worked on it . |
| 25 | This was perceived as a threat to the Plantagenets in Aquitaine . |
| 26 | This was perceived as a source of inefficiency and uncompetitiveness through overmanning and other policies , which the government was determined to remove in its quest to create an ‘ enterprise economy ’ . |
| 27 | We shall see that there is evidence that this was perceived as a genre in its own right in England , and in English . |
| 28 | This was named after a village near Haverhill , Suffolk . |
| 29 | This was named after a 19th century frontier poet who , according to the organiser of the competition , Don Nilsen , was a ‘ cross between Alfred , Lord Tennyson and Chief Sitting Bull ’ , and was ‘ so outstandingly bad that somehow she was good ’ . |
| 30 | This was devised in a rising market , in very different circumstances from today . |