Example sentences of "[adj] was [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thermoluminescence dating of the clay core suggested that the statue was only a few centuries old , and this was supported by technical examination and analysis which showed that the casting technology and the metal used were quite typical of the Renaissance , and equally unlike those used by the Romans . |
| 2 | Construction of this was begun in 1955 , and it was inaugurated in 1964 . |
| 3 | All of this was begun before any official extension of EEC authority into the field of culture . |
| 4 | Obviously this was challenged at some point . |
| 5 | This was challenged by one of the defendants who maintained that she had never been on stage in a state of total nudity , as the police present maintained . |
| 6 | This was challenged by several researchers , most notably Kenneth Kidd , of Yale . |
| 7 | This was assisted by later physical maturation . |
| 8 | This was repealed in 1971 and chargeable assets in a deceased 's estate pass to the heirs at probate value . |
| 9 | This was repeated for 10 portfolios over the 420 months between 1931 and 1965 . |
| 10 | This was repeated in 1977 for the Office of Fair Trading ( Consumer Credit Survey 1977 . |
| 11 | This was built for United Air Lines as DC-3A-197B NC 18942 in April 1948 and served with series of US operators until it found itself in the Sudan ( as N8044 ) in 1976 , before going to South Africa and joining Caprivi Airways in 1978 as ZS-KEX . |
| 12 | This was built before 1650 and contains good stucco in the interior by Domenico Galli which seems rather wasted as the palace is now a Museum of Sports . |
| 13 | This was built in 1582 by the Teatini Fathers and took its name from a former church attached to a monastery of the Brothers of St Anthony , a curious horse-riding fraternity who ‘ kept alight the fires of St Anthony ’ . |
| 14 | This was built in 1885 in the Czech Renaissance style after a plan by A. Wiehl , and is decorated with marvellous sgraffiato depicting the battle with the Swedes on Charles Bridge in 1648 . |
| 15 | This was built in 1755–65 by Anselmo Lurago . |
| 16 | Even though we have no record of how this was communicated to 5 Corps , we assume that in view of the urgency of the situation , the decision was passed on from HQ Eighth Army by telephone . |
| 17 | Even this was influenced by international conditions . |
| 18 | This was exhibited in various places with great financial success . |
| 19 | Much of this was funded by personal borrowing , providing jobs in Credit and Banking ; the security for lending often coming from people 's own homes , as the desire to own and furnish better homes set off a spiral of house-price inflation . |
| 20 | This was discovered on 1:25 000 OS sheets SP13 and SP04/14 and published in The Ley Hunter 's Companion ( Thames & Hudson , 1979 ) . |
| 21 | This was discovered in 1925 by an Austrian physicist , Wolfgang Pauli-for which he received the Nobel prize in 1945 . |
| 22 | This was replaced in 1832 by a second church ( now the premises of A D Thornton and Co ) on the right-hand side going up Thomas Street . |
| 23 | This was said with such an earnest effort for accuracy that Delia Sutherland smiled . |
| 24 | This was said through gritted teeth . |
| 25 | This was erected in 1801 at about the same time as some of the farmhouses in the parish . |
| 26 | I mean this was written in nineteen , was it sixty four perhaps ? |
| 27 | This was written in 1824 when the prodigious composer was only 15 . |
| 28 | This was written in this pink book , it was full of wee cheques . |
| 29 | He even added a comment : ‘ This was written by Eled in an attempt to spoil the Book , but it will remain if I live to be 100 . ’ |
| 30 | This was amended in 1980 — notice now only has to be given to the House and Senate Intelligence committees . |