Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] [adv] [noun] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dawn handed her a syringe filled with heart stimulant and soon Sandy was settled down in a warm recovery cage . |
| 2 | There had been an American and Canadian scholarship and now training was available in Belgium . |
| 3 | I had stumbled into the fringes of a world where cynical and ruthless manipulation of other people was the norm , and where even violence and perhaps murder was used to achieve one 's ends . |
| 4 | Mayson was denied his hat-trick by good ‘ keeping and twice Smyth was through , only to go for the unselfish option when perhaps a shot would have been better . |
| 5 | Resistance of this kind was to keep the authorities extremely nervous throughout 1922 , and one has the sense from the enormous detail of the Smolensk Archive that fear of outright revolt and even counter-revolution was ever present in the local Party 's thoughts . |
| 6 | The town or perhaps village was south of Bristol . |
| 7 | Moreover , as the patent specification was not published by the plaintiffs but by another party , its publication did not cause the information to lose its quality of confidence and therefore B was not released from his duty to the plaintiffs . |
| 8 | Years ago Moran loaned McQuaid money when he had started in the cattle business but now McQuaid was the richer and more powerful man and they saw little of one another . |
| 9 | Their love grew stronger by the day and then Maisie was born , a healthy , bonny baby . |
| 10 | This year that right to keep a breeding ewe will attract a subsidy in the region of £23 per head and consequently interest was keen . |
| 11 | All the way back I hoped they would still have the odd one to enable me to complete the suit and happily luck was with me . |
| 12 | The German Empire might be the extreme case of industrialization but even Russia was beginning to produce a recognizable capitalist industrial structure . |
| 13 | And she could at least smile at Kitty 's compliments because no-one was in earshot and anyway Kitty was mad . |
| 14 | Though always happy at Saint Cloud , the Emperor had a weakness for the great palace of Fontainebleau , perhaps because of its associations with Napoleon I. Because of the magnificence of the palace it was impossible to live a quiet family life and so June was a month of great social activity , a sort of informal summer Court , at which was to be found the glittering society so indelibly associated with the regime . |
| 15 | In looking for significance some critics took a sociological line but perhaps psychology was a better guide . |
| 16 | George himself has deservedly achieved the status of a guru , and a year or so back was made a part time professor of medical economics at the City University . |
| 17 | Soon after work began however , it was found that there were serious problems in making a secure , stable base for the embankment and thus progress was brought to a halt . |
| 18 | Giardia lamblia was identified in the mucosa in one patient but only Cryptosporidium was seen in the other patients . |
| 19 | South Wales , the principal supplier of paper for London newspapers and magazines , was part of the GWR empire and so Paddington was the destination for that bulk cargo , an average of 623 reels of paper arriving daily . |
| 20 | Firstly there was the review of the distribution network and secondly PEARL was introduced . |
| 21 | Time and again Gould was lowered over the side of the ship in a little dinghy at the command of the accommodating Captain , by name , appropriately , of Mallard , where he floated happily for hours among his birds . |
| 22 | They turned south this time and soon Jenna was amused and intrigued to see huge gaggles of geese in fields , moving about almost as one and honking loud enough to be heard over the noise of the car . |
| 23 | Kate could n't even justify it by saying it was a boy Lizzy loved , whom her daughter had been with for a long time and so sex was a natural progression . |