Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] [was/were] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1761 copper mines had been opened on Bayly 's lands at Parys mountain near Amlwch , but significant progress was only made from 1768 , when a mass of easily worked copper was located which was soon worked under lease by Charles Roe & Co. of Macclesfield . |
| 2 | No bibliographical instrument could be made which was equally aimed at , and equally suitable to the situations of , all its potential users ; for no matter how large an instrument was made , no matter how many interests and situations were foreseen , there would remain over some interests and situations unforeseen , to which the consultants could address themselves if they were presented with them . |
| 3 | By ten-thirty , Beth had cleared away the breakfast things , washed the dishes and stacked them into the big dresser , wiped down the kitchen table , taken the coconut matting from the floor and hung it over the line outside where she beat every speck of dust from it before replacing it over her freshly scrubbed quarry tiles ; all that done she was now enjoying a cup of tea , before setting about the drawing room . |
| 4 | Industrial tribunals as we heard yesterday from Ian have decided they were wrongly dismissed and that indicates the standard of the union locally but poses the question of why it was impossible for our officials , from the General Secretary downwards , to effect any influence whatsoever on the attitude of Liverpool City Council . |
| 5 | There is no evidence that pearls were sought or used as precious substances before the emergence of civilized states , and when pearls were adopted they were commonly used in jewellery together with precious stones . |
| 6 | The curious thing about Dr Dunstaple 's death was that although the harrowing circumstances which had attended it were well known throughout the camp , it was not generally considered that , by dying , the Doctor had lost his argument with McNab . |
| 7 | As soon as the pint order was lodged it was brusquely refused . |
| 8 | He now embarked on a new recording contract for Capitol , and proved wrong all the critics who 'd said he was just emulating Crosby when he developed his own new determined style which culminated in 1955 with his album Songs For Swinging Lovers , one of the first best-selling LPs . |
| 9 | She would have said he was much attracted by the riding , yet he made out he was n't . |
| 10 | One of the major costs of implementing new technology was the need to train for new skills , but Ms Edwards found that once new technology was adopted it was often under-used or misapplied because of the lack of expertise and investment . |
| 11 | Those who claimed to have seen it were then asked what they could recall of its contents , and to what uses it had been put . |
| 12 | Alternative identifications were produced which were then reduced by post-processing techniques . |
| 13 | I would have thought you were already known there , anyway . ’ |
| 14 | I am told you were recently criticised by a learned judge for wrongly sending a Romany for trial to the Assizes in Oxford ? ’ |
| 15 | She had alleged she was unfairly dismissed during sick leave by Darlington solicitors Ward Hadaway ; the tribunal chairman said the panel had ruled against her ‘ reluctantly ’ and would be giving its reasons later . |
| 16 | Though the wind appeared to have died we were still carried gently forward . |
| 17 | Some time during the evening Ace had brought her luggage up , but she was amazed to find , on opening cupboard doors , that all the clothes Ace had once bought her were neatly put away . |
| 18 | During their policy work on Mezey , NETRHA officers had initially thought they were significantly underspending on mental health . |
| 19 | So they must have thought they were still going in a straight line heading for the bullseye . |
| 20 | Instead , she had pushed the memories into a dark cupboard in the very farthest corner of her mind , and she had thought they were safely locked away , only now Julius had found the key and he was opening the cupboard . |
| 21 | But the Court of Appeal ruled that no reasonable reader , asking " what on earth was Sir John Junor getting at ? " could have thought he was seriously accusing Schild . |
| 22 | In so far as the term judicial was used it was automatically implied whenever a decision was made which affected a person 's rights in a broad sense . |
| 23 | The application which was submitted by the Society last November was discussed with the panel on February 18th and as you were told it was well received . |
| 24 | The court 's been told it was probably done by a three year old boy . |
| 25 | I am told it was never finished , that it never will be finished , that it is not worth finishing . |
| 26 | AN academic has been banned from sleeping or eating in her office at Stirling University after being told it was so cluttered with papers and food that it constituted a health and fire hazard . |
| 27 | Yes , right I agree entirely , and one of the points we 're making to Mr is that we were never consulted we were merely told this is happening , now we 're trying to put the report in in a positive way . |
| 28 | In the past where an item had been lost , stolen , destroyed or damaged which was originally purchased abroad , and the Policyholder admitted that the item was brought in to the U.K. without being declared at H.M. Customs then the extent of our liability was the value of the item less the amount of duty payable . |
| 29 | Le Roy Ladurie argues , for example , that the pattern of land-holdings in the south west of France was affected they were increasingly divided up among the members of expanding families , so that the income of peasants fell . |
| 30 | When he was up and about , he also spent some time in the kitchen , having become what was then called a ‘ health-food fanatic ’ . |