Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Information Consulting , while independent , was formed about a year ago by five former Arthur Andersen partners with financial backing from Saatchi and Saatchi , the advertising and consultancy group . |
| 2 | In fact , one of the gardeners was dismissed only a fortnight ago because it was thought he was taking them . |
| 3 | After his second King George , in 1959 , he had developed tendon trouble and was given nearly a year 's rest by trainer Fulke Walwyn , but if anything he was improving with age , and he had gone through the 1961–2 season unbeaten . |
| 4 | This rating was given immediately the subject heard the bleep in the centre of the junction . |
| 5 | Mine seem to vary — I was given both a biography of Nancy Reagan , a quite old hardback of TV critical reviews and articles by Clive James and Muriel Spark 's autobiography ( about her childhood in Edinburgh ) recently and have enjoyed them all in different ways . |
| 6 | I was given only the pau . ’ |
| 7 | There is some evidence of the pope 's personal position on several issues — his reluctance to declare the count of Toulouse excommunicate , his care to see that Simon de Montfort was given only the wardship of the count 's lands , and his snubbing of Archbishop Siegfried of Mainz for his inopportune intervention , three times ordering him to sit down . |
| 8 | She was referred again a year later with similar problems . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm now going through what I experienced at Rosyth , except that Eastern Electricity had been privatised three years before I joined whereas the dockyard was contractorised only a month before . ’ |
| 10 | Or if she was torn then the doctor would come er and stitch her up . |
| 11 | Farafra still enjoyed the strict rites of Arab desert etiquette in which hospitality was considered both a duty and an honour . |
| 12 | I said nothing to her , of course ; she was considered almost a goddess in Berlin , had a huge following . |
| 13 | It was considered quite an innovation when , after the First World War , the " progressive officials " of R. & R. Clark decided on " a combined " Annual " " in 1921 , " instead of one section having a smoker all on their own and the other a high tea and gossip " , as the ST[ put it . |
| 14 | Although the jury acquitted him on one murder charge , it was deadlocked over a second and a riot charge , and a retrial was arranged for Sept. 17 . |
| 15 | The widening of the franchise in the nineteenth century , House of Lords reform , and votes for women in the twentieth — these are issues that aroused great emotion and were fiercely opposed but on which reform was accepted once the government of the day had got the measure accepted by Parliament . |
| 16 | The big dyeing job was done twice a year at the hairdresser 's , but every month or so in between , Mrs Wormwood used to freshen it up by giving it a rinse in the washbasin with something called PLATINUM BLONDE HAIR-DYE EXTRA STRONG . |
| 17 | It was said just the way the woman and Brenner had said it , Das Kampflugzeug , like The Event , and Scholz saw Maxim 's puzzlement . |
| 18 | It turns out that the recording was made nearly a month before the procession , and a contemporary advertisement shows that the record was heard during the Royal Progress through London on 23 June . |
| 19 | Marital work was accepted by these parents in an effort to solve the problem , and progress was made once the father finally admitted that he had been told at work that he was too domineering and was unable to delegate responsibility to his juniors . |
| 20 | ‘ The will was made about a year ago and this is what it amounts to : ‘ The shop premises and stock and all assets pertaining to the business together with the contents of my studio excepting only my tube of Winsor blue to my niece and dear friend Cathy Carne ’ . ’ |
| 21 | Very obviously when this town was designed and laid out and nobody foresaw the growth of the private motor car , er today private motor car is accepted , but in a town which was built perhaps the idea that one in twenty would own a motor car and we 're now faced with the probably one in three have a motor car , we 're now faced with a problem which can only detract from life in the town , also the fact that huge lorries are passing through what were envisaged as quiet residential neighbourhoods with a consequent breaking of curbs and of paving stones where the lorries are compelled to mount the pavings in order to get round parked cars and things of that nature it detracts from the life in Harlow I do , I think a considerable extent , erm , the other factor is that there 's become a lack of pride in the town by the people who live in it , this is seen from the amount of rubbish , and refuse that is dropped from the minor vandalism that goes on the graffiti , er particularly in underpasses where people are walking to the town centre and that , those are the things where the town has lost its way , when we first came here you never saw bits of paper and packages from sweets and cigarettes and things , perhaps maybe because the package industry has developed over the years and that er whereas whenever we had responsibility for taking a small child out , if it had sweets it was encouraged to put the wrappings in its pocket until it got home , now of course it 's encouraged to drop it just where it wants to and er this not only applies to children , some of the worst culprits are the adults who leave the , leave the public houses with a can of beer to drink on the way home and drop it just when they 've finished the last drop of beer or the fish and chip paper 's just dropped . |
| 22 | Christian political sources had warned that unless Major Serhal was freed immediately the incident would be a severe blow to Arab-sponsored peace efforts . |
| 23 | The letter was dated almost a week previously , and as Merrill read it she realised with dismay that Richard was already in the area and was suggesting that they meet in the lounge of Frobishers ' at seven o'clock on Saturday — this evening . |
| 24 | On February 27 she was told only a heart transplant would save her husband 's life and they would have to wait for a donor . |
| 25 | Sally lost her baby pre-term and was told only a fortnight later , ‘ Just get on with having the next one , dearie . ’ |
| 26 | Communion was celebrated once a month . |
| 27 | A small-leafed clover was measured over a week under fully controlled conditions and shows a clear upward growth trend , see Figure and also – which show the details . |
| 28 | M. B. ‘ Suss ’ power was used quite a lot — but it fell into disfavour later on . |
| 29 | Fund-raising for renovation of the crumbling ceiling above the stage raised £44,000 but more work was needed so the Theatre Trust handed over £1,500 towards repairs . |
| 30 | While I 'm on the subject , whatever happened to the Randy Hansen interview which was promised quite a while ago but never appeared ? |