Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [adj] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The schools were quick to point out to us that they regarded these figures for truancy as an underestimate . |
| 2 | After the seventh war with the Turks ( 1714–18 ) the Venetians were able to advance up to the present Bosnian border , taking in the whole of Sinjsko Polje and Imotski . |
| 3 | Negotiating the allocation encountered problems ( some entrenched Liberal candidates were unwilling to step down in favor of SDP candidates ) but , once achieved , the local party responsible for fielding a candidate made its choice and that candidate was then endorsed by the other party . |
| 4 | It was nearly seven in the evening and the sun was setting behind their backs before the two weary , footsore brothers were able to limp back to their barracks in Number Three Village with their joint quota fulfilled . |
| 5 | Officially , the force was supposed to go in by invitation only ; avoid looking like the heavy mob ; and not humiliate authorities which felt they were hounded because they were struggling to cope on their own . |
| 6 | The contest between the two candidates was first fought out before cardinals Gaucelin and Luke in England , but in 1318 the case was revoked to the Roman curia at Avignon , where Hamo was himself constrained to go in early 1319 . |
| 7 | The course machinery was also increasingly sophisticated , and was supposedly superior , and the Club was obliged to keep up with the latest ideas , as both members and staff expected it . |
| 8 | This area of study was first opened up by Professor Kurt Lewin in the United States in the mid 1940 's with the use of so-called ‘ T-groups ’ as a device for the study of inter-personal relations within groups . |
| 9 | Pat saw just how true that was so the night that Ken was due to go out with one of his current close friends . |
| 10 | As Timothy West tells it , this was a moment as chilling as any Ken was able to conjure up in the theatre . |
| 11 | The input cursive line data was first filled in to a consistent thickness . |
| 12 | The youngsters were all locked up for days in solitary confinement at children 's homes in Staffordshire . |
| 13 | That would be about sixty , sixty one as I see , and er they were the last match of the season virtually was that they gained promotion on was Shrewsbury , which was at the game meadow and Arthur , the player manager who was a prolific goal scorer in his day , was playing at the time and er nobody expected Walsall to win but they ran out two-one winners and all down the A five that night all the pubs were full coming back with everyone celebrating , so erm , after then they had a civic dinner at the Town Hall for the players and they did a big flower display in the arboretum all set out in flowers the club badge and congratulation lads on winning promotion , and this when they kicked off the following season , in the second division , prior to that they played a friendly match against Leicester and Gordon was in goal and I took my boy with me Tim , who was only a toddler at the time , and he , I stood him on the old archway where the players used to run out , but the first league match was against Sunderland and Brian , actually played for Sunderland as centre forward and er Walsall ran out four-three winners in the end Tony , who was Walsall inside left got a hat trick and I believe Tommy , got the other goal and Brian scored for Sunderland , then the er we went on to the , the first away match which was at Derby County , and Walsall won that three-one . |
| 14 | Her parents were both cut off by their wealthy families , following a clandestine marriage in the early 1750s . |
| 15 | The Indians were supposed to look on at what was happening as if these two white men in skirts were barmy . |
| 16 | The coffee cups were all laid out on long white-napped tables , and waiters hovered over the silver urn , dispensing coffee to a few early arrivals . |
| 17 | The bills were all made out to Hugo Rune . |
| 18 | His footsteps were hard to pick out in the roaring darkness . |
| 19 | Did he feel better or worse that neither the genuine Matthew Prescott nor the spurious Michael Watney was able to get through to Alexandra ? |
| 20 | The boy was mad rushing out into the open like that . |
| 21 | In the meantime , work was proceeding on the Croydon — Sutton line and the time limit specified in the Act was due to run out by the end of the year . |
| 22 | To a large extent of course the Queen was able to make up for the loss by grants of double , triple , and even quadruple subsidies , but in doing so she may have encouraged resistance . |
| 23 | The seminal work of such type was that carried out by the Italian psychiatrist , Lombroso , who set out to demonstrate the pathological nature of genius , quoting examples as varied as Julius Caesar , Mohammed , Newton , Rousseau , and Schopenhauer . |
| 24 | Frank was keen to carry on with his commitments in Blackpool … particularly with the Labour Party conference , he did n't want to let them down . |
| 25 | ‘ Against the odds , Simon was able to play on after the interval and was an instrumental part of our fight-back . |
| 26 | Following a tap penalty Mark Willis and Wilkinson were both held up on the line before McGrath touched down and Mike Robson converted . |
| 27 | Lifelong friend Stan Cardwell said that when youth hostels were first set up in 1930s , Mr Lear helped form a Darlington branch and often used the hostels in his cross country expeditions . |
| 28 | It was one of those uncomfortable collisions with discontent about housing and the quality of food which Ceauşescu 's aides were supposed to keep out of his itinerary . |
| 29 | Rex and Harpo/Chico were all nuzzled up in the land of nod , so I took myself over to the window to watch the sun rise over Presley City . |
| 30 | Following those frustrations , Dettori only narrowly avoided a final disaster when jockeys ' planes were unable to take off from Newmarket owing to high winds . |