Example sentences of "[adj] [was/were] [verb] [adv prt] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was not designer stubble , this was getting up in the morning and not being bothered . |
| 2 | Shortly afterwards came the Chronica Gentis Scottorum of John of Fordun , again stressing the achievements of the Scots , and the villainy of Edward I. This was followed up in the early fifteenth century by the verse chronicle of Andrew of Wyntoun , prior of Lochleven . |
| 3 | The basic philosophy is the same , however , in that both views illustrate the fact that there is in intonation some organisation at a level higher than the isolated tone-unit ; this was pointed out in the discussion of Trim ( 1959 ) ( notes on Chapter 16 above ) ; see also Fox ( 1973 ) . |
| 4 | This was carried out in the form of a maze of plants surrounding Her Majesty 's Coat of Arms . |
| 5 | Six was brought up in the family business but declining trade prompted him to retire early and devote himself to the wide range of interests typical of an eighteenth-century intellectual , although there is no evidence that he ever received any formal training . |
| 6 | Most of these were set up in the early 1970s , often from existing sites rather than de novo . |
| 7 | These were set out in the code of practice issued under the Environmental Protection Act . |
| 8 | Total restructuring costs of about $2.4 BILLION were written off in the fourth quarter of 1989 . |
| 9 | Tartan carpet using the Cumbernauld Tartan was laid out in the Country Club and its connecting passages . |
| 10 | Times have changed dramatically for the worse in Wales , a condition brought on as much as anything by the masochistic fixture-making which has brought about so much contact between the countries since the Welsh were blacked out in the 1987 World Cup semi-final . |
| 11 | ‘ The worst that was brought out in the dispute was brought out in our own — some of our departed brethren ’ . |
| 12 | The task of the Prime Minister was unremitting , for he was on duty every minute of the day and night and must know all that was going on in the Government . |
| 13 | And when it is burnt in large amounts , then the CO 2 that was taken up in the ancient world over a period of , say , a million years , may be released into the modern world in just a few years . |
| 14 | well not everyone was racing around at the weekend … thousands were sitting out in the sun yesterday at Moreton in Marsh to enjoy a game of sunday cricket … it was Gloucestershire against Northamptonshire |
| 15 | The Romanesque was taken over in the last two decades of the nineteenth century , when American railway-station building reached its apogee in masterpieces of creative eclecticism . |
| 16 | The last was set up in the seventies when apparently some defector had cast some doubt on Mills . |