Example sentences of "[adj] was [vb pp] [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obviously this was challenged at some point . |
| 2 | And approval for this was given by this Committee last October . |
| 3 | The first oil crisis gave rise to renewed demand for dollars , since payments to oil exporting countries are made in this form , but in the late 1970s this was followed by another dollar crisis which undermined its integrity as the key international reserve asset . |
| 4 | This was followed by more lemonade . |
| 5 | For journeys by day this was converted into another day compartment , the bedstead removed . |
| 6 | This was noted by all manner of commentators in the middle years of the nineteenth century , but it was the banker , journalist , and cautious liberal , Walter Bagehot who provided the authoritative account of the new set-up in his study of The English Constitution published in 1867 . |
| 7 | In the secondary school this was typified by this comment ( from a non-artist ) : |
| 8 | This was done without any cynicism or insincerity . |
| 9 | I realize that this was done without any intention of hurting anyone , but maybe it would be good to point out that this term can and does offend . |
| 10 | Whether in terms of German economic and monetary union , the immediate measures that the European Community will be thinking of taking , the transitional arrangements once Germany is unified , and that this was done without any rancour but was done with the feelings of directly elected parliamentarians . |
| 11 | This was echoed by another boy : You see , my mom right , she says some words to me , right , sometimes , right , wha' I ca n't understand you know an' I sort of start laughin' , but then again right , y' know , I can understand some o' de words which she says to me y' know — I even speak it back to her , y' see . |
| 12 | The advantage of our body clock is that it improves the way in which we fit into a rhythmic environment ( this was considered in more detail in Chapter 8 ) . |
| 13 | While he was in Paris he had been encouraged by Émile Zola to write novels , and in 1891 he published Guilty Bonds , a melodramatic story of conspiracy in Russia ; this was banned in that country , but it was the first of over 130 novels and biographies concerned with murder , espionage , and the occult . |
| 14 | Thus while standards were relaxed , this was accompanied by less tolerance of their breach , compliance being expected in 95 per cent , rather than 75 per cent , of samples : ‘ exposing ourselves five per cent of the time ’ , as a senior man put it , thinking of his agency 's sewage works . |
| 15 | Erm no , this was told to me , I presume this was discussed as some sort of |
| 16 | This applies to a certain extent to the solution of the detailed stress distribution around a crack and until this was known in some detail it was not possible to predict what a crack would do when it met an inhomogeneity such as the interface between a fibre and a resin . |
| 17 | The prelude to this was set by another psychoanalyst called Otto Rank one of Freud 's er early followers who had published a book called the Myth of the Birth of the Hero and in this book what Rank did was to trawl through world folklore and literature , from myths of heroes , and of course there are a lot of those books , and dozens and dozens of them and what he does in the book is he distils all these dozens and dozens of myths and he finds that there 's a common pattern emerges and it 's , it 's pretty stereotypical actually and the common pattern is the hero is born of royal or divine parents , the hero for some reason or other that loses his parents or is cast out by them or is er exposed in some way , erm the hero is often threatened by some outside force and then rescued by er humble people . |
| 18 | This was attributed to some extent to heightened expectations among the disenfranchised majority , and , in Natal , to a bitter struggle for political control of the townships . |
| 19 | Their total of 134 was overhauled without much trouble and pride was restored . |
| 20 | We had coffee , talked of the gardens and of plants difficult to grow in chalky soil — but nothing personal was said on either side , nor any thought of how she happened to be with me . |
| 21 | You know , it 's bad defending , but we looked a different side second half , and not much was said at half time . |
| 22 | The best plan was therefore to study a few typical ones : T. H. Huxley 's course on the crayfish at South Kensington in the 1870s was based on this principle , close study of a crayfish preparing one for any invertebrate . |
| 23 | That he was not Jewish was seen as another point in his favour . |
| 24 | According to the Shaka'ik biography of Mehmed Sah , the latter was appointed to that medrese at the age of eighteen ( Mecdi gives seventeen ) ; and it is clear from that account that Fahreddin Acemi was his muid at the time of his first lesson . |
| 25 | Back in 1988 though , none of the above was known to this actress , who fancied herself as a serious artist who 'd been through the portals of the National and the RSC , albeit coming quickly out the other side , and whose biggest ambition was a ) to perfect a stage yawn , b ) to trim her inner thighs , and c ) to fry a perfect fishball . |
| 26 | He thought that Tite and other MPs considered Gothic to be dull , expensive , incongruous and associated with ‘ a peculiar religious sentiment ’ , and reminded Palmerston that originally Gothic was used for all building , not just churches . |
| 27 | No. 65 was used for this run ; it was the one which had made the trials on Anerley Hill before public service commenced . |
| 28 | In fact , none of the inappropriate relaxations of the lower oesophageal sphincter was accompanied by this type of non-deglutitive motor activity . |
| 29 | Some very early work in AI attempted to model parallel processing , but the machines available were so primitive that little was learnt from this exercise . |
| 30 | We should remember that very little was known at that time about the ways in which the ovaries influence distant organs . |