Example sentences of "[adv] [was/were] [vb pp] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their reasons for doing so were based on several fears : that family allowances would weaken the trade union movement by driving a wedge between the interests of single and married men and that they could interfere with wage negotiations to the detriment of wage rates . |
| 2 | Proceeds of some US$177 million , Can $83 million and A$10 million respectively were raised from these disposals . |
| 3 | Nothing further was heard of this move . |
| 4 | On 2 August he had a spectacular military victory at Baggotrath , calling it ‘ the absolutest victory that ever was got in this kingdom and the least loss of our side ’ , and , after a short interval back in England , he was in command at the siege of Tecroghan Castle near Trim in May 1650 . |
| 5 | When Huw reappeared , having lain low for several days , his scars and bruises were beginning to fade and nothing more was said on either side . |
| 6 | On May 3 it had been reported that Sawyer 's interim government , appointed on April 19 , was ready to resign , apparently as a preliminary to offering the NPFL a power-sharing arrangement ; no more was heard of this proposal , however . |
| 7 | No more was heard of these schemes , but on 9 August Croydon Corporation served notice on the B.E.T . |
| 8 | More was produced in that quarter century than in the previous three quarters , and many times more than in any comparable period in human history ( table 8.1 ) . |
| 9 | He could not speak Masai so he always was accompanied by this man , a Nandi , who , I am afraid , does not speak Masai very good . ’ |
| 10 | Six children from the Gambia ( age 16–29 m ) who had persistent diarrhoea ( more than three loose stools/day , persisting for two to 52 weeks and a mean of 12 weeks ) and giardiasis and failed to clear the infection even after treatment ( metronidazole 25 mg/kg/day for seven days ) and at follow up a year later were included in this study . |
| 11 | It is not clear which , the anger or the boredom , was thought to be the more insulting , but both were expressed as that arrogance for which he was often hated . |
| 12 | The tendency to split up was strengthened by another result of the absence of involvement of the government in London : the colonists had to work out how to handle their local problems of administration and , while there was virtually no idea of challenging the power of the monarch in England , policies had to be decided much faster than the royal government could ever manage . |
| 13 | Laura 's challenge to race back was uttered in that spirit , but she was the better swimmer and reached the jetty strokes ahead of me . |
| 14 | The cottage on the left here was bought by some business type who was going to weekend here with his girlfriend . |
| 15 | The analysis reported here was focused on this group . |
| 16 | Although clerks were barred by canon law from arms and bloodshed , and indeed were excommunicated for such offences in the thirteenth century , the pervasive propaganda mounted by the clergy in support of the king 's wars served to overwhelm these inhibitions in the early fourteenth century . |
| 17 | But er yes there was a , there was er a change invoked that type of er scheme which er initially was felt by each individual er when they were work studied . |
| 18 | He struggled to make the first team when we were in the second , and went on loan to a couple of spanish clubs , then was sold to some crap side for next to nothing . |
| 19 | Their discovery helped overthrow the medieval concept of the Solar System and a few decades later , by a method that I shall not describe , observations of Io led to the first determination of the speed of light , which until then was thought by many philosophers to be infinite . |
| 20 | Jodicus Direct was repeated by both Paul ( The Stork ) Thorburn and myself — about E4 6a I think — ( only joking Mark ! ) . |
| 21 | For example , the tin-glazed pottery made in Europe from the Renaissance onwards was produced in many styles : that made in the Low Countries ( known as Delftware ) is of a specific range and type which varies from one production centre to another and is different again from the maiolica of Italy and the lustreware of Spain . |
| 22 | My memory of the falls was non-existent , or rather was based on that picture of the falls in Stott 's book which showed a small waterfall on a moorland burn with Ben Tee beyond . |