Example sentences of "[conj] [det] [was/were] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I thought that that was barred off to the likes of me . ’ |
| 2 | Although this was brought about by the Gulf War and the subsequent world recession , it is certainly now exacerbated by an unrestrained and reckless war of attrition in which dollars are hauled over the top of the grain of a few inches of market share . |
| 3 | Rumour had it that this was carried out by national security forces ‘ in the interests of public peace and harmony ’ . |
| 4 | Indeed , similarities in their formulae suggest that both were drawn up at Fécamp in 1033 . |
| 5 | They had one shot in the first half and that was seen off by Paul Reece . |
| 6 | There was an assumption that inflation would be higher than it was and that was cut back to one point five percent , which I think that I would actually support was a sensible way forward . |
| 7 | And that was plucked out by its roots , and two rows were set up on the green ; boys and girls were in each row . |
| 8 | Erm the following the the last meeting of the committee , erm the matter was er raised by your Chairman and er he asked me to send to all of you er a copy of an extract from the erm Commissions Report relating to Derbyshire and a copy of a Department of the Environment press release of the twenty second of October which refers to one or two things that er David Curry had said about strategic planning and that was sent out to all members of the committee on the twenty second of November and erm n not expecting you to have brought back with you or to have remembered exactly what it said , perhaps I can just erm refer to the , the options for erm strategic planning that were outlined by Mr Curry in that press release and i the er erm er paper that he had delivered . |
| 9 | This view first became popular during and as a consequence of the Scientific Revolution that took place mainly during the seventeenth century and that was brought about by such great pioneering scientists as Galileo and Newton . |
| 10 | And that was put in for your dividend . |
| 11 | So that was the journey waybill and that was handed in at the end of the day and from that and a visual check of the tickets that were returned by him to the ticket office , they could tell which tickets were missing and therefore they were sold to him and er there be , there was the odd shortages but in those days if anybody was short in his takings by , I think it was about sixpence in those days , he was the subject of a another warning by letter and if he persisted , well then he was brought in to see the Traffic Superintendent who erm , could suspend him for two or three days , so he lost pay for two or three days . |
| 12 | Even if that were scaled down to 35 TW , the world in 2030 would still require 1.6 times as much oil as in 1980 , 3.4 times as much natural gas and nearly 6 times as much coal , and nuclear capacity would have to be 30 times greater than in 1980 . |
| 13 | He says we were told one of them was very badly deformed — but we were never told why — I wondered if that was put down to the tests . |
| 14 | Until this was pointed out to me , though , I could not see it . |
| 15 | The Mayor and Corporation flapped about like mud skippers and some were swirled round by the eddies and then flung on to sprawling tree roots where they hung about like wet washing . |
| 16 | The animal skulls resting on the mantelpiece came from as far afield as Arizona and India , and some were brought back to be drawing subjects in more works of art |
| 17 | And this was followed up by a point-blank refusal to deal with Fells 's next query . |
| 18 | He said : ‘ There were more than a dozen enquiries about the tender and this was whittled down to a list of six . |
| 19 | The main Derby — Chesterfield road ran along the other flank and this was fenced off with rabbit-proof wire netting and was screened from the road by a long , narrow spinney . |
| 20 | In order , therefore , to make absolutely certain that the manufactured parts were always ready and on hand , and further , that there was a sufficiency of raw materials and parts in all stages of completion , some form of stocktaking was necessary , and this was kept up to date day-to-day , and even hour-by-hour . |
| 21 | Its supporting declaration called for the creation of " independent organs of struggle based on the factories " , and this was taken up at the Workers Charter Convention held in Bermondsey on 12 April 1931 . |
| 22 | and this was taken up in like folds but the plait stood away from the head , it sort of come out |
| 23 | Spurs defender Danny Thomas claimed damages against Gavin Maguire and his club QPR over an incident which ended his career and this was settled out of court . |
| 24 | One of the most controversial areas of GLC activity ( and this was picked up by the Tories in a party political broadcast as early as 1984 ) , was the Gay Teenage Group which had been set up by gay young men in 1976 . |
| 25 | In vehicle treated rats exposed to three hours of water immersion and restraint stress , gastric lesions appeared as small and scattered haemorrhagic erosions mostly in the oxyntic gland area and this was accompanied by about 63% reduction in gastric blood flow . |
| 26 | Soon another change came as wrights and blacksmiths began to work locally and this was speeded up by the coming of industry attracted by the water power of the Water of Leith . |
| 27 | If this were carried out by candidates in examinations , what a boon it would be to those who have to mark the scripts ! |
| 28 | The profits of the news business were never substantial and much was ploughed back into expansion . |
| 29 | The Act also contains a number of aggravated offences of possessing a firearm with various intents , and these were set out in Chapter 7.7 above . |
| 30 | When the messages were decoded they emerged as apparently meaningless blocks of letters , and these were passed on to the linguists in Hut 3 who turned them into intelligible German . |