Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Daily food reintroductions were successfully carried out in 64 patients with subsequent exclusion of suspect foods . |
| 2 | Eisenhower 's feelings at the start of the Anglo-French action against Egypt were strikingly summed up in one notable outburst : I 've just never seen great powers make such a complete mess and botch of things … |
| 3 | There was always a long wait for an appointment , sometimes up to a month , and women were only kept in for 24 hours if it was a normal birth . |
| 4 | The main spar booms and other main structural members were sizable pieces of laminated wood , several inches square , and were generally boxed in on three sides by the plywood skin and shear webs . |
| 5 | We were just thrown out from one day to the next . |
| 6 | Where inmates were once locked up for 23 hours everyday a more liberal attitude now prevails . |
| 7 | Problems controlling the temperature were also experienced by about 33 per cent of you . |
| 8 | Mistrust of Russia was widespread , though , and discussions with Britain concerning a possible alliance were also carried on during 1901 . |
| 9 | Ironically the adjoining mills , which for more than a century provided employment for almost the entire village and sup-plemented the picture now provided by the museum , were abruptly shut down in 1988 : bought up by a large firm , the premises were paid an afternoon visit by a director who announced imminent closure and drove off . |
| 10 | Talybont were then sent back for 109 , Wheeler hitting 33 not out and Simon Lloyd Williams 31 . |
| 11 | ‘ We were really young , and were almost burnt out at 21 years old , ’ explained Setzer . |
| 12 | They 've come a long way since those days though — the soles of that pair were completely worn through after 400 miles walking in the Andes so that I ended up walking in my socks ! |
| 13 | Haynes was eventually run out for 62 and left the field in tears thinking he had lost his team the match , but by then only three more were needed and Roberts was striking the ball well . |
| 14 | Sometimes she was so brought down by one of his pronouncements that she had to change completely . |
| 15 | It was all gone in about one minute fifty seconds . |
| 16 | I do n't know , Victorine said : it was all pulled down from one day to the next , and you know it happened during the war , everything was topsy-turvy then . |
| 17 | The change was put down to the fact that , since the act was only brought in in 1986 , it had taken time for its effects to come through . |
| 18 | Although stool collection in their study was only carried out for 24–48 hours , it was done at home . |
| 19 | But the Swiss Confederation of all 23 cantons was only set up in 1848 . |
| 20 | Out went a Tropicana which was soon joined by about fifty free offerings and back on the buzzer the rod went while I returned to my seat . |
| 21 | The Battalion was finally wound up on 7 August 1946 , and the Works lost its close association with the 1st Bucks , of some 69 years ' standing , for in 1947 , in the new TA formation , it became a Light-Anti-Aircraft Regiment , no part of which was raised at Wolverton . |
| 22 | indeed , the mood of the Conservative Party Conference twenty years ago was aptly summed up by one speaker who thought : ‘ Over the past 25 years we in this country , through misguided sentiment , have cast aside the word ‘ discipline ’ ’ , and now we are suffering from it . ’ |
| 23 | The National Curriculum English Working Group was formally set up on 29 April 1988 by the Secretaries of State for Education and Science and for Wales to advise on attainment targets , programmes of study and associated assessment arrangements for English in the National Curriculum for the period of compulsory schooling . |
| 24 | The count of Flanders was usually accompanied by between fifty and a hundred armed men ; the duke of Aquitaine took a hundred knights with him on a visit to the viscount of Ventadour . |
| 25 | Helen ( 20 ) was yesterday locked up for seven days for what the judge described as a ‘ nasty campaign of noise and harassment ’ . |
| 26 | The former England midfielder underwent surgery to remove a blood clot on Monday and was promptly ruled out for ten days . |
| 27 | He then became a leader of the thakin group — thakin was the name given to a European , equivalent to sahib in India — and in 1940 fled from the country and was later joined by about thirty others . |
| 28 | It was later written down in two books called the Mishnah and the Talmud . |
| 29 | LEFT The first Opera House in the Haymarket , London , which was later burnt down in 1789 . |
| 30 | Investment in industry was also scaled down to 10.2 per cent from a previously projected growth range of 12.8-18.4 per cent . |