Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] was [adv] [verb] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | A strong SNP showing in Stirling was largely responsible for his success , while the Liberal vote there was dramatically squeezed and fell by eight per cent . |
| 2 | The RIBA had produced a standard form of building contract which was widely used and regarded as reflecting the various roles involved . |
| 3 | Audrey Walker talks of ‘ Cherries ’ as a light-hearted piece , a small tribute to her mother , whose work she was previously rejected and undervalued . |
| 4 | On this basis , no parents would consider abortion for ‘ Reason four ’ ( see Chapter five ) ; everything possible would be done to help the survival of the severely handicapped ; parents would in almost all cases wish to keep their child , and there would be no actual difference between bringing up a child who was mentally handicapped and one who was not , or one who was disabled or one who was not , unless the necessary support services were lacking . |
| 5 | Robyn forced herself to picture the scene he was unbelievably painting and shuddered . |
| 6 | But within his own terms of reference he was well informed and attentive . |
| 7 | They bathed his arm again but with the water of the brook instead of wine , and though this gave him brief ease he was soon moaning and tossing again . |
| 8 | They bathed his arm again but with the water of the brook instead of wine , and though this gave him brief ease he was soon moaning and tossing again . |
| 9 | I did n't know at what rate I was now travelling and no longer bothered to work it out . |
| 10 | Back down the changing pathway , hazel to laurel , laurel to laburnum , laburnum to high walls , then the bright conservatory and all the long windows of the house ; past the terraces falling leisurely on her right hand , then along the back avenue she was still running and crying . |
| 11 | A woman who was repeatedly beaten and humiliated by her husband has gone to the Appeal Court to have her conviction for his murder overturned . |
| 12 | I only know there was a father who was both idolised and undoubtedly feared , a dogmatic and overbearing Catholic . |
| 13 | His family claim he was badly concussed and the RAF were guilty of negligence when they allowed him to make the second jump . |
| 14 | We now know a little more about Clearchus of Soli , thanks to an unusual inscription which was recently published and admirably illustrated by Iouis Robert . |
| 15 | It 's not Edward King , the man who was actually drowned and whom , as it happens , Milton hardly knew , it 's Lucidas , the figure of the young poet , priest , put to some extent on a classical model that he is writing about . |
| 16 | They had little confidence in the pilot who was eventually produced and whose hands shook like those of a dope-fiend . |
| 17 | After damage in the Fourth Crusade it was further restored and added to in the fourteenth century ( 192 ) . |
| 18 | If his parents bought her a present he was always comparing and felt that she had better things and more things than he did . |
| 19 | Despite extensive damage it was later rebuilt and used as a roller corn mill . |
| 20 | Although I had had only two stitches at the delivery I was tightly bandaged and not allowed to get out of bed for three days . |
| 21 | Phil Andrews was in command of Valiant two years later when Filden I was again intercepted and found to be attempting to smuggle a large quantity of cigarettes . |
| 22 | Led by Alberta Premier Donald Getty , the western provinces demanded that any constitutional reform package had to include a Senate which was wholly elected and which included an equal number of representatives from each province regardless of its size . |
| 23 | LORD HANWORTH M.R. [ after stating the facts and accepting the principle that a creditor is not bound by an agreement to accept a smaller sum in satisfaction of a larger ascertained amount , unless there be a benefit or even any legal possibility of benefit to the creditor thrown in ] : We have , therefore , to consider whether the agreement that was made here on July 6 was an agreement to do anything else than simply to pay on Friday , July 8 , into the hand of the creditors the sum which was already ascertained and in respect of which there was not only the legal liability , but a duty enforceable by any mode of execution against the debtor . |
| 24 | In practice , the planning system is being used to settle disputes between neighbours in a way which was never intended and for which it is not designed . |
| 25 | Hugh came out of the bathroom which was dimly lit and marbled as a side chapel . |
| 26 | This report describes the case of a patient who was initially diagnosed and treated as having coeliac disease and lymphocytic gastritis but who responded poorly to a gluten free diet . |
| 27 | In her memory it was always raining and always cold . |
| 28 | A man like Ben Nicholson , elderly now , rather frail , still I hope working — certainly last year he was still working and exhibiting — is part of an international modern art tendency , or number of tendencies and is recognized as such , and yet if you examine his art , it 's full of Englishness as well . |
| 29 | Although there was a sort of mediaeval corporation it did n't have the royal charter , and so in the end of the seventeenth century it was somewhat subverted and really there was no proper town government to speak of until the beginning of the nineteenth century with the borough commissioners and then later on with the Mayor and Corporation which was set up in 1881 . |
| 30 | I lifted the dog on to the table There was no doubt he was enormously improved and I did my best to join in the rejoicing . |