Example sentences of "[adv] a [adj] [noun] [vb past] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the whole edition was of only one thousand copies and only a small number had been circulated when the suppression was ordered , this is obviously a rare book and one that is likely to be costly unless the seller is ignorant of its history . |
| 2 | It could have been worse ; since the first strike had occurred at 9.30 p.m. after the main factory work-hours , and only a skeleton-crew shift had been in operation at that time . |
| 3 | " After seven hours we arrived in Ekondo Jundu , a village in a forest clearing , where only a few outsiders had been seen before . |
| 4 | On 18 February , following ‘ The Rout of Moy ’ , Inverness was occupied by the Jacobites without resistance , and three days later Fort George , the eastern pivot of Wade 's Highland line , capitulated after only a few shots had been fired . |
| 5 | Meanwhile a Round Table had been established in Lauchhammer . |
| 6 | The Supreme Council on April 6 passed a law on elections to the Riigikogu , which was to be Estonia 's parliament ( replacing the Supreme Council ) once a new constitution had been adopted . |
| 7 | Once a three-way division had been agreed in principle , each of the three brothers spent the rest of the summer in consolidating his position where it seemed weakest . |
| 8 | On top of Falkenhayn 's natural indecisiveness , the Crown Prince now knew enough of what lay behind his frequent references to ‘ bleeding the French white ’ to suspect that , even once a critical point had been reached in the battle , the C-in-C could not be relied upon to provide replenishments for ‘ heavy sacrifices ’ involved . |
| 9 | The tumbler lock was made with a perforated bolt which could be slid along once a suitable key had been inserted , to lift vertical pins out of the bolt and thus release it . |
| 10 | Here for once a rural industry had been set up regardless of the availability of local labour or any need to create employment ; at first people in the Weald lacked not merely skill but also , it would seem , sufficient incentive . |
| 11 | Three years later a similar investigation had been carried out around Dounreay , the site of two experimental fast breeder reactors on the north coast of Scotland . |
| 12 | About a dozen deputies had been members of the outgoing parliament ; the average age of the new members was 45 . |
| 13 | Mr. Chapman 's last entry in the journal noted that at 8.45 a.m. a ten-year-old boy had been in the sick ward for three days but had been taken much worse . |
| 14 | By now a new restriction had been placed on their friendship by both parents . |
| 15 | Only the day before a new coach had been delivered to Clive Upton at the Eastleigh Lakeside Railway . |
| 16 | I was surprised , therefore , to discover that quite a busy programme had been arranged for me . |
| 17 | The following evening , when everyone returned to the hotel , quite a few fish had been caught , even a couple of Naver salmon . |
| 18 | Evidently a medieval castle had been built on the site of an Iron Age fort . |
| 19 | By the mid-1980s well over a hundred hypotheses had been put forward to explain the forest decline . |
| 20 | The following morning Charlie read an account of the bombing in the Daily Chronicle and learned that over a hundred Londoners had been killed and some four hundred injured in the raid . |
| 21 | Well over a hundred friends had been invited to luncheon at Woburn Abbey , but they were sworn to secrecy , and asked to arrive by a special route , so that no one went past the house . |
| 22 | In the wake of coverage by the national media , and the campaign of a local MP , it emerged that over a hundred children had been removed on Place of Safety Orders or by means of Wardship Proceedings in the space of less than 3 months . |