Example sentences of "[det] was [verb] [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | This was posed both against other competing ‘ civilized ’ nations and against those black and brown races who threatened to swamp the globe with their animal savagery . |
| 3 | This was followed up by joint guidelines on the nursing management of people infected with HIV ( ICN/WHO 1988 ) , and WHO declared December 1 , 1988 , a World AIDS Day to heighten awareness about the disease , and to provide information , as opposed to myth and rumour , about its spread and means of containment . |
| 4 | This was followed subsequently by great interest in all the smells and scents of the roadside , even the occasional canine encounter — accompanied by the whole world of doggie communication : nose to nose , nose to tail , side by side , tail and body postures , ears up , ears down — their inward mental structure is quite clearly being expressed in a language and through sense perceptions and actions we do not share . |
| 5 | This was pointed out in clear terms in a case which merits more attention than it sometimes receives , namely , Reg. v. Heston-Francois [ 1984 ] Q.B . |
| 6 | In a White Paper ( Rates : Proposals for Rate Limitation and the Reform of the Rating System , 1983 ) blame for this was placed mainly on excessive spending by a small number of authorities , which the government proposed to curtail by a new control mechanism : rate-capping . |
| 7 | This was stimulated further by additional supplementation with phosphate , especially in the colon and faeces . |
| 8 | This was reinforced further by demographic changes which , by the early years of the twentieth century , already meant that an increasing number of people survived into old age without any children at all . |
| 9 | This was achieved partly through capitalist agriculture driving out family farms . |
| 10 | For many years this was confined mainly to comparative considerations embracing strong ideological overtones , such as factors which have engendered ‘ the labour problem ’ ( Weber , 1974 ) . |
| 11 | This was taken up by local historians as an opportunity to highlight the indignity committed against the town and to use that as an excuse for Stamford 's embarrassing decline into a small provincial town the ‘ sleepy hollow ’ backwater of the nineteenth century . |
| 12 | and this was taken up in like folds but the plait stood away from the head , it sort of come out |
| 13 | This was arrested not by coastal raiders or financial collapse , but by the fall of Magnentius , so disastrous for the British magnates . |
| 14 | Rumour had it that this was carried out by national security forces ‘ in the interests of public peace and harmony ’ . |
| 15 | All this was washed down with unlimited quantities of wine , beer , porter and champagne . |
| 16 | Thus , while the state attempted to monopolize such discussion as took place — for example when the ‘ neutral ’ forum for discussion at the VEC seminar was turned by the authorities into a reassurance session — this was resisted locally by successful intervention and contestation at the VEC seminar both by an outside speaker and by DUC activists , and by forcing the issue back on the table for discussion at the local authority level . |
| 17 | Can you say how much was taken out of working capital at the er oil services operations last year and a supplementary point assuming that about seventy percent of oil service revenues were international , international last year , er how significant would the North Sea be within that international figure and t to what degree have the budget changes impacted there or will impact there , because we 're already starting to hear some er fairly nasty noises are n't we from ? |
| 18 | The latter was provided mainly by international banks operating in the euro-currency markets to middle-income countries , e.g. Brazil , South Korea . |
| 19 | Well , some people do n't have much of a sex-drive , ’ Charles observed fatuously , aware that his own was revving up like mad . |
| 20 | A moment to consider this , then my father had closed the door gently , returned to the wheel and had proceeded to continue the tour of the three villages — a tour , Mr Charles assured me , that was completed thereafter in near silence . |