Example sentences of "the [adj] was [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second was called up by reference to Archbold , Criminal Pleading Evidence & Practice , 44th ed. ( 1992 ) , vol. 1 , p. 433 , para. 4–45 . |
| 2 | Women 's experimental art of the seventies was left out of the original choice . |
| 3 | The latter was set up in a tent and foregrounded five white bigots beating a black man in the glare of automobile headlights . |
| 4 | But in the devastating Resolution of 1948 , the Sixth was singled out for criticism and removed from the repertoire . |
| 5 | Leading after three rounds , the fourth was washed out without a ball being hit . |
| 6 | Ziff-Davis Publishing Co is closing PC Sources and is turning Corporate Computing into a newsletter ; the first was beaten out of the market by another Ziff publication , and the latter was squeezed as Ziff 's personal computer magazines increasingly encroached on its turf . |
| 7 | Two pensioners lost their second home — the first was wiped out by Hurricane Elena in 1985 . |
| 8 | The first was coming back from a fruitless wait for Gríshnakh the orc , dead and burnt that same day , with the smoke from his burning ‘ seen by many watchful eyes ’ . |
| 9 | The first was passed by with a view to concentrating efforts on the second . |
| 10 | The seventh was to fall back into someone 's arms . |
| 11 | The background to the above was set out in a letter from the Operations branch at MEHQ dated 22 February , in which they proposed the use of L Detachment as parachutists in a tactical role , for seizing and holding ground in co-operation with other forces landing by sea or advancing across the desert . |
| 12 | It appeared that the former was hung up on sadomasochism and the latter high on sex , leaving little for Fonda and Hopper to do but punctuate every word with ‘ man ’ . |
| 13 | The analysis represented by the Munn Report was indeed more sophisticated than that of the DES document ; the fact that the former was drawn up by professionals rather than civil servants may have something to do with this . |
| 14 | The Western was moving out of its frame , until it disappeared altogether . |
| 15 | The last was set up in the seventies when apparently some defector had cast some doubt on Mills . |
| 16 | The Romanesque was taken over in the last two decades of the nineteenth century , when American railway-station building reached its apogee in masterpieces of creative eclecticism . |
| 17 | Burial in a churchyard was becoming a thing of the past in central London from the 1840s onwards ; space was too precious , and the task of burying the dead was taken over by non-denominational cemeteries run largely on a commercial basis . |
| 18 | Indeed a mill design developed during the 1950s was turned down by a local planning enquiry : one of the aims of the CEGB 's current wind programme is to gain some feedback on public attitudes to modern designs . |
| 19 | Although the Conservatives are seen as the natural allies of nuclear power , the ordering of every commercial reactor in Britain up to the 1980s was carried out by a Labour administration . |