Example sentences of "[adj] [was/were] [verb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The details of this were given in Part 1 . |
| 2 | Powerful public examples of this were seen in photographs taken after the death of the American president J.F. Kennedy who had become a great folk hero to the American people . |
| 3 | The decisions on this were taken in August 1981 before the formal emergence of the Labour Party split at a time when the old guard were in control of the Labour Group . |
| 4 | The conclusions we characteristically reach about this were learned in childhood when we needed to make sense of the many confusing and contradictory recordings in our three ego-states . |
| 5 | He also said that his government would welcome the return of the 80,000 Ugandans Asians who in 1972 were forced by Amin to flee the country [ see pp. 25469-70 ] , and confirmed that they would be able to recover their property or seek compensation for their losses . |
| 6 | For example , 6,760 were recorded at Selsey Bill between 23 April and 1 May 1962 , 4,310 at Beachy Head between 15 April and 2 June , 1971 , and 7,490 there between 25 March and 17 May 1973 , and 6,450 between 29 February and 15 May 1976 . |
| 7 | I am not drawing comparisons here , I am just making the point that 500-plus were lost in the Battle of Britain and nearly 700 were lost at Nuremburg on one raid . |
| 8 | Prices of 24p for first-class and 18p second-class were frozen in October until the end of this month , and now will remain unchanged through August . |
| 9 | No doubt Mr. Spencer was pleased to note that S.M.E.T. Nos. 36–51 were equipped with track brakes which he had invented many years ago at Bradford . |
| 10 | In the Columbia River area of the western U.S.A. where most of the lavas were erupted about twenty million years ago , such vast amounts of basalt were poured out on to the surface that hills 1,500 metres high were drowned in lava ! |
| 11 | The Northern Region , Scotland and Northern Ireland recorded the highest age-adjusted mortality rates in 1986 , at over 13.0 per thousand , while the lowest at under 11.0 were found in East Anglia , the South West and the South East . |
| 12 | The large families in class V were born of ignorance and fear of sex and contraception , and of reluctance to discuss them by parents . |
| 13 | It is more likely that the waters of Marah referred to in Exodus 15:23–25 were contaminated with iron rather than algae as Dr S. Fletcher suggest ( Chem . |
| 14 | Few were tempted by credit cards , debit cards , store cards or account cards to overstretch themselves , but ‘ in several moments of madness ’ Allison Battye was able to do so at Harrods , the House of Fraser store in Knightsbridge , to the tune of £2,300 on a card which Harrods had given her on the strength of her claiming on the application form that she was in employment , which was not true . |
| 15 | As a great many parishes had invested in new pulpits and lecterns during the fifteenth century , few were erected during Elizabeth 's reign , but following the issuing in 1604 of new ecclesiastical canons which ordered that ‘ a comely and decent pulpit ’ should be kept in every church , the reign of James I saw a notable upsurge in pulpit-building . |
| 16 | Many were small and few were engaged in manufacturing . |
| 17 | Most wore bikinis or swimsuits ; a few were swathed in towels . |
| 18 | A total of 22 were moved into first-floor wards . |
| 19 | The route from Bombay 's Victoria Terminus perhaps the most impressive station in the world , and noted for its decorative friezes which are dedicated to the railways of North-East England , including Stephenson and the embryonic Stockton and Darlington Railway crosses 100 bridge spans in the first 24 miles , of which 22 were fabricated by DWEC ( 1878–1905 ) . |
| 20 | On 11 December the rumour spread that the French were landing in Pevensey Bay , like William the Conqueror 700 years earlier . |
| 21 | Yet it was to be under the new regime , for all the difficulties of the power-struggle at home , rather than under the strong rule of Henri II , that the French were to come in force to the aid of Mary of Guise against the Scottish heretics ; for the effective rulers of the two countries were now , after all , the two Guise brothers in France and their sister the regent in Scotland . |
| 22 | Before then , in June 1340 , Lewis of Bavaria deserted him and made peace with Philip ; in June 1341 David II returned to Scotland and renewed border raids ; James van Arteveldt began to alienate his Flemish allies ; and the French were advancing in Gascony . |
| 23 | A British tourist , Mr Edward Gait , and a West German were crushed to death and 12 other foreigners were injured when a restaurant roof collapsed in Arona , Tenerife , police said yesterday . |
| 24 | Five foreigners kidnapped by a Turkish Kurdish group on Aug. 30 were released on Sept. 20 . |
| 25 | Some were written in caligraphy , another with a child 's stencil set . |
| 26 | Some were built by lairds for their own estates , or by burghs for the benefit of their citizens , to provide fresh meat during winter when , before the introduction of turnips as winter fodder , cattle had to be slaughtered and salted down in wooden tubs . |
| 27 | Some were shot on location in shanty towns or marginal neighbourhoods . |
| 28 | Some of these were old portraits that Boy had bought in a street market early on a Sunday morning , wing collars and moustaches printed in sepia ; some were cut from pornographic magazines or bodybuilding magazines ( in colour ) ; some were cut from newspapers ( these in black and white ) . |
| 29 | Some were appointed by letters patent under the Great Seal : in 1299 , for example , Gervase of Holloway , King 's yeoman , was granted for life , as a reward for long service : |
| 30 | Some were presented with medals . |