Example sentences of "[adj] [was/were] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If all this were laid on with a trowel , the reader 's patience would quickly wear thin . |
| 2 | Following the report of its working group , recommendations concerning this were passed on to the newly appointed UKCC on its inception in July 1983 . |
| 3 | ‘ Places like this were set up for disenfranchised groups ’ , says Susannah Lopez , one of the two co-op members . |
| 4 | If this were carried out by candidates in examinations , what a boon it would be to those who have to mark the scripts ! |
| 5 | Some were dragged out of their cars and butchered by angry crowds in the street . |
| 6 | The Mayor and Corporation flapped about like mud skippers and some were swirled round by the eddies and then flung on to sprawling tree roots where they hung about like wet washing . |
| 7 | Some were wheeling about in chairs , others reading beside some shady tree . |
| 8 | Some were catapulted out of smashed windows , while others were trapped and had to be cut free . |
| 9 | The animal skulls resting on the mantelpiece came from as far afield as Arizona and India , and some were brought back to be drawing subjects in more works of art |
| 10 | Some were brought back from new and exotic lands simply as sources of amusement or sensation . |
| 11 | Again , the Zuwaya did not base their genealogy solely on brotherhood : some groups were written in , recruited for instance when a group had insufficient members by natural means ; some were brought in by marriage ; one major section ( Muftah ) was related as half-brothers ( through their mother ) to Shuaghr , who were related as half-brothers ( through their father ) to the other sections of the Zuwaya . |
| 12 | People occurred along the way and some would be talked to , questioned , while some were passed by with little more than a cursory glance . |
| 13 | Some were taken back to the dungeons of Black Crag where they remain to this day , to the anger of Kazador . |
| 14 | So some were staring down at you and others were well below your eye level , which meant that you were scanning for each piece rather than reading them as a series . |
| 15 | Some were whipped up with egg whites , lemon peel , and extra cream , some were served with raspberry , strawberry , redcurrant , apple , quince or medlar jelly . |
| 16 | Other people wrote with personal memories of the author , and these were divided up : some were handed over to Mr Kronweiser , as keeper of the Machin Archive ; some were retained by Viola ; and some went the way of the begging letters . |
| 17 | Eight patients of group 1 and seven patients of group 2 were followed up for a period of >3 years ( mean follow up 47 ( range 37–60 ) months for both groups ) . |
| 18 | Fifty-three were taken out of the reckoning , including 10 trained by Henry Cecil . |
| 19 | Although as the largest parliamentary party the CEDA might have expected to dominate government after the November 1933 election , this was ruled out by the President of the Republic , Alcalá Zamora , on grounds of the CEDA 's non-republicanism . |
| 20 | This lascivious hankering for the impossible , this lusty speculation and mystification , what the Vermorels call ‘ consumer mysticism ’ , all of this was written off by Punk , which left us with a shame about worship , made it a pad of its task to negotiate equal terms between audience and artist . |
| 21 | This was made up of the organic residues of farms , forestry , industry and domestic refuse . |
| 22 | This was made up of a £621,800 increase in the specific provision and a reduction of £98,000 in the general provision against residential property , and a £4,740 increase in the specific provision against unsecured loans . |
| 23 | This was made up of £3.5m from 1990–1 and £7m from 1991–2 . |
| 24 | The number of statistical staff at the 650 was indeed cut by about a third , but as the Pickford report points out , this was made up for by greater use of computers . |
| 25 | This was made up by the Head Girl mixing together oxide of zinc , glycerine , rosewater , a touch of yellow ochre and methylated spirits , the latter helping to dry it on the legs . |
| 26 | This was not designer stubble , this was getting up in the morning and not being bothered . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | In order , therefore , to make absolutely certain that the manufactured parts were always ready and on hand , and further , that there was a sufficiency of raw materials and parts in all stages of completion , some form of stocktaking was necessary , and this was kept up to date day-to-day , and even hour-by-hour . |
| 29 | Shortly afterwards came the Chronica Gentis Scottorum of John of Fordun , again stressing the achievements of the Scots , and the villainy of Edward I. This was followed up in the early fifteenth century by the verse chronicle of Andrew of Wyntoun , prior of Lochleven . |
| 30 | 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 . |