Example sentences of "[adj] was [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The terms respondents used to describe the advantages of early retirement , or to rationalize it in retrospect , often showed concern for the position of young people in the labour market , although this was rarely cited as a reason for taking early retirement . |
| 2 | This was well summarised by Murray et al . |
| 3 | Orkney wives were generally much happier outside than inside and this was well illustrated in the figures for taking over the paperwork ( 7% ) and those for attending sick stock ( 32% ) . |
| 4 | This was well illustrated by the refusal of the authorities in Germany to allow GEC to purchase the then nearly bankrupt electrical company AEG following objections from the German trade unions . |
| 5 | This was well illustrated by station-building and civic pride outside the capital . |
| 6 | This was well symbolized by the enthronement of the gospel book at the Council , though more could have been made of it ( de Maio , 1963 , p. 21 ; Bianchi , 1987 , p. 117 ) . |
| 7 | This was well correlated with the values obtained from those with BrdUrd labelling in the 10 rats in whom both methods were used ( r=0.72 , p=0.001 ) . |
| 8 | This was well known during the last century because the pioneers used it in their flintlock guns . |
| 9 | This was well captured by George Orwell who , in Coming up for air ( 1939 ) , describes the return of George Bowling , after 18 unimaginative years in insurance and marriage to the joyless Hilda , and now shaken by the fear of a future war , returns to the village of his childhood : Lower Binfield . |
| 10 | This was badly damaged in the 1908 fire , and the small part which remains is now carefully protected in a glass case at the back of the church . |
| 11 | Nonetheless , Saville also pointed out that the rate of decline had begun to slow down , and this was also confirmed by other studies of the time . |
| 12 | Agents that inhibit gastric acid secretion enhance the healing and this was also confirmed in our study because omeprazole at a dose that almost completely inhibited gastric acid secretion was effective in promoting ulcer healing . |
| 13 | This was also rejected on the ground that the Commission had wide and flexible discretion and was not obliged to put every piece of material to all interested parties . |
| 14 | This was also accepted by Byelarus . |
| 15 | This was also demonstrated by Albania 's Oct. 19 decision to open its airspace to commercial aircraft . |
| 16 | This was also seen by the coronameter , which registers the faint visible light scattered from coronal electrons , using an occulting disk to blank off the string visible emission from the surface of the Sun . |
| 17 | However , 188/730 26% ( 22.6% to 28.9% ) of responders had A level qualifications or their equivalent ( fig 2 ) compared to 19% of the general population , and this was also related to symptom score , the mean in those with A levels being 2.26 , and without 2.44 ( difference 0.053 to 0.287 ) . |
| 18 | This was also accompanied by a reflective quality of thought that seemed to correspond to Parson 's higher categories of aesthetic appraisal , and to McCoy 's ( 1977 ) notion of emotional satisfaction being related to a construct system 's construal of its own adequacy . |
| 19 | To the first important one , the Order of St Louis created by Louis XIV , were now added the Prussian Pour le Mérite in 1740 ( though until 1810 this was also awarded to civilians ) , the Habsburg Order of Maria Theresa ( 1757 ) and the Russian Order of St George ( 1769 ) . |
| 20 | This was also controlled by a private club , but we were sometimes given a day 's fishing and generally managed to come home with a few trout . |
| 21 | This was also expected as a learned mechanism did not adhere with either hypothesis . |
| 22 | A figure not far short of this was also found in the biological parents from whom they had been separated , though not in their adoptive relatives , in whom the incidence was much lower . |
| 23 | But as this was also mentioned before the match — only ‘ as good as when you won the title ’ fits to those areas . |
| 24 | Murie says that this was also happening under the previous system : ‘ As the new subsidy scheme under the Housing Act 1980 had been operated to increase council rents ( which in 1982–3 accounted for a higher proportion of average earnings than at any time since 1945 ) , so exchequer subsidies have fallen ’ . |
| 25 | This was also adverted to by the county surveyor in a letter dated 7 February 1983 to Mr. Page , the borough engineer . |
| 26 | This was even said in England . |
| 27 | Masturbation did not become respectable , but there was a new stress on its ability to rob adolescence of real fulfilment , and this was even echoed in the work of sex reformers such as Havelock Ellis and expressed in G. Stanley Hall 's two volumes on adolescence . |
| 28 | This was even read by a legal advocate , before whom Wilson and her husband signed the letter . |
| 29 | But this was immediately denied by sources close to former Labour leader Neil Kinnock . |
| 30 | This was immediately confirmed by a sound similar to that which my own shoulders had made on first entering the narrow space . |