Example sentences of "[adj] was [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | This was made up of the organic residues of farms , forestry , industry and domestic refuse . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | This was made up of £3.5m from 1990–1 and £7m from 1991–2 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | This was not designer stubble , this was getting up in the morning and not being bothered . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | This was followed up by a deputation to the governors on 10 June 1840 , led by Thomas Turner . |
| 14 | And this was followed up by a point-blank refusal to deal with Fells 's next query . |
| 15 | ‘ This was propped up against the body , on the front doorstep . ’ |
| 16 | When this was pointed out to the organisers , they replied : ‘ It is an unimportant section , it does not matter ’ . |
| 17 | Until this was pointed out to me , though , I could not see it . |
| 18 | So they says , Oh that 's this was pointed out to him . |
| 19 | The main reason for this was pointed out in Chapter I ( : the beneficiary of a trust had a relationship with the property under trust , but it was one which did not fall neatly into a civil-law category . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The basic philosophy is the same , however , in that both views illustrate the fact that there is in intonation some organisation at a level higher than the isolated tone-unit ; this was pointed out in the discussion of Trim ( 1959 ) ( notes on Chapter 16 above ) ; see also Fox ( 1973 ) . |
| 22 | One major consequence of Communist International neglect of Latin America during the 1920s was that inadequate literature was made available in Spanish for the dissemination of Communist ideas ( this was pointed out by a Mexican delegate at the Sixth Congress ) . |
| 23 | This was hooked up to a DC-2031 cached IDE host adaptor with 2Mb of RAM . |
| 24 | Unlike so many brilliant teachers I thought that Basil was completely altruistic — this was born out of his great generosity . |
| 25 | When this was fed back to the operators , they were quickly able to see how their actions were contributing to the effluent and to make substantial reductions in the amount of ammonia leaving the plant . |
| 26 | Capital investment in Belorussian industry , centred on Smolensk , was only 485,000 roubles in 1922 , but this was stepped up by 271 per cent in 1923 . |
| 27 | This was edged around with a framework of masking tape to reserve bands of the white ground that I would later paint gold . |
| 28 | Obviously this was done out of self interest , but I really , the woman was in real pain . |
| 29 | By this time a new headquarter had been built in Vicarage Road , with a new engine and modern appliances , and set into the forecourt was proudly displayed in large letters " HALLING " , but with the outbreak of war this was blocked in with cement for security reasons , and as one walks across in front of the station today the same cement is still visible . |
| 30 | ‘ This was blown out of the water by the Supreme Court in 1990 , when it said Irish unity is a constitutional imperative . |