Example sentences of "[adj] was [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was said that um when he was a baby his nurse used to masturbate him in the cradle t to calm him to stop him crying and er apparently this was at that time , so it was believed , quite a common way of of keeping infants quiet . |
| 2 | But as you can see quite clearly from the table , other things were not equal : there was a massive release of liquidity to the private sector from the repayment of public debt ( item 2 ) and an even more massive increase in bank lending ( item 3 ) , although this was to some extent offset by a large increase in the currency flow deficit ( an outflow of funds under item 4 ) . |
| 3 | One recommendation was to rotate sheep through paddocks , but since it involved the return of the sheep to their previously grazed paddocks in the same season , this was of little value . |
| 4 | Whilst this was of some concern to Anne , who relied greatly on Joan , it was of no concern to Joan herself : enthralled by everything she saw , by fairytale glimpses of the capital , the palace and the royal family , she viewed everything and everyone with avid interest . |
| 5 | In this short example , we see the apparently sturdy John ( who has , in effect , chaired the meeting throughout ) struggling through to the expression of his anxiety about the death and burial of animals : this was after much chat and jockeying for position . |
| 6 | This was in many cases brief and some departmental reports were skipped through with little comment being made . |
| 7 | But this was in many ways a blessing . |
| 8 | In 1811 most mule spinners could earn only half of their peak earnings ; even so this was in most cases more than the earnings of fully employed weavers . |
| 9 | ‘ This was in some way part of the whole thing , that I 'd blurt out what I 'd done and she 'd ask to see and I 'd have it on hand to show her . ’ |
| 10 | At that moment this was in some doubt . |
| 11 | This was in some ways just as dramatic as that of the 1980s , if only because of the very large warships — and their great number — being deployed in the area . |
| 12 | This was in any case already known from the fact that statistically significant ear differences in reaction time or accuracy of report have been observed even with monaural stimulus presentation ( for a bibliography see Henry , 1979 ) . |
| 13 | When he looked at her like that she was n't at all sure that this was in any way a ‘ soft ’ assignment . |
| 14 | The fact that Holding ( who had 6 for 65 in the first innings ) and Julien conceded four an over from 34 overs and the spinners only just over two an over from 105 was of less significance than the spinners ' inability to bowl batsmen out . |
| 15 | Edward III was in that position until the birth of Edward of Woodstock in June 1330 . |
| 16 | The second was in another bin beside the Argos showroom two doors away . |
| 17 | Sir Denys had little doubt that the coming months seem set to be as difficult as 1991 was for most countries , ‘ It would not be prudent at this stage to attempt to predict when recovery might begin ’ , he said , ‘ But when it comes , it is very likely to be gradual ’ . |
| 18 | The choice by the Queen of Lord Home in 1963 was of some importance since the circumstances in which it took place illustrated the difficulties of the process and led fairly quickly to the adoption by the Conservative Party of a leadership election process that was designed ( like the Labour Party 's leadership election ) to make the choice of a Prime Ministerial successor a constitutional formality . |
| 19 | The long running teachers ' dispute which began in November 1984 was to some extent a response to the way the education service had been handled by three successive governments . |
| 20 | The year 1975 was in all respects better for the Hesketh team . |
| 21 | Sara 's continued presence in the Lime Street cottage meant that he would inevitably return to Stowey , however briefly ; but his departure in the late summer of 1798 was in most senses final . |
| 22 | Secret diplomacy , bribery , the interception of correspondence — none of these was in any way peculiar to the eighteenth century . |
| 23 | Though the latter was at this time a much celebrated amateur artist he was surprised , on arriving , when Minton detached himself from the crowd he was talking with in order to cross the room and greet Cornish by name . |
| 24 | July 1981 was by any standards a trying and testing month . |
| 25 | In the Commons vote in June last year a majority of 123 was against any change , and MPs believed the issue had been settled for this Parliament . |
| 26 | The only sites where some time dependence of the blockages was apparent was for those derivatives with a pendant intercalator ( 2 , 3 , 5 and 6 ; Figures 2 and 3 ) . |
| 27 | Radio One was on all day , absolutely everywhere . |
| 28 | Perhaps because her own was at that time lumpen and awkward she seemed to feel the contrast painfully — such high , generous breasts , such a neat waist , such slender wrists and ankles ! |
| 29 | Yes erm Policy E two was at that time was er relating to programme of tree planting er . |
| 30 | The general election of 1945 was in some ways only a consequential recognition of the revolution which took place under , and inside , the Coalition Government at the height of World War II , and was announced to the outside world by a cloud of White Papers — on planning , social insurance , employment , a national health service — much as the election of a new Pope is first evinced by the smoke from the burning ballot papers . |