Example sentences of "was [num ord] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This house was first built back in the 1890s as a residence for the local missionary . |
| 2 | The Slav Muslims also had their oral traditions , the most celebrated of their ballads being the Hasanaginica , which was first written down in the eighteenth century . |
| 3 | The input cursive line data was first filled in to a consistent thickness . |
| 4 | The possibility of a bypass was first mooted back in the 1930s , but the notion was recently resurrected as a solution to the picturesque village 's traffic problems . |
| 5 | The fact was that she had lost the six square inches of canvas allocated for the kettleholder when it was first given out to the class . |
| 6 | When this was first pointed out to the ambassador , he said that he could not be sued for libel since he possessed diplomatic immunity . |
| 7 | Such a relation was first pointed out by Kinnersley ( 1975 ) , and by Fisher ( 1980 ) . |
| 8 | It was first worked on at the turn of the century by the American psychologist , E. L. Thorndike , and more recently by another American psychologist , B. F. Skinner , and many others . |
| 9 | This area of study was first opened up by Professor Kurt Lewin in the United States in the mid 1940 's with the use of so-called ‘ T-groups ’ as a device for the study of inter-personal relations within groups . |
| 10 | When she was first going out with Mark — and it was n't so long ago , she was really moved by films , even bad films . |
| 11 | Another famous prop , David Sole , captain in the memorable Grand Slam in 1990 , was first capped out of English rugby , while he was with Bath . |
| 12 | The social care programme at Thomas Danby College in Leeds was first set up in 1978 . |
| 13 | Docklands historians say it was first shipped out to thirsty expats in the Far East from Hodgson 's brewery in Bow in 1734 . |
| 14 | The contest between the two candidates was first fought out before cardinals Gaucelin and Luke in England , but in 1318 the case was revoked to the Roman curia at Avignon , where Hamo was himself constrained to go in early 1319 . |
| 15 | In the consultation document that was first put out to the public in nineteen ninety one , the public was only offered the yellow route . |
| 16 | It is a highly successful adaptation of an advertisement which was first shown back in the early 1980s in Britain . |
| 17 | The town centre , west of the Windrush river , was first laid out by the Bishop of Winchester in the early 13th. century , and is considered to be a fine example of medieval town planning . |
| 18 | In the fifty years since the TA was last called up for war there have been many changes . |
| 19 | Like the ‘ Samson ’ , it is an important rediscovery , once in the Demidoff Collection , that had been missing for decades and was last seen in at the C.L.Cardon sale in Brussels in 1921 . |
| 20 | According to the register it was last signed in on September 5th 1974 . |
| 21 | Milling was last capped back in 1988 but with Waringstown 's Alan Nelson already ruled out of the Kenya trip due to work commitments , must feature strongly in the selectors ' minds . |
| 22 | But erm it was diagnosed late , you see , having polyneuritis for three months , that the er the movement was last to come back in the toes and feet . |