Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] [was/were] [verb] [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes self-discovered methods were used : for example , after an epidemic of lead poisoning in Sheffield in the early 1890s it was noted that those who were poisoned had aborted . |
| 2 | In 1880 a further Education Act made schooling compulsory for children between five and ten , and in the 1890s it was established that most elementary education should be free . |
| 3 | In 1972 it was realised that this property depended on a separate histamine receptor ( H2 ) which was different from histamine ( H1 ) receptors in the lung and elsewhere , which were responsible for the allergic action of histamine . |
| 4 | On March 12 it was announced that legislative elections postponed in December would be held on May 24 ; it was later announced that the number of representatives in the National Assembly would be increased from 77 to 107 . |
| 5 | On July 12 it was reported that Prime Minister Valentin Pavlov had been ordered to take measures against officials involved in buying their state-owned dachas ( country houses ) at vastly reduced prices . |
| 6 | In 1834 it was described as red like the Devon with a golden nose , long silky hair , prominent eyes , wide forehead , fairly wide muzzle , small dewlap , rather thin forelegs of moderate length and a barrel-shaped body ; the average oxen of the time weighed up to 545kg with some up to 725kg . |
| 7 | In Chapter 2 it was argued that some of the most striking features of the post-war development of the British state , at least until the late 1970s , could be explained quite effectively in terms of ‘ corporate bias ’ , that is moves away from the formal structures of democratic ( electoral ) representation towards the representation of major corporate interest groups ( such as the trade unions and employers ' organizations ) , as mediated through the agency of the state itself . |
| 8 | In chapter 2 it was suggested that political responses to economic crisis were lagged and variable . |
| 9 | In Chapter 2 it was suggested that task-related information should be regarded as central . |
| 10 | In AD 531 it was ruled that any words , direct or precatory , would suffice for a bequest ; that legacies should also have the nature of trusts and vice versa ; and that each disposition was also the other . |
| 11 | On April 22 it was reported that two Jewish brothers , Eli Swed and Selim Swed , had been released from prison . |
| 12 | Professional/client relationships were thus inevitably one-sided with all the power and knowledge ( at least that which was perceived as relevant ) resting with the medical profession . |
| 13 | Among puppies seeking homes are six which were given as festive presents but rescued by the RSPCA when the owners could not cope . |
| 14 | At nineteen he was diagnosed as schizophrenic and later admitted to Oxford 's Littlemoor Hospital . |
| 15 | When Mrs Thatcher took office in May 1979 it was assumed that southern Africa would cause a massive rift between her and the black African states of the Commonwealth . |
| 16 | On Oct. 7 it was reported that 46,000 foreigners , the majority of them Romanian nationals , had in the previous three days been refused entry from 27 countries for not fulfilling these conditions . |
| 17 | On Aug. 10 it was agreed that five minesweepers would leave for the eastern Mediterranean , but their deployment in the Gulf was ruled out . |
| 18 | She has never had a period ; at eleven she was diagnosed as anorexic and hospitalised for ten weeks . |
| 19 | In the early 1840's it was computed that some 240 or so adult male workers found employment at the mines . |
| 20 | All in all , in 1975 it was estimated that some 145,000 persons lived in a mobile home of some type . |
| 21 | By 1975 it was estimated that seven per cent of the population would be under fifteen and thirty per cent would be over sixty , compared with twenty-five per cent and twelve per cent respectively in 1938 , ( Charles , 1935 ) . |
| 22 | It will be seen that whereas in Reg. v. Derby Crown Court , Ex parte Brooks , 80 Cr.App.R. 164 it was stated that any delay must be unjustifiable before relief by way of stay will be granted in Reg. v. Bow Street Stipendiary Magistrate , Ex parte Director of Public Prosecutons , 91 Cr.App.R. 283 , mere delay giving rise to prejudice and unfairness , it is said , may by itself amount to an abuse of the process of the court . |
| 23 | Yes , and my parents had booked the audition for the Central School and found me a bed-sit in Swiss Cottage and being completely naive it was assumed that this was where I would be going . |
| 24 | On 1 May 1917 he was diagnosed as neurasthenic and sent to Craiglockhart War Hospital , Slateford , near Edinburgh , to recuperate . |
| 25 | Her deep and tender sympathy for all who were suffering and afflicted expressed itself in a manner of impressive graciousness and dignity . ’ |
| 26 | In sections 6.2 and 6.3 it was established that time-dependent potential differences across the secondary and primary windings of a unity-coupled , lossless transformer are in the same ratio as the turns ratio between these windings . |
| 27 | On Nov. 18 it was reported that Chadian National Front ( FNT ) fighters had handed over their weapons to the Sudanese authorities on the border under a reconciliation agreement with the Déby government . |
| 28 | Office employment was one of the major growth sectors of the economy in the 1950s and 1960s , and by the early 1970s it was estimated that one-quarter of total employment was in offices ( Goddard 1978 ) . |
| 29 | In the two ballots held on May 17 it was discovered that some voters had voted twice , and Scalfaro , the Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies since April [ see p. 38870 ] , ordered that the voting regulations should immediately be amended ; deputies would be handed a single voting slip as they entered a specially constructed voting booth . |
| 30 | On Oct. 17 it was announced that all Yugoslav ambassadors of Slovene origin had resigned . |