Example sentences of "[adj] [was/were] [verb] [prep] [art] [num] " in BNC.
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1 | This was recorded over a two week period . |
2 | It laid down the general principle of comprehensive education which would have ended selection over a period ( but this was repealed in the 1979 Act ) . |
3 | This was built in the 1550s for the Dryden family , but some of the banks and ditches still remain in the fields opposite the Hall . |
4 | A large part of this was destroyed in the 1990 gales , but fortunately we had underplanted wherever possible and the magnolias which are such a feature of the garden survived remarkably well . |
5 | This was recognized in the 1430s by the author of The Libelle of Englyshe Polycye , when he advocated the use of a trade embargo to force Flemish compliance with English policies ( 43 , pp.5–6 ) . |
6 | Compensation of £250,000 was involved , and this was met on a fifty-fifty basis between the local authorities concerned and the Gas Board . |
7 | This was given to the DC-10 as ‘ 51 , you are cleared to FL180 ’ but was miss-heard by the Concorde as ‘ 01 , you are cleared to FL180 ’ . |
8 | This was followed by the 1975 Algiers agreement , which Iraq abrogated in 1980 . |
9 | This was based on the 1975 white paper which proposed a significant increase in home food production to reduce dependence on imports which had risen sharply in cost . |
10 | This was confirmed in the 1987 study and was acknowledged by the Authority , as we have seen . |
11 | In the year to January , sales were down 6 p.c. but this was offset by a 47 p.c. jump in exports leaving group sales slightly up at £24.9m . |
12 | The school leaving age was raised to 16 ( nearly 30 years after this was recommended in the 1944 Education Act ) . |
13 | In the mid-1980s this was revamped into the LDA-500 Boxer and registered as G-UTIL . |
14 | This was established in the 1953–56 period and is located c. 60 km south of Baghdad in the alluvial plains between the Tigris and Euphrates , using water from the latter . |
15 | Another criticism was the permissive nature of the 1909 Act , but this was removed in the 1919 legislation . |
16 | The one fact which seems to emerge was that changes were taking place in British villas round about 360 and this was reflected in the two maps , figs. 6.1 and 6.2 , included in this 1969 study . |
17 | This was evidenced in the 13 domes and their arrangement . |
18 | This was performed on the 10 patients with pain after gastric surgery who also carried out the sodium probe study . |
19 | This was performed with an 18 gauge Biopty cut needle and ivalon , and showed more extensive necrosis with early fibrosis . |
20 | Most of it was done in the seventies , some was done in the sixties . |
21 | One person died and 26 were injured in the 1985 bombings . |
22 | Much was achieved during the 1980s , particularly in international relations . |
23 | It is difficult , perhaps impossible , to establish exactly how much was spent on the two papers , Uhuru and the Nationalist , in the years between 1964 , when the Nationalist was launched , and 1972 , when it merged with the Standard to form the Daily News . |
24 | A similar sample of 100 was taken from the 216 clients who received counselling from the local Drugs Council . |
25 | A random sample of 100 was taken from the 308 patients who had been referred to the local Detoxification Unit during the same 12 months of the first prevalence study period . |
26 | These were averaged for the six subjects and the SEM was calculated . |
27 | These were stated in the 1987 consultation document to be : |
28 | None of these were received by the nine children isolated by the events . |
29 | Most of these were dispersed in the 1920s : Lord Amherst 's large Egyptian collection was sold at Sotheby 's in 1921 , many pieces being bought by American museums , while Lord Carnarvon sold his collection to the Metropolitan Museum in 1926 for $145,000 ( after teasing the British Museum with a phoney offer ) . |
30 | In a post-war broadcast in 1946 , he referred to the development of eight-feet wide trams with resilient wheels which he hoped to introduce to Blackpool , and these were manifested in the 1952 Coronation trams . |