Example sentences of "[adj] was [verb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 USED FLEETINGLY in the military manoeuvres of September 1912 near Cambridge , Cody Biplane No 304 was presented to the Science Museum the following year .
2 This was supported by the correlation between the male 's condition at the start of the season and the number of days he spent incubating eggs .
3 Of the remaining 40 cases , 38 complied strictly with their diet and this was supported by an improvement in the morphology of repeat small intestinal biopsy specimens or symptoms , or both and weight and laboratory indices .
4 It was proposed to lay the tramway extension along the broad Middle Walk , but this was defeated in a poll of the ratepayers , and the track had to be constructed along the narrow upper carriageway .
5 Some deputies proposed that footage of the exchanges concerning the ANT affair should be omitted from the coming evening 's edited television broadcast of Congress proceedings , but this was defeated in a vote by 1,250 to 637 .
6 Most Tories favoured the establishment of a regency , with Mary exercising the regal powers on James 's behalf , but this was defeated in the House of Lords on 29 January by the narrow vote of fifty-one to forty-eight .
7 All this was to feed into the stream of sexual radicalism in the early twentieth century .
8 In a parliamentary debate on Aug. 28 this was challenged by the opposition Union of Democratic Forces ( which like all major parties roundly condemned the attack ) , the UDF secretary Petur Beron hinting instead that the attack might have been instigated by communist provocateurs .
9 This was exemplified by the league of the Iroquois which Morgan had studied in detail .
10 There was a narrow foreshore at the foot of the little cliff and this was littered with the rubbish of the colony-sticks , droppings , feathers , a broken egg and a dead nestling or two .
11 This was repealed by the Theft Act 1978 , s.5(5) .
12 This was repeated throughout the night until 7am the next day .
13 This was repeated in the Court of Appeal decision , but was unanimously rejected by the House of Lords , in the next case .
14 An imposing entrance for this was built at the end of Kirby Road , and the inspection pits were only half the length of the depot to facilitate displays .
15 This was perceived as a threat to the Plantagenets in Aquitaine .
16 We shall see that there is evidence that this was perceived as a genre in its own right in England , and in English .
17 This was perceived as a source of inefficiency and uncompetitiveness through overmanning and other policies , which the government was determined to remove in its quest to create an ‘ enterprise economy ’ .
18 ( This was trumpeted under the holiday industry 's unofficial motto ‘ if you ca n't stand the heat , get off the beach ’ . )
19 This was named after a village near Haverhill , Suffolk .
20 This was replaced in the fourth-century by a church built by Sant' Ambrogio and dedicated , at a later time , to St Tecla .
21 This was replaced by a stone structure , only partly examined in the excavated area .
22 Parkes ' Chemical Catechism of 1806 had a frontispiece of apparatus , engraved on glass with fluoric acid ; in the fourth edition ( 1810 ) this was replaced by a plate of the laboratory of the Surrey Institution , a less-successful version of the Royal Institution ; in later editions Parkes substituted a laboratory which a gentleman might copy for himself .
23 During the thirties ( presumably after the end of prohibition ) this was replaced by the can sealed by crimping and with the label printed directly on to the metal ( figure 7.3d ) .
24 This was said in a voice expecting contradiction , which Charles wilfully withheld .
25 All this was said in the context of that annual spring ritual , renewal of China 's most-favoured-nation ( MFN ) status under American law .
26 ‘ Your daughter — ’ this was said like an accusation — ‘ has agreed to go into a psychiatric hospital for a while , where we can assess her properly .
27 found shirtsleeve order the most comfortable dress for tropical campaigning ; and this was recognized before the end of 1898 by a concession allowing officers to attach the transverse shoulder straps from their blue coats directly to the blue shirt .
28 All this was recognized by an MBE .
29 This was recognized by the City of London polytechnic Learning Resources Centre about five years ago , when virtually the same orientation content was presented in five different self-instructional modes ( video.tape , programmed instruction , tape-slide , audio-tape and chart ) .
30 Considering that this was written at a time when Pound 's reputation was eclipsed as Eliot 's rose towards the zenith , the generosity of this essay , its lack of rancour , is admirable .
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