Example sentences of "[adj] was [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although as the largest parliamentary party the CEDA might have expected to dominate government after the November 1933 election , this was ruled out by the President of the Republic , Alcalá Zamora , on grounds of the CEDA 's non-republicanism . |
| 2 | Diving down to a few hundred feet over Hal Far , Müncheberg then claimed another at 0754 as it was landing , but having no witness of this was credited only with a probable , although it was subsequently included in his score . |
| 3 | This was made up of a £621,800 increase in the specific provision and a reduction of £98,000 in the general provision against residential property , and a £4,740 increase in the specific provision against unsecured loans . |
| 4 | This was made up of the organic residues of farms , forestry , industry and domestic refuse . |
| 5 | This was made up by the Head Girl mixing together oxide of zinc , glycerine , rosewater , a touch of yellow ochre and methylated spirits , the latter helping to dry it on the legs . |
| 6 | This was caused apparently by a private . |
| 7 | There is no particular reason to believe that this was caused merely by the newer properties being of higher value . |
| 8 | This was not designer stubble , this was getting up in the morning and not being bothered . |
| 9 | This was demonstrated clearly in the recent debates in Parliament . |
| 10 | I was thrilled , of course , but this was tempered somewhat by the knowledge that my mother was standing in full view , three feet away , leafing through a pattern book . |
| 11 | This was stated clearly in the paper that Thonemann and his team published in Nature on 25 January 1958 : ‘ To identify a thermonuclear process it is necessary to show that random collisions in the gas between deuterium ions are responsible for the nuclear reactions . |
| 12 | This was followed eventually by the adoption by congress , as a whole , of a concurrent budget resolution including reconciliation instructions requiring the authorizing committees to cut approximately $36 billion from the financial year 1982 budget . |
| 13 | Shortly afterwards came the Chronica Gentis Scottorum of John of Fordun , again stressing the achievements of the Scots , and the villainy of Edward I. This was followed up in the early fifteenth century by the verse chronicle of Andrew of Wyntoun , prior of Lochleven . |
| 14 | This was followed up by a deputation to the governors on 10 June 1840 , led by Thomas Turner . |
| 15 | And this was followed up by a point-blank refusal to deal with Fells 's next query . |
| 16 | This was followed swiftly by the news that Alain Lequeux , the rider of the runner-up , Behera , had lodged an objection against the winner for interference a furlong and a half from the finish of an exceptionally rough race . |
| 17 | This was repainted earlier in the year for the BR Bescot Open Day at Walsall while 0-6-0- shunter 13029 was also used for various duties around the Museum site during the course of the weekend . |
| 18 | ‘ This was propped up against the body , on the front doorstep . ’ |
| 19 | When this was pointed out to the organisers , they replied : ‘ It is an unimportant section , it does not matter ’ . |
| 20 | The basic philosophy is the same , however , in that both views illustrate the fact that there is in intonation some organisation at a level higher than the isolated tone-unit ; this was pointed out in the discussion of Trim ( 1959 ) ( notes on Chapter 16 above ) ; see also Fox ( 1973 ) . |
| 21 | One major consequence of Communist International neglect of Latin America during the 1920s was that inadequate literature was made available in Spanish for the dissemination of Communist ideas ( this was pointed out by a Mexican delegate at the Sixth Congress ) . |
| 22 | This was hooked up to a DC-2031 cached IDE host adaptor with 2Mb of RAM . |
| 23 | When this was fed back to the operators , they were quickly able to see how their actions were contributing to the effluent and to make substantial reductions in the amount of ammonia leaving the plant . |
| 24 | This was printed privately in a limited edition of 250 copies , and in its preface the author expressed his gratitude to his father and to his eldest brother , Charles William Boase [ q.v. ] , ‘ for their great kindness in conjointly defraying the cost of printing this work which I claim to be an important contribution to the English biography of the nineteenth century ’ . |
| 25 | This was developed further during a deployment in the field to practise battle procedures and enable the battalion to see just how mobile Warrior is . |
| 26 | All this was contrasted uninvitingly against the fondly remembered oral traditions of the working-class neighbourhoods — brass bands , free-and-easy nights at the local pub , and pigeon-fancying — as an essentially ‘ hollow ’ and ‘ faceless ’ cultural diminishment . |
| 27 | All this was swept away by a new principle which was introduced in the early part of the nineteenth century , namely , that a local authority could not carry out any function unless strictly authorised by statute . |
| 28 | This was edged around with a framework of masking tape to reserve bands of the white ground that I would later paint gold . |
| 29 | This was done ruthlessly by an Italian engineer , John Portinari , who burnt everything , leaving only a few stumps of walls . |
| 30 | This was done successfully through the use of patois both defensively and offensively by the group . |