Example sentences of "[adj] was [adv] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was well illustrated by station-building and civic pride outside the capital . |
| 2 | However , 188/730 26% ( 22.6% to 28.9% ) of responders had A level qualifications or their equivalent ( fig 2 ) compared to 19% of the general population , and this was also related to symptom score , the mean in those with A levels being 2.26 , and without 2.44 ( difference 0.053 to 0.287 ) . |
| 3 | In 1983 another massive crop occurred — this was again met with joy , although the Champenois would certainly have been dismayed had 1984 turned out to be the third consecutive bumper year . |
| 4 | Much the same pattern emerges at Middlewich , where early salt production has already been mentioned ; this was soon joined by iron-working and pottery production , as well as a range of service trades . |
| 5 | This was particularly striking for control and variety and use of skills . |
| 6 | This was liberally interspersed with launch picnics , swimming , the services of a chef flown specially from one of the malais ' two five-star hotels back home , and ‘ ethnic entertainments ’ . |
| 7 | ( In a secondary school where this was regularly used in morning prayers it had to be abandoned because the pupils exploited the rhythm created by the parallelism to make it sound like a football chant ! ) |
| 8 | This was not calculated for sleep position and breast feeding because of the similar exposure distribution of these two variables among Maori children and their controls ( table IV ) . |
| 9 | But this was not done against Pharaoh 's will . |
| 10 | One was tempted to applaud such spontaneous wit , but serious faces all around showed that this was not meant in jest . |
| 11 | This was not reflected in Partnership spending patterns . |
| 12 | This was not confined to security information but encompassed any information which was not in the interests of the state to disclose . |
| 13 | But this was not accompanied by deradicalization , and by contrast with many western societies , did not conflict with their sense of belonging to a wider working class . |
| 14 | However naughty we might have been at school , this was not mentioned at home . |
| 15 | Morris ( 1979 ) published a ‘ Physical Quality of Life Index ’ but as this was exclusively based on health and educational criteria , it is of limited utility . |
| 16 | When , a few weeks later , Labour overturned a large Tory majority in a by-election at East Fulham , this was widely seen as evidence of the popularity of pacifism — despite the fact that Labour 's candidate , John Wilmot , had been more concerned to appeal to Liberal supporters of the League than to whatever sentiment may have existed in Fulham in favour of war resistance . |
| 17 | This was widely interpreted by opposition parties as indicating a switch to economic conservatism . |
| 18 | This was clearly shown in Case 28/84 Commission v. Germany , where the animal foodstuffs directives , which , as mentioned in the previous paragraph , had been held not to preclude health inspections under national law , were found to create a comprehensive system with regard to the composition and preparation of animal foodstuffs , so that Germany could not lay down its own rules on minimum and maximum levels of certain ingredients . |
| 19 | During these years Wordsworth also began The Ruined Cottage ; this was later incorporated into Book i of The Excursion and suffered considerable modification . |
| 20 | They were equating ( and as Saunders points out this was later to lead to confusion ) Mead 's concern with the relations between self and society , with these relations as they were being constructed in specific geographical contexts such as Chicago or one of Chicago 's zones . |
| 21 | This was later commuted to life imprisonment , but Dr Banda has stated since that the Chirwas should be executed . |
| 22 | This was more to do with window dressing and the government 's need to be seen to be doing something , rather than a serious attempt to tackle the problems . |
| 23 | This was then worked by tenant farmers , who in turn employed many agricultural labourers . |
| 24 | ‘ At Llanwern we previously operated an air cooling system on the slag and this was then used as road aggregate . |
| 25 | This was then attached in turn to five ropes which he pulled up and fastened to the pole . |
| 26 | Not until the late sixteenth century , under the warlords Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi , was the country unified under a single military hegemony , and this was only achieved by building on a series of successful military alliances . |
| 27 | This was now centred on Madain ( or Ctesiphon ) , not far from the site of future Baghdad . |
| 28 | At day 21 , histamine had significantly increased the basal growth of MKN45G to 1.6 more than the control , p<0.002 , Mann-Whitney ) and this was significantly reversed by coadministration of cimetidine ( p<0.02 , Mann-Whitney ) . |
| 29 | This was usually discouraged in case the wild ape became too dependent on hand-outs . |
| 30 | This was never going to work ! |