Example sentences of "[adj] was [adv] [vb pp] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The terms respondents used to describe the advantages of early retirement , or to rationalize it in retrospect , often showed concern for the position of young people in the labour market , although this was rarely cited as a reason for taking early retirement . |
| 2 | Orkney wives were generally much happier outside than inside and this was well illustrated in the figures for taking over the paperwork ( 7% ) and those for attending sick stock ( 32% ) . |
| 3 | This was well illustrated by the refusal of the authorities in Germany to allow GEC to purchase the then nearly bankrupt electrical company AEG following objections from the German trade unions . |
| 4 | This was well symbolized by the enthronement of the gospel book at the Council , though more could have been made of it ( de Maio , 1963 , p. 21 ; Bianchi , 1987 , p. 117 ) . |
| 5 | This was well correlated with the values obtained from those with BrdUrd labelling in the 10 rats in whom both methods were used ( r=0.72 , p=0.001 ) . |
| 6 | This was well known during the last century because the pioneers used it in their flintlock guns . |
| 7 | This was badly damaged in the 1908 fire , and the small part which remains is now carefully protected in a glass case at the back of the church . |
| 8 | This was also rejected on the ground that the Commission had wide and flexible discretion and was not obliged to put every piece of material to all interested parties . |
| 9 | This was also seen by the coronameter , which registers the faint visible light scattered from coronal electrons , using an occulting disk to blank off the string visible emission from the surface of the Sun . |
| 10 | This was also accompanied by a reflective quality of thought that seemed to correspond to Parson 's higher categories of aesthetic appraisal , and to McCoy 's ( 1977 ) notion of emotional satisfaction being related to a construct system 's construal of its own adequacy . |
| 11 | This was also controlled by a private club , but we were sometimes given a day 's fishing and generally managed to come home with a few trout . |
| 12 | This was also expected as a learned mechanism did not adhere with either hypothesis . |
| 13 | A figure not far short of this was also found in the biological parents from whom they had been separated , though not in their adoptive relatives , in whom the incidence was much lower . |
| 14 | But as this was also mentioned before the match — only ‘ as good as when you won the title ’ fits to those areas . |
| 15 | Masturbation did not become respectable , but there was a new stress on its ability to rob adolescence of real fulfilment , and this was even echoed in the work of sex reformers such as Havelock Ellis and expressed in G. Stanley Hall 's two volumes on adolescence . |
| 16 | This was even read by a legal advocate , before whom Wilson and her husband signed the letter . |
| 17 | This was immediately confirmed by a sound similar to that which my own shoulders had made on first entering the narrow space . |
| 18 | Alois Auer , Director of the Government Printing Office in Vienna , had published a pamphlet , The Discovery of the Natural Printing Process , in 1853 , and this was immediately translated into a number of different languages . |
| 19 | This was conveniently encapsulated in the first try . |
| 20 | It was half-heartedly applied in many districts and this was effectively sanctioned by the obvious lack of government enthusiasm ; it suffered from cumbersome and inexpert administration worsened by a shortage of full-time paid officials ; from reliance on uncertain voluntary funding and , above all , from its central assumption that work could by these means be provided for those in need . |
| 21 | This was partially offset by a 30 per cent increase in public-sector wages and those of the military . |
| 22 | This was again explained by a fall in the G17 concentration from 43 pmol/l ( 9–95 ) to 17 pmol/l ( <2.4–52 ) ( p<0.001 ) representing amedian fall of 60% . |
| 23 | Scotland were found sadly lacking in the attacking department , and so it was that this was again highlighted against the English back line . |
| 24 | This was generally understood by the media to mean that the hierarchy would not oppose the introduction of divorce in a future united Ireland , indeed that they might be prepared to budge on the issue even now . |
| 25 | None gave more than 13 hours to Language in Education ( except one which listed the whole 120 ) , and several gave none ( but unlike with the English tutors , this was generally recognised as a separate area ) . |
| 26 | This was generally done for the EC as a whole , and few attempts were made to estimate the redistribution effects of removing these trade barriers . |
| 27 | Whores would sometimes don men 's apparel , leading to Charles I to issue an order forbidding it , because it now made whores more difficult to detect , but this was generally ignored by the soldiery . |
| 28 | This was generally interpreted as an American rejection of the proposal , though the White House fell over itself to explain that it was not . |
| 29 | While this was generally hailed as an historic reforming speech , observers noted first that de Klerk did not lift the state of emergency , and indeed justified its continuing existence , and second that he made no reference to the repeal of legislation ( apart from the Separate Amenities Act ) which formed the so-called " cornerstones " of the apartheid system , notably the Population Registration Act and the Group Areas Act . |
| 30 | An official from the Region had a post with a Cycleway sign attached ; this was duly knocked into the ground beside the river for the ‘ photo opportunity ’ and then removed , as we were nowhere near the actual Cycleway route . |