Example sentences of "[adj] was [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was out of the 850 000 or so collisions the UA1 apparatus recorded towards the end of last year from a total of about one thousand million actual collisions . |
| 2 | We arrived here yesterday from Flinders at which place I was especially gratified to [ word not clear ] my acquaintance with the Natives and other things , and I should have left the island with a light heart and proceeded to Kings had [ not ] a fatal accident happened to one of the men who shot himself dead by incautiously pulling the gun from the boat with the muzzle toward his chest , the cock of the gun caught the seat of the boat and all was over with the poor fellow in half a minute . |
| 3 | But while levels of so-called special wastes outside chemical sites for 1992 was down on the 1990 total , the 231,800 tonnes figure for 1992 was higher than the 213,700 tonnes figure in 1991 , because company closures had led to high waste disposals . |
| 4 | That was back in the early 1600s and things had been improving gradually ever since . |
| 5 | That was back in the early sixties . |