Example sentences of "[adv] was [verb] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was said that the report had advocated crude measures for dealing with a complex problem , and that not enough was known about the patterns of library use and the effects of browsing , literature obsolescence , or other factors , to put the future of university libraries at risk by wholesale withdrawals from stock at this stage of their development . |
| 2 | And I mean it was er I accept that it 's hardly that that Russia perhaps was intervening in the interests of er of of erm of of of of er Russian policy in that area . |
| 3 | So was dealing with the repercussions when we distributed the finally agreed programme . |
| 4 | Cruz admitted unfreezing the bank accounts ; his claim that he had the legal authority to do so was rejected by the courts on Nov. 17 . |
| 5 | The innermost southern shore of the peninsula had been the chosen land of Pythagoras , your namesake , perhaps your ancestor , the apostle of eternal return : it was in the market square at Crotone on the Gulf of Taranto south of Riba that he exposed his thigh and showed that it was golden , and so was honoured by the inhabitants as a special favourite of the gods , quasi-divine himself . |
| 6 | Less was left to the vagaries of the opera-house system , and the creators stood more chance of seeing their ideas realised faithfully . |
| 7 | Between the wars , the credibility of black sportsmen generally was enhanced by the tours of the West Indian cricket team in England . |
| 8 | But strangely , nothing further was heard of the islands for several hundred years until the famous Dutch explorer Willem Barents rediscovered Svalbard in 1596 . |
| 9 | He wrote ‘ Michael Ramsey 's Monthly Message ’ for the Cambridgeshire Liberal Magazine , which thereafter was scattered among the villagers . |
| 10 | But it was to be some considerable time before any more was heard of the letters or of Sir George . |
| 11 | I always was attacked on the grounds that the world I wrote about did n't exist and it 's only in the last five to ten years here in Ireland , that my work is seen to be actually true . |
| 12 | The surroundings were full of interest : in the foreground we had Martha 's pig-store , where she kept a varied assortment of china and earthenware ; it also was roofed by the remains of an old pleasure boat ; Martha 's cabbage garden and potato plot , and Martha 's henhouse , where the roosters were alike honoured by having a boat-house of their own . |
| 13 | Yes what er happened , th there was erm erm er the radioactive cloud that came up was swept by the winds around the world and in fact as it went over the United Kingdom er it happened to rain on er Cumbria and North Wales so some of this radioactivity was brought down , it settled on the grass and got into the soil . |
| 14 | ‘ So why did Urquhart keep telling me Mills probably was working for the Russians ? ’ |
| 15 | James had studied law at university but now was working in the personnel department of Cadbury 's . |
| 16 | That and the rain , which stained the concrete a dirty brown , gave the place a deserted look even during term-time , but the fact that it was so close to London meant that it really was deserted at the weekends as students and staff headed for the bright lights . |
| 17 | When Professor Tidy sat down , worse was to come for the defendants , as a plethora of witnesses placed every permutation of the four in or about the vicinity at various times that evening . |
| 18 | The Madonna and Child probably do carry the symbolic meaning which he attributes to them ; but if this is so then it is one which much earlier was carried by the representations of Isis nursing Horus , or by the many-breasted Diana of Ephesus , herself a lineal descendant of Palaeolithic figurines like the Venus of Willendorf . |
| 19 | To talk of the movies then was to talk of the masses . |
| 20 | Mrs Godwin 's husband Tim was feeding the couple 's twenty three month old baby when was told of the murders . |
| 21 | It 's also the case I suppose that erm from the point of view of a child , thinking back to my own childhood , a lot of contact with grown-ups was was enormously traumatic and yet was considered by the grown-ups to be entirely legitimate . |
| 22 | Eventually was put on the tramcars as a , a conductor . |
| 23 | At the end of it all little was left for the tradesmen who had resorted to the complicated machinery . |
| 24 | I got busy with the hammer , whistling away , and before long Joe too was lost in the mechanics of it all . |
| 25 | Not only the new moon but the full moon too was regarded by the Hebrews as being of great religious significance , and the timing of Passover was determined by the first full moon on or after the spring equinox . |