Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [was/were] [vb pp] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In those countries which have generally been regarded as well-established democracies , manhood suffrage was only achieved in most cases between the end of the nineteenth century and the First World War , while the attainment of universal and equal suffrage came still later ( in Germany in 1919 , Sweden in 1920 , France in 1945 , Britain in 1948 ) while in most of the rest of the world universal suffrage , where it was introduced at all , came only after the end of the Second World War . |
| 2 | I refused to have a mastectomy and I see now in terms of theory , that I was stagemanaged at various points on the production line , into trying to turn me into a well-behaved patient by traumatising me by saying ‘ If you do n't do what we tell you … ’ or ‘ You 're being very naughty ’ or ‘ You 're being hysterical ’ , or ‘ We have n't got time to deal with all these questions , we 'd never get round ’ , and so on . |
| 3 | So convinced was she that ‘ Love conquers all , that she was prepared at all times to forgo conventional ties if they interfered with his development . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's not how much it affected you , it 's the fact that you were affected at all , ’ he said , straightening himself up . |
| 5 | For instance , some coins of the Roman Emperor Severus Alexander found in Egypt fall into two stylistic groups , and the discovery that each group has different trace elements provides clear evidence that they were made at different mints . |
| 6 | Things matter to the extent that they were discussed at considerable length and drafted with particular care . |
| 7 | Two years later , after a command performance at Windsor Castle , he disbanded it , and although it was resuscitated at public request , and attracted stars like ( Sir ) Charles Santley [ q.v. ] , it finally expired in 1887 . |
| 8 | Although it was bombed at one stage . |
| 9 | Although it was stressed at this meeting by one speaker that the school should make the appraisal a valuable exercise , other teachers expressed concern over whether their reports would actually be read . |
| 10 | The manuscript suggests that he was born at some date between 1485 and 1492 , and his latest completed work is dated 1546 . |
| 11 | He waited until he had collected a large number of observations of the fact that he was fed at 9 a.m. , and he made these observations under a wide variety of circumstances , on Wednesdays and Thursdays , on warm days and cold days , on rainy days and dry days . |
| 12 | We filmed on the train to London and I was told at one stage that we were proceeding at one hundred miles an hour . |
| 13 | Mm and I was told at one stage that they used to revert back to Yorkshire |
| 14 | Somebody like me , if I was stood at that table , I mean okay if you 've got kids coming in , but if you get adults coming in , I would n't be able to answer questions , I do n't know enough about the product . |
| 15 | And there was a lady in the , in his congregation he preached to masses , to thousands and thousands of people , and she came to him , she was , she was annoyed , she was a rather er , well-to-do lady , and she was offended at this this preaching that she had to be born again , and that people had to have this new birth experience . |
| 16 | er they also brought out some a good range of lighting fittings er , which you still see about again used well I , I remember putting one , you saying about putting lights at different levels , erm a staircase which was in a new house which was architect design and built and erm , the staircase was er more or less centrally in the house rather than be stuck against one wall and so it had a well and down the centre of the well we strung one of these lights with er five different glasses suspended on black flex five black flexes and erm these were shades made of heavy glass er the glass was n't painted it was coloured all the way through , er and erm they were called er Chelsea , Chelsea glasswork and erm these each had a lamp inside them well er about three inch diameter cylinders actually about eight inches long and they were hung at different heights er so that the lip behind the staircase and also of course there 's a staircase being where it was , it was in the centre of er , a , quite a large hallway for modern stand for modern standards and erm it of course was a feature of the hall as well . |
| 17 | ‘ The result is : ( 1 ) That this Act does not necessarily require anything to be done under it which might not be done without causing a nuisance ; ( 2 ) That as to those things which may or may not be under it , there is no evidence on the face of the Act that the legislature supposed it to be impossible for any of them to be done ( if they were done at all ) somewhere and under some circumstances , without creating a nuisance ; and ( 3 ) That the legislature has manifested no intention that any of these optional powers , as to asylums , should be exercised at the expense of , or so as to interfere with , any man 's private rights . |
| 18 | sole practitioners would not object to the proposed extra accounting measures if they were aimed at all firms ; |
| 19 | And they 've got , I think the odds are that people are giving more perhaps er and that er , if they were paid at fifty four P per mile and and got how that would affect the churches er contributions they make ? |
| 20 | This would put applicants in a very false position , perhaps drive away very talented applicants who might think that there were fewer places available for them , but also to encourage people who might in fact be struggling to go to any university in the country , it might encourage them to apply and to have a reasonable expectation of success because their sporting abilities were outstanding , they would then be disappointed because they would not be admitted and if they were admitted at that level , they would probably have a very unfortunate time at Oxford . |
| 21 | Thus the evening newspapers were able to report Heath 's victory that day ; and it was confirmed at 11.30 next morning when the second ballot closed and there was only one nomination-for Heath . |
| 22 | Well now , taking taking into account the fact that there are about three hundred schools here in Oxfordshire and there 's only one school so far that has chosen to even try to opt out , and it was defeated at that school , then I see that is erm a comment on the kind of Education Authority we have here . |
| 23 | For example , if the offline cycle start time was 29-FEB-1999 18:00 and the duration was 08:00 , and it was decided at 20:25 that offline must be stopped , then the offline duration time should be updated to 02:30 . |
| 24 | The collaboration was then inaugurated at Marble Hill , Twickenham ( 1724–9 ) , which was the first of the buildings credited to Lord Herbert , and it was continued at most , if not all , of his subsequent works — including amongst others the White Lodge , Richmond Park ( 1727–8 ) for King George II and the Palladian bridge at his own seat of Wilton House , Wiltshire ( 1736–7 ) . |
| 25 | Some collectors used to visit the museum weekly to check up on how the art they lent was being shown , or if it was shown at all ’ , says one long-time curator . |
| 26 | But The Sun thought that ‘ the meeting was a bogus one , if it was held at all ’ , further alleging that this clandestine organisation ( which said that it had met in secrecy because it feared Hooligan reprisals ) was a put-up job by someone in the pay of The Daily Telegraph . |
| 27 | If he was hurt at all , it was but a minor hurt — he walked where he was led . ’ |
| 28 | Spooks in films could pass unrecognized through airports , and North sometimes gave out instructions that if he was spotted at such-and-such a place , he should not be acknowledged . |
| 29 | There were District Officers , and there were Assistant District Officers , but they were stationed at regional headquarters where they functioned , not as independent administrators , but as assistants to the Resident : as late as 1921 the Resident at Kano declined to accept the posting of political officers to permanent stations in the districts . |
| 30 | She , Topaz , would love Andrew whilst she still drew breath , but he was imprisoned at High Brook with a wife he loathed . |