Example sentences of "[conj] [was/were] [verb] [prep] the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Mr. Charles Webster , the national health service historian , recently told ’ Newsnight ’ , that meant a splurge of spending at the beginning that was followed by the most desperate and dangerous cuts ever in the history of the national health service . |
| 2 | Thus community , as an ideology , was a gloss that was placed upon the very rigid and authoritarian divisions within the village . |
| 3 | She followed him into a tiny , brightly lit room that was suffused with the most delectable scents of cooking . |
| 4 | Possibly it was only after they came together under the aegis of Apollinaire , one of the greatest artistic impresarios of his age , that they felt the attraction towards each other that was to result in the most unusual and intensive collaboration in the history of art . |
| 5 | Over thirty times as much public money was spent globally on hormonal and surgical contraception in 1978 than was earmarked for the less ‘ reliable ’ ( but infinitely safer ) barrier methods , such as condoms and diaphragms . |
| 6 | The pages were crisp and white and were filled with the most marvellous pictures of animals wearing clothes . |
| 7 | One school , deciding that extra space for resource-based learning was a priority , took over a classroom for use in unstructured individualized work , with the result that other classrooms including some specialist rooms were more heavily used than before ; teachers complained that they could not get in to put up work on the blackboard beforehand , and were introduced to the more thorough use of the overhead projector ; the timetabler had to bear in mind the needs of some practical subjects where the previous laying-out of equipment was vital , but the exercise was valuable in focusing attention on such priorities and making them clear to everyone . |
| 8 | It was the first two which carried most force and were backed by the most extensive social research . |
| 9 | At a ceremony in Windhoek , the capital , the South African flag was lowered at midnight on the evening of March 20 , and was replaced by the newly designed flag of the Republic of Namibia ( composed of diagonal stripes of blue , red and green separated by white lines , with a golden sun at the top near the hoist ) . |
| 10 | This week I rang up to inquire about train times and was assisted by the most delightful man I have encountered in two decades of dealing with BR . |
| 11 | After a disastrous fire the new church was begun by Justinian in 532 and was built in the incredibly short time of six years , though the interior decoration was completed after this . |
| 12 | By the close of the 1980s the West Coast had started to regain some of its old vitality and was emerging as the most utilised and profitable part of the InterCity network . |
| 13 | My understanding is that the signalling in the Severn tunnel area is relatively new , and was installed in the relatively recent past . |
| 14 | Similar measures were passed in 1985 and 1988 but were vetoed by the then President Ronald Reagan . |
| 15 | Musical savants could easily learn pieces by Greig which follow classical rules , but were stumped by the less structured avant garde works of Bartok . |
| 16 | He started to speak , but was interrupted by the slightly flat tones of the London suburbs : |
| 17 | I 've heard it repeated on the radio recently and even the Secretary of State did n't go so far as to use the ninety percent figure but was talking about the seriously mentally ill and the not so seriously mentally ill . |
| 18 | At the moment there is nothing to prevent another flood of 1966 proportions or worse , as was demonstrated by the exceptionally high tide of 8 December last . |