Example sentences of "[conj] [was/were] [vb pp] in the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All along the Baltic region brick building began early , owing to the lack of stone materials , but such work has mostly been altered later , in the Middle Ages , or was destroyed in the Second World War . |
| 2 | Many of the classifications that were proposed in the nineteenth century rested upon a conception of social evolution , which itself was understood in various ways and was frequently connected with the idea of progress . |
| 3 | The first one is the existing arrangements on nursing home care , really reviewing the process , and members will recognize that the arrangements that were agreed in the first agreement with Health Authority related to gaining permission from the Health Authority before our placing nursing homes . |
| 4 | It takes its name from Betchworth Castle , a medieval mansion that was altered in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries but is now a ruin . |
| 5 | Pancreatic protein secretion in chronic pancreatic fistula rats infused with caerulein at supramaximal dose , that was used to induce the pancreatitis , showed a sudden rise , almost immediately after the start of infusion , reaching peak that was followed in the next hours by a marked decline to the level only slight above the baseline . |
| 6 | A total synthesis is not possible given the rate at which new data and techniques are being produced ; the principal difficulty remains the quantity of material that was excavated in the last century under conditions which do not assist in answering the questions now being asked and which now lie , unpublished and unstudied in museum collections throughout England . |
| 7 | The first reading , formed from passages in the Old Testament , focused on a theme found in a passage from the Gospels that was expressed in the third reading . |
| 8 | so to a certain extent th the human that was introduced in the last few |
| 9 | Erm the selection er er of er suppliers for the infra-red search and track w that was performed in the first instance by Eurofighter and the procurement organisations are the four Eurofighter partner companies make the checks on the potential suppliers in accordance with a schedule which we , the four governments , have provided to them . |
| 10 | He is cautious about all the hype that has surrounded Alpha from the time of announcement and warns that too much is being promised by a chip that was designed in the first instance to provide a Unix migration path for VAX users . |
| 11 | The current-account imbalances in the three largest economies , West Germany , Japan and the USA , shrank more than was expected in the second half of 1989 . |
| 12 | Yesterday , after England suffered their fifth successive Test defeat , their worst run since 1986 when they lost 5-0 in the West Indies and were beaten in the first two Tests at home to India , Fletcher said : ‘ Test matches are more important than one-day internationals , although if you lost all your one-dayers then that would become important . |
| 13 | The derivations given here are due to the author and were published in the first edition , but Larson has also carried out similar work independently . |
| 14 | This has been altered greatly in later times and was neglected in the nineteenth century . |
| 15 | He took the theological honours examination , after a preparation of only four terms , in June 1927 and was placed in the first class . |
| 16 | The mill has seen a number of alterations and was extended in the 19th century when dormers were added . |
| 17 | The Parish Church or Church of São Sebastião , stands near the central square and was erected in the eighteenth century . |
| 18 | They are stories situated in different countries — Villette is set in France , and was written in the 19th century , while ‘ The Catcher in the Rye ’ is set in America , and was written in this century . |
| 19 | The civic pride survived the crisis of the Armada and was reinforced in the seventeenth century by the acceptance of divine predestination given by the popularity of Puritanism in the town . |
| 20 | A number of churches here survived the Turkish occupation , but were lost in the nineteenth century when the capital of the newly independent Greece was re-organised and planned on broad lines . |
| 21 | The research students ' grants were ending at different points in the year , but were concentrated In the third quarter of 1984 . |
| 22 | The Temple of Saturn was an early building but was reconstructed in the 4th century A.D. It was large , on a lofty podium , and was fronted by a six-columned Ionic portico in grey granite . |
| 23 | The FN candidate led in the first round of voting , but was defeated in the second round by 50.6 per cent to 49.4 per cent by a centre-right candidate supported by all the mainstream parties . |
| 24 | The church itself dates from the fifth century but was altered in the fourteenth century . |
| 25 | It does not appear that the members of the Liturgical Commission had any great regard for the cult ; King Charles I appeared on one list of those to be commemorated but was dropped in the next . |
| 26 | As was explained in the first chapter , it would be very difficult to construct a complete unified theory of everything in the universe all at one go . |
| 27 | But , as was seen in the last section , deindustrialization can be measured in different ways . |
| 28 | Unfortunately , as was suggested in the last chapter , it is often difficult to decide on whether a word should be treated as complex or simple . |
| 29 | As was discussed in the last chapter variations with exposure and intensity are approximately linear within certain bounds and it would be reasonable to correct for them by division . |
| 30 | Second , as was mentioned in the last chapter , one important function of authoritative directives is to establish and help sustain conventions . |