Example sentences of "[conj] was [verb] [prep] [art] [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 It takes its name from Betchworth Castle , a medieval mansion that was altered in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries but is now a ruin .
3 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 .
4 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in the last century under conditions which do not assist in answering the questions now being asked and which now lie , unpublished and unstudied in museum collections throughout England .
5 The Chief Officer said quite clearly last er last time that the decisions were decisions for members and members came up with a view last time that we should not remove that whole time crew from St Albans which was the one firm decision that was made at the last meeting and what Councillor is now suggesting that we should take out those twenty eight whole time fire fighters and then try and give us ten back if we 're lucky .
6 they do n't want to have some er official or or some management consultant who 's eager to get a job and get extra money paid for him by a dumb government department , if those people are going to tell us what sort of people we want on that on police authorities , I think it is total insolence and I trust that whatever happens to this Bill that that answer that was given on the 17th of January is removed and replaced by something else , if it has to be replaced at all .
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 The Committee for Hereford Amateur Rafters is the organization that was formed following the first 100 mile race and , as such , is the backbone of UK rafting , acting as an administrative body providing information , advice and assistance to new teams as well as organizing the premier UK events .
9 so to a certain extent th the human that was introduced in the last few
10 The only conclusion I can draw is that the two-pack AC lacquer that was used on the first table was something that I will not use again on dark timber if I want to bring out the full colour of the wood .
11 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 .
12 If you 're successful on this er current application , you wo n't , but erm supposing this application were to be turned down by the planning authority , er that you were successful upon the appeal on the first one you would actually proceed according to the plan that was submitted at the first one .
13 The attitude of the New England colonies was probably well suited to the commercial and industrial society that was emerging in the seventeenth century , but at the time they made less impression on the world than the others .
14 In the 1920s America had witnessed some of the problems of the modern world that was emerging after the First World War ; the confusions and uncertainties that revealed themselves became more acute as prosperity suddenly came to an end in 1929 .
15 In the upheaval that was to come during the next 12 months , only the ECSC seemed to have avoided the scrapheap .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 This has been altered greatly in later times and was neglected in the nineteenth century .
19 The revision of Chapter II on Evidence followed and was completed at the Eleventh Session of the Conference in October 1968 .
20 Ieremia Tabai has been President since independence and was elected for a fourth term on May 12 , 1987 , despite a constitutional prohibition on any individual serving more than three terms in the post .
21 The tender has been in a finished condition for some time and was seen at the last Open Day some two years ago .
22 As Jo Grimond he was MP for Orkney and Shetland for thirty-three years and was seen as the last traditional Liberal .
23 He took the theological honours examination , after a preparation of only four terms , in June 1927 and was placed in the first class .
24 The mill has seen a number of alterations and was extended in the 19th century when dormers were added .
25 In 1942 the Battalion left the 48th Division and was transferred to the 54th , billeted at Walberswick and Southwold .
26 This was the first official Israeli representation in China and was viewed as the first step towards the establishment of diplomatic relations .
27 The match was Halling Institute v Snodland , and was decided by the first innings Snodland scoring 77 and Halling 49 , Halling were playing valiantly when stumps were drawn at 6.30 . "
28 It moved northward through France from the Mediterranean coast and was recorded for the first time in Britain at a site in Hampshire , in March 1961 .
29 The Parish Church or Church of São Sebastião , stands near the central square and was erected in the eighteenth century .
30 Anna May was under her boyfriend when the fuse reached the explosive and was blown into the next world .
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