Example sentences of "[conj] was [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " 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 | However by 1941 , almost the entire membership had either found war work or was employed in the surviving Edinburgh printing offices , and by then only 2 members were listed as out of work . |
| 3 | It may refer to uncertificated achievements but might include those which have been certificated , especially where the certification does not record the precise nature of the achievement , or was acquired in a different/unrelated context . |
| 4 | Some of today 's populous places were insignificant before the Industrial Revolution , but they have now far outgrown the village that was clustered around the ancient parish church . |
| 5 | One of the things that he objected to about a tradition of painting that was governed by a scientific , single viewpoint system of perspective was that it gave the spectator an incomplete picture or idea about the subject . |
| 6 | I kept a cowardly silence that was broken by a strident and sudden eruption of Goombay music from one of the nearby beach hotels . |
| 7 | I am in the process of compiling a catalogue for the collection of 20th century religious art belonging to the Methodist Church , a collection that was created in the early 1960s . |
| 8 | In an interview with La Stampa yesterday , Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA chief Carlo De Benedetti condemned the pervasive system of political corruption , which he says obligated Olivetti to pay bribes or lose contracts , as ‘ having reduced Italy to a state worse than the Third World ’ : he says that at the last shareholders meeting earlier this year , he had to deny any bribery because he could n't preview information to the shareholders that was intended for the legal authorities ; he says that facing the judges , he felt liberated from a weight — ‘ then I felt a sense of justice — it pleased me to be there , ’ noting that when the company decided that the demands of the postal service for slush funds became too extreme and Olivetti stopped paying , ‘ we did n't sell another machine to the Post — we had arrived at the absurd point where , if we did n't pay , we did n't work and the moment we quit paying , we did n't work any more ’ . |
| 9 | It takes its name from Betchworth Castle , a medieval mansion that was altered in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries but is now a ruin . |
| 10 | Grainne stood very still , although she did not close her eyes , for to do so in here , with a creature , a something that was watching from the shadowy corners and grinning and copying her every move , was not to be thought of . |
| 11 | The Marshal was examining a photograph that was propped on a fifteenth-century prayer stool by the bed . |
| 12 | She was sitting before a mirror that was propped against a large pan on the stove . |
| 13 | Holly saw the bright red band that was sewn to the upper arm of his tunic , the red diamond on his chest . |
| 14 | On the more formal , constitutional , front , survey research on voters revealed a reality utterly at odds with the conception of the active and informed citizen that was built into the traditional liberal-democratic theory of the British constitution so confounding the credibility of that perspective on British politics as well . |
| 15 | Instead of fashion being mainly , well almost totally an upper class preoccupation , it became , because of the ease of manufacture and because more clothes were more readily available and cheaper , it became one , something that was worn by the middle classes , gradually sort of percolated downwards . |
| 16 | It also works with the AppleTalk PC card that was announced at the same time . |
| 17 | She breezed on by , presumably expecting him to follow ; she was heading for a side-entrance to the house that was reached through an overgrown kitchen garden . |
| 18 | No oranges will taste the same as those we ate on t hose Saturday mornings , saving the peel to throw at the screen when Roy Rogers brought out his guitar to serenade Dale Evans across a Texas campfire that was flickering in an enchanted cave in a Manchester street . |
| 19 | Not two hours after digesting this news over their breakfasts , the same industry officials made their way to the Federal Court of Australia to receive the decision on their appeal over the February 1991 judgment by Justice Morling on a Tobacco Institute of Australia advertisement concerning passive smoking that was run throughout the Australian press in 1986 . |
| 20 | Holly looked over the single sheet of paper that was covered in the large hand of one for whom writing was slow and difficult . |
| 21 | KEVIN ’ They all knew , however , the well of love that was hidden beneath the bleak words of the cable , but nobody could talk much about it . |
| 22 | He saw a room that was lit by a pale yellow light of some sort and it was furnished with beautifully made miniature chairs and a table . |
| 23 | Even better followed when the intelligent Coleman , always capable of rising above the mundane , made a marvellous break that was followed by a superb inside pass to Divorty . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | On the way out , a policeman told him about the tragedy that was unfolding at the far end of the ground . |
| 26 | When the Secretary of State sees the Republican representatives again , will he put to them the revulsion that was felt by the Unionist community and by a large section of the Roman Catholic community in Northern Ireland when Mr. Haughey attempted to foist into the Anglo-Irish Conference a new Minister for Defence ? |
| 27 | He swung into a vacant parking space at that moment , right in front of the café that was tucked into an out-of-the-way corner of the city 's central business and shopping district . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | That was always the portrait that was painted by the right hon. Member for Finchley ( Mrs. Thatcher ) and I am afraid that that is occasionally true of the present Prime Minister also . |
| 30 | The early Labour leaders supported votes for women , home rule not merely for Ireland but for Scotland and Wales , and were deeply concerned about the respect that should be paid to individuals , about the sense of freedom that was lacking in the nineteenth-century employer-employee relationship . |