Example sentences of "[conj] was [adv] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the conditions held that ‘ where a youth or girl was being adequately cared for by foster parents or was satisfactorily settled in life with sound views and reliable character … then the Movement might and should reduce , or in some cases discontinue , its welfare work . ’ |
| 2 | The brunette was strikingly attractive in a way that was dramatically enhanced by make-up and clothes . |
| 3 | Because philosophy and science now occupy the secondary position that was previously ascribed to literature , it makes no sense to speak of literature as a special kind of language . |
| 4 | As standard , every diver carries a light stick , glowing colours moving around a pinnacle that was previously dived at dusk . |
| 5 | The girl had something — quite apart from her natural grace and outstanding good looks , quite apart from the lithe , leggy body that was simply made for modelling , there was a quality about her that made her stand out from all the others girls in the class , which drew the eye and held it , so that even someone as cynical as Arlene looked and wanted to go on looking . |
| 6 | Scanning electron microscopy confirmed that ethanol caused a vast ablation of the surface epithelium , an effect that was particularly pronounced in capsaicin pretreated rats ( Fig 5A and B ) . |
| 7 | He was in a blue uniform coat that was thickly encrusted with gold loops and edged with black astrakhan fur . |
| 8 | A few weeks later , in April , he was nominated navy commissioner and master attendant at Portsmouth , with charge of a dockyard that was rapidly growing in importance . |
| 9 | Smiling and apparently oblivious of her alarm that was rapidly turning into panic , Guido continued to guide her towards the sailboat . |
| 10 | And yet I risked everything I had worked towards , all the hope of what I might do in a position of real power , for something that was obviously doomed to failure from the start . |
| 11 | We studied a human fibroblast cell line that was entirely depleted of mtDNA by long-term exposure to low concentrations of ethidium bromide as previously described . |
| 12 | The open side flanker won just 11 Irish caps in a career that was constantly interrupted by knee problems , and was prematurely ended by injuries sustained in a border bomb blast . |
| 13 | Maria suppressed rising panic that was fatally laced with hysteria . |
| 14 | Our present VAT rate , at 15% , is lower than in many countries : As part of a general restructuring , it could rise to 25% , the level that was once adopted as part of a two-tier system . |
| 15 | In Rustenburg-l , the porosity and permeability that was initially observed from wireline logs and cores , was very low and did not exceed 1% and 0.2 mD , respectively ( Fig. 28 ) . |
| 16 | A computational model of this type that was initially developed for shape-perception is now being applied to the control of bodily movement . |
| 17 | She glanced at the woman sitting in the bed ; a long-limbed creature with gentle brown eyes and chestnut-coloured hair that was now streaked with silver . |
| 18 | Winston Churchill had welcomed Bonar Law as party leader in 1911 with the reflection that " if ever a national emergency makes party interests fade , we shall find in the Leader of the Opposition one who in no fictitious sense places the country and the Empire first " , a tribute that was certainly justified by Law 's role between 1914 and 1918 . |
| 19 | Most of the financial systems now targeted at the Unix market have grown out of software that was originally designed for use on PCs , or ported across from older mainframe systems and out of date mid-range platforms . |
| 20 | It was easy to see why the police would have missed it : from outside , it was just a concrete hardstand , perhaps the foundation for an old shed , and the opening led through a shallow pit that was usually jammed with rubbish and covered by a corrugated iron sheet . |
| 21 | The Gruff 's had a marmalade tom cat that was always getting into trouble . |
| 22 | This model developed from one that was earlier suggested in relation to slope processes ( Dalrymple , Conacher and Blong , 1969 ) and was important because it introduced the term landsurface catena to refer to a three-dimensional slope extending from interfluve to valley bottom and from the soil/air interface to the base of the soil , with arbitrary lateral dimensions . |
| 23 | Stepwise regression analysis with stratification by age confirmed that colonic disease was the only variable that was significantly related to survival ( log likelihood=-132.894 , χ 2 4 <0.05 ) . |
| 24 | This provoked a public outcry [ see p. 37913 ] and was widely seen as evidence of his autocratic style of government , already reflected in his combining the presidency with the chairmanship of the ruling Peronist party [ see p. 37651 ] . |
| 25 | The ‘ Douglas ’ was installed for the use of doctors , and was closely followed by subscriber exchanges for other businesses like the Iron Consortium , otherwise known as the ‘ Iron Ring ’ . |
| 26 | The roof was too high and was partly made of glass . |
| 27 | The national side were not alone at the fort , which nestles high in the hills and was partially enshrouded in mist yesterday . |
| 28 | Nurse Walton stared into his dark blue eyes and was immediately filled with pity for him . |
| 29 | So in 1911 Steel-Maitland offered to join the Halsbury Club in order to guide it on to safer lines — and was immediately accused of disloyalty by Walter Long . |
| 30 | A guide droid , alert for strangers , approached hir and was immediately thrown into confusion by hir pheromones . |