Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [vb pp] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is a better finisher than that , of course , and amends were duly made in the 43rd minute when he brought it to 2-0 on the night and 3-3 overall by meeting David Smith 's low centre from the left with a 12-yard volley of stunning velocity . |
| 2 | The following month two treaties , one establishing a European Economic Community ( EEC ) and the other a European Atomic Energy Community ( Euratom ) were duly signed by the Six in Rome and referred to the national parliaments for ratification . |
| 3 | The Dutch types were overwhelmingly preferred during the 1940s , when there was a general boom for dual-purpose breeds in Britain , but a few Canadian animals were preserved , bolstered by Canadian gifts of heifers to promote the Holstein in Britain which led to the formation of the separate British Holstein Society in 1947 . |
| 4 | Strong representations were successfully made to the ITAC Committee both to preempt this and to ensure that a monopoly situation did not arise . |
| 5 | Gould , in marked contrast , had managed to enlist 298 subscribers for his Himalayan Birds , all of whom were successfully pursued by the efficient and persistent Mr Prince . |
| 6 | In 106 of these patients ( 72.6% ) the stones were successfully retrieved by the standard technique of sphincterotomy and basket or balloon extraction . |
| 7 | After asking for help from passers-by , they were eventually pointed in the right direction . |
| 8 | Even the types of particles that were eventually emitted by the black hole would in general be different from those that made up the astronaut : the only feature of the astronaut that would survive would be his mass or energy . |
| 9 | During the terrible siege of Leningrad in the last war supplies were eventually conveyed to the starving thousands on carts from Finland across the Baltic Sea and the Gulf of Finland ( it was fortunately an exceptionally cold winter ) — what must have been a fearsome journey . |
| 10 | These were eventually embodied in the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act of 1949 . |
| 11 | Two strips of waste wood were slowly fed over the revolving cutter and cramped to the table . |
| 12 | They claimed that the courts were inadequately served by the new social services departments . |
| 13 | Furthermore , they were intimately acquainted with the Greek republics and Macedonian monarchies of their time , and realistically assessed their capacities to stand up against the Romans . |
| 14 | The excise laws were widely regarded by the Irish as unnecessarily strict , and they certainly resulted in harsh repressive measures being taken by excise officers , often in conjunction with military forces , although there is ample evidence that both sides resorted to violence at times . |
| 15 | Nailing was an exception , but women and children were widely employed in the light metal wares of Birmingham . |
| 16 | The debt at the end of the American war had been sixteen to seventeen times the revenue , and prophets of doom were widely heard amid the financial gloom . |
| 17 | The Edinburgh Conference decisions , particularly on " non-intervention " in Spain , were widely resented in the Labour movement . |
| 18 | In January 1990 tense relations between the Justice Ministry and the warders ' unions , as well as low staff morale , were widely seen as the indirect cause of a series of 28 prison escapes in six weeks . |
| 19 | The therapeutic properties of amber were widely recognized in the classical world . |
| 20 | The growth rate is modest , because Matisse was fully appreciated in the Seventies and the massive revaluations that were widely applied in the Eighties had in his case already happened . |
| 21 | Stein 's book may have influenced the initial formulation of Marx 's conception of the proletariat in capitalist society ( Avineri , 1972 , pp. 53–5 ) , but whether that is so or not it did undoubtedly express in a very clear and forceful way ideas which were widely held about the dominant political issues in nineteenth-century European societies ; to such an extent that the social movement came to be largely identified , especially in Germany , with the labour movement . |
| 22 | Improved bus services with co-ordinated timetables were widely suggested in the 1976 Green Paper on Transport Policy and in the response of British Railways ' Board to this , Opportunity for Change . |
| 23 | The prospect of a radical overhaul of US banking legislation was confirmed on Feb. 5 when the US Treasury announced proposals including the abolition of two laws dating from the 1930s which were widely blamed for the fragmented character of US banking . |
| 24 | The shots , which were widely reprinted in the Allied press , showed a relaxed General listening to his wife play the piano or watching her knit . |
| 25 | Bishop Burnet , whose church-manship and politics were very different , and whose memoirs were widely read in the eighteenth century , described him as |
| 26 | These anxieties were mercilessly sharpened by the popular press . |
| 27 | Some were outright extensions of traditional hierarchies , while others were predominantly recruited from the new plutocracy and professions . |
| 28 | If one-roomed cottages were rarely built in the nineteenth century , those with two were common , though very few survive today . |
| 29 | Very old examples consist of brick or stone pillars supporting a pitched roof , but they were rarely built before the late nineteenth century as they were considered an extravagance . |
| 30 | Birthdays , in the modern sense , were rarely recorded in the early Middle Ages : it was the " heavenly birthdays " ( the earthly death-days ) of saints and martyrs that were celebrated in liturgies . |