Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [adv] [adv] [subord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Agronomic techniques were developed rather later than mechanical ones , following the identification of the importance of rainsplash as a major element in the erosion process . |
| 2 | A spokesman for gloucestershire county council says that BET 's bids for cleaning contracts were treated as fairly as other competitors , and not opened until two weeks after the sale of glostershire services to BET was concluded . |
| 3 | Inside , the tents were furnished as comfortably as possible : iron bedsteads and hot water were provided for Cook 's tourists . |
| 4 | Economic controls were lifted as quickly as possible . |
| 5 | The cathedral was begun in the early thirteenth century and building continued till after 1300 , while a later choir and chapels were added as late as 1520 . |
| 6 | In particular it wanted to ensure that British nuclear thinking , planning , targeting and developments as a whole evolved along lines which were compatible with and were harnessed as far as possible to fit in with its own requirements . |
| 7 | The action and control areas were carefully selected so that they were matched as far as possible in terms both of the number of referrals to the psychogeriatric service in the previous year , and of 1981 census data on the number of elderly people resident , particularly those aged 80 and over , the housing amenities of elderly people and the proportion of elderly people living alone ( see Table 2.1 ) . |
| 8 | The early canals were contour canals , winding about for miles in order to circumvent a hill ; but the later ones were made as straight as possible by means of cuttings and embankments . |
| 9 | Over the Easter weekend there were complaints that the toilets were closed as early as five p.m . |
| 10 | Conversely , nominal identity matches such as A-a were performed more slowly than physical identity matches ( A-A ) suggesting a separate representation for nominal as opposed to physical matches . |
| 11 | Since the value of these slaves to their master lay so often in the slaves ' intelligence , initiative and skill , incentives ( such as the possibility of purchasing freedom ) were used more consistently than physical coercion as a means of persuading slaves to accept their inferior status . |
| 12 | Oh , the patient looked a mess , but Kath had seen the enormous care that had gone into the alignment of each suture , the meticulous attention not only to the innumerable tiny little muscle fibres , nerves and blood vessels but to laughter lines and wrinkles to ensure that the tissues were realigned as closely as possible to their original position . |
| 13 | Owing to the limited budget , Barbara urged caution on decision on grants which were phased over more than one year , and thus had financial implications for the future . |
| 14 | Small tissue blocks of Peyer 's patches and the surrounding mucosa at some distance were excised as soon as possible ( less than two hours ) after collection , and were fixed in cold ethanol ( 96% ) and then embedded in low melting paraffin wax . |
| 15 | The Stock Exchange of Singapore was incorporated in 1973 and electronic trading boards were introduced as early as 1982 . |
| 16 | Rather , they were demanded most rigorously where further training involved FE or professional courses where the educational qualification was an entry requirement . |
| 17 | They were started as early as 1461 , and the system is still being extended and improved today . |
| 18 | Its fine architecture decorated with giant banded pilasters have more than a hint of northern Mannerism in spite of the fact that they were finished as late as 1653 . |
| 19 | Urine specimens were processed as soon as possible after collection , both in the UK and the Gambia , and titratable acidity was determined by titration of each urine specimen to pH 7.4 . |
| 20 | The appeal of the private army and the provocation it offered to others were eliminated as easily as that . |
| 21 | Toensure those who hadnot had recent oral cholecystectographies or ultrasonagraphy studies were still gall stone free , these investigations were repeated not more than six weeks before trial entry . |
| 22 | They wreaked havoc in the country villages , looted and burned at will and were drunk more often than sober . |
| 23 | Roman cities were planned as far as possible symmetrically on a grid system , although in the case of existing towns which they took over , or of hill sites , geographical problems made this difficult . |
| 24 | So perhaps more instrumental in influencing the spread of environmentalism in England than the writings of apocalyptic ‘ doom-watchers ’ were such factors as the widespread construction of motorways — which , because they were routed around rather than through cities , shattered the peace of so many middle-class localities — and the changes in agricultural technology which altered the ecology and the landscape of extensive areas of rural England . |
| 25 | Shortage of newsprint was another link , and I was constantly in touch with Singapore , London and Calcutta about supplies , which when they came were divided as fairly as possible between ourselves and the independent newspapers . |
| 26 | The growing demand for cross-Channel travel , reflected in the establishment of the Dover-Dunkirk train ferry service in 1936 , ensured that the issue would be revived after the Second World War and Anglo-French meetings were held as early as 1947 . |
| 27 | Before that evening the Pink Floyd 's gigs had been small affairs such as the ICA , and for the London Free School at St Luke 's Hall in Notting Hill — but their rudimentary light show meant they were paid rather better than Soft Machine . |
| 28 | On 17 April 1764 , he finally got the go-ahead , providing of course that the new building was erected as economically as possible . |
| 29 | At the other end of the school , in the first year of the Halls , close links were established with the many primary schools ( some of them tiny ) which sent eleven-year-olds to the school , and the style of teaching for that first year was aligned as closely as possible with the more effective primary-school practices . |
| 30 | It was formed as early as 1805 by the Marchese Tommaso degli Obizzi whose taste in ‘ primitives ’ was ahead of his time . |