Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When our dad died , we were turned out by the Bridgewater agent . |
| 2 | He took his senior men aside at lunchtime for a tour d'horizon on ‘ the wider implications of the project for European unity , and when the Cabinet resumed matters of cost and technical detail which had caused objections that morning were swallowed up in the wider prime ministerial perspective ’ . |
| 3 | Those who were brought up on the older theories of the Westminster model in which , despite party loyalties , there was a balance between the executive and the legislature as a whole , expect that the House of Commons will still regard its main functions as being to consider and amend legislative proposals from the government ( and from private members ) , to scrutinize public expenditure and to expose government policies to continual questioning and debate . |
| 4 | The sash windows were put in at a later date but the glazing bars still follow the lines of the mullions and transoms and look particularly well . |
| 5 | After lengthy discussion this was approved , subject to a number of points which required further consideration and were stood over to a further meeting . |
| 6 | My work-rate was speeded up by the further drops of rain that fell on me . |
| 7 | James began construction of the large residential gatehouse or forework , called le dungeon , that was added on to the earlier gatehouse to provide a more fitting apartment for the Keeper — and also for the King , whenever he should visit . |
| 8 | The television-viewing public was made up of the older stay-at-homes , not the swinging exotics whose exploits filled the front pages of the newspapers . |
| 9 | Some of this deficit was made up by a further encroachment upon the lands of the Church ; the chantries were dissolved in 1548 and episcopal property came under pressure towards the end of the reign . |
| 10 | This south façade of Manor Farm was built on to an earlier house in 1725 . |
| 11 | Such attitudes were reinforced by the increased contact with more remote societies as tropical Africa was opened up during the later decades of the nineteenth century . |
| 12 | By such a mechanism , in which family ties played an important part , a relatively rapid ascent was opened up for the younger sons of the prosperous Catalan farmers who must leave the farm to the chosen heir ( the hereu ) ; within a generation a man could make a modest fortune , exposed to the risk of loss as well as the hope of gain . |
| 13 | In 1982 a further project entitled ‘ Study and information skills in schools ’ , was set up at the NFER to extend the above work , with the following aims : |
| 14 | Hissene Habre , President since 1982 , was sworn in for a further seven-year presidential term on Dec. 22 , 1989 , after endorsement by a referendum on Dec. 10 ( see p. 37114 ) . |
| 15 | On March 5 Sharad Pawar was sworn in for a further term as Congress ( I ) Chief Minister . |
| 16 | Habré arranged elections and was sworn in for a further seven-year presidential term on Dec. 22 , 1989 , but was overthrown on Dec , 1 , 1990 , by rebel forces from the east under the leadership of his one-time military commander Idriss Déby , leader of the Patriotic Salvation Movement ( MPS ) [ see p. 37907 ] . |
| 17 | Congress ( I ) retained power in Maharashtra in the State Assembly elections in February 1990 and Sharad Pawar was sworn in for a further term as Chief Minister [ see p. 37245 ] . |
| 18 | The importance of this discovery can not be over-estimated , for through it I was led on to the further discovery of the Primary Control of the workings of all the mechanisms of the human organisms , and this marked the first important stage of my investigation . |
| 19 | I had more luck with partners this time — I was paired off with an older girl who I got along with fine , and we readied ourselves to go out . |
| 20 | After a year or so the rope was taken up from the lower floors and wound on to a cleat on the top storey . |
| 21 | His covered body was taken out to a cooler resting place , and suddenly the foundry seemed to be going round and round . |
| 22 | The row blew over as it did for Kurt Weinburg , who was taken out by an older friend for a night on the town . |
| 23 | This proposal was worked up within the broader terms of the long-promised priority care package . |
| 24 | Returning to his cab , he reversed in until he was backed up to a smaller , mustard-coloured van in the adjoining space behind . |