Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] to [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Childebert and Chlothar were indeed adding to the first sixty-five , or even the first seventy-eight , clauses of Lex Salica , then the first Merovingian code can be dated before 511 . |
| 2 | I have seen it — Not long ago , in Moscow on quite another mission , I tiptoed up the great empty staircase and , with a diplomatic passport in my pocket , stood in the eternal dusk that shrouds old ballrooms when they are asleep — With its plump brown pillars and gilded mirrors , it was better suited to the last hours of a sinking liner than the launch of a great initiative . |
| 3 | He left for the Somme at the end of December and was soon transferred to the 2nd Manchesters . |
| 4 | Gathering his forces , he attacked the Moorish state of Badajoz , evincing a still higher tribute than was already paid to the third brother Garcia . |
| 5 | Among the successful opposition candidates was Hitoshi Motoshima , who was narrowly elected to a fourth term as mayor of Nagasaki . |
| 6 | Elected to the representative board ( 1879 ) which was to be responsible for the foundation of the British Dental Association , he was subsequently appointed to the first editorial committee of the Journal of the BDA , and was BDA president in 1884 . |
| 7 | The tissue was subsequently transferred to a second beaker with 4 ml bovine calf serum ( Sigma Chemical Co Ltd ) added to inactivate the trypsin . |