Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [adv] [art] [noun sg] [was/were] " in BNC.
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1 | While it had received some decent Mk 2 air-conditioned stock , the maximum speed of its fleet of diesel locomotives was 90/95mph ; average city-to-city speeds compared unfavourably with other parts of the InterCity network , and initially BR replied to local pleas that HSTs could not provide the answer , implying stagnation until perhaps the route was electrified and received APTs that could take the curvatures in their stride . |
2 | He was a writer of the fidgety , costive kind whose works are long in the planning , and meticulous in the execution — only at the very end of a project , when the scaffolding , the foundations , the walls and roof and even the plaster were laid down , did spontaneity and delight take over , in the actual play of , play with , words themselves . |
3 | The Principal and other staff of the College and then the Polytechnic were playing a part in committees of the CNAA : in 1971 , for example , the Academic Board congratulated one of its members on being invited to chair the CNAA Physics Board . |
4 | A bituminous primer was applied to the existing asphalt covering , which was left in position to form a vapour check layer , before layering the insulation and then the finish was provided by a cap sheet of Vulcanite Tribond 350 elastomeric , white mineral . |
5 | A purchaser is only likely to avoid liability for dismissals before completion if either the dismissal was for a reason unconnected with the sale ( eg gross misconduct ) or the dismissal was sufficiently far in advance of completion that it was not connected with the sale . |
6 | Further examination revealed a hard swelling at the base of the penis and the question of a foreign body was raised with Mr P. He strongly denied inserting anything into his urethra and so an X-ray was taken . |
7 | The proposed cuts had led to talk of its closure but today a reprieve was announced . |
8 | Tennyson in Morte d'Arthur again creates similar types of emotion because again the poem was prompted by the death of his best friend Arthur Hallam . |
9 | The revival of interest in a Channel fixed link in Britain and France was matched by growing interest at European Community level although here the emphasis was on the role of Europe in providing financial support for improvements in transport infrastructure . |
10 | This restraint was held by the court to be an indirect one and on the facts of the case it was found to be unreasoanble and therefore the plaintiff was not entitled to his pension . |
11 | Another deadly volley of canister and scarcely a man was left on his feet and capable of charging even had he wanted to do so . |
12 | Local businesses jumped on the bandwagon and suddenly the project was up and running . |
13 | Twenty minutes was the time allocated for lunch and then the afternoon was taken up with being fitted with a uniform . |
14 | When Hannah was a child , running water meant the stream in the field and such things as electricity , the internal combustion engine and even the wireless were available only on another planet or so it must have seemed to the average resident of this remote and lovely but intensely deprived valley . |
15 | The surface would have suffered saturation bombardment during the final stages of formation but either the surface was too soft to preserve these craters , as indicated by the degradation of the oldest craters , or the surface was somehow ‘ decratered ’ . |
16 | No further items were traced referring to this case and so the confusion was allowed to remain . |
17 | They replaced their kitchen crockery with simple black and white octagonal glassware crockery and even the car was changed to fit in with the new image — their champagne-coloured Ford was replaced with a grey and red Peugeot . |
18 | Well having er carried this appliance nine flights of stairs to the ninth floor of the flat erm my objective was to gain entry into the flat onsh , sorry once the okay was given erm , again the objective was to gain entry into the flat as quickly and as quietly as possible er , by my mistake the equipment was not placed one hundred percent correctly and began to malfunction. er It started to make er a bit of a whirring noise , and a bit of a loud noise and again the objective was to gain entry quickly and quietly . |
19 | Last year it received a clear 84 per cent majority and then the Campaign was then asked to submit a draft statement to the policy review . |
20 | I have a suspicion that somehow the heating was on by the time they reached their new destination . |
21 | ‘ It was a bloody business but eventually a breach was forced in the defences and Bartholomew led us through . ’ |
22 | Touring the huge THORP plant and Sellafield 's visitors ' centre took up one day and then the group were given a guided tour of nearby Muncaster Castle by Sir Patrick Gordon-Duff Pennington , whose family have lived in the historic castle for more than 300 years . |
23 | But their music was really deep blues : Mississippi Delta stuff and so the feeling was the same , although they went about it differently … |
24 | Repeating numbers would quickly get the artistes in trim and once the show was on they would start rehearsing for the main summer production and perform at the same time . |
25 | Horan was on his feet , just , when he played the ball and so the try was legal . |
26 | At a certain field strength — the lower critical field — the magnetic field began to penetrate portions of the sample and so the sample was a mixture of superconducting and normal states . |
27 | The article concluded that the frequency of positive responses to the injected extracts appeared to be the result of suggestion and chance and hence the method was not scientifically valid . |
28 | There is plenty of evidence for the planting of new vineyards in the Bordelais and even a Poitevin was prepared to admit that Bordeaux wine was of superb quality , but at this date by far the most important wine-exporting region was further north , in Aunis and Saintonge . |
29 | In the mid-eighties there was the building and opening of this lovely Cathedral and therefore the Guild was again very busy making 13 sets of cream vestments together with 52 Stoles — 13 of each of the four liturgical colours . |
30 | For the S&P500 index from June 1982 to September 1982 , the no-arbitrage equation was found by Cornell and French ( 1983a ; 1983b ) to overpredict the actual price of index futures contracts , that is , the theoretical ( or no-arbitrage ) futures price exceeded the actual futures price and so the future was underpriced . |