Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [verb] [to-vb] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ At that time it was SOS Pompey and the club were said to have only a week to survive . |
| 2 | On Oct. 31 , 1988 , a formal religious ceremony was held to confirm publicly the marriage of King Jigme to four sisters which was said to have taken place privately nine years earlier . |
| 3 | This study was designed to investigate further the relationship between inflammation and fluid transport in the small intestine of the rat . |
| 4 | But with this , as with council-house building , no real attempt was made to turn back the clock on processes that were ultimately totally to transform the character of Britain 's housing market . |
| 5 | No attempt was made to claim even a weak kind of representativeness . |
| 6 | An attempt was made to blow up a police chief . |
| 7 | After which an attempt was made to set out the most elementary logical conditions that must be satisfied before anything can qualify as a potential existent . |
| 8 | In addition to the methods mentioned above , which were used specifically to evaluate the undergraduate information retrieval course , an attempt was made to carry out a long-term study on the use of the library with regard to reasons for use , materials used , success in carrying out literature searches etc . |
| 9 | No attempt was made to return either the interior or exterior stonework to its original condition . |
| 10 | In February 1952 an attempt was made to burn down an Evangelical church in Seville , and Cardinal Segura published a virulently anti-Protestant pastoral letter , in which he effectively accused Franco of betraying the sacred identity of Spain as a Catholic nation . |
| 11 | Child labour was bound to take on a different quality when removed from the home and , in the case of the pauper factory apprentices , from the locality of upbringing . |
| 12 | Leeds ' former England defender was forced to sit out the final ten matches of last season 's title charge with an ankle injury that needed surgery . |
| 13 | At the start of intubation and at extubation a marker button on the Holter monitor was pressed to show accurately the beginning and end of the gastroscopy . |
| 14 | Tear gas was used against demonstrators at Brokdorf and Grohnde in West Germany ; at Kalkar a moat was dug to keep out an army of protesters . |
| 15 | A very large part of Marx 's work was intended to show how the particular form and representation of labour under capitalism was an extraordinary fantasy . |
| 16 | In addition , the Wilcoxon rank test was used to assess specifically the difference in EGF expression between Barrett 's intestinal mucosa and Barrett 's junctional/cardiac mucosa as well as between Barrett 's mucosa with dysplasia and Barrett 's mucosa without dysplasia . |
| 17 | A thirteen-person steering committee was elected to draw up a draft constitution and a programme of activities . |
| 18 | A joint committee was empowered to draw up a plan for mutual inspections . |
| 19 | Even so , this prediction was made before hostilities broke out , when the campaign was predicted to last only a matter of days , and his rival at BSkyB managing editor of Sky News , Lis Howell , is less sanguine : ‘ There is n't a bottomless pit of money in any news organisation , ’ she points out . |
| 20 | This year , a huge worldwide advertising campaign was launched to bring back the lost visitors , to a ‘ new , kinder , more ethnically integrated ’ country . |
| 21 | Sometimes the child was allowed to pick up a camera ( an attractive toy ) and then a loud buzzer would sound . |
| 22 | Memories being short , it may be forgotten that until comparatively recently a spin bowler was allowed to rough up the ball in the dust to help his grip . |
| 23 | The Worcestershire man had barely 40 overs under his belt in six Tests before this one , but here he was wheeling away in a marathon spell stretching into the fourth day , and with Tufnell on the way to completing the most overs ever bowled by one man in a first-class innings in New Zealand , the Kiwi machine was forced to change down a gear or two . |
| 24 | The reaction was to try to speed up the reallocation of those remaining at Barham House ( a process which was unintentionally assisted by the activation of the internment laws ) , to provide the best possible reason for closing the place down . |
| 25 | Another civilian was trying to set up a camera and tripod to photograph the scene and everybody was trying to sidestep the vomit on the carpet . |
| 26 | Still a device was invented to cover up the disappearance of an old landmark ; and at the accession of Her present gracious Majesty , she was unlawfully proclaimed by a new title ‘ Head of the Commonwealth ’ , subsequently legalised by the Royal Titles Act 1953 , against which I am proud to recall that I protested in my place in the House of Commons . |
| 27 | An inquiry was opened to ascertain why the accident had occurred when both ships had apparently been warned by the West German coastguard that they were on a collision course . |
| 28 | And then , just as the foyer was beginning to take on a shabby , comfortable look , the lift arrived , an elegant black and gilt box with a sliding door . |
| 29 | By the 1840s , as many acute observers like John Stuart Mill were noting , bourgeois opinion was coming to dominate even the actions of the upper classes . |
| 30 | But England could do nothing with the advantage because of the ferocity and speed with which the Irish forwards hammered whichever luckless Englishman was left to tidy up the tap . |