Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [verb] [verb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | An attempt was made to blow up a police chief . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It was , of course , by far a situation too good to last and in time , gazing down the glen , a solitary figure was spied struggling up the brae — without a kit-bag — the WAAFs identified their squadron officer ( known as Belladonna ) apparently about to make her first call on her troops in the wild , I was never able at first hand to witness this airmen 's paradise but it is a story that passed the rounds at Kinloss . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | A thirteen-person steering committee was elected to draw up a draft constitution and a programme of activities . |
| 11 | A joint committee was empowered to draw up a plan for mutual inspections . |
| 12 | This year , a huge worldwide advertising campaign was launched to bring back the lost visitors , to a ‘ new , kinder , more ethnically integrated ’ country . |
| 13 | Here and there the head of a child was seen peering over a windowsill . |
| 14 | Sometimes the child was allowed to pick up a camera ( an attractive toy ) and then a loud buzzer would sound . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | My job was to help set up the items , do the research , write some of the scripts and linking material , and brief the interviewers . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The decree was intended to wipe out the illegal cash holdings of black-marketeers , and to drain from the economy up to 20 per cent of the money supply , which had become bloated by the printing of new money to cover budget deficits in recent years . |
| 24 | Mrs McBride and the current incumbent were expected to work out a mutually agreed arrangement of hours and duties . |
| 25 | At 6.15 a taxi was dispatched to pick up the old dress — any old dress — to cover my confusion and my body . |
| 26 | In places water was applied to thin out the crayon into a wash , or used thickly to highlight areas with bright specks of colour . |
| 27 | No outlet was provided and , once the leat was full , the water was allowed to overflow down the hillside via sluice gates or boards , raising the temperature of the frosted land to that of the spring water and encouraging the grass to grow early — again to help feed sheep and lambs in the early spring . |
| 28 | Walsh kept him company for 45 minutes for 27 runs , Patterson for an hour for a partnership of 62 until the second new ball was required to finish off the number eleven . |
| 29 | A suitable train was scheduled to pick up the wives of the workmen along side their homes . |
| 30 | A commission was appointed to draw up a new constitution which would be put to a referendum in mid-1990 . |