Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [vb pp] [adv prt] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | However , a new 375g pack at £1.19 was introduced on February 8th and until the old stock was used up the two packs were on sale side by side . |
| 2 | The photograph was taken on a favourable day or it could not have been taken at all . |
| 3 | Until this study was carried out the individual elements of the FAOR methodology had been developed and tested in isolation , each being the responsibility of different organisations within the FAOR partnership . |
| 4 | The loss of this old lady 's vote was cancelled out a few streets further on , by a young chap who came to the door and told me he was a soldier . |
| 5 | A comprehensive review of the problem of attempted suicide and its management was carried out a few years later by a committee chaired by Sir Denis Hill . |
| 6 | In the test the boiling times and fuel-life figures for each stove were taken on a mild summer 's day with only a light breeze . |
| 7 | It was excavated in an unsystematic way , and the many illustrations of finds show that the emphasis was put on the recovered finds rather than on the site itself In this illustration , published soon after the excavation in 1883 , the burial was attributed to the Vikings . |
| 8 | After the War , this central theory of economics was put on a rigorous footing ( Arrow-Debreu ) . |
| 9 | as if a finger were put on the naked soul ! |
| 10 | Henceforth all traffic was routed down the main line . |
| 11 | The woman was taken on a terrifying 45-minute journey in another car into the countryside before the gunman committed what police described as a ‘ serious sexual assault ’ . |
| 12 | The woman was taken on a terrifying 45-minute journey in another car into the countryside before the gunman committed what police described as a ‘ serious sexual assault ’ at an unknown location . |
| 13 | The coffin was carried on a horse-drawn cart because it was a long time before a motor hearse became available . |
| 14 | I assumed you 'd want to know that wreckage of a dinghy was washed up a few miles north of here on the Welsh coast last night . |
| 15 | From March 1859 it was clear that , when the empire 's local government was put on a new footing , people other than bureaucrats would be participating in it . |
| 16 | Word was passed down the long column to close up , and to be ready to make a dash for the ford . |
| 17 | but you 're saying in , in , in short , are you , that erm , that in the present instance erm the obligation was put on the United Kingdom government which has sort , it may have succeeded or not as the case maybe , discharge the obligation by in effect erm subject to the subsidiary provisions which you 've both make reference and leaving it to er regulate these matters |
| 18 | Pipkin was stretched out a little way away . |
| 19 | It rang for a long time , and he thought he was going to be out of luck , but eventually the receiver was picked up the other end . |
| 20 | Not surprisingly , considerable pressure was put on the Conservative government to take some action to cope with the problem , though it was neither clear nor agreed what the basic problem was . |
| 21 | The above shot was taken on the 18th while the aircraft flew for Dutch TV . |
| 22 | It was , however , one of the legacies of the constitutional struggle of the seventeenth century that the rules of succession to the Crown were put on a firm , statutory basis and the statutory rules prescribed have since functioned uncontroversially subject only to one or two possible minor exceptions . |
| 23 | This patient was put on a yeast-free diet , and given a second psychiatric assessment when her bowel symptoms had resolved . |
| 24 | In such petty ways some revenge was taken on the wealthy transient . |
| 25 | The whole school was closed down a few years ago . |
| 26 | The wounded German Officer was carried up the grassy bank and placed against a tree . |
| 27 | The immunisation was carried out every four weeks and 10 ml of blood was collected one week after each injection and analysed for reactivity against PT-gliadin by dot blotting . |
| 28 | This downhill was set down the long-established OK course from Bellewarde to La Daille ; the two in February will be on the new Olympic piste carved down the precipitate north-east face on to the very heart of the village . |