Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [verb] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The gullibility of the electorate was tested to the nth degree by the promises of ; more taxi licences , a ‘ better ’ carnival , ‘ good and plenty water ’ and the equally uninspired promise from one candidate that , if reelected , he would abolish dog licences . |
| 2 | True , the lawful use of force might then be met with unlawful resistance which would in turn be likely to give rise to harm to the person whose use of force was justified in the first place . |
| 3 | Money was exchanged , the two contestants shook hands , and their place in the ring was taken by a second pair of fighters : a Rajput with a handlebar moustache , and a small but fierce-looking Muslim who sported a bushy black beard . |
| 4 | A report on the extent and nature of the feedback was included in a second document circulated to all schools in 1980 . |
| 5 | Ostenecrosis was mentioned for the first time when the patient was seen by an orthopaedic surgeon with new radiographs ( see Figs 1 and 3 ) 30 months after the first bowel symptoms . |
| 6 | At the resumed hearing a nolle prosequi was entered pursuant to section 4(1) of the Criminal Justice ( Administration ) Act The defendant was tried on a second indictment charging him with murder , convicted and sentenced to death . |
| 7 | Fortunes changed for Douglas Reyburn golf team when the inter company Buchanan Trophy was played on the 23rd June at Belleisle Golf Course , Ayr . |
| 8 | Reg took over as caretaker-manager but after only ten minutes of their second match realised that Athletico were out of their depth in Division One and , sure enough , the club was bundled into the Second , finishing the season fifteen points adrift at the bottom . |
| 9 | For day travelling the sleeping compartment was converted into a second day compartment . |
| 10 | On the vidscreen a priest was eulogizing about the next life . |
| 11 | The priest was dying with a last Gloria on his lips , and Harry , carried away upon a tide of hatred for all things Spanish and all things Catholic , had already sunk the blade into the back of the young hidalgo . |
| 12 | This ritual was practised until the last decade or so but has apparently now ceased , which is perhaps in the best interests of the dolphins . |
| 13 | At nine-thirty tea was served in the next room and conversation went on for a long time , above all if Mérimée or Octave Feuillet ( the novelist who was librarian at Fontainebleau ) were seated next to the Empress . |
| 14 | After Fawn Hall , a break was arranged before the second act in which , after excursions by a few minor players , North was to appear . |
| 15 | The cutting edge of British art historical research was presented at the nineteenth annual Association of Art Historians ' Conference , held from 2 to 4 April at the Tate Gallery . |
| 16 | In the case of oil , for example , the raw material was in one republic , the petrochemical plants were in another , the scientific research was conducted in a third and the extracting equipment was in a fourth ; and who owned the pipelines that passed from one republic to another ? |
| 17 | ( The data given in this chapter was collected during the first six months of 1985 and employers should , therefore , bear this in mind when determining their relocation policies . ) |
| 18 | Here a determined attempt was made in the last decades of the fourth century to uphold the ancient Roman religion along with the classical culture with which it was associated . |
| 19 | The Albert Dock was opened on the 21st August with the arrival of the S.S. Florence . |
| 20 | His car was struck by a third vehicle pinning him and severely injuring both his legs , one of which was later amputated . |
| 21 | From October that year , a small car was towed behind the first electric car of the day to South Station , and pulled by a horse on a shuttle service between there and Squires Gate . |
| 22 | Last summer , the House of Representatives passed a bill funding the full $1.8bn requested by the Navy , but the vote was taken before the second sea test failure . |
| 23 | That is strange , for the boat was moored for the last night and the river was calm . |
| 24 | Adjuvant bile acid therapy was administered to the last 56 patients who underwent successful percutaneous cholecystolithotomies . |
| 25 | In the pre-campaign week , average Conservative and Alliance images were 10 per cent higher than Labour 's but the gap was halved by the second fortnight of the campaign . |
| 26 | The observed maximal effect was reached in the fourth hour although we do not know whether secretion would still have been higher in the fifth or sixth hour . |
| 27 | Inventories prove , for example , that turnips were a successful field crop long before Viscount Townshend , that the Cheshire cheese industry was flourishing by the seventeenth century , that Lancastrian and Cumbrian farmers were the first to grow potatoes on a significant scale and that many Pennine hill-farmers relied upon the local markets for their bread corn and malt , for they grew no cereals at all . |
| 28 | Although conditions were hard the industry was booming in the second half of the 19th century and there were regular jobs for most people . |
| 29 | The brunt of the fighting was borne by the 3rd Battalion , who suffered 70% casualties during eleven assaults in as many days . |
| 30 | Fighting was reported for the first time in the east Bosnian towns of Visegrad and Foca , near the Serbian border . |