Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Buckinghamshire 's total book stock was going up by about forty thousand volumes a year , last year it grew just eight thousand . |
| 2 | The last brush stroke was put in by 3am on the day it was unveiled in the children 's ward at South Cleveland Hospital ! |
| 3 | A major life-extension programme was carried out on nearly half the Class 37 fleet , with a number of variants designed specifically for freight haulage and expected to survive into the next century . |
| 4 | To complete , the whole piece was dressed down with as many and as fine cuts as possible again using different angles of attack , all the time experimenting . |
| 5 | Eventually , though not yet for many years , when Deep Level came up under here ore was dropped down to there and trammed out all the way to the Bonsor Mill ; Paddy End Mill was then shutdown . |
| 6 | Generally , drink-driving was frowned on by both the ‘ safe ’ and ‘ unsafe ’ drivers ; it often happened only when there was no other way to get home . |
| 7 | The final test was carried out with just two biologists . |
| 8 | The Welshman was edged out by just two-hundredths of a second by his best friend Mark McKoy — but could have been forgiven for feeling he had been robbed of gold after the Canadian had seemed to get away to a false start . |
| 9 | The Welshman was edged out by just two-hundredths of a second by his best friend , Mark McKoy — but could have been forgiven for feeling he had been robbed of gold after the Canadian had seemed to get away to a false start . |
| 10 | By the mid 1980s over two-thirds of Britain 's non-white population was made up by just three broad cultural groups — Indians ( 760,000 ) , West Indians ( 534,000 ) and Pakistanis ( 397,000 ) . |
| 11 | There was no backlash in the large wheel , which was positioned conveniently whether the helmsman was sitting down to leeward or perched to weather . |
| 12 | A second controlled explosion was carried out at 10.55pm and people were told to stay up to a mile away from the scene . |
| 13 | The grossing-up procedure was carried out at SIC Class level , separately for large and small companies . |
| 14 | Inflation was brought down to below 5 per cent , the balance of payments remained healthy and productivity improved rapidly . |
| 15 | Inflation was brought down to below 5 per cent , the balance of payments remained healthy and productivity improved rapidly . |
| 16 | After , crayon was applied to the face in small amounts to build up the structure , the whole was finished off with very fine lines of a highly sharpened grey crayon . |
| 17 | The official parade was cut back to just under an hour and it was preceded by speeches from workers and politicians . |
| 18 | The ‘ centres of interest ’ introduced in the New Primary Approach in Kenya , have been mentioned and this pattern was taken up in both Zambia and Swaziland with topics gradually refined and widened . |
| 19 | There were no serious injuries , but one passenger was cut by flying glass and traffic was held up for over an hour . |
| 20 | Shouting was necessary , for it happened that a high-speed train was rushing by at just that moment on a main line to the east coast . |
| 21 | Each guberniia that was officially designated as lying within the famine area was linked up with supposedly ‘ rich ’ gubernii which had to provide supplies . |
| 22 | Apart from the sullen indie kids , a pallid Monday night atmosphere draped the venue and the gig was wrapped up by 10.15pm after a solid set and perfunctory encore . |
| 23 | A bolt was drawn back from inside then the door opened fractionally before a hand reached out and hauled him into the room . |
| 24 | ‘ I did n't mean that , I just got the impression that sex with a member of the opposite sex was frowned on round here . ’ |
| 25 | GARY STEVENS ' injury torment took another turn for the worse yesterday when the Rangers full-back was ruled out for up to six weeks with a stress fracture of the knee . |
| 26 | Congress was banking on at least 12 seats here , but most observers think they will be lucky to get 10 . |
| 27 | She said , a bus was flagged down by about seven , six policeman she claimed . |
| 28 | The Welsh star was edged out by just two-hundredths of a second by his best friend Mark McKoy — but could have been forgiven for feeling he had been robbed of gold after the Canadian had seemed to get away to a false start . |
| 29 | The conversation was picked up from somewhere off the floor once dessert arrived and the three of them were talking again . |
| 30 | It 's er common ground that in fact er no sealed order was drawn up until very considerably later , the sealed order is in fact dated the twenty fifth of May nineteen ninety three . |