Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wilson 's major misfortune was that the firm of Veitch declined rapidly before 1914 , when the stock was sold off before many of his new plants had been propagated or distributed : the Arnold Arboretum had fewer difficulties with his later collections . |
| 2 | A card was passed around for those present to send their good wishes for a speedy recovery . |
| 3 | After the dispute , the deal was called off by both parties . |
| 4 | And Letterworth had said that the deal was bogging down in that bloody stupid Olympic fracas and the Afghan mess , and that he did n't give a shit for politics , only for selling engines . |
| 5 | Alan the Reddler was woken up by all the greetings : |
| 6 | But within minutes , confirmation was coming in on all sides : from our headquarters in London , from the teleprinter flashes , from national newspaper reporters stunned like us and now eager to hear what we thought about it . |
| 7 | The New Testament was born about in many men 's hands … ’ . |
| 8 | The combined heat and power industry was held up for many years because it was in the hands of a state monopoly . |
| 9 | Dark blood was welling up from both of them . |
| 10 | Work was going on in this specific area at Harwell , where it was classified secret , and now a leading Soviet was offering to come and tell all ! |
| 11 | A complementary body of work was carried out at this time by Flavell and his colleagues ( 1981 ) . |
| 12 | However , when the company was considering the service and repair of machinery and was thinking of sending it abroad to Scandanavia , it was willing to listen and to ensure that the work was carried out in this country . |
| 13 | After this initial rebuild , further work was carried out by several resident archbishops , most particularly San Carlo Borromeo who used his favourite architect Pelligrino Tibaldi ( Il Pellegrini ) . |
| 14 | The editor was detained along with another Kambona brother , Mattiya , and Ulimwengu never appeared again . |
| 15 | Fire is all animals ' natural enemy , no animal is gon na go through fire of its own volition , erm and again the point , just moving away from the cats , which I 'd agree , the cat was hanging on to that platform , looking very stressed , signs of its tail , course it 's not gon na jump . |
| 16 | Councillor Community Environmental Services Committee are responsible for the large number of partnerships , social partnerships , with big business that the Labour Group are bringing to and the reason the Percent for Art was on that Committee was to link in to that er those those partnerships ' proposals . |
| 17 | After an initiative by JWT , a committee was set up under former Treasury mandarin Sir Leon Pliatzky to examine production practices and to recommend action to control cost inflation . |
| 18 | Everything that you got out the Cooperative was writ down in this book |
| 19 | The nursemaid felt a withdrawal of affection and was hurt , not noticing that the child was shrinking back from all emotional expression ; the hugs and kisses once lavished on Marie had not been transferred to Pamela . |
| 20 | It is also possible that some research is directed towards developing a technique , methodology , computer program , or piece of equipment which has wide applicability , but whose initial testing was carried out within some field of Scottish geology . |
| 21 | It is also possible that some research is directed towards developing a technique , methodology , computer program , or piece of equipment which has wide applicability , but whose initial testing was carried out within some field of Scottish geology . |
| 22 | ‘ Light ! ’ the cry was taken up from all sides . |
| 23 | But they wo n't get the holder in ; course security was stepped up after another fraud 10 years ago . |
| 24 | The waiter was coming by with more glasses of champagne . |
| 25 | Much ill-feeling was vented out on former collaborators , many of whom faced summary execution before government authority was fully established . |
| 26 | I was going back to London the next day ; the actor was staying on for another week . |
| 27 | Well I agree with that but I want to make a few points first of all , because poll tax was tangled up with this . |
| 28 | Their one desire was to get out of this place ; but perhaps flight in the present circumstances might seem ungracious . |
| 29 | The aquarium was set up like this for two weeks . |
| 30 | The Mensheviks and SRs were portrayed not only as counter-revolutionaries but as vicious saboteurs , the treachery of Stalin 's various rivals was traced to their earliest participation in the party , and Stalin 's role in and before the revolution was inflated out of all recognition . |