Example sentences of "[adv] was [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pool below was hidden behind imported rocks . |
| 2 | On Sunday 8 September 1560 , a mop fair was held at nearby Abingdon . |
| 3 | Will the Prime Minister confirm that he personally was informed about British Steel 's decision to close Ravenscraig over a fortnight before the official announcement last week and that instead of trying to reverse the decision , he and the Secretary of State for Scotland took part in a conspiracy of silence ? |
| 4 | The Piraeus kouros appears to have an iron armature inside , so was cast in one piece ( one of the advantages of sectional casting is that the core can be removed ) ; but it has not been properly studied or published and we can not say what methods were used ; nor do we know what was the nature of Rhoikos ' and Theodoros 's innovation . |
| 5 | The information published was assembled from Gloucester Warwickshire Railway release incorporating ‘ The Cornishman ’ and thus was published in good faith . |
| 6 | The shed where Riddle 's clothes had been found was ahead of him ; the land hereabouts was divided into little fields bounded by dry-stone walls , but cultivation had ceased long ago and the fields were choked with bracken and bramble . |
| 7 | Kyle of Lochalsh is the next port of call , and the way to it from Plockton returns to the T-junction at Duirinish , turns along its main street and skirts the next village of Drumbuie , scene of a great hullabaloo two decades ago when a proposal to construct an oilrig installation off-shore was repulsed by spirited opposition , a home subsequently being found for it on an uninhabited shore of Loch Kishorn . |
| 8 | The mantelpiece above was crowded with gleaming brasses , which she vaguely made out as candlesticks . |
| 9 | Nothing further was heard of this move . |
| 10 | On 2 August he had a spectacular military victory at Baggotrath , calling it ‘ the absolutest victory that ever was got in this kingdom and the least loss of our side ’ , and , after a short interval back in England , he was in command at the siege of Tecroghan Castle near Trim in May 1650 . |
| 11 | THE intensification of the ambulance dispute yesterday was marked by increasing friction between management and crews , who were accused of putting lives at risk . |
| 12 | His only regret yesterday was to fail from seven feet at the last , where his solitary bogey cost him the chance to stand alongside Payne , the 1992 Rookie of the Year , who had a best-of-the-day 66 . |
| 13 | When Huw reappeared , having lain low for several days , his scars and bruises were beginning to fade and nothing more was said on either side . |
| 14 | On May 3 it had been reported that Sawyer 's interim government , appointed on April 19 , was ready to resign , apparently as a preliminary to offering the NPFL a power-sharing arrangement ; no more was heard of this proposal , however . |
| 15 | No more was heard of these schemes , but on 9 August Croydon Corporation served notice on the B.E.T . |
| 16 | A reduction in volume of 30% or more was regarded as satisfactory gall bladder emptying . |
| 17 | More was produced in that quarter century than in the previous three quarters , and many times more than in any comparable period in human history ( table 8.1 ) . |
| 18 | His tutor raised what more was needed for financial security . |
| 19 | Well planned pilot schemes were under way , but more was needed on budgetary delegation and GP involvement . |
| 20 | Slightly more was spent on economic projects and slightly less on social schemes . |
| 21 | You will have seen , with as much surprise as pleasure , a child of nine play the harpsichord like the great masters ; & what will have astonished you even more was to hear from trustworthy persons that he already played it in a superior manner three years ago ; to know that almost everything he plays is of his own composition ; to have found in all his pieces , and even in his improvisations , that character of force which is the stamp of genius , that variety which proclaims the fire of imagination & that charm which proves an assured taste ; and lastly , to have seen him perform the most difficult pieces with an ease and a facility that would be surprising even in a musician of thirty … . |
| 22 | A MAN who set fire to his former girlfriend 's home was jailed for 18 months yesterday . |
| 23 | Further drilling and exploration both on land and offshore was planned by other companies . |
| 24 | He could not speak Masai so he always was accompanied by this man , a Nandi , who , I am afraid , does not speak Masai very good . ’ |
| 25 | Now , what I was gon na do now was go through this quoick transformation right , you 're not gon na be asked t to produce it in an exam or anything like that , but the reason why I 'm doing it now is that you will need it for your er , your Q M exam not er your exam , your project right , cos there is a similar applicat , it 's quite a commonly used tool you 'll find er , where wherever we have a , erm , an expression with an infinite number of erm possibilities or an in infinite number of arguments . |
| 26 | What he was saying now was tinged with gentle humour , but it was absolutely logical . |
| 27 | I think he had a thing about it particularly because he knew the record company really was going for that song because the first American space shot was coming up . |
| 28 | God really was seeping in this morning from every direction , and chiefly through the condition of marriage itself . |
| 29 | The difference in increase in UOS pressure for those episodes with acid reflux and those without was compared with one way ANOVA . |
| 30 | Life in Takrit in Iraq fifty years ago was based on similar principles for the young Saddam Hussein as it had been in Scorniceşti a generation earlier for Nicolae Ceauşescu . |