Example sentences of "[det] [was/were] [verb] in the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Construction of this was begun in the first half of the sixteenth century by the Donatory Captain Simão Gonçalves da Câmara . |
| 2 | This was demonstrated in the first political crisis of wartime , a carry over from peacetime . |
| 3 | This was followed in the next issue by an examination of the reasons for the controversy , which could include personal vanity . |
| 4 | This was excavated in the nineteenth century , mainly at Vulci near Florence , and belonged to the noble Guglielmi family until 1935 , when Benedetto donated half of the more than 700 artefacts to the Pope ; the other heir died without leaving his share to the Vatican . |
| 5 | This was seen in the first five patients treated , by serial cholangiographies through indwelling nasobiliary catheters . |
| 6 | This was received in the next room on Creed teleprinters from the wires of the Canadian Press . |
| 7 | Until this time , any bidder may retract his bid , and this was settled in the 18th century case of Payne v Cave ( 1789 ) 3 TR 148 . |
| 8 | I need to explain why this was happening in the first place . |
| 9 | After the dark age this was revived in the seventh century , evidently under the influence of Bronze-age stones , and the centre of production seems then to have been the Cyclades ( above , p. 8 ) . |
| 10 | The cathedral is on Latin cross plan with projecting transepts ; these are square ended with towers over them ( though the upper part of one of these was destroyed in the sixteenth century ) . |
| 11 | Not a bad idea therefore to chose and use three such spanking tenors as these : all were born in the last century ; all made operatic débuts in their early 20s ; all enjoyed singing to the people as well as to operatic audiences . |
| 12 | Great houses did not of course cease to be built ; on the contrary , almost as many were erected in the nineteenth century as a whole as in the three centuries that preceded it put together . |
| 13 | The moods and emotions of each were expressed in the first three movements . |
| 14 | ( viii ) " If that was painted in the eighteenth century , I 'm a Dutchman . " |
| 15 | That was taken in the last few years , er I j I I 've never bothered about clothes in my entire life . |