Example sentences of "[det] was [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | This was taken up by the Economic Section of the Cabinet ( under Meade ) which devised the Economic Survey : the expected level of output for the following year was predicted on the basis of the estimated changes over the present year in individual sectors of the economy . |
| 32 | Soon another change came as wrights and blacksmiths began to work locally and this was speeded up by the coming of industry attracted by the water power of the Water of Leith . |
| 33 | This was sorted out by a ravishingly beautiful air hostess who distributed boiled sweets to all concerned and reprimanded a tovarich for smoking . |
| 34 | Well I did hear that point , it 's , it 's interesting because in fact Lithuania er President Boris Yeltsin signed an agreement in July , er which effectively Russia recognise Lithuania as an independent state , it was the second country in the world to do that , er all of this was sorted out in a very er , good , er peaceful , sensible way , there , obviously Russia has concerns in Lithuania er not least the district . |
| 35 | This was backed up with a mountain of sweetcorn ( from the local cash and carry ) . |
| 36 | This was backed up by the famous John Peel Festive Fifty which was embarrassingly dominated by the band . |
| 37 | This was carried out to the design of William Butterfield and completed in 1848 . |
| 38 | This was carried out over a three-week period using a mixture of interviews and questionnaires covering a representative sample of persons from the CSSU and the departments . |
| 39 | This was carried out with a sample of some 2,000 establishments in 1980 and in 1984 ( see , Daniel/Millward , 1983 ; Millward/Stevens , 1986 ) . |
| 40 | For years this was carried out by the " vanners " ; men effecting a separation on special vanning shovels using a method perhaps best described as somewhat akin to panning for gold . |
| 41 | This was carried out in the form of a maze of plants surrounding Her Majesty 's Coat of Arms . |
| 42 | This was set up by a Henley member , the late Stephen Bertram , who lost his left arm in the Second War and who joined the Society in 1955 . |
| 43 | This was set up by the Fair Trade Foundation which you were asking about , . |
| 44 | This was set out in a section headed ‘ Dress and Deportment ’ , and illustrates Foucault 's point ( ibid. ) that in such situations the body is ‘ docile ’ to authoritative orders from above . |
| 45 | This was put down to a ‘ Fichtesterben ’ , or progressive spruce death , but a year later it appeared in other species too , such as beech , oak and the mountain ash , and foresters grew alarmed . |
| 46 | All this was topped off by a tricorne hat decorated by a plume . |
| 47 | The common law rule on this was laid down by the Court of Appeal in Cresswell v. Sirl but this rule has been replaced , so far as the protection of livestock against dogs is concerned , by section 9 of the Animals Act . |
| 48 | This was passed on to the Bank but no action was taken — partly , says Bingham , because PW 's report did not convey its concerns ‘ in a blunt and unmistakable way ’ . |
| 49 | One of the most controversial areas of GLC activity ( and this was picked up by the Tories in a party political broadcast as early as 1984 ) , was the Gay Teenage Group which had been set up by gay young men in 1976 . |
| 50 | Even as the car was pulling away , another was swinging in around the Green . |
| 51 | There was a long series of public meetings in 1980 and one of these was set up as a sort of week-end rally to which the anti-nuclear people were invited from all over Ireland , and at a big indoor public meeting during that weekend where you would normally have expected about 400 people to turn up , only about two locals turned up and the rest were all outsiders . |
| 52 | The biggest crime of all was to go round to the front of house or into the street in ‘ full slap ’ , as stage make-up was called . |
| 53 | The most determined resistance of all was put up by the Koryaks and Chukchis of the north-east , who faced a fierce and explicitly genocidal Russian campaign up to the 1750s . |
| 54 | The latter was set up in a tent and foregrounded five white bigots beating a black man in the glare of automobile headlights . |
| 55 | Shown here is the Queen Mother looking at the display relating to Frank Griffiths , the sole survivor of a Halifax that was shot down on a supply mission , and who was successfully hidden by the local Resistance . |
| 56 | That was borne out by the census that was taken in April , in rather warmer weather . |
| 57 | ‘ I thought that that was barred off to the likes of me . ’ |
| 58 | ‘ The worst that was brought out in the dispute was brought out in our own — some of our departed brethren ’ . |
| 59 | He says we were told one of them was very badly deformed — but we were never told why — I wondered if that was put down to the tests . |
| 60 | Nowhere was this more apparent than in the complicated pattern of voting that was drawn up for the Council , varying according to the nature and source of the issue under discussion and ranging from simply majorities through qualified majorities to unanimity . |