Example sentences of "[num] was [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Six was brought up in the family business but declining trade prompted him to retire early and devote himself to the wide range of interests typical of an eighteenth-century intellectual , although there is no evidence that he ever received any formal training . |
| 2 | The prospect of Prime Minister John Major calling an early general election ( due by mid-1992 ) in June 1991 was ruled out by the poor performance of the ruling Conservative Party in parliamentary by-elections in two Welsh constituencies on April 4 and May 16 , and in local elections in England and Wales on May 2 . |
| 3 | Below right : ATS of 1963 was born out of a Ferrari breakaway group but only managed to finish one race |
| 4 | Here at Halling from 1820–30 , £80 5 7 was paid out to the poor at an average of 2/ per week . |
| 5 | Servicing of steam locomotive No. 90 was carried out at the Severn Valley Railway Works at Bridgenorth where a complete new firebox and boiler was made and then shipped to Galway for installation . |
| 6 | Women 's experimental art of the seventies was left out of the original choice . |
| 7 | She was n't going to be happy until that two-fifty was zapped back across the void to Mirabeau Precinct . |
| 8 | Karajan 's return to music-making and recording in 1946–7 was brought about with the help of Legge and , at much the same time , the great Italian conductor Victor de Sabata , another man totally given over to music but whom the whirligig of public opinion had rightly exonerated despite extensive war work in both Italy and Germany in front of audiences of all manner of political persuasions . |
| 9 | About $17 billion was siphoned out of the country into foreign bank accounts in 1992 , he estimates . |
| 10 | I knew that on the island one was driven back into the past . |
| 11 | In a few seconds , two fell dead , one was running back into the trees , and four were inside the stockade . |
| 12 | Level 1 was left out from the calculation of the ANOVA in Table 6 since the question ‘ was there a word present ? ’ can not have a non-zero entry for the cell corresponding to a No answer . |
| 13 | But although Biarritz still has a statue of Queen Victoria , that of Edward VII was blown up during the Second World War , on political rather than aesthetic or moral grounds it is said . |
| 14 | D9531 did most of the work , but on the day your scribe volunteered for train-crew duty , visiting North Staffs Railway 4F 0-6-0 No. 4422 was marked up on the engine roster . |
| 15 | A review and analysis of SSAP 15 was carried out by a working party of the institute 's research committee following a request from the Accounting Standards Board . |
| 16 | To omit this background is rather like accusing the RAF of bombing innocent women and children in Berlin without mentioning that world war two was going on at the time . |
| 17 | The position was even worse in 1981–82 , when £4 million was spent out of the £ 10 million allocated . |
| 18 | In 1981–82 , £ 14.6 million was spent out of the £ 19.1 million allocated . |
| 19 | A total of £3,500 million was taken out of the public-sector borrowing requirement . |
| 20 | In the early 1970s the local firm that had been producing soap since 1943 was closed down by the action of its major shareholder , who also owned an import agency . |
| 21 | The Presidential Grant for 1993/94 was proposed by at an inflation-linked figure of £1,368 . |
| 22 | A consultative document in 1986 was followed up by the White Paper Promoting Better Health ( DHSS 1987 ) . |
| 23 | Indeed a mill design developed during the 1950s was turned down by a local planning enquiry : one of the aims of the CEGB 's current wind programme is to gain some feedback on public attitudes to modern designs . |
| 24 | Although the Conservatives are seen as the natural allies of nuclear power , the ordering of every commercial reactor in Britain up to the 1980s was carried out by a Labour administration . |
| 25 | Tentatively , 23 August 1990 was marked down as the official day of opening , when Ceauşescu would address a quarter of a million loyal subjects from the balcony on the second floor . |