Example sentences of "was [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The battle for Southern Hemisphere supremacy was joined again amid the resurrected dream of blue skies , braiis ( barbecues ) and rugby . |
| 2 | The plan was intended principally as a confidence-building measure to promote an Israeli-Palestinian dialogue . |
| 3 | The appointment of Stewart as vice-captain , opening batsman and wicketkeeper collapsed when Gooch missed the second Test , with Blakey consequently keeping wicket in two Tests when he was intended only for the one-day internationals . |
| 4 | She obeyed , shivering , for the basement was heated only by a miserly , inefficient little oil stove . |
| 5 | Mrs Foster was fluttering around like a nervous bird . |
| 6 | Because the motorbike was tucked cunningly under the very rampart of the fortress , much closer than the blue Corvette , Wilkie was able both to reverse the firm family progress of the Grimauds , and to make it impossible for Alexander not to catch up . |
| 7 | The Communications Compound was tucked away between the Tented Village and the Green car park . |
| 8 | However , due to the short notice , Randalstown would have been without four key players on May 15 which was pencilled in as the reserve date . |
| 9 | As the hon. Gentleman knows , Nuclear Electric was formed out of the old Central Electricity Generating Board and has remained a Government-owned project throughout . |
| 10 | Bluestone is not mentioned by Wesley but a Methodist Society was formed there at an early date . |
| 11 | Loch Ness was formed originally by the shifting tectonic plates that created the Great Glen fault line , and it was scoured smooth by glaciation . |
| 12 | Now , she was stripped down to the bare essentials of her person , trying to deal with her knowledge . |
| 13 | THE Inland Revenue 's bankruptcy petition against Sir Edward du Cann was dismissed yesterday at the High Court in London . |
| 14 | The Isle of Man 's Chancellor of the Exchequer , Mr David Cannan , was dismissed yesterday in the Manx government 's first ever Cabinet reshuffle . |
| 15 | Critical attention , in short , was diverted away from the economic , social , political or metaphysical shortcomings of the USSR . |
| 16 | The briefest pipérade recipe is the one recorded in Having Crossed the Channel as it was blurted out by a tipsy smuggler one morning in a Basque inn on the Bidassoa . |
| 17 | GERMAN inflation was revised upwards to an annual rate of 4.8 p.c. yesterday as figures provided mixed news of the state of the economy . |
| 18 | A deer has had to be put down after its leg was ripped off in an illegal snare . |
| 19 | The dreadful cries ceased as a hand was clapped roughly over the young woman 's mouth . |
| 20 | The authors reported that as this project progressed interest in the teaching of study skills increased and this interest was filtering through into the primary schools sector . |
| 21 | At the hospital , Dad was propped up on a narrow bed in casualty . |
| 22 | The 1917 announcement was wrung out of a reluctant and distracted Cabinet by Edwin Montagu , who saw himself at the time as the architect of a new India — an India of ‘ great self-governing Dominions and Provinces … organised and coordinated with the great Principalities … , federated by one central Government ’ . |
| 23 | Gower , when 7 , was given not-out to a caught-behind appeal against Mushtaq , and substitute Rashid Latif suddenly took off down the middle of the pitch like some Keystone Kop , arms waving , perhaps stung by a bee or heavily influenced by a certain West Indies captain who patented an onfield war-dance . |
| 24 | Mark Cameron ( 1987 ) came to believe , after studying these frescoes intensively , that the West Wing of the Knossos Labyrinth in particular was given over to a whole programme of initiation rites and ordeals . |
| 25 | An old man , flab hoisted by plastiskin into the semblance of youthful buttocks and belly , strolled past in a scanty g-string but the game was given away by the static pads of fake muscle that did n't even twitch as he walked . |
| 26 | He had managed to reconnoitre the area between the South Foreland and Beachy Head and to study the roads between there and London when he was given away by the careless talk , prompted by malice , of the ambassador 's homosexual secretary , a subsequently notorious transvestite , the Chevalier d'Éon , who later lived as a woman . |
| 27 | For the sugar intestinal permeability test , an isotonic acqueous solution of cellobiose ( 5 g ) and mannitol ( 2 g ) was given orally after an overnight fast . |
| 28 | PLANNING clearance was given yesterday for the shore-based part of a £1.5 billion gas project which will create spin-off contracts for firms in the offshore supply business , writes Frank Frazer . |
| 29 | Her first move was to go round to the various teachers who taught the senior class and borrow from them a number of text-books , books on algebra , geometry , French , English Literature and the like . |
| 30 | It was situated close to the United Nations headquarters as well as being only three blocks away from the African American Institute which Mobuto had requested to see at some point during his visit . |