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 | 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 . |
| 6 | The Communications Compound was tucked away between the Tented Village and the Green car park . |
| 7 | Bluestone is not mentioned by Wesley but a Methodist Society was formed there at an early date . |
| 8 | Loch Ness was formed originally by the shifting tectonic plates that created the Great Glen fault line , and it was scoured smooth by glaciation . |
| 9 | THE Inland Revenue 's bankruptcy petition against Sir Edward du Cann was dismissed yesterday at the High Court in London . |
| 10 | The Isle of Man 's Chancellor of the Exchequer , Mr David Cannan , was dismissed yesterday in the Manx government 's first ever Cabinet reshuffle . |
| 11 | Critical attention , in short , was diverted away from the economic , social , political or metaphysical shortcomings of the USSR . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The dreadful cries ceased as a hand was clapped roughly over the young woman 's mouth . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | There are many printed plays , and The Fashionable Lover was placed close to The Fatal Divorce . |
| 20 | The author was once involved in the takeover of a small company where costing was undertaken manually in a large ledger . |
| 21 | Most non-Americans do not realise how large the Civil War looms in the American consciousness , and until recently ( before Carter and Reagan ) in the South ‘ federal government was regarded essentially as a northern out fit attempting to foist liberal urban values on the stately old agrarian Confederacy ’ . |
| 22 | This was gathered together in the final session . |
| 23 | The statement was received enthusiastically by the Tory Party and with obvious scepticism by the Opposition . |
| 24 | Putting the ‘ corpse ’ down , she gave up and was gazing sadly at the small body when , about two minutes after its ‘ death ’ , it suddenly took a few very deep breaths and started to move about . |
| 25 | Chris was gazing wistfully at the passing landscape . |
| 26 | The kitchen was filled instantly with a loud snuffling noise , interspersed with grunts ; Edward , perking up , poured out his tea and listened attentively . |
| 27 | She had little choice but to let him draw her close against him , until she was pressed tightly into the hard curve of his body . |
| 28 | Its major development as a dual-purpose breed took place between 1920 and 1950 , but during the 1960s it was developed instead as an extreme beef type , benefiting from a degree of marbling in the meat bequeathed by its Beef Shorthorn ancestry . |
| 29 | The dead silence was broken only by a regular drip , drip , drip . |
| 30 | The silence that followed was broken only by the buzzing and blundering of insects , the uninterrupted beating of cricket legs . |