Example sentences of "was [verb] [adv] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aquileia was a Roman centre and the original basilican cathedral was erected early in the fourth century but was destroyed by Attila the Hun a few years later . |
| 2 | The Crusade was formed shortly after the first march . |
| 3 | The voice of reaction was heard well into the seventeenth century . |
| 4 | The fourth-seeded American looked sluggish as his serve was broken twice in the first set by the unseeded Swede Magnus Gustafsson , who went on to win their quarter-final 6-2 , 7-6 , clinching the tiebreak 7-4 . |
| 5 | THE BOOKISH PORTFOLIO was liquidated shortly after the 30th September 1992 valuation . |
| 6 | He was booked early in the second half for a clattering foul on Abel . |
| 7 | A family which was torn apart during the Second World War has had an emotional reunion . |
| 8 | It was the Saint Mary 's window though , which was considered best for the first class stamp . |
| 9 | The Hong Kong government had announced on Nov. 19 that it was pressing ahead with the next stage of construction of the airport , despite a lack of agreement with China . |
| 10 | It was rebuilt early in the 19th century by Hicks , who installed steam power . |
| 11 | Of the structures of medieval Stockport , only two sections of the town walls ( of rough dressed red sandstone ) and the chancel of the Parish church ( in decorated Gothic ) remain : the rest of the church was rebuilt early in the 19th century . |
| 12 | The school established in East Looe , whose boys were dressed by a charitable fund in light blue coats and caps and were known as ‘ blue boys ’ , also was dissolved early in the nineteenth century . |
| 13 | On 27 April 1962 four together were found in fields just north of Pagham Harbour and one was seen there on the 29th . |
| 14 | When I left you last month I was looking forward to the second round of the Macpherson Paints UK Championships to be fished at Diglis Weir on the River Severn . |
| 15 | I SUPPOSE a lot of people are waiting to greet the first cuckoo of spring , but I was looking forward to the first hedgehog of spring . |
| 16 | A BRITISH general was named yesterday as the first commander of Nato 's new Allied Rapid Reaction Corps , heading about 80,000 troops from 11 countries . |
| 17 | HIGHLAND-BORN Dr Catriona Burness was named yesterday as the sixth Glenfiddich Fellow in the Department of Scottish History at St Andrews University . |
| 18 | Ken Connelly , 52 , who suffers from an aorta aneurysm , a problem with his main artery , was about to be operated on when he was turned away at the last minute — on two occasions . |
| 19 | RIGHT : The present Stanley Mill was built early in the 19th century , using a complex structure of iron arches , linked throughout its five storeys . |
| 20 | The New Town , the central part of which was built mainly in the second half of the eighteenth century , is more spaciously laid out in classical streets and squares — ‘ not only gay and airy ’ , said Robert Louis Stevenson , ‘ but highly picturesque ’ . |
| 21 | This is powerful-looking and Romanesque , and was built mainly in the twelfth century . |
| 22 | In England , lavender was grown commercially until the last war in Surrey and in Kent ; now it is only grown in Norfolk , near Norwich . |
| 23 | This regiment of regular gunners was to serve successively with the 1st Armoured and 5th Indian Divisions before finding longer-term employment as one of the three regiments forming the field artillery of the celebrated 4th Indian Division . |
| 24 | ‘ She was buried here in the first century BC . ’ |
| 25 | This man was buried here in the fourth century . |
| 26 | This man was buried here in the fourth century . |
| 27 | It was used extensively during the Second World War , and is still used in parts of the Third World to help eradicate malaria and typhus . |
| 28 | Prednisone was used less during the second year ; twenty six patients received one course and 10 children two or more courses . |
| 29 | The remains are all that is left of a monastery which was founded early in the 11th century . |
| 30 | They realised that they had to tighten everything up , an approach which was helped immeasurably by the mid-second half arrival of Dean Richards . |