Example sentences of "was [verb] [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was repainted earlier in the year for the BR Bescot Open Day at Walsall while 0-6-0- shunter 13029 was also used for various duties around the Museum site during the course of the weekend . |
| 2 | Here was the team which he had come to when it was struggling pathetically at the bottom of the First Division ; the team which he had made one of the greatest in the history of football , beaten by a fifth-rate side . |
| 3 | Round in 67 , he was irritated only by the fact that he had left it too late to play a postal part in the election . |
| 4 | These programmes were identified by the government ( HMSO , 1977 ) as central to urban regenerative strategies , but neither programme was redirected successfully towards the cities in the last few years of the 1974–9 Labour administration . |
| 5 | It was formulated dogmatically in the catechism and daily celebrated in the memorial of the Passion inherent in the Canonical Hours . |
| 6 | Despite the absence of any traces of body or coffin ( apart from some nails in the fill ) in the central pit , the whole monument would appear to be the probable grave — or cenotaph — of an important official which was erected sometime around the middle of the second century . |
| 7 | She was propelled roughly along the side of the van , squeezed between its side and the traffic . |
| 8 | The bending of light near a massive body is one prediction of GR , and this was checked crudely by the expedition of 1919 . |
| 9 | The sides were set , and national positions determined , in a debate that was to continue well into the future . |
| 10 | A small machine code programme was tucked away in the computer and when called upon would produce the necessary signals to drive the servos via the ‘ user port ’ and an interface box . |
| 11 | Sunday Life has learned his filofax , containing sensitive work contact numbers , was tucked away in the glove compartment . |
| 12 | According to Ken he worked in the old Government Commission , which was tucked away in the back somewhere , until the present Government wound it up and the Cabinet Office took over its functions . |
| 13 | She wore a gaberdine suit of dark blue , a white blouse , and her sheepskin was tucked away inside the baggage compartment above her head . |
| 14 | There is a third sister in this euphonious family : Marina , the baptised name of Malinche , mistress of Cortèz , through whose good offices and linguistic skills Mexico was conquered both for the Virgin Maria , and for Marina 's royal ancestors . |
| 15 | Cayard was recalled instantly by the committee but it took them 40 seconds to hoist the French recall signal , by which time they were well up the track . |
| 16 | Gordon Durie , the Tottenham striker , was withdrawn yesterday from the Scotland squad to face Malta on Wednesday at Ibrox after the player broke down in training . |
| 17 | The flags of all European nations were standing horizontal and cracking ominously above the hard and Lerissa , a handsome 52ft ( 15m ) classic sloop , was pitching wildly in the harbour mouth as other boats strained at their anchors . |
| 18 | The sequence of deposits suggests that the loch was formed shortly after the melting of the last great ice sheet about 13,000 years ago when the land surface was barren arctic desert . |
| 19 | RSVP was formed soon after the NRA announced it was considering building the reservoir in spring 1991 . |
| 20 | The buyer , Financiere Sicli , controlled by a group of investors including Bankers Trust and Wasserstein Perella , was formed especially for the acquisition . |
| 21 | Gimson 's view of life — which was always to be that of the ‘ idealist individualist ’ — was formed more by the mood and the standards of that crowded , argumentative , intellectually zealous , middle-class , provincial household than by his formal education . |
| 22 | In the early evening of 3 September , Gallièni asked Joffre 's permission to make the attack , despite the fact that the Sixth Army was designated specifically for the defence of Paris and nothing else . |
| 23 | Although the plight of the Nonconformists was eased considerably by the Toleration Act of 1689 , the intensity of the persecutions under Charles II , and especially those of the 1680s , had left a bitter legacy . |
| 24 | The position was eased somewhat by the construction of an entirely new works at Holborough by Major William Lee Henry Roberts in 1923 . |
| 25 | Traffic on the A40 was diverted away from the area for some time . |
| 26 | It was raining slightly on the day of inspection , but Willis , who had not been able to lay hands on his waterproof " tile " , but made do with a deep-crowned felt hat , stood on duty under the gap in the weather-boards , while an unsuspecting clerk from the agency showed the rest of the boat . |
| 27 | By now , it was raining enough for the covers to go on over at Wimbledon . |
| 28 | Of course the low percentage achievement does in part reflect the very high targets that were set as the plan was revised upwards during the course of the period , and it was carried out under the slogan of ‘ the five year plan in four years ’ . |
| 29 | He could hear the dawn chorus in full concert , and when he opened his eyes unwillingly light was filtering faintly through the curtains . |
| 30 | Nothing was heard apart from the sound of lead boots walking up and down or the revving of a motorbike . |