Example sentences of "was [verb] [adv] [prep] the [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 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The Communications Compound was tucked away between the Tented Village and the Green car park . |
| 6 | The Crusade was formed shortly after the first march . |
| 7 | Loch Ness was formed originally by the shifting tectonic plates that created the Great Glen fault line , and it was scoured smooth by glaciation . |
| 8 | This was the first of two planned sales from the Korthaus collection , which was formed mainly during the 1960s by one of the German industrialists active in the field during the post-war period . |
| 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 | The dreadful cries ceased as a hand was clapped roughly over the young woman 's mouth . |
| 13 | The voice of reaction was heard well into the seventeenth century . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | There are many printed plays , and The Fashionable Lover was placed close to The Fatal Divorce . |
| 19 | She kept pushing at it with all those millions of invisible little arms and hands that were reaching out from her eyes , feeling the power that was flashing straight from the two little black dots in the very centres of her eyeballs . |
| 20 | In 1860 the present Thomas Street Church was completed just after the 1859 Revival . |
| 21 | This was gathered together in the final session . |
| 22 | The statement was received enthusiastically by the Tory Party and with obvious scepticism by the Opposition . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Chris was gazing wistfully at the passing landscape . |
| 25 | She was referred again to the same cardiologist the next year and the exercise test was again negative and she was reassured . |
| 26 | There was this same probing again at her hardened tone , this summing up , and Jenna kept her face perfectly still , as icily cold as she could manage , although inside she was filled again with the same old grief , the same feeling of being worthless . |
| 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 | It was developed specifically for the larger urban workshops and consists of an adjustable loom with a device which , by altering the tension on the warp strands , shifts the completed work to the rear of the loom , allowing the weaver to sit at the same level throughout the entire rug-making process . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The silence that followed was broken only by the buzzing and blundering of insects , the uninterrupted beating of cricket legs . |