Example sentences of "was [verb] [adv] in 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 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 . |
| 3 | He was booked early in the second half for a clattering foul on Abel . |
| 4 | It was rebuilt early in the 19th century by Hicks , who installed steam power . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | RIGHT : The present Stanley Mill was built early in the 19th century , using a complex structure of iron arches , linked throughout its five storeys . |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | This is powerful-looking and Romanesque , and was built mainly in the twelfth century . |
| 10 | ‘ She was buried here in the first century BC . ’ |
| 11 | This man was buried here in the fourth century . |
| 12 | This man was buried here in the fourth century . |
| 13 | The remains are all that is left of a monastery which was founded early in the 11th century . |
| 14 | As a centre of culture , and a meeting place of civilizations , Cordoba remained vitally important through the days when the Jewish philosopher Maimonides was born there in the twelfth century and the Arab philosopher Averroes lived there in the thirteenth ; as a representative of a medieval city it is as eccentric as Palermo — indeed far more so ; for the cathedral at its centre is a mosque slightly disguised ; and the beauty and immense and impressive size of the mosque are constant reminders to the modern visitor that Christendom was a poor relation to Islam , perhaps in many senses , in the period between the eighth and the tenth centuries when it was built . |
| 15 | Metalworking remains at Sardis in Turkey suggest that this process , called ‘ parting ’ , was employed there in the sixth century BC to refine gold from the river Pactolus . |
| 16 | He was replaced early in the second half by Shutt . |
| 17 | ‘ Part of a building ’ will include entering a building lawfully but then going into a part of the building as a trespasser , such as entering the private quarters in a public house which was entered lawfully in the first instance or going behind an unattended counter in a shop . |
| 18 | Built between 1280 and 1310 , the castle was enlarged considerably in the 15th century . |
| 19 | The prosperity of Cadiz , based on the American trade , was to decline sharply in the nineteenth century and allow Barcelona to take over its position as the exemplar of middle-class civilization , although it was never to replace the Andalusian towns as nurseries of liberal politicians . |
| 20 | His mother was sitting proudly in the fourth row , wearing a silver lamé dress . |
| 21 | The position was to change significantly in the nineteenth century . |
| 22 | It was created early in the twelfth century and in local marble , with the consequence that , far from being eroded , it has become smooth and polished , making a strong contrast with the worn stonework in which it is set . |
| 23 | There is of course the whole domain of theories of knowledge which was explored briefly in the last chapter , but there is typically little concrete reference to curricula or courses in such writing ; it moves at a much more abstract level . |
| 24 | Fairburn had a busy quarrying industry at one time , and to provide transportation of the stone from the quarries to the River Aire a tramway was constructed early in the nineteenth century to link up with a short section of canal to the river . |
| 25 | This was a combined church and look-out gateway and was constructed early in the twelfth century . |
| 26 | It is the angel Gabriel who comes to Charlemagne at the end of the poem , just as Gabriel and Michael — the fighting archangel , whose cult was flourishing anew in the tenth and eleventh centuries — come to Roland to carry his soul to heaven ; the poem is definitely Christian , and an attempt to set a religious seal on knightly glory ; but the knightly glory has in its turn captured the Church , and harnessed it , in the person of the archbishop of Rheims , to the holy war against the infidel . |
| 27 | A typewriter was clacking disjointedly in the next room . |