Example sentences of "was [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The front part of the house , being somewhat darkened by evergreens , was given over to the Staff Common Room , with the classrooms of the senior forms on the first floor . |
| 2 | A report from the Lower Franconian town of Kitzingen in May 1943 , dealing particularly with opinion among academics , salespeople , and the bourgeoisie — groups which had earlier tended to be pro-Nazi in their sympathies — stated that ‘ a disgust about the Party was building up among the people , and a rage which would one day boil over ’ . |
| 3 | Much detailed work was carried out at a series of four preparatory conferences , known as " prepcoms " , the most recent of which , " Prepcom 4 " , was held in New York in April 1992 [ see p. 38890 ] . |
| 4 | Much of the detailed work on the conventions agreed at the summit was carried out at a series of four preparatory conferences , known as " prepcoms " , the most recent of which , " Prepcom 4 " , was held in New York in April [ see ED no. 58 ] . |
| 5 | The doctor was pledged to secrecy , and an iron curtain of security was rung down on the headquarters lest news of the new commander 's prostration further demoralise the men with their backs to the Meuse . |
| 6 | It was picked up on a £300 scanner near Andrew 's naval base at Portland , Dorset . |
| 7 | Richard 's face was bleeding and she knew he was shouting up at the people . |
| 8 | This was made up of a £621,800 increase in the specific provision and a reduction of £98,000 in the general provision against residential property , and a £4,740 increase in the specific provision against unsecured loans . |
| 9 | Public spending was being reined back and the Cabinet was getting down to the series of bruising public-spending battles which characterized our first few years of office . |
| 10 | He caught up with her on the far side of the teahouse , in an area that was roped off for the staff 's use only . |
| 11 | Richie 's voice , slightly distorted , was coming out of the V of his jacket . |
| 12 | The position was even worse in 1981–82 , when £4 million was spent out of the £ 10 million allocated . |
| 13 | In 1981–82 , £ 14.6 million was spent out of the £ 19.1 million allocated . |
| 14 | The remarkable Victorian garden at Biddulph in Staffordshire , created by the orchid-loving James Bateman , was laid out as a series of continents and countries — Egypt with a temple in clipped yew and China hidden away behind great rocks . |
| 15 | My mother died when I was fifteen , but I was brought up by a series of incompetent governesses and I saw little of either parent . |
| 16 | The Postal side of the Polish Post , Telegraph and Telephone company , which was split off from the Telecoms side back in January , is to become one of the earliest recipients of an IBM mainframe running the firm 's AIX Unix implementation . |
| 17 | I was taken on as a staff programme researcher for " Here Today " , Salary : £1,100 . |
| 18 | Their early married life was taken up with a series of reformist issues , including Chinese labour and working-class representation in Parliament . |
| 19 | Much of the speech by the hon. Member for Dunfermline , East , which lacked content , was taken up by a series of jealous tirades against the pay of people in the private sector who have satisfied shareholders , directors and other representatives of their need for a pay rise . |
| 20 | Apparently the club lost its license and was shut down after a series of lawsuits stemming from car accidents involving drunk punters — and under American law , bar staff who serve drunk drivers are liable to get hauled up in front of the local beak of those people are later involved in accidents . |