Example sentences of "was [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Police revealed that the robbery was carried out by at least two men , although as many as five could have been involved . |
| 2 | Curiously , he was not deported , a sentence which in the two years immediately after the war was handed down to at least fifty young people who had come over on the Kindertransporte . |
| 3 | It has been suggested that a totally new system of open fields for arable agriculture was laid out in at least one area of England in the seventh century ( Hall 1979 ; 1981 ) . |
| 4 | He was run over by at least twelve wagons before the train was brought to an halt . |
| 5 | The initiative was touched off by at least four large IT users — one in Europe , the rest US — each with thousands of different systems , apparently unimpressed by technology standardisation efforts that actually make it easier for vendors to provide a variety of desktops ( see opposite and page five ) . |