Example sentences of "was [adv] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Block , built by J.J. Oakes & Son , was duly opened on Speech Day , 17th July 1957 , appropriately by Professor Williams , who had recently become the first recipient of the Benjamin Franklin Medal of the Royal Society of Arts , " to individuals who have attained early distinction , with promise of future achievements , in the promotion of arts , manufacture , and commerce " . |
| 2 | The Foundation Stone was duly laid by Alderman W.C. Knight , Mayor of Stockport and Old Stopfordian , after the Founder 's Day service on 20th March 1969 . |
| 3 | Jacob was eventually born by emergency Caesarian section at 8.54pm after an unsuccessful attempt to deliver by forceps . |
| 4 | The castle 's end as a noble residence finally came in the late 17th century , and it was eventually given into state care in 1935 . |
| 5 | This brother-in-law was eventually hanged for highway robbery . |
| 6 | It was eventually taken into state care in 1912 , and has been open to the public ever since . |
| 7 | At Hildesheim , not far away , the town was badly damaged during World War II and the famous Church of S. Michael has had to be almost entirely rebuilt . |
| 8 | By contrast , when the palazzo was badly damaged in World War II , the rebuilding took a mere nine years . |
| 9 | Soap was locally made from animal fat and lime mixed with potash derived from the burning of green bracken . |
| 10 | He was powerfully addicted to conspiracy theory , according to which the group was continually under surveillance by the Special Branch and MI5 , while concentration camps were being prepared to incarcerate the militants as the capitalist crisis deepend . |
| 11 | He also constantly experimented with new designs , and the Thomas splint for compound fractures of the lower limbs was widely used during World War I , from 1916 , for the transport of stretcher cases from the front to casualty stations , and saved many lives and limbs . |
| 12 | It was held on the facts that the trustees did not have the power to make such loans and that the payments were in fact outright payments so that she was properly assessed to income tax . |
| 13 | It was sparsely covered with acacia scrub , interspersed with thickets of sansevieria with formidable bayonet-like leaves . |
| 14 | The plan was fiercely condemned by prison reform and crime prevention campaigners and politicians as ‘ penal prep schools ’ . |
| 15 | It was thickly covered with milk chocolate , which increased the sickly sweetness of the ice-cream to a nauseous intensity . |
| 16 | However , the decline in science interest was less marked in GIST action than in control schools , indicating a possible causal effect of the VISTA visits and other interventions , and on boys as much as girls . |
| 17 | The floor was entirely covered with sheet lead , which was protected from wear by oak slats , and the sides , to a height of 3ft were sheathed with stout zinc sheets . |
| 18 | A weak positive association was only demonstrated with serum triglyceride , VLDL-triglyceride and LDL in females . |
| 19 | Four patients with indeterminate colitis had a one stage restorative proctocolectomy ; in three the diagnosis was made from the proctocolectomy specimen , but the other was only identified after pouch excision for refractory pouchitis . |
| 20 | The committee agreed to inform the county council it had no objections to the proposal as long as the weighbridge was only used by landfill traffic and the pit only operated in the hours specified in the application . |
| 21 | I thought it was better going to drama school direct rather than via a university and if you 're going to act I think that 's the way . |
| 22 | Arriving still in its overall yellow scheme the aircraft was soon repainted in Fleet Air Arm colours with the inscription Sir Richard Fairey on the nose cowling . |
| 23 | By now , having experienced the sensation of flying , he felt that his future was in flying the aircraft rather than servicing them on the ground ; in April 1934 he was finally accepted for pilot training . |
| 24 | When the weaving stage of manufacture was finally adapted to steam power , mills were erected in the hillside villages alongside the homes of the workforce . |
| 25 | The factor was called ‘ Vitamin U ’ but was finally identified as geranyl farnesyl acetate . |
| 26 | The compromise was largely negotiated by House minority leader Robert H. Michel ( Illinois ) , Dan Rostenkowski ( Illinois ) , the Democratic chairman of the Ways and Means Committee , Senate minority leader Robert Dole ( Kansas ) , Office of Management and Budget Director Richard G. Darman , and Treasury Secretary Nicholas F. Brady . |
| 27 | In the middle seventeen hundreds the house was largely rebuilt after fire damage but the original Tudor kitchen section of the building survived . |
| 28 | Those paying income tax were excluded on the grounds that their income was already adjusted to family size . |
| 29 | Maybe because the teddy boy fashion was just beginning to edge back in ; it was around the time of Roxy Music 's Spaceman Ted look . |
| 30 | I was just looking at vehicle operating cost savings . |