Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [verb] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | But the 7,500 punters at Manchester 's G-Mex Centre were not fooled — there was scattered booing after the ninth and 10th rounds over Eubank 's inability to deck this human punchbag . |
| 2 | Doubts about a rapid economic up-turn had been expressed by US Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady , who at a parallel meeting of G-7 finance ministers indicated that economic growth in the US was expected to slow in the second quarter of 1992 although longer-term prospects were more hopeful . |
| 3 | The county chairman Brian Walsh said : ‘ We have a very full agenda for our scheduled meeting on October 26 so it was decided to meet on the 10th with cricket as the sole topic of discussion . ’ |
| 4 | Sutton was told to get on the first train from Manchester . |
| 5 | The experience of the Belfast researchers was that a narrow transcription was needed to identify in the first place the range of vowel variation associated with different phonetic environments . |
| 6 | The study was performed according to the second declaration of Helsinki and approved by the Ethical Committee of Aarhus county . |
| 7 | Carey was invited to preach at the next Northamptonshire Baptist Association meeting on 30 May 1792 . |
| 8 | It was scheduled to open on the twentieth of May . |
| 9 | Dolphin 's Motorola Inc 88110-based Triton SCI Server , which was scheduled to ship in the first quarter of this year , will be kept under wraps for at least another year , the company says . |
| 10 | If any BW officer had reservations about the project they could have phoned me on 10th or 11th June , particularly as everyone knew the work was scheduled to start on the 12th . |
| 11 | Lastly , the number of potential first-time buyers in their 20s was set to fall over the next two decades , reducing demand for homes . |
| 12 | The drawing was firmly attributed to the artist when it was last sold in Munich in 1938 , but was believed lost in the last war . |
| 13 | She was forced to withdraw from the next event and missed the next few weeks of the Tour . |
| 14 | His 22-year-old step grandchild Madjit was forced to jump from the first floor with his pyjamas ablaze . |
| 15 | Ballyfolion was forced to check on the first bend and Hyland said the dog cramped in the closing stages . |
| 16 | When their mother died in 1890 , the eldest daughter , who was by then thirty years old , was allowed to move to the first floor bedroom , and from then on she ruled the roost . |