Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [adv] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was repainted earlier in the year for the BR Bescot Open Day at Walsall while 0-6-0- shunter 13029 was also used for various duties around the Museum site during the course of the weekend . |
| 2 | Round in 67 , he was irritated only by the fact that he had left it too late to play a postal part in the election . |
| 3 | It was formulated dogmatically in the catechism and daily celebrated in the memorial of the Passion inherent in the Canonical Hours . |
| 4 | Despite the absence of any traces of body or coffin ( apart from some nails in the fill ) in the central pit , the whole monument would appear to be the probable grave — or cenotaph — of an important official which was erected sometime around the middle of the second century . |
| 5 | She was propelled roughly along the side of the van , squeezed between its side and the traffic . |
| 6 | The bending of light near a massive body is one prediction of GR , and this was checked crudely by the expedition of 1919 . |
| 7 | When his father was tucked up for the night , the son would wander out into the garden and enjoy the cool air as a contrast to the fug of the sick-room . |
| 8 | A small machine code programme was tucked away in the computer and when called upon would produce the necessary signals to drive the servos via the ‘ user port ’ and an interface box . |
| 9 | Sunday Life has learned his filofax , containing sensitive work contact numbers , was tucked away in the glove compartment . |
| 10 | According to Ken he worked in the old Government Commission , which was tucked away in the back somewhere , until the present Government wound it up and the Cabinet Office took over its functions . |
| 11 | She wore a gaberdine suit of dark blue , a white blouse , and her sheepskin was tucked away inside the baggage compartment above her head . |
| 12 | Deep enough , at any rate , for a boat to get in to the boat-house which was tucked in under the cliff at the southern end of the bay , below the path where I stood . |
| 13 | There is a third sister in this euphonious family : Marina , the baptised name of Malinche , mistress of Cortèz , through whose good offices and linguistic skills Mexico was conquered both for the Virgin Maria , and for Marina 's royal ancestors . |
| 14 | Cayard was recalled instantly by the committee but it took them 40 seconds to hoist the French recall signal , by which time they were well up the track . |
| 15 | The date was pencilled in during the summer , but the tourists , who will effectively be a near Springbok side , wanted a Saturday fixture . |
| 16 | The sequence of deposits suggests that the loch was formed shortly after the melting of the last great ice sheet about 13,000 years ago when the land surface was barren arctic desert . |
| 17 | The buyer , Financiere Sicli , controlled by a group of investors including Bankers Trust and Wasserstein Perella , was formed especially for the acquisition . |
| 18 | Gimson 's view of life — which was always to be that of the ‘ idealist individualist ’ — was formed more by the mood and the standards of that crowded , argumentative , intellectually zealous , middle-class , provincial household than by his formal education . |
| 19 | ‘ I said that if I was turfed out by the trade union vote I would see Neil Kinnock and we would then both issue a statement afterwards , ’ he said . |
| 20 | In the early evening of 3 September , Gallièni asked Joffre 's permission to make the attack , despite the fact that the Sixth Army was designated specifically for the defence of Paris and nothing else . |
| 21 | Although the plight of the Nonconformists was eased considerably by the Toleration Act of 1689 , the intensity of the persecutions under Charles II , and especially those of the 1680s , had left a bitter legacy . |
| 22 | The position was eased somewhat by the construction of an entirely new works at Holborough by Major William Lee Henry Roberts in 1923 . |
| 23 | Traffic on the A40 was diverted away from the area for some time . |
| 24 | The foreman 's office was partitioned off from the shop floor and from it one could see the men at work on the machines — five or six of them — but part of the floor was screened off by large canvas sheets suspended from the roof trusses . |
| 25 | Of course the low percentage achievement does in part reflect the very high targets that were set as the plan was revised upwards during the course of the period , and it was carried out under the slogan of ‘ the five year plan in four years ’ . |
| 26 | According to Special Branch , very violent treatment was meted out in the foyer to the men removed by the Black-shirts ; the police intervened just in time to prevent serious injury . |
| 27 | Nothing was heard apart from the sound of lead boots walking up and down or the revving of a motorbike . |
| 28 | This high level of mortality stands in stark contrast to the operation of support mechanism for large companies and was highlighted vividly during the recession of the mid-1970s . |
| 29 | Because everybody was treated equally at the start of their Legion service , Mike , who had learnt his killing in the bush war in Rhodesia , was treated the same as a South Vietnamese man who had never put on a uniform in his life . |
| 30 | The government did not accept all these proposals : housing in particular was treated differently in the legislation from the recommendations of both the English and Scottish Commissions . |