Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [adv prt] in the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Haider , in office since 1989 [ see pp. 37688 ; 36596 ] , had caused a furore by declaring on June 13 during a Landtag ( provincial parliament ) debate that " an orderly employment policy was carried out in the Third Reich , which the government in Vienna can not manage " . |
| 2 | It represents the first extinction of a British mammal since the wolf was hunted out in the mid-18th century . |
| 3 | Before the surrounding land was built over in the last century and subsequently , you could have seen it from miles away in every direction . |
| 4 | The Surrey team 's goalkeeper Adrian Blake was helped off in the 57th minute , with his team already 3–0 down , after being apparently struck by a coin thrown from the crowd . |
| 5 | When political conflicts rage , it is far harder to take on the awkward task of asking why this particular standard was set up in the first place . |
| 6 | In France a new press bureau for war purposes was set up in the first days of fighting . |
| 7 | But the basic , but the basic problem is the way it was set up in the first place , |
| 8 | Since the commission was set up in the First World War they in nineteen ninety five they said it would break even for the first time and agreed the last and thirties and forty come to maturity in which incomes are expected to double by twenty , twenty two . |
| 9 | The scale of fees has been simplified and was set out in the last Q.T. notes ( gold paper again ) £12 per annum for teachers living within 50 miles of their training venue £10 per annum for those outside a 50 mile radius |
| 10 | This demographic pattern was laid down in the first half of the century when the inter-war birth-rate declined markedly . |
| 11 | Now Mill realizes that the objection to this is the last problem coercion , that if people 's votes are known , then some people might be able to put pressure on others to vote one way rather than another and as I said why the secret ballot was brought in in the first place . |
| 12 | A child was brought in in the last stages of diphtheria . |
| 13 | an expensive miss … was followed up in the second half by an even more expensive mistake … as Tommy Mooney was presented with a chance to make it two nil … |
| 14 | Because the reason that er stile was blocked off in the first instance was there was a case where a child ran across that road . |
| 15 | But this passageway was cut through in the seventeenth century if not earlier . |
| 16 | The 39-year-old Briton , the reigning Formula One world champion , was forced out in the 68th lap of the 77-lap race . |
| 17 | The losers were disrupted by a head injury to prop Seamus Foley , who was forced off in the first half . |
| 18 | Niki had his way — in part — and the engine was tried out in the last four races of 1983 : with mixed results . |
| 19 | The Romanesque was taken over in the last two decades of the nineteenth century , when American railway-station building reached its apogee in masterpieces of creative eclecticism . |
| 20 | It was an unfortunate evening for me : I was knocked out in the second round , the only time I was knocked out , either at Eton or at Oxford . |
| 21 | It was dug up in the sixteenth century and achieved fame almost immediately , entering the imperial collections , and being drawn by artists such as Apianus in 1534 . |
| 22 | Hirst was sent off in the first leg , for the first time in his career , and Bright he was signed too late to be eligible . |
| 23 | Julian Dicks , the West Ham captain , was sent off in the 61st minute for a late tackle on Wise and the referee , Alf Buksh , needed a police escort at the end of the tie , which West Ham won 1-0 . |
| 24 | And as Switzerland began to run riot , Gough was sent off in the 84th minute for handling the ball as Knup threatened to break through again . |
| 25 | Daniel Amokachi , of Bruges , was sent off in the 77th minute for a foul on Bremen goalkeeper Oliver Reck . |
| 26 | He experienced the joy of scoring Omagh 's first two goals in the opening period but had the opposite feelings of emotion when he was sent off in the last minute . |