Example sentences of "[noun] was [adv prt] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While figures for the year showed an increase in real growth of 2.9 per cent , business investment was down 3 per cent , consumer spending down 0.1 per cent and the growth elements appeared only to be in home purchases and government spending . |
| 2 | Circulation was down four percent , but overseas we increased our circulation by five percent and again in the U K in , in newspaper sales we held our market share . |
| 3 | Turnover was up 10 per cent , to £1.5 billion , with 19,000 employees currently undergoing formal training — another record figure . |
| 4 | Turnover was up 10.1 per cent to £125m . |
| 5 | Turnover was up 37 per cent to £9.6m . |
| 6 | Foreign trade turnover was up 4.7 per cent overall ; that with socialist countries fell slightly but exports to and imports from the industrialized West rose 7.6 per cent and 23.6 per cent respectively , to 26,000 million and 26,800 million roubles . |
| 7 | Turnover was up 16 p.c. to £1.87 billion and Nokia Data , the Finnish company bought for £230m in September , made a modest contribution to profits . |
| 8 | During the full nine months period , pre-tax profits rose 5.8 per cent to $47.4m and turnover was up 17.7 per cent to $533.5m . |
| 9 | Average overseas turnover was up 3.3 p.c. to £1.2 billion after a surge of trading in American shares . |
| 10 | Turnover was up ten per cent a t£2.1 billion and pre-tax profits increased 21 per cent to £256m … = ’ |
| 11 | Turnover was up 2 per cent to £23163m . |
| 12 | Retail turnover was up 28 per cent , and in some branches , such as vehicles and electrical goods , by more than half . |
| 13 | Turnover was down 36.5 per cent to $115.9m . |
| 14 | Mr Livingstone 's vote was down 30 per cent compared with last year ; but all other left-wing candidates lost votes , too . |
| 15 | Serious crime was up 42.4 per cent , with violent armed crime against individuals especially prevalent . |
| 16 | By 2 am the pound was up two pfennigs against Wednesday 's price for the German mark to stand at DM 2.87 . |
| 17 | So it appears that completion was around that time although the date is not er , is not certain . |
| 18 | ‘ Well , none of us has got enough money to go into a high-class nursing home — at least as far as I know — so of course the wind was up all of us . |
| 19 | Compared with May 1990 , butterfat was up 0.02 , protein 0.05 and lactose 0.03% , resulting in a milk price of 15.5p/litre . |
| 20 | Rocky was on the right , Rodney was on the left , Speed and McAllister were in the middle , Deane was up front and we had Weatherall and Newsome in their nightmare scenario pairing as centre backs . |
| 21 | ‘ We got to the Bazaar soon after the sun was up this morning . |
| 22 | Her guard was up all the time and she lacked a sense of humour . |
| 23 | British Gas was up at 1 , at , up 1 at 223 , British Steel was down 1 at 125 , British Telecom was up too at 284 , Rolls Royce was down too at 187 and T S B was up 1 at 130 . |
| 24 | Gary , evasively questioned , said that Nails was out all night at a girl-friend 's house . |
| 25 | Immediately before the rate cut was made public , the FTSE index of the 100 biggest companies was down 4.4 points at 3031.0 having been 10.8 lower at its worst in early dealing . |
| 26 | Between October and December when they were not competing in the Hamble Winter Series or jockeying against other IOR racers , the team was out everyday , practising manoeuvres aboard Oracle Arrow on a windward-leeward course at the mouth of the Hamble . |
| 27 | I thought you meant the shelf was up wrong ! |
| 28 | Legal & General was up 6 to 325p on a recommendation from Kleinwort Benson , CU gained 7 to 411p and GA rose 3 to 390p . |
| 29 | The volume of exports in the four months to November was up 4 per cent on the previous four months , while imports rose 1 per cent . |
| 30 | Therefore although the interest charge is well down , profit before tax was down sixteen percent , it 's down sixteen percent er because of course the old extraordinaries , the extraordinaries we had below the line in ninety one the eight million you see net profit on disposals are back above the line in under F R S Three , that 's the Elsevere profit less the Smith Var losses very broadly speaking . |