Example sentences of "[adj] [was/were] [verb] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was completed last spring . |
| 2 | This was followed last week by a second letter giving more precise details of the make-up of the allocation . |
| 3 | This was followed last year by the announcement that diamonds have been found in dust clouds surrounding forming stars . |
| 4 | This was done last year . |
| 5 | The revised European staff requirement document has been signed now by the four chiefs of air staff , this was done last month . |
| 6 | Appointment of press secretary erm this was decided last time , that a press secretary would be a very good idea , er to try to achieve more publicity for the orchestra , not just for er concerts , but perhaps for recruitment purposes too . |
| 7 | This was started next to the Blind Beggar pub in 1808 , and by 1809 it was being leased to a man called John Hoffman . |
| 8 | And the youngest was bathed first to the eldest and as the young one was bathed bed , upstairs to bed , upstairs to bed , you see and so it went on . |
| 9 | The Birmingham Six were cleared last year of killing 21 people in two Birmingham city centre pub blasts in 1974 and freed after 16 years in jail . |
| 10 | Such was done last year when the Arthritis Foundation , a non-profit organisation that focuses on that disease , persuaded both the House and Senate that arthritis research was being neglected in NIH 's National Institute of Arthritis , Diabetes , and Digestive and Kidney Diseases . |
| 11 | Mighty was sacked last year for alleged gross misconduct after it was claimed he harassed a child and had inappropriate talks on sex with ex-residents . |
| 12 | There are 23 residents at the Shantallow Residential Home for the Elderly , and a number of these were moved last year when the Roe Valley home closed . |
| 13 | These were announced last autumn when the government reversed its commitment to a separate ringfenced fund to support misusers in the community , instead giving SSDs the purse strings without extra funding . |
| 14 | Do not use the parasite remedies Dipterex or Maoten — these were banned last year . |
| 15 | In addition , in the English-speaking Union 's Duke of Edinburgh Book Competition , Headway Intermediate was Highly Commended in 1987 and , in 1988 , Headway Upper-Intermediate was awarded First Prize . |
| 16 | Erm it does mean that we 've got , so far we 've gone through twenty two thousand policies , we 're still in December erm anniversary dates erm so there 's twenty thousand waiting to be printed two thousand were printed last night and they 're going straight out the door , today . |
| 17 | ITN bosses have criticised anchorman Trevor McDonald for his lacklustre presentation since News At Ten was revamped last month . |
| 18 | The association , which represents 98 p.c. of British pet food manufacturers , reported that 1.4m tonnes of food worth £1.2 billion was sold last year . |
| 19 | The strange and difficult was becoming second nature in the way that it had when I 'd learned to fly . |
| 20 | They show that grants worth about £350 million were made last year , the first full year of means-tested grants , compared with £1 billion in 1989 . |
| 21 | The equivalent of US$2 million was allocated last year for cleaning up the polluted areas , but specialists say this is not nearly enough . |
| 22 | She felt a change , felt it as though she overheard a secret , and now , sipping at her delicious cocoa , she could only suspect that something really nasty was coming next . |
| 23 | MIDDLESBROUGH 'S community charge for 1992–93 was fixed last night at £353-a-head , an increase of £43.66 on the current year . |
| 24 | Well that was said last week it was going up . |
| 25 | We can cut money off , let's make some easy quick decisions about cutting money off , let's chop out the arts you could do that on one line easily and I think you have to look at the long term you have to look at what happens in terms of our culture , our civilization if you do do that , how people change and to me it 's about and that was raised last night too about how an saying that they had put a limit on the cost of opera tickets forty pounds , compared |
| 26 | Look at that was coming next time . |
| 27 | For the community work I went to help with the Mothers and Toddlers group that was held next door to the school . |
| 28 | The dead were named last night as Mr Paul Gordon Butt , 29 , a securities dealer , Mr Thomas Casey , 49 , a door keeper , and Danielle Carter , 15 , whose eight-year-old sister was among the injured . |
| 29 | I understand the final accounts for 1967 were signed last week . |
| 30 | Rushing Wild was beaten last time by Country Member , who attempts to upgrade the value of the form in tomorrow 's Ritz Club National Hunt Handicap Chase . |