Example sentences of "[adv] was [vb pp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the 1839 race , Captain Becher riding Conrad had rushed into the lead but was unseated into the first brook — and so was born Becher 's Brook , still one of the most spectacular and feared jumps in the world . |
| 2 | Nu was expelled for his extravagant language , and so was Aung San who published an article about the Burmese university bursar entitled ‘ Hell-Hound at Large ’ . |
| 3 | Thus was found Mendel 's first law ( the law of segregation ) : |
| 4 | The seaward dunes were shifting and unstable , spiked thinly with the mar ram that hereabouts was called Starr grass , giving the place its name . |
| 5 | The race returned for on year in 1940 and was held over nine laps of a 100-mile circuit that took in Brescia-Cremona-Brescia and , while it was generally known as the Brescia Grand Prix , it still was accorded Mille Miglia status , unlike the 1939 event . |
| 6 | Each adult in the group of 51 who were sent back yesterday was given $30 pocket money , and each child $15 . |
| 7 | The film actor Richard Todd also was made OBE , as was an ITN cameraman , Nigel Thomson , twice wounded while working last year , and a former England cricket manager , Micky Stewart . |
| 8 | Although playing the teacher up was considered part and parcel of school , the proposition was qualified . |
| 9 | He joined the Ministry of Munitions in 1914 and three years later was appointed CBE for his outstanding work as a commissioner for the dilution of labour . |
| 10 | Thakin Tun Ok was appointed head of a baho asoya or central administration for a brief while until the Japanese turned to Ba Maw , released from Mogok jail , who headed an ‘ Independence preparatory Committee ’ . |
| 11 | She expected arguments , but there were none as the group obeyed David instantly , the more able-bodied standing quietly by the poolside while David , the woman , who she found out was called Sybil , and the pool attendant helped the more severely disabled out of the water and into wheelchairs . |
| 12 | The station at Butterley was demolished but the building today was moved stone by stone from Whitwell in North Derbyshire and rebuilt by the Midland Railway Centre . |
| 13 | The first known Chinese student to go abroad was Yung Wing , who in 1847 went to the USA . |
| 14 | But it was then , it was from er shop floor that I that the , when the call went out for volunteers for , for the armed forces which initially was called Land Defence Volunteers , L D V , which eventually was broken down to look , duck and vanish army . |
| 15 | The surgeon who did it then was called Dr Frankenstein . |
| 16 | In the same year as Queen Victoria succeeded her uncle , King William IV , Dr. Edward Tuke took a lease on the Manor Farm House , in what by then was called Chiswick Lane , and it became a home for mentally ill gentle-persons . |
| 17 | thank you , Now I go back to the table , let's try and er get down to some specific example , when would er , when was priced Westcliff on Sea ? , when , when was that begun to develop er Mr |
| 18 | Time was repetition of the same words over and over again was called lines and constituted a punishment . |
| 19 | They were n't any good by themselves er , these things because I the other thing which you had to get from somewhere was output rates . |
| 20 | This was because Welsh was traditionally ‘ the language of the hearth ’ , and not until fairly recently was written Welsh taught . |
| 21 | Right O K , so George Washington was the first President of America and his wife actually was called Martha . |
| 22 | In Turkish sources , however , Cemaleddin 's grandfather 's name is given as Mehmed , not Isa ; he certainly was called Cemaleddin , not Bedreddin , one of his most famous works being called and he was of the ( mezheb ) , not the Hanafi . |
| 23 | Daniel too was given garments , some he might wear and some he would n't , socks , scarf , tie , all of them not black , as though the company had made a preconcerted attempt to cheer him up . |
| 24 | Rigby returned to Bombay in April 1854 and soon afterwards was appointed president of the examination committee for native languages — his latest recreation being the study of Turkish . |