Example sentences of "[coord] was [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At some date , presumably after the twelfth century , the village moved or was moved westwards and its gridplan suggests this may have been planned . |
| 2 | Or was cut out , more likely . |
| 3 | I would say that if a person is locked up from that time at night , there 's circumstances , their perhaps observation for their own safety , erm any body else that can be trusted at night sanitation are not locked in , they have the facilities to go to the toilet during the night , I mean this person that 's just said must of obviously been ob observation or was locked up for a reason . |
| 4 | ‘ Or was replaced later on . ’ |
| 5 | A Bf110D night fighter of the newly arrived 1/NJG 3 was lost over the island on 17th but it is uncertain whether this fell to the A.A. guns or was shot down by Plt.Off . |
| 6 | For example , consider the following exchange : A ( to passer by ) : I 've just run out of petrol B : Oh ; there 's a garage just around the corner Here B 's utterance may be taken to implicate that A may obtain petrol there , and he would certainly be being less than fully cooperative if he knew the garage was closed or was sold out of petrol ( hence the inference ) . |
| 7 | But a certain failure , distressing to themselves , to be like other people , caused them to sink back , with so much else that drifted or was washed up , into the mud moorings of the great tide-way . |
| 8 | If this prophecy conveys anything of the sentiments of the Crowland community at the time , it must have been from congenial company hostile to Penda 's descendants that Aethelbald emerged to establish himself as king in Mercia , if not when Ceolred died ( ASC A , s.a. , 716 ) then certainly when an otherwise unknown Ceolwald , who may have succeeded Ceolred , died or was driven out . |
| 9 | The last guest left , or was taken away , after five o'clock in the morning . |
| 10 | In yet others , the proposal for project involvement was the result of , or was entailed in , prior developments of one sort or another . |
| 11 | I agree that I have been reinforced ( although I 'm not sure that I learnt how to make coffee by operant conditioning — I suspect I copied someone , or was told how to do it — but that is a separate issue ) . |
| 12 | Whenever powder became damp or ran out , whenever shot was lost in a river or was used up , fear stalked the camp . |
| 13 | But I 'll tell you the name that is used , or was used afterwards , but I do n't know if that name is still used I certainly have n't seen it in a text book in years ! |
| 14 | So our National Anthem has been about a bit , particularly when you think that it came , probably came from , or was used in , erm a piece of music simply by Haydn . |
| 15 | Alas , the brief popularity of this idea could not survive the demonstration that long-term memories persisted even if the total electrical activity of the brain was disrupted , by epileptic fits or electroconvulsive shock , for instance , or was brought virtually to zero by coma or concussion . |
| 16 | The car 's previous owner was the late cricketer , Sir George ‘ Gubby ’ Allen , and was snaffled up by Mogg for £8,000 at the recent auction of Allen 's belongings . |
| 17 | The car 's previous owner was the late cricketer , Sir George ‘ Gubby ’ Allen , and was snaffled up by Mogg for £8,000 at the recent auction of Allen 's belongings . |
| 18 | The control group did not receive endoscopy treatment and was studied closely . |
| 19 | Lung involvement was suspected on the basis of x ray abnormalities and was confirmed histologically in a surgical biopsy specimen in three cases and in a transbronchial biopsy specimen in one . |
| 20 | Men down the hole steadied it as it became horizontal and was heaved on to the shoulders of the men , about 150 in all . |
| 21 | He was an ailing man of 61 who had never commanded in the field , knew nothing of Gallipoli and was appointed solely because of seniority on the army list . |
| 22 | Short , crisp hair , iron grey and still thick , lay close as a helmet on a head magnificently and subtly shaped , and was cut squarely across a great fleshless forehead . |
| 23 | LITTLE Tessa Hawkins went to have her fringe trimmed yesterday and was cut right out of presenting Princess Diana with a bouquet . |
| 24 | It was withdrawn on 18 December 1979 and was cut up at Doncaster on 2 February 1980 . |
| 25 | Saline lakes of the Vestfold Hills oasis ( Figure 4.5 ) string out along a valley , formerly a marine inlet , which rose and was cut off from the sea 5000–8000 years ago when the local land ice melted ( Kerry et al . , |
| 26 | ‘ I 'll be at St Paul 's about 6 p.m. ’ he said and was cut off as his money ran out . |
| 27 | The modest resettlement programme in rural areas which aimed to improve the grossly inequitable distribution of land prevailing during the colonial period was less effective than had been hoped , and was cut back by the stabilization measures taken in 1982–84 . |
| 28 | An expansion of nursery provision did not begin until 1973 ( and was cut back not long afterwards ) . |
| 29 | His sidekick froze , and was cut down by fire from all quarters . |
| 30 | At the fourteenth siege of Tor Alessi he charged right into the heart of the Dwarf infantry and was cut down by King Gotrek who snatched the Phoenix crown from his corpse and took it in payment for the Elves ' insolence . |