Example sentences of "[adj] [was/were] [vb pp] [adv prt] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , this was brought up last night at the meeting at of Old Harlow and Potter Street er forum . |
| 2 | This was carried out on-line , although a similar method has been employed in an off-line study ( Bozinovic and Srihari , 1989 ) . |
| 3 | Taking heart from another record-setting session on Wall Street overnight , the FT-SE 100 was marked up 20 points at the outset yesterday . |
| 4 | It was only as these were run down that recourse was made to mining . |
| 5 | Solid silver is extremely heavy , so these were carried on ceremonial occasions by huge men from a special clan on the Indian side of the border . |
| 6 | From the gospel record we know the precise number of Jesus ' select team of disciples and that on one occasion seventy were sent out two by two on a mission to prepare villages for Christ 's coming ( Luke 10 ) . |
| 7 | More than £1.2 billion was handed over last year , although the amount is due to decline until 1998 when the levy will be discontinued . |
| 8 | There were two summer records : one was picked up dead in Houghton Forest on 14 June 1971 , and one was seen at Bracklesham on 27 July 1972 . |
| 9 | THE competition to find a new dinghy to be sailed by young people aged from 11 to 15 was narrowed down this week to two boats . |
| 10 | At the top of the list is a European Neutron Source , a successor to the Nuclear Structure Facility at Daresbury that was closed down last month , which many physicists would like to seen built at the Science and Engineering Research Council 's Rutherford Appleton Laboratory . |