Example sentences of "[adv] was [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Startling evidence that the National Health Service cancer screening programme does n't go far enough was revealed last November , with the release of shock figures from Action Cancer in Belfast . |
| 2 | He apparently was doing some work for her father , David Fairfax , and had told him about the school . |
| 3 | By 1937 Pett 's Wood alone was issuing 320,000 tickets a year . |
| 4 | Lothar , the moment Pippin had joined him , flung down the gauntlet : he alone was to have imperial power , he said , and the interests of his brothers no longer mattered to him . |
| 5 | Thus was begun another chapter in the extraordinary history of St Clement Danes — a history that goes back until the time of King Arthur , who expelled the Danes from the city of London but allowed those with English wives to settle just outside the city walls . |
| 6 | He was lost , only the memory of the baby he no longer was having any reality in her mind . |
| 7 | The major task tonight was congratulating three dogs which had outshone all others during the year in areas of saving lives , devotion to duty and pet of the year . |
| 8 | Frying Tonight was written 20 years ago by Gerald Priestland , known better as a BBC foreign correspondent , and draws extensively on trade Press columnists like ‘ Anchovy Sauce , ’ ‘ Dorsal Fin ’ and the wonderfully named Molly Codling . |
| 9 | The need for low cost housing in East Cleveland generally was highlighted this week with the publication of the results of a housing needs survey . |
| 10 | Although physics was concerned with general theory at that time the trend elsewhere was to emphasize detailed investigations and to avoid general theories . |
| 11 | I said to her my daughter was once was wished Happy Birthday |
| 12 | Political change nationally was to make certain things possible , and town planning found itself elevated to a new position of responsibility with regard to city reconstruction . |
| 13 | No it 's Tracy was telling David , and David said David was saying same thing , David wants to well like was saying this morning to Neil , we 'll have to get a meeting up a go . |
| 14 | Sadly , the dear little chapel also was demolished some years ago , and the demise of the railway took place about 30 years ago . |
| 15 | Mr Shiratori rose rapidly through the ranks : in 1971 he joined AA 's worldwide partnership and three years later was made managing partner of the Japanese operations . |
| 16 | Having switched to engineering , he became technical director of Blease Anaesthetics Equipment and two years later was appointed managing director . |
| 17 | ( 3 ) That ( per Lord Mackay of Clashfern L.C. and Lord Griffiths ) on the true construction of section 63 of the Finance Act 1976 the taxpayers were assessable on the extra cost of providing the benefit , and from the point of view of expense incurred it could not be said that its provision involved significant extra cost to the school ; that ( Lord Mackay of Clashfern L.C. dissenting ) reference should be made to Hansard to resolve the ambiguity in section 63 , and that the Parliamentary history disclosed that the Act of 1976 was passed on the basis that the effect of sections 61 and 63 thereof was to assess in-house benefits , and particularly concerning education for teachers ' children , on the marginal costs to the employer and not on a proportion of the total costs incurred in providing the service both for the public and the employee ; and that section 63 should be construed accordingly ( post , pp. 1036C–E , F–G , 1039B , C , G , 1040B , 1042C–D , 1063A , H — 1064A , C , 1067A ) . |
| 18 | The function of music now was to express pure feeling on an ideal , unverbalizable , metaphysical level ( Schopenhauer 's influence is plain ) ; the task of the poetic word was to reinterpret that " feeling " in terms of " thought " and so help mediate the metaphysical world to an earth-bound , concept-bound audience . |
| 19 | Through his involvement with Round Table David Furnell has been associated with the Anthony Nolan Bone Marrow Trust for the past 12 years , and six months ago was appointed National Events Manager . |
| 20 | ( George McCluskey had to settle for a place on the bench , which opened the door for Tom Brown , who just a few months ago was playing Junior football with Glenafton . |
| 21 | The congregation here was formed some time after 1690 though the present church building only dates from 1879 . |
| 22 | Her sole purpose in being here was to kill some time . |
| 23 | ‘ To make a long story short , ’ explained Uncle Alfred , ‘ young Anabelle here was elected Official Dog Chaser . ’ |
| 24 | Expo fever , Ruth had put it down to as Steve had been bowled over by the exquisite beauty of an air stewardess and , forgetting that the idea of being here was to make European contacts for their agency , had resigned himself to some enjoyable flirting . |
| 25 | This is an important point sir because there is a drift of much government policy towards the reuse of derelict urban land and the lady on my right here was making this point this morning to you . |
| 26 | This had been demonstrated by the rise in US imports of manufactured goods , which rocketed by 27 per cent in 1972 following a 20 per cent rise in 1971 : ‘ it was evident that industry abroad was making major adjustments and marketing efforts to enlarge its share of the US market ’ ( Gilbert , 1980 , p. 105 ) . |
| 27 | The aim initially was to examine medieval peasant houses and to obtain some archaeological information for the date of desertion . |
| 28 | But that was terribly expensive , terribly expensive , I mean in eighteen ninety-nine , they were six pounds and a farm labourer then was getting seventeen shillings . |
| 29 | The the scheduler , Pauline I ca n't make her out , she seems to be fairly u straight , organized but it had got to the situation where I mean I did n't like it but it happened , we were supplying six months of product and then was supplying six months . |
| 30 | Everyone else was wearing ordinary daytime clothes . |