Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [adv prt] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The last straw was located about 10 or 15ft from safety , at which handholds seemed to disappear altogether and aching feet were scrunched up the tiniest of ripples . |
| 2 | ‘ The first week , they plodded up the stairs and when we took them out for the day they were wiped out the next . |
| 3 | Before the New World was discovered and Australian resources were opened up the only source of opals known was situated in the Libanka and Simonka mountains north of Kosice in eastern Slovakia . |
| 4 | The two songs were played back the next day by the tired twosome . |
| 5 | The rebels briefly took control of much of Dushanbe on Oct. 25 , including the parliament , the presidential palace , the main mosque and the broadcasting facilities , but were driven out the following day by government forces . |
| 6 | In the test the boiling times and fuel-life figures for each stove were taken on a mild summer 's day with only a light breeze . |
| 7 | Almost 2,000 took up the invitation during a two-day open house and were taken on a guided tour route which stretched over a mile through the £1.85 billion development . |
| 8 | At a school in Kent pupils beginning Key Stage 2 were taken on an exploratory tour of a certain street . |
| 9 | The readings were taken on the right arm of the seated subject after a minimum of 10 minutes ' rest . |
| 10 | MAJOR-GENERAL Michael Skinner , who has died aged 60 , was Director General , Weapons , from 1986 to 1988 , when many important decisions were taken on the future equipment of the Army . |
| 11 | It was , however , one of the legacies of the constitutional struggle of the seventeenth century that the rules of succession to the Crown were put on a firm , statutory basis and the statutory rules prescribed have since functioned uncontroversially subject only to one or two possible minor exceptions . |
| 12 | The Lincoln Red was at first known as the Lincolnshire Red Shorthorn : it originated when eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Durham and Yorkshire Shorthorn bulls were put on the large , rugged , pied Old Lincolnshire short-horned draught cows which could withstand all the weather thrown at this east coast county by the cold North Sea winds . |
| 13 | as if a finger were put on the naked soul ! |
| 14 | Two sovereigns of equal authority in their respective kingdoms were put on an unequal footing because one of those sovereigns held land from the other . |
| 15 | All the rest of the equipment , together with additional tools and a power generator , were sent out the following morning . |
| 16 | A man used to hand it back in when the bus ran in and it was given out the next day . |
| 17 | The loss of this old lady 's vote was cancelled out a few streets further on , by a young chap who came to the door and told me he was a soldier . |
| 18 | The wounded German Officer was carried up the grassy bank and placed against a tree . |
| 19 | The coffin was carried on a horse-drawn cart because it was a long time before a motor hearse became available . |
| 20 | A vote was taken on this and was carried on a decisive majority . |
| 21 | Oblivious to her injuries , Thomas Duke would have carried his daughter back to their cottage in his arms , though it is conceivable that she was carried on an old door or something . |
| 22 | The immunisation was carried out every four weeks and 10 ml of blood was collected one week after each injection and analysed for reactivity against PT-gliadin by dot blotting . |
| 23 | A comprehensive review of the problem of attempted suicide and its management was carried out a few years later by a committee chaired by Sir Denis Hill . |
| 24 | Until this study was carried out the individual elements of the FAOR methodology had been developed and tested in isolation , each being the responsibility of different organisations within the FAOR partnership . |
| 25 | It rang for a long time , and he thought he was going to be out of luck , but eventually the receiver was picked up the other end . |
| 26 | From 1471 there was built up an informal ‘ system ’ of government finance , which operated alongside , and to some extent in co-operation with , the old Exchequer . |
| 27 | I assumed you 'd want to know that wreckage of a dinghy was washed up a few miles north of here on the Welsh coast last night . |
| 28 | However , a new 375g pack at £1.19 was introduced on February 8th and until the old stock was used up the two packs were on sale side by side . |
| 29 | The whole school was closed down a few years ago . |
| 30 | The new methods of mass production , were unsuccessful and was closed down a few years later . |