Example sentences of "was [verb] [prep] [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It still had n't reached a verdict by the time it was recalled at 5 p.m . |
| 2 | The National Bureau for Handicapped Students ( NBHS ) was formed in 1984 principally among college staff who themselves had disabilities . |
| 3 | The diocese of the eastern Angles was divided in the mid-670s on the illness of Bishop Bisi ( HE IV , 5 ) , the Mercian diocese likewise , probably on the deposition of Bishop Wynfrith and the appointment of Seaxwulf , abbot of Peterborough , as bishop , c. 674–5 ( HE IV , 6 ) , 17 and the territory of the northern Angles was partitioned in 678 following King Ecgfrith 's expulsion of Wilfrid , bishop of York ( Vita Wilfridi , ch. 24 : HE IV , 12 ) . |
| 4 | Alter the final pre-operative preparations were completed , a premedication was given at 11.00 am. and Mrs Fellows dozed comfortably until she was escorted to theatre . |
| 5 | The last dose of 5-ASA was given at 6 am on day eight , after overnight fasting . |
| 6 | From these pits such an appalling stench was given off that scarcely anyone dared even to walk beside the churchyards . ’ |
| 7 | The issue was recognized by many even before the war was concluded . |
| 8 | The building was completed by 457 B.C. , for Pausanias saw on the apex of the east pediment a golden shield or bowl with a Gorgoneion and below it an inscription ( still partly preserved ) saying that it was dedicated by the Spar tans , a tithe from the spoils taken from the Argives , Athenians and their allies at Tanagra , a battle which took place in that year . |
| 9 | The Colin Garratt show was arranged for 7.30 p.m. on the 7th November 1992 at the Community College , Bishop 's Castle . |
| 10 | The meeting was arranged for ten o'clock ; in their anxiety , they arrived twenty minutes early , and Ernest suggested that for politeness ' sake they should walk up White Horse Lane and back , to kill time . |
| 11 | He was fascinated by those deepest drives which were as he put it in 1919 ‘ canalizations of something … simple , terrible and unknown ’ . |
| 12 | Finally , Mario Segre in one of the most brilliant of his early studies argued that many of the Italian scenes with Gauls — such as the frieze of Civita Alba in Picenum , which was discovered at the end of the last century — may represent a Celtic attack on the temple of Apollo and Artemis at Didyma near Miletus , which was sacked in 277/6 B.C. ( Studi Etruschi 8 ( 1934 ) , 137–42 ) . |
| 13 | The expression of intercellular adhesion molecule-1 ( ICAM-1 , CD54 ) was examined in 16 surgically removed colonic tumours and two colonic carcinoma cell lines . |
| 14 | Every few yards was a different world around which a curtain of leaves was drawn , and what went on there was hidden from all else . |
| 15 | ‘ Appel ’ was rescheduled for 11.00 pm and then 1.00 am ; it was almost 2.00 am before I got to bed . |
| 16 | Mining Awareness was superseded by other locally formed groups . |
| 17 | Much of the post-war period was dominated by two highly significant sets of events , the Cold War between East and West and the dissolution of the European colonial empires . |
| 18 | As I waited at the King 's Stairs for my boat back to Venturous I was approached by two very splendidly attired and heavily braided Merchant Service Officers whom I had noticed staring at me curiously during the reception . |
| 19 | He looked after the entire film unit practically single-handed while we were filming in Tunisia and I was reminded of this again in recent months when we visited him in hospital . |
| 20 | Nor are all assessments entirely reliable : Brooke Priory in Rutland owned goods valued at £52 and had no serious debts when it was dissolved in 1536 yet fourteen years earlier it had been assessed at a mere £13 6s 8d . |
| 21 | She surfaced from under the sheets and her father saw that her hair was wound on huge electrically heated rollers . |
| 22 | The congress was attended by 1,989 indirectly elected delegates and 41 " specially invited delegates " . |
| 23 | This turkey found that , on his first morning at the turkey farm , he was fed at 9 a.m . |
| 24 | He waited until he had collected a large number of observations of the fact that he was fed at 9 a.m. , and he made these observations under a wide variety of circumstances , on Wednesdays and Thursdays , on warm days and cold days , on rainy days and dry days . |
| 25 | But as it was accepted into this relatively formal literary genre , [ h ] -loss seems to have been much less overtly stigmatized than it is today . |
| 26 | An owl hooted nearby , and was answered by another farther away . |
| 27 | In the spring of 1968 there was much rethinking within the CRA [ Civil Rights Association ] leadership ; the tactics of Martin Luther King in America had been absorbed inasmuch that it was felt by some that only public marches could draw wide attention to what we were trying to achieve by normal democratic means . |
| 28 | I mean suddenly we had the example of a women 's support group from the miner 's strike th that we had the idea you know fr from that erm and Yona really put it in a nutshell when she said I think er er you know behind closed doors the women worrying about what was gon na happen next you know they felt very frustrated and in a way it was a way to channel o our energies away i i i it was seen as that really in the beginning you know as a a sort of a more as a way of getting rid of the well y you know the sort of desperation er the impotence one felt of not being able to do anything in this situation and it 's er and by now of course we 've all become as a group very close er you know we 're we 're more like a big family now really an sort of er a lot of the women have never really sort of regularly been to meetings an th the commitment there is very strong really that we all turn up to our Tuesday meetings sort of . |
| 29 | she was smoking like that so I made her a cup of tea took it in and put it on the stool . |
| 30 | Hannah 's film was transmitted at 10.30 p.m. on Tuesday , 30 January 1973 , to an audience approaching five million — a very respectable rating for a documentary shown at a time when most people are either retiring for the night or thinking about it . |