Example sentences of "was [verb] [adv prt] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | NME was tipped off last week that REM were planning to play an unannounced set with Buck and subsequent reports led to a rush for tickets , described by one insider as ‘ absolutely frantic . ’ |
| 2 | The study which was carried out last year confirms that exercise is associated with a reduced risk of coronary disease only when the exercise is both vigorous and current . |
| 3 | The survey was carried out last year with funding from the Rural Development Commission and Langbaurgh and Cleveland councils , and its results are being distributed throughout the East Cleveland rural development area . |
| 4 | You 're quite right , Karl , when you say that every seat was sold out last year for Gypsy Baron . |
| 5 | They wo n't want to be the one in their class , group or gang who missed buying a ticket having known the show was sold out last time . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | One was handed out last week . |
| 8 | But Dowty was bought out last year by the Abingdon-based TI Group , who in turn sold the fuel systems operation to Lucas Industries . |
| 9 | Philip Turner was taken to the Radcliffe Infirmary in the city after his nose was , was bitten off last night . |
| 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ It was re-seeded but the seed was drowned out last autumn and difficult weather conditions in the spring means that it has to remain fenced off and unusable for this year 's show . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ It was re-seeded but the seed was drowned out last autumn and difficult weather conditions in the spring means that it has to remain fenced off and unusable for this year 's show . ’ |
| 13 | As the hunt was called off last night detectives dismissed earlier claims the men could have been terrorists . |
| 14 | In those days , we had n't got chromium buttons — I had gone home soaked to the skin , after eight hours ' rain , dried the stuff and was coming out next morning . |
| 15 | It was a marvellous triumph for Price and his caddie Jeff Medlen , who was loaned out last year because Nick had to pull out of this tournament — and he carried the bag of winner John Daly . |
| 16 | Retail , which refuses to disclose the terms of the deal , was set up last year with £10m of City capital and is headed by Malcolm Parkinson , the former B & Q managing director . |
| 17 | The ISE Council yesterday considered a progress report from the special committee on the domestic equity market , chaired by Nigel Elwes , which was set up last year to examine stock market procedures in the wake of the October 1987 crash . |
| 18 | The EIT was set up last year to help fund university research which could help underpin the technological base of Europe 's industry . |
| 19 | He was appointed director of the council when it was set up last year . |
| 20 | A new department in the Ministry of Culture was set up last year which has imposed a ceiling of DFl. 3 million ( £937,500 ; $1,640,625 ) in subsidies and has ruled that galleries which have been selected to sell under the scheme will have to submit a yearly programme of exhibitions to the Arts Council who in turn will decide which of those exhibitions are eligible for the interest-subsidy scheme . |
| 21 | For the wealthy , there 's the garden of intrigue , a permanent display costing forty thousand pounds which was set up last year by a local nursery.Those with tiny gardens and less money could gain inspiration from the series of patio gardens designed for the show . |
| 22 | It was set up last year at the behest of the Labour leader , John Smith , but has an independent life under Sir Gordon Borrie , former director-general of the Office of Fair Trading . |
| 23 | Mr Duncan , who works at the Unilever Research Labortory in Port Sunlight , has been deputy chairman since the self-governing Trust was set up last year under NHS reforms . |
| 24 | A change programme ‘ start-up ’ team was set up last month under the leadership of control supervisor Ian Mincher , comprising Stuart Brown ( operations ) , Brian Groat ( control ) , Clive Watt ( electrical ) , Bob Vice ( mechanical ) , James Johnson ( operations support ) and Kenny Pearson ( operations ) . |
| 25 | The campaign against the extraction and use of peat was set up last spring by a group of environmental and conservation organisations , led by the Royal Society for Nature Conservation , in order to try and protect what remains of Britain 's lowland bog areas . |
| 26 | Yeah , this was brought up last night at the meeting at of Old Harlow and Potter Street er forum . |
| 27 | And it was brought up last time that erm , in the Potter Street area , not enough was being done to occupy the minds of the |
| 28 | The store development programme was stepped up last year with seven new store openings , compared with only three the previous year , bringing the total at year end to 79 . |
| 29 | A re-written textbook was rushed out last autumn , but it was little better than its predecessors . |
| 30 | I was making up next month 's order for the Brewery ; it 'll save time in the morning . ’ |