Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [adv] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had it not been his solicitors the Inland Revenue would have got him yesterday for unpaid tax bills , but its petition was dismissed automatically once the High Court heard that a bankruptcy order had already been made . |
| 2 | I was posted here barely a week after he went missing . |
| 3 | It was the target of an IRA bomb in December 1991 , just before the pantomime and was reopened yet again the following spring . |
| 4 | The commission responsible for undertaking this revision was convoked only once a week by its president , Ottaviani . |
| 5 | Sunnie , the 78-year-old wife of Jackie Mann , who was freed just over a year ago , briefly regained consciousness before passing away . |
| 6 | Sequent Computer Systems Inc was told pretty much the same thing ( UX No 434 ) . |
| 7 | Microsoft senior vice-president Paul Maritz told Compaq Computer Corp he was expecting NT to ship by the end of June and Sequent Computer Systems Inc was told pretty much the same . |
| 8 | Wheat was favoured , not merely because of its immediate importance as a basic food , but because it demanded least capital and least care , even where it meant wretched cultivations : only one-tenth of the cereal secano was farmed in regular rotations of wheat and legumes ; a quarter was cultivated only once every six or ten years . |
| 9 | how old he was , Nicodemus was born physically just the same as you and I were born physically . |
| 10 | In 1989 the WCFBA was renamed more simply the Catholic Biblical Federation ( CBF ) . |
| 11 | Another support worker was introduced more successfully a week later ( but see below ) ; |
| 12 | It was found that this was not the case , generally homework was set only once a fortnight . |
| 13 | If the namecode was entered then either the Personnel Data screen would be displayed , if only one employee matched the namecode , or a selection screen showing the name , department , date of joining and staff number of those employees with that particular namecode . |
| 14 | A very similar idea to Linde 's was put forth independently a few months later by Paul Steinhardt and Andreas Albrecht of the University of Pennsylvania . |
| 15 | And it was composed either only a short time after those events by someone who played a role in them , or more probably by someone with direct access to the testimony of an eyewitness . |
| 16 | To both communities in Acre , the remote region of the Brazilian Amazon which achieved world wide notoriety when the union leader and ecologist Chico Mendes was murdered there almost a year ago , Antonio Batista de Macedo is the champion who carries the hope of salvation for their rainforest home . |