Example sentences of "was [verb] [art] " in BNC.

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1 The cimetidine was replenished every day and was given from day 0 to the end of the experiment .
2 This victory was to delight the masses just as it brought little pleasure to the newly energized forces of the political left , but , just as significantly , it was now also an occasional delight to a growing audience drawn from amongst critics , intellectuals , and the more respectable classes generally .
3 Kriss Akabussi , World and Olympic finalist , when he was stationed in the Army in Germany brought a new car into Britain and was stopped a number of times on his way to Hampshire .
4 It was stopped a while afore I mind .
5 ‘ Last time I was stopped the car had a bell .
6 In 1540 he transformed the office of Wards , formed in 1503 , into the Court of Wards , to which was joined the office of Liveries in 1542 .
7 The French Navy passed the problem to the DGSE who at first suggested that the simplest course of action was to tow the Rainbow Warrior out to the test area .
8 Almost Newman 's first act at the BBC was to decimate the existing Script Department under Donald Wilson .
9 With the declaration of the Schuman Plan in May 1950 , European union was to acquire a new momentum and dimension , one that would proceed on a narrower front with the involvement of only a few countries , and in policy terms with a much more specific focus than that held by those who dreamed of European political federation .
10 In his youth , his first ambition was to take holy orders ; his second was to acquire a thorough knowledge of medicine .
11 It was not until the Basque iron deposits were exploited by foreign capital , instead of by the archaic techniques of the Basque miners , that Spain was to acquire a substitute for wool .
12 There the Revenue argued that , at the time the tax payers subscribed their shares , Newco did not exist for the purpose of carrying on a trade ; its only identifiable purpose was to acquire a business .
13 He often said that he never really wanted to be a dancer , and his only purpose was to acquire the knowledge of dancing necessary to become a choreographer .
14 Pasok denied yesterday it was waging a battle on two fronts .
15 Concurrent with these military developments the British aircraft industry was waging a losing battle with the Americans for a large share of the civilian passenger and freight markets .
16 In those days the old Empire News was waging a circulation battle in the West Country .
17 At his feet their five-year-old , Wu , was waging a ferocious battle between two armies of miniature dragons , their tiny power packs making them seem almost alive .
18 Pinochet had ordered his own investigations into the affair , as had the government , which denied on Nov. 12 that it was waging a campaign against the Army .
19 It was clear she was waging an internal battle with herself , but finally the actress in her won out , and she tossed her luxuriant hair back contemptuously .
20 ‘ I was maintaining a tactful silence . ’
21 France was maintaining an army of 150,000 men in Indo-China , of whom , by the end of 1949 , 16,000 were killed or missing .
22 Our custodians used to be dressed in the same uniform as prison warders and their task was maintaining the monument and its grounds .
23 Philip of Swabia , meanwhile , was maintaining the illegality of the meeting on the grounds that there was a legitimate heir , that oaths had been taken to that heir by all the princes and that , furthermore , few of them had been present at Andernach .
24 Not only was maintaining the British war effort imposing an ever-increasing burden , but subsidies to allies seriously inflated that burden .
25 At the next table , the black African diplomat was impressing the girl he was with .
26 Supposedly he was in disgrace for an affair with a female student ( the AFPFL , and particularly the Communists , were strictly puritanical ) but he was preaching a stiffer line against the British than any of the others .
27 It was as Cornelius waited humbly and receptively in prayer , that God 's supreme gift , the Holy Spirit , was poured out upon him before ever Peter who was preaching the good news to him , reached the climax of his sermon !
28 Jacques was speaking enthusiastically about the crop of grapes which the vines had produced , and was prophesying a bumper harvest .
29 He believed that Paris was seeing a forward surge in the arts .
30 The vamp was soon turning into a lady again though , and by the third song , a moody version of the classic Little Anthony and the Imperials hit ‘ Tears On My Pillow ’ , the audience was seeing a sophisticated side to Kylie too .
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