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 . |