Example sentences of "was [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nicky Wragg therefore was breaching etiquette . |
| 2 | The objective was to acquire software which would stimulate interest in every subject . |
| 3 | UNIP secretary-general Alexander Grey Zulu added his voice to the official rejection of multiparty politics , when he said in Kitwe on May 21 that those advocating the reintroduction of multiparty politics " should not beat about the bush as to their real motive , which was to acquire power " . |
| 4 | Thus , when he explained his view of the campaign , and of the war as whole , to Cantalupo on 4 April , he claimed that he was waging war slowly , in order to avoid unnecessary destruction and to consolidate the " liberation " ( which , he said , was not the same as the mere " conquest " ) of one area before going on to the next . |
| 5 | In a television interview earlier yesterday Mr Shevardnadze angrily rejected charges from Gen Grachev that Georgia was waging war against its own people . |
| 6 | Her most valuable role , especially as the company grew , was maintaining image . |
| 7 | How simple and shining it all had looked when she was young and mama was preaching democracy and she went one better with her faith in Fabian Socialism . |
| 8 | It certainly might have helped Diana to listen and learn from counselling sessions , where other couples ' problems are aired and discussed ; but there is no doubt that by taking on the role of patron at a time when the world was prophesying doom for her own marriage was an exceptionally brave thing for her to do . |
| 9 | For Diana to become Patron of Relate was an exceptionally brave thing to do when the world was prophesying doom for her own marriage |
| 10 | But as the week wore on and Damian made no attempt to see her at night , spend time with her or try to kiss her , she realised he was seeing Domino in the dark , humid hours when Rachel sat alone at home , tortured by jealousy , consumed with it , imagining them together and burning with impotent rage . |
| 11 | The company sounded a note of caution yesterday when it said it was seeing margin pressure in some other areas of the business . |
| 12 | Either he would find out she was seeing Plummer or she would have to tell him . |
| 13 | He had been in the unit over six months now and this was the first time he was seeing action , the first time he had been entrusted with a weapon — apart from a few training sessions . |
| 14 | My first step was to gather information on how I spent my time on school-related activities and attempt to create some form of time-analysis schedule . |
| 15 | She was so vulnerable to him that part of her was already accepting that defeat was inevitable , that only Luke could be the one to end their affair , but at the same time pride was demanding resistance , refusing to submit to the humiliation of a physical surrender to the man who had called her a liar , accused her of infidelity — the man who had hurt her so badly . |
| 16 | She was demanding company ; did he really want her with him ? |
| 17 | The APF held only 30 of the 350 seats in the Supreme Soviet but was demanding transfer of power from the Supreme Soviet to the National Council , which comprised 50 Supreme Soviet deputies , half from the APF . |
| 18 | What if everybody was demanding lull portions for their children ? |
| 19 | The union was demanding wage increases of 216 per cent , while the industrialists ' association had offered 90 per cent . |
| 20 | The ideal of the time was to arrange nature in such a way as not to make it look rearranged . |
| 21 | He was inaugurating Labour 's national crusade on jobs , which will be concentrated on marginal Tory constituencies . |
| 22 | Dawley ( 1963 ) , later expanded and renamed Telford , situated between Wolverhampton and Shrewsbury , was to accommodate pressure from the West Midlands , but it also served the purpose of tidying up the old mining and industrial area of Oakengates and Wellington . |
| 23 | ‘ The situation with M'tronix went on till ‘ 87 , but I realised around ‘ 86 that I was n't getting to the public with my own stuff ; all I was doing was perpetuating Fender and Marshall 's reputations , because their amps formed the bulk of our work . |
| 24 | So because he had a scraggy neck he was christened Gooseneck . ’ |
| 25 | It was christened Homo habilis ( Handy Man ) . |
| 26 | The ice which ended the meal was christened Pôle Nord and consisted of a soft cream encased in ice-cream , resting on an ice pedestal carved in the shape of a bird sitting on a rock . |
| 27 | But since the ECSC had been created , the faltering Fourth French Republic had collapsed in 1958 , and France was then governed by President de Gaulle , determined to raise the status of France as a state and nation : it was a foretaste of the French attitude that was to affect integration in the next decade . |
| 28 | By 1901 however , the local Power House was producing electricity and the tramways were electrified and extended to Hampton Court , in the one direction , and to Westminster Embankment , in the other . |
| 29 | Like the style of coverage or not , we undoubtedly saw far more cricket than we ever would have done had BBC had the contract , and for that I for one am profoundly grateful and not ashamed to admit that I purchased my Sky system purely because it was producing coverage of cricket that otherwise would not be available on TV . |
| 30 | I was doing a radio series called Holiday Hour , he was producing Pick Of The Week . |