Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [was/were] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Training hurt and it was always a battle to force myself out , but after six months I was managing sixty miles a week and sometimes doing fifteen miles non-stop in a hundred minutes . |
| 2 | Sebe , the " President-for-life " of the Ciskei homeland which was granted nominal independence by South Africa in 1981 , was absent from the country at the time . |
| 3 | Ashley gazed up into dark brown eyes which were sending intimate messages and telling her everything she had been longing to hear . |
| 4 | The weather was kind for the Golden Jubilee Celebrations of the Henley Golf Club which were held last weekend and large numbers of members and friends attended and were very appreciative of the arrangements which had been made . |
| 5 | This creative work of art was produced by May Bolton , a member of the Hems Knitting Club , , to celebrate the 100th meeting of their club which was started nine years ago . |
| 6 | Other companies have had similar troubles : Clerical Medical had to rid itself of an agent which was writing unauthorised business ; a Legal & General agent . |
| 7 | The middle of Oxford is a pretty unpleasant place to be , and we 're hoping very much that it 's going to be a sort of signpost er to the County Council 's greater study which was agreed last Tuesday . |
| 8 | ASHANTI ARE a Belfast based three piece which were formed eight years ago by guitarist Steven Boyd — the last remaining original member of the band . |
| 9 | This year , Douglas Reyburn are hosting the Buchanan Inter Company Trophy which was won last year by Stoddard Carpets . |
| 10 | The 19th century saw two significant changes in the newspaper industry which were to have considerable impact on future developments . |
| 11 | I met him at a dance , a nice soldier who was playing double bass in the band . |
| 12 | We sympathise with victims in north Belfast , with those in south Belfast last evening , and with the driver of the car who was attacked this morning . |
| 13 | She was , apparently , an unemployed actress who was doing domestic work while she was ‘ resting ’ — I think that 's the euphemism they use . |
| 14 | Glenn Hoddle says he thinks his team will win because there is a determination running throughout the club and the supporters who were robbed three years ago and could have gone on for another fifty or sixty years waiting a chance like this … |
| 15 | Two maintenance gangs who were working one night some distance apart on a section of track noticed a mysterious light between them but despite searching the area nothing could be found to explain the phenomenon . |
| 16 | Mitchum and Ford were greeted by Lila who was wearing white shorts and a bathrobe . |
| 17 | In the exile it was decreed that circumcision was to be the official rite of initiation into Judaism and all that that now meant . |
| 18 | The other one , vaguely at the back of my mind it was raised this morning cos I recall Mr made a comment on it , and that is erm looking at the growth implications beyond two thousand and six . |
| 19 | In his Mercedes he was stopped four times in the first few days . |
| 20 | Kapwepwe and 123 supporters were detained , although Kapwepwe himself was released ten months later . |
| 21 | It was a settlement which was to have significant ramifications for British politics , as we shall see later when we come to consider the issue of Jacobitism . |
| 22 | The earliest writer of Christian Latin ( and a fascinating witness to the emergence of a specifically Christian Latin vocabulary ) , he coined the terminology which was to dominate Western theology — for example , trinitas , ‘ three persons in one substance ’ , or of Christ ‘ two substances or natures in one person ’ . |
| 23 | It is difficult to assess the impact of Christianity on a sector of experience which was undergoing profound change in the course of late antiquity . |
| 24 | It was not a cause of poor economic performance ; it was yet another consequence of the attitudes which were shaping that performance . |
| 25 | These were the attitudes which were to gain official acceptance after the change in British Communist leadership in December 1929 . |
| 26 | And again perhaps to follow up a previous question and the question is this , that in the first draft of the statement of faith which was presented two years ago , there was a very clear statement which said that Christ died for our sin in connection with the cross and I was wondering what the reasoning was which took away that very specific meaning of the death of the Christ into a much more general and ambiguous one in the statement before us today . |
| 27 | A decision which was to affect future events in Burma was now concluded in New Delhi . |
| 28 | During his reign Edgar made one decision which was to have great significance later . |
| 29 | Mr Smith said that , in the private sector , jobs were threatened by the recession which was causing some parents to transfer their children to State schools . |
| 30 | From the low admission rate , the nine hundred thousand in our revenue budget which was shown this year as savings , seven hundred thousand of which was met by fudging community care money in June is now short by three hundred thousand so at the end of this year there will be an overspend or rather a loss of income of three hundred thousand which will show up as a deficit on social services budget for this year . |