Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [was/were] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Ashley gazed up into dark brown eyes which were sending intimate messages and telling her everything she had been longing to hear . |
| 3 | Other companies have had similar troubles : Clerical Medical had to rid itself of an agent which was writing unauthorised business ; a Legal & General agent . |
| 4 | The 19th century saw two significant changes in the newspaper industry which were to have considerable impact on future developments . |
| 5 | I met him at a dance , a nice soldier who was playing double bass in the band . |
| 6 | She was , apparently , an unemployed actress who was doing domestic work while she was ‘ resting ’ — I think that 's the euphemism they use . |
| 7 | Mitchum and Ford were greeted by Lila who was wearing white shorts and a bathrobe . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | These were the attitudes which were to gain official acceptance after the change in British Communist leadership in December 1929 . |
| 12 | A decision which was to affect future events in Burma was now concluded in New Delhi . |
| 13 | During his reign Edgar made one decision which was to have great significance later . |
| 14 | This is , of course , titillating information for its readers , but we need to remember that this woman was now said to be happily married ; her child would now be aged 10 and could be quite aware of a trial which was getting widespread coverage in the popular newspapers . |
| 15 | Then I could show the Star Council I was doing important work . |
| 16 | Equity was not an issue which was given serious consideration . |
| 17 | But the collapse of the junk-bond market is a big blow to the scores of companies which were planning new offerings . |
| 18 | As these prices fluctuated , for example after the end of the Korean war boom , there was widespread unrest — often in resistance to well-meant price stabilisation funds set up by the colonial power — and out of this unrest arose movements which were to become nationalist parties and national liberation struggles . |
| 19 | Saadi Tu'ma Abbas al-Jaburi who was appointed military adviser to the President [ for Jaburi 's appointment in December 1990 see p. 37927 ] . |
| 20 | It was the enlightened afrancesados who were to confuse political issues by their peculiar relation to liberalism . |
| 21 | Under the Act he was appointed medical officer of health for the borough of Liverpool from 1 January 1847 , the first such appointment in England ; initially part-time , the post became full-time in 1848 at an annual salary of £750 . |
| 22 | In the course of a 24-hour drama the kidnapper , Orlando Ordoñez Betancourt , successfully demanded that they be flown with him to Honduras , where after an airport siege he was granted safe passage to Mexico . |
| 23 | One Sunday when I was attending Mass in the Santuario , I noticed two girls in the next pew who were wearing greased mountain boots and thick hand-knitted socks . |
| 24 | Okay Although I 'm referring to Gibson 's work , I mean this was typical of the time , there were a number of other researchers who were using similar ideas and notations . |
| 25 | Over the years I was to meet Irish women who , unable to stand the barrages of racism , distorted and changed their accents in order to pass . |
| 26 | Three subsequent laboratory studies , however , have failed to show any overall improvement in recognition sensitivity for films which were given high risk ratings . |
| 27 | An underground nuclear test in January 1989 near Semipalatinsk ( Kazakhstan ) sparked off local protests which were given formal support by the Kazakhstan Supreme Soviet in November . |
| 28 | From 1977 he has been building luxury homes in various parts of North Wales , and in 1987 began a 16-home development at Deganwy which was to collect special awards . |
| 29 | She flung the fork down , looking daggers at him , and continued : ‘ The house she lived in during the war received a direct hit , and for two days she was buried alive nursing a glass vase belonging to her mother . |
| 30 | We were like , these geeks from Oldham who were doing psychedelic stuff . |