Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] was [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 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 | Other companies have had similar troubles : Clerical Medical had to rid itself of an agent which was writing unauthorised business ; a Legal & General agent . |
| 3 | This year , Douglas Reyburn are hosting the Buchanan Inter Company Trophy which was won last year by Stoddard Carpets . |
| 4 | I met him at a dance , a nice soldier who was playing double bass in the band . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 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 | In the exile it was decreed that circumcision was to be the official rite of initiation into Judaism and all that that now meant . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 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 | During his reign Edgar made one decision which was to have great significance later . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | By the autumn of 1989 I could see that the work I was planning more breeding and lecturing , was going to get very costly . |
| 15 | Then I could show the Star Council I was doing important work . |
| 16 | I have here a copy of the committee which was formed that night , and also a copy of the minutes , I 'll give each Councillor one , and then they can read it at their leisure , instead of me taking up the whole meeting . |
| 17 | Equity was not an issue which was given serious consideration . |
| 18 | Because that 's our a reservoir which was commissioned last year , to secure supplies for the East Midlands , cost us a hundred and seven million pounds . |
| 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 | When the officers were finally allowed to see Oliver , Dr Losberne said , ‘ This is a boy who was shot this morning while walking on a farmer 's property where he should n't have been . |
| 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 | Remembering , perhaps , clashes that had taken place in the past between the travellers and the locals , at the next meeting of the parish council it was suggested that advice be taken regarding the legal value of the charter and the legal position concerning trespass on council land . |
| 24 | He was depicted as the sun , a young warrior who was born each day , defeated the stars of the night and was resurrected again and again by the souls of warriors in his care . |
| 25 | No , for that job I was doing last night . |
| 26 | Well I think the the er other point I was making last week was that erm this whole are of learning theory is erm y'know a very traditional area . |
| 27 | The targets I was given last year in my appraisal were n't covered at all this year in my appraisal by the manager , |
| 28 | She 's just moved up from Kent and has come with packing cases full of cups and medals : a winning record which was topped this week with the Champion of Champions trophy and an ambition to become the world 's number one . |
| 29 | He had become the singer with a group which was exciting some interest among the A&R men and women of London 's record companies , including Steve Lewis , the head of Virgin 's music publishing company . |
| 30 | 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 . |