Example sentences of "[adj] was [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a similar fashion it was becoming common for quite trivial legal disputes to go to the papal Curia on appeal : this was to transform the very nature of papal jurisdiction and authority , and is a striking example of the cosmopolitan links and assumptions of twelfth-century culture . |
| 2 | This was to mark the tenth anniversary of Roman 's company , with publicity to reflect the wide international market he appeared to operate in . |
| 3 | This was confirmed the following morning , and that evening , not devoid of relief , we went back to our own beds . |
| 4 | This was to celebrate the fiftieth birthday of the Marquess of Tavistock , who nearly two years ago was desperately ill , following a mammoth stroke . |
| 5 | The traditional requirement that there be reasonable grounds for taking the proceedings was accepted , and to this was added the subsidiary test that it must be reasonable to employ a legal representative . |
| 6 | This was to prevent the fine gravel from finding its way through the undergravel plate . |
| 7 | Chapman favoured a red and white sock to match the club colours , but when this was tried the red dye ran when the socks were washed . |
| 8 | This was to establish the new pattern of global authority in the post-cold war world — under the aegis of the United States , with or without the cloak of the United Nations sanction . |
| 9 | A proposal for an internationally supervised ceasefire put forward by the FMLN on Nov. 22 was rejected the following day by Cristiani , who , however , offered on Dec. 10 to renew peace talks . |
| 10 | The results were overwhelming : ‘ So much was sold the first night it was almost scary ’ , recalls Gerald Stiebel of Rosenberg and Stiebel , Inc . |
| 11 | In England , Edward III was to make the fullest use of the military capabilities of his sons , in particular of Edward , Black Prince , whose employment in the war stressed the importance to the family of their father 's claim to the French throne . |
| 12 | Henry worked under his father at the abbey from 1495 , but from 1501 to 1506 was building the Observant friary in Richmond , Surrey , by contract along with a brickmaker , Robert Nevill , and Thomas Binks , carpenter . |
| 13 | The effect of these was to transfer the common land to private ownership ; the dispossessed commoners were given small pockets of land or other compensation , but these were not necessarily equivalent to the rights they had lost . |
| 14 | Although the decent instinct of many was to support the weaker side in a wholly legitimate quest for independence , their public utterances , alas , were to support the side which in their view was the more important to British interests . |
| 15 | Objective number one , then , in Nizan 's mind after 1916 was to avoid the terrible fate of his father . |
| 16 | A temporary ceasefire agreed on March 11 was broken the following day . |
| 17 | At the start of August the former was telling the outside world of Russia 's quick recovery , just when the latter was still being very pessimistic . |
| 18 | In his last years even Louis XIV was giving the Dutch republic the treatment in this respect which it demanded . |
| 19 | When family 1 was detected the elder brother was under orthopaedic management for his abnormal gait but Duchenne muscular dystrophy had not been suspected . |
| 20 | The first was called The Golden Grove — or a Manual of Daily Prayers and Litanies . |
| 21 | The first was to complete the new science block next to the existing school in a design which mirrors its Grade 11 listed architecture . |
| 22 | Mr. Tony Favell , supported by Mr. David Harris , presented a Bill to remove from registers of common land and registers of town or village greens dwellinghouses registered under the Commons Registration Act 1965 which had been used as dwellinghouses for a minimum of twenty years immediately prior to the commencement of that Act ; and for purposes connected therewith : And the same was read the First time ; and ordered to be read a Second time on Friday 24 February and to be printed . |
| 23 | Mr. Tony Banks , supported by Mr. Tom Clarke , Ms. Diane Abbott and Mr. Jeremy Corbyn , presented a Bill to make statutory provision for fixed term parliaments , compulsory attendance at polling stations , a public holiday on days set for general elections ; and for connected purposes ; And the same was read the First time ; and ordered to be read a Second time on Thursday 9 April and to be printed . |
| 24 | Mr. Secretary Baker , supported by Mr. Secretary Heseltine , Mr. Secretary Newton , Mr. Secretary Brooke , Mr. Secretary Hunt , Mr. Secretary Lang and Mr. Peter Lloyd , presented a Bill to make provision about persons who claim asylum in the United Kingdom and to extend the provisions of the Immigration ( Carriers ' Liability ) Act 1987 to transit passengers : And the same was read the First time ; and ordered to be read a Second time and to be printed [ Bill 1 . ] |
| 25 | Mr. Secretary Wakeham , supported by Mr. Secretary Howard , Mr. Secretary Hunt , Mr. Secretary Lilley , Mr. Secretary Lang , Mr. David Mellor , Mr. David Heathcoat-Amory and Mr. Colin Moynihan , presented a Bill to make provision for extending the duration of , and increasing the limit on , grants under section 3 of the Coal Industry Act 1987 and to repeal the Coal Mines Regulation Act 1908 : And the same was read the First time ; and ordered to be read a Second time and to be printed [ Bill 2 . ] |
| 26 | Mr. Secretary Heseltine , supported by The Prime Minister , Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer , Mr. Secretary Newton , Mr. Secretary Hunt , Mr. Secretary Lang , Mr. Michael Portillo and Mr. Robert Key , presented a Bill to provide for certain local authorities to levy and collect a new tax , to be called council tax ; to abolish community charges ; to make further provision with respect to local government finance ( including provision with respect to certain grants by local authorities ) ; and for connected purposes : And the same was read the First time ; and ordered to be read a Second time and to be printed [ Bill 3 . ] |
| 27 | Mr. Secretary Hunt , supported by Mr. Secretary Heseltine , Mr. Secretary Lilley , Mr. David Mellor , Sir Wyn Roberts and Mr. Nicholas Bennett , presented under Standing Order No. 48 ( Procedure upon Bills whose main object is to create a charge upon the public revenue ) a Bill to increase the financial limit in section 18(3) of the Welsh Development Agency Act 1975 : And the same was read the First time ; and ordered to be read a Second time and to be printed [ Bill 4 . ] |
| 28 | Mr. Secretary Lang , supported by Mr. Secretary Rifkind , Mr. Secretary Clarke , Mr. Michael Forsyth and Mr. Francis Maude , presented a Bill to make new provision about further and higher education in Scotland ; and for connected purposes : And the same was read the First time ; and ordered to be read a Second time tomorrow and to be printed . |
| 29 | Mr. Secretary Hunt , supported by Mr. Secretary Heseltine , Mr. David Mellor , Sir Wyn Roberts and Mr. Nicholas Bennett , presented a Bill to provide for the construction by the Cardiff Bay Development Corporation of a barrage across the mouth of Cardiff Bay with an outer harbour and of a tidal lagoon and for related works ; to make provision for the acquisition and use of land for the works ; to make provision about the operation and management of the barrage , the outer harbour , the water impounded by the barrage and the lagoon ; to make provision for dealing with property damage resulting from any alteration of groundwater levels which may occur in consequence of the construction of the barrage ; to enable other protective provisions to be made ; and for connected purposes : And the same was read the First time ; and ordered to be read a Second time tomorrow and to be printed . |
| 30 | Mr. Secretary Lilley , supported by the Prime Minister , Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer , Mr. Secretary Heseltine , Mr. Secretary Wakeham , Mr. Secretary Brooke , Mr. Secretary Hunt , Mr. Secretary Lang , Mr. John Redwood and Mr. Edward Leigh , presented a Bill to make provision with respect to standards of performance and service to customers in relation to the telecommunications , gas supply , electricity supply , water supply and sewerage service industries ; to make provision with respect to complaints by , and disputes with , customers in those industries ; to make provision with respect to the powers of the regulators of those industries and with respect to related matters ; to make provision with respect to the payment of deposits by customers of certain telecommunications operators ; to make further provision for facilitating effective competition in certain of those industries ; to make provision with respect to mergers of water or sewerage undertakers ; to make provision with respect to compliance orders against public gas suppliers ; and for connected purposes : And the same was read the First time ; and ordered to be read a Second time on Monday next and to be printed . |