Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [pron] [noun] of [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only words they exchanged during the engagements were to discuss which side of the car they were going to step out of . |
| 2 | By the end of the year the country had become a republic and the king was on trial for his life ; the Girondins were losing their command of the situation , and some critics have seen Wordsworth 's departure from the scene at this point as evidence that he foresaw their fall from power ( which took place in the summer of 1793 ) . |
| 3 | Historians have correctly pointed out that to understand the kind of exchange that took place between Huxley and Wilberforce it is important to recognize that a major social transformation was taking place in which the clergy were losing their domination of the intellectual life of the nation . |
| 4 | It was immediately adjourned by the ruling Democratic Liberal Party when it became clear that the opposition parties were continuing their boycott of the legislature . |
| 5 | As Japanese , Thai and Khmer Rouge officials met in Bangkok to try to end the impasse , the Khmers Rouges suddenly announced on Aug. 27 that they were dropping their boycott of the peace monitoring process and would resume co-operation with UNTAC . |
| 6 | A very few moments later , Mala and I had firm hold of the contract for the job and were taking our leave of a decidedly miffed Emissary . |
| 7 | Also , when staff were asked what features of a text would cause them to reject its use as a class reader , ‘ sexism ’ was volunteered as one such reason by staff in three of the six schools visited . |
| 8 | Indeed , in the pre-war years peasant households of this kind were increasing their proportion of the land , output and inventory of central Russia . |
| 9 | Jeff was voted their Player of the Year last season , but they 've let me have him for six months . |
| 10 | The club was announcing its Brain of the Year for 1991 . |
| 11 | Jarvis thought he would enjoy hearing the sound of these trains while he was writing his history of the London Underground . |
| 12 | He also mentioned that an engineer from the Boeing company had arrived and was informing his company of the failure . |
| 13 | Joyce was informing his listeners of a massive air strike by Luftwaffe bombers against the Kent coast . |
| 14 | Those of the first two Edwards were fought against enemies whose common aim was to rid their countries of the English aggressor , but whose methods of doing so differed . |
| 15 | The objective of the study was to determine which aspects of the UK government 's implementation of the Less Favoured Areas Directive are responsible for the agriculture/nature conservation conflict and to recommend changes aimed at retaining a predominantly agricultural land use in the uplands without further loss and degradation of its unique nature conservation interest . |
| 16 | His principal objective was to clear his name of the suspicion attached to it . |
| 17 | As the taxi sped them into Rome , Nora had no chance to look at the view ; she was kept busy listening to Louise , who was giving her assessment of the situation . |
| 18 | A 1989 MORI Poll conducted by the BBC and The Independent newspaper argued that the ideology of Thatcherism was reaching its target of the young . |
| 19 | When I parted them just a moment ago , the light outside was still very pale and something of a mist was affecting my view of the baker 's shop and chemist 's opposite . |
| 20 | She was reading him parts of a letter from some fellow with a foreign name . |
| 21 | She was awarded her fellowship of the British Psychological Society in early recognition of her distinguished work for child guidance in Scotland . |
| 22 | ‘ If I stuck a pom-pom on each nipple and waggled them in front of Jed , he 'd tell me I was blocking his view of the telly , ’ says Mandy . |
| 23 | On Nov. 16 Germany announced that it was disbanding its branch of a clandestine anti-communist network . |
| 24 | The Stalinist leadership said it was scrapping its membership of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty ( NPT ) , which limits the spread of military nuclear technology . |
| 25 | The Palace was told that the only way to guarantee protection of her broadcast in future was to make it part of the Official Secrets Act and bring it under Government control . |