Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [was/were] [verb] [adj] [noun] " 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 | The 19th century saw two significant changes in the newspaper industry which were to have considerable impact on future developments . |
| 4 | I met him at a dance , a nice soldier who was playing double bass in the band . |
| 5 | She was , apparently , an unemployed actress who was doing domestic work while she was ‘ resting ’ — I think that 's the euphemism they use . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | A decision which was to affect future events in Burma was now concluded in New Delhi . |
| 10 | During his reign Edgar made one decision which was to have great significance later . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Then I could show the Star Council I was doing important work . |
| 13 | Equity was not an issue which was given serious consideration . |
| 14 | Saadi Tu'ma Abbas al-Jaburi who was appointed military adviser to the President [ for Jaburi 's appointment in December 1990 see p. 37927 ] . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | We report a patient with visual failure and optic atrophy who was receiving long term chlorambucil for a low grade non-Hodgkin 's lymphoma . |
| 19 | I once saw a woman whose job it was to make small bar magnets from steel blanks about two inches long . |
| 20 | John Lindsay , vice-chairman of CIPFA 's Scottish branch , said that if cost was a factor which was driving local government reorganisation then it was important that ministers and officials of the Scottish Office had the best information available . |
| 21 | A few weeks later Perdita sat under a jacaranda tree which was scattering purply-blue petals all over the parched brown ground . |
| 22 | This was an event which was to have profound repercussions . |
| 23 | There was some concern expressed at the Director being singled out for criticism , but the Chief Officer considered that the criticism was necessary ‘ since it was the leadership which was stifling academic development and progress ’ . |
| 24 | A US Senate subcommittee survey of 1975 reports the case of a seventeen-year-old Detroit schoolgirl who was awarded massive damages after being beaten up and stabbed with pencils by thirty girl classmates who apparently resented that she was more attractive than they and received better grades . |
| 25 | Last year 15 year old Joanna Hughes died from burns , after fumes from the solvent she was sniffing caught fire . |
| 26 | And here , sad to relate , was more than one case — not only the theft of a jewel , but also two deaths : of the person who was to present that jewel to the Ashmolean , and of the person who was to take official receipt of such benefaction . |
| 27 | Many years later , in the mid-eighties , John Malkovich , who was rehearsing Death of a Salesman with Dustin , remarked , ‘ One night we were playing Trivial Pursuit . |
| 28 | So under the unlikely moon they were talking marital shop . |
| 29 | One gloved hand held a flashlight , and with the other he was beating grey dust from the front of his uniform . |
| 30 | And last night it was believed 55-year-old John Meade may have killed himself in depression . |