Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [vb pp] [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Examples of the latter — attaching new connotations — would be the way musical elements of the bourgeois march were made to connote something different in nineteenth century labour anthems ; or the way the supposedly liberated individualist eclecticism of counter cultural 1960s rock — ‘ liberated ’ in the Marcusian sense — was , in a process of recuperation , re-articulated to the long tradition of bourgeois individual bohemianism . |
| 2 | Throughout his tour , which also took in visits to Denmark and Ireland before returning to London on April 26 for further talks with business leaders en route for Johannesburg , de Klerk stressed that foreign investment was needed to underpin his political reforms . |
| 3 | In accordance with allowance for departmental variations , each department was left to formulate its own plans for implementing the FMI ( see Financial Management in Government Departments , 1983 and Progress in Financial Management in Government Departments , 1984 ) , producing a variety of patterns of implementation . |
| 4 | An attempt was made to teach me Welsh , mostly by the reading aloud of stories from The Mabinogion — in English . |
| 5 | And if the electronic sniffers or whatever they used to detect the presence of a nuclear mass gave a positive reading would the police want to evacuate the area before an attempt was made to render it harmless ? |
| 6 | Perhaps a more apt title would be the Demolition Years , as not only whole industries , jobs and homes were destroyed , but also an attempt was made to change our whole way of life . |
| 7 | No expense was spared to ensure its thorough adaptation to the purpose in view , and it is undoubtedly one of the handsomest buildings in the city , and a fitting illustration of the enterprise of the road . |
| 8 | Suter was forced to drop its seven-year legal action against accountancy firm Morison Stoneham and Lazards , the merchant bank , over its acquisition of Francis Industries in 1984 . |
| 9 | The princess was taught to curb her natural impetuous temper and to own her mistakes to all she had wronged , regardless of rank . |
| 10 | Visitors to the Pumphouse were invited to input their weekly alcoholic intake into a computer , which calculated the cost of their drinking habits . |
| 11 | This too could not compel the defendant , condemned to restore , to do so , but it applied conspicuous Pressure : if he did so , well and good ; if not , the plaintiff was allowed to make his own valuation of the property , and it was this which would become the damages awarded by the judge . |
| 12 | Various hypotheses based on different kinds of anatomical evidence were offered to identify which invertebrate type had been the ancestor from which the ‘ main line ’ of vertebrate evolution had taken off . |
| 13 | After losing most of its wartime recruits back to the universities and the law , the Service was determined to maintain its new influence , in Whitehall if not the world . |
| 14 | The report was presented to staff at a series of meetings and an audio-visual ( tape/slide ) presentation was made covering its key aspects . |
| 15 | The probative value of the evidence was said to outweigh its prejudicial effect . |
| 16 | Remembering my hunch that my drink was spiked leaves me confused . |
| 17 | She had ignored her ‘ whispers ’ for so long that her inner self was forced to send her urgent messages . |
| 18 | Walton describes a dramatic scene at Wilton , the seat of the head of the Herbert family , the Earl of Pembroke , when the King and court were there : the Earl offered George the presentation to the living of Bemerton nearby ; his expressions of unworthiness to undertake a cure of souls were peremptorily overruled as sinful by Bishop Laud ; a tailor was summoned to make his canonical clothes , and he was ordained priest and inducted as Vicar of Bemerton next day . |
| 19 | The group , that only last week was forced to replace its sick chairman , John West with the chief executive Maurice Warren , pushed pre-tax profits up 4.5 per cent to £56 million for the six months to end-December compared to £54 million in the equivalent period in 1991 . |
| 20 | In 1939 British town planning was poised to expand its traditional remit . |
| 21 | The local authority and central Government were asked to provide it all . |
| 22 | Only when the Bill was amended to make it compulsory for local authorities to provide and maintain facilities for deaf children did the Liberal Government of the day allow the Bill to become law . |
| 23 | Personally , I am much encouraged that in response to pressure the Bill was amended to make it flexible enough to accommodate pupils ' special educational needs . |
| 24 | THE Maastricht Treaty Bill was set to gain its second reading in the Lords early today after a marathon two day debate which saw Margaret Thatcher lead a head on clash with Mr Major over her call for a referendum . |
| 25 | This was the voice of a separate business activity , the credit industry , for which money-lending was conducted to make its own profit , not just as a means of increasing the sales of the company who employed it as part of its marketing . |
| 26 | The new arrangements had been due for introduction on April 1 but the Government was forced to shelve them last month after dentists threatened a mass exodus from the NHS . |
| 27 | All of these problems slowed negotiations to such an extent that the federal government was forced to double its initial one-year period of support . |
| 28 | The interior spaces of the wedge-shaped building were converted to suit their new function by artists Robert Irwin and Richard Fleischner , with architect David Raphael Singer , whose particular brief was to retain the all-glass walls of the building while making it a suitable and secure venue for displaying works of art . |
| 29 | Supporters in the west were asked to give their first preference to Harry West and their second to John Taylor ; those in the east , vice versa . |
| 30 | However , an effort was made to give them some kind of compensation , by extending the provision of the afa ( beans , rice and sugar rations ) beyond the initial emergency period , and offering them free transport and free spectacles . |