Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [noun sg] was [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Curran revealed the council was advancing a number of projects for the district including a major new tourist facility in Newcastle and a marina for Killough . |
| 2 | The youth who fled the scene was wearing a blue checked shirt . |
| 3 | The Poles filled every available truck and train with Silesian coal and sent it north ; for weeks a fine drifting cloud of coal-dust hung over Danzig and it seemed the port was to become a coal-opolis fit to rival Cardiff , the coal capital of the world . |
| 4 | Mr Cooney 's comments came as Ian Paisley claimed the Government was withholding a £15m EC windfall for Northern Ireland . |
| 5 | Another woman corrected him , saying she heard the coat was found a bit farther down the freight train track . |
| 6 | Suspect foods were tried again in an open reintroduction and if symptoms recurred the patient was offered a double blind challenge all of which were done as inpatient studies . |
| 7 | When Joe was in the shop , the first think he did every morning was to place a copy of Irish Fairy Tales , by W.B. Yeats , in a corner of the window ; when he left in the evening or for lunch , the book was removed . |
| 8 | Graham Parry , branch secretary of the Civil and Public Servants Association at Chester , said the union was to have a national meeting next week to decide on a united response to the MoD proposals . |
| 9 | Coni said the trend was having a ‘ seriously adverse effect upon domestic club rowing as a whole ’ . |
| 10 | In its report on Nigel Lawson 's last Budget earlier this year , the TCSC said the Chancellor was walking a tightrope , with inflation on one side and recession on the other . |
| 11 | He said the secret was to hide a second box . |
| 12 | Mr Kidd said the committee was producing a draft guide for management which would include a review of existing legislation in six European countries . |
| 13 | A spokesman said the consortium was considering a judicial review . |
| 14 | The official Voice of Vietnam said the bus was fording a rain-swollen stream in Quang Ninh province , east of Hanoi . |
| 15 | A spokesman for the health authority said the family was owed a sincere apology , and Virginia Bottomley ( without reference to the case ) said she was pleased that Rhys was to receive treatment at the Bristol Royal Hospital for Sick Children and hoped it would be successful . |
| 16 | A spokesman for Stoke said the referee was to submit a report on the incident to the RFU . |