Example sentences of "and was [vb pp] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed MacArthur was concerned almost wholly with the culmination to his four-year struggle against the Japanese and was determined to accept the formal surrender himself as a prelude to his new role as the reformer of Japanese society . |
| 2 | A new role was then established , that of coordinator , which bypassed the head and was intended to carry the new vision of good practice directly from Merrion House ( the Education Department 's offices ) to the classroom . |
| 3 | All those letters from her uncle , ranting incessantly on the subject of Damian Flint , how he had walked into a senior position in Swift and was poised to take the whole company from under Jamie 's nose . |
| 4 | A heartbroken Daniels watched this all going on , and was moved to break the golden rule of not speaking until spoken to . |
| 5 | This list was designed to serve as an ultimate reference in the indexing process , and was compiled using the following algorithm : |
| 6 | ‘ I was held up and was forced to give the traditional welcome speech after everyone had eaten their lunches . ’ |
| 7 | The resulting weighted mean image is shown in Figure 1A and was taken to represent the average background activity in the population studied . |
| 8 | In the country 's first multiparty elections in January 1991 [ see p. 37948 ] , the newly formed MPD defeated the PAICV and was expected to form the next government after the February presidential elections . |