Example sentences of "was [verb] [adj] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The result was to see 450 previously long term unemployed people move into jobs with training — in almost all cases to vocational qualification Level II or above . |
| 2 | One of the difficulties in the early stages of this work was to find any reasonably reliable method of measuring whisker strengths . |
| 3 | Edward , at the same time and eight miles away , was dispensing some moderately expensive education to the Lower Fourth at Croxford House . |
| 4 | To insist that Danzig was Polish on any other grounds than practical economics was to enlist some very uncertain history . |
| 5 | He was taking this highly nervous lady away from the local hospital to one in the Bedford area . |
| 6 | Michael Heseltine , who 's sixty , was on a private holiday in Venice with his wife Anne , when he was taken ill early this morning . |