Example sentences of "was [verb] [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was furnished with a certain meanness of equipment that made them feel like poor relations . |
| 2 | They had a cavernous basement room which they had painted apricot and white , to cheer it up ; it was furnished with a double divan , two very old arm-chairs with curvaceous rolled arms and head-rests , plum and plushy and dusty , a second-hand stained-oak office desk , where Roland worked , and a newer varnished beech desk , where the typewriter sat . |
| 3 | He was furnished with a big drum and plenty of liquid refreshment meant that before long he not so much marched as fell around the city . |
| 4 | Vlasman boxed superbly before a capacity crowd and was well on top when his opponent , G Reid ( Wolverhampton ) was stopped with a cut eye in the third . |
| 5 | He had taken only a few steps across the playground when he was stopped by a rough command . |
| 6 | He climbed the steps leading to the central lobby and was stopped by a burly policeman who asked the nature of his business . |
| 7 | Enjoying every minute of it we traversed right along a wide ledge sparkling with quartz crystals to an impasse , where the way ahead was stopped by a vertical wall suspended over immense space . |
| 8 | A short time later , on the other side of Hereford , a motorist was stopped by a white car with a blue light on top . |
| 9 | The following morning the convoy was stopped by a one-person LAG picket . |
| 10 | At the same time Article 130 of the Constitution , recognizing the Roman Catholic Church and lifting restraints on the clergy after more than 130 years , was amended after a three-week debate . |
| 11 | A dualism of spirit and matter , mind and body , was joined with a powerful determinism or predestinarianism : the Gnostics ( or ‘ people in the know ’ ) are the elect , their souls fragments of the divine , needing liberation from matter and the power of the planets . |
| 12 | She was joined for a short time by another dancer back from war service , Alan Carter . |
| 13 | By now he was joined by a motley army of British guitarists , including a delighted Dave Davies from the Kinks , a diffident Stuart Adamson from Big Country , the Moody Blues bassist , John Lodge , and Queen 's Brian May , who was determined to startle the Killer with wailing heavy-metal solos . |
| 14 | Not far from Cairo the road was joined by a single-track railway line which carries mined iron ore from the oasis and a line of telegraph poles . |
| 15 | He was joined by a young Londoner , Jonathan Goodchild , who rapidly moved from being Sharp 's assistant to art director in his own right , leaving Sharp a clear run as perhaps the underground 's most innovative illustrator . |
| 16 | The doubt was joined by a faint tone of shrewish suspicion . |
| 17 | It was this colony of gannets that in 1860 was joined by a black-browed albatross , a lost wanderer from the southern oceans . |
| 18 | It was intended as a high-performance set which could inherit the reliability associated with previous BR ( SR ) DEMUs , thus beating the older , inherently unreliable diesel-mechanical multiple units hands down . |
| 19 | It was intended as a splendid demonstration of the power and solidarity of the Angevin family , the greatest court ever held in Normandy . |
| 20 | Dexter meant it as a joke but Blanche stared at him for a moment , as if the comment was intended as a serious criticism , before she chuckled softly . |
| 21 | Sotheby 's lecture by Helene Cixous of Paris was intended as a feminist apotheosis but was marred by her shaky reading of Rembrandt 's ‘ Bathsheba ’ in the Louvre . |
| 22 | The script that Allen submitted to the BBC was intended as a single play . |
| 23 | DESIGNED in July 1945 at Tokyo University by Taichiro Ogawa and Ichiro Tani , the Baika ( Plum Blossom ) was intended as a special attack Aircraft for the Imperial Japanese Navy . |
| 24 | The Urban Programme consisted of grants and initiatives under the 1969 Local Government Grants ( Social Need ) Act , which was intended as a flexible instrument to provide supplementary help to local authorities in the fields of housing , education , and health . |
| 25 | ‘ In order to obtain judicially admissible evidence , US investigators would have to obtain proof that ( i ) a payment was intended for a foreign official , ( ii ) it was made with a corrupt intent , and ( iii ) it was made for a prohibited purpose . |
| 26 | The reception area was plunged into a blue-black relief . |
| 27 | Under the 1976 Organic Law promulgated in Portugal , Macao , hitherto a Portuguese Overseas Province , was redefined as a Special Territory under Portuguese administration ; it will revert to Chinese rule in 1999 , the Chinese government having already , in 1988 , established a Macao Special Administrative region . |
| 28 | Simmons was struggling into a black gown . |
| 29 | As Laura Davies was struggling with a right hand injured in a cricketing accident on the eve of the tournament , registering a 79 in the first round , Pam Wright was putting together the most meticulous of level-par 73s . |
| 30 | The animal was struggling with a loose shoe and was in no mood to break into a trot . |