Example sentences of "was [verb] [adv] [to-vb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first great public indication of the shift in Barth 's thinking came in 1927 , when he published the first volume of a projected Christian Dogmatics , which was intended eventually to handle in a systematic way all the main Christian doctrines . |
| 2 | I was taught how to deal with the medical post , and how to file patients ' records . |
| 3 | What was really getting to him was the fact that alien-fever was proving hard to eradicate in the First Church of Christ the Spiritualist . |
| 4 | The bar/restaurant near Union Station was dolled up to look like an English pub and doing it better than most London pubs did , to Maxim 's traditionalist eye . |
| 5 | It was designed merely to fit within the minimal requirements of the European Convention and it hardly revolutionises the data privacy scene . |
| 6 | The sound of his music attracted a school of dolphins , whereupon Arion leapt overboard and was carried safely to shore on the back of one of the dolphins . |
| 7 | The ballot was carried out to coincide with a debate among Euro-MPs which also agreed to the ban in principle . |
| 8 | She entered the theme room , which was decked out to look like the great hall of a medieval castle . |
| 9 | On Mondays the wash was hung out to dry on the clotheslines at the end of the kitchen-garden nearest to the house . |
| 10 | As soon as the result was announced , however , Heseltine and then Hurd conceded to Major , and despite some initial confusion as to the correct procedure it was decided not to proceed to a third ballot in which a preference system of voting would have obtained . |
| 11 | As the remaining congregation of St. Mary Magdalene had joined St. Nicholas Church , it was decided not to rebuild as a church but as a new Hall and premises for the congregation of St. Nicholas parish . |
| 12 | Well , anybody could see that the stupid bu er the way they 've he was made up to look like a forty year old and he still looked like a twenty year old ! |
| 13 | Fortunately , in 1749 , it was recorded in the form Abotsbery Land and was shown subsequently to belong to the poor lands charity of Abbotsbury , a few miles from Weymouth in Dorset . |
| 14 | Hamilton , presumably to fool the Abwehr if they had wind of it , was told not to reply to the suggestion of a meeting outside England until the day after Hess had flown . |
| 15 | The damage was reported to the management and the captain was told not to worry as the item in question was in a damaged state before our visit . |
| 16 | and I I was rushing down to get to the stair . |
| 17 | ‘ I was starting to make the Sunday dinner and Brian said he was going out to play in the park . |
| 18 | CARE workers at a children 's home were unaware that a 15-year-old girl in their charge was going out to work as a prostitute . |
| 19 | He was turning about to look at the view and the slope of grass back up to the road . |
| 20 | In January 1928 he was invited back to speak at the Cambridge Union , on the motion that the Church of England ought to be disestablished . |
| 21 | Then in 1991 VAT was raised again to pay for the reduction in community charge . |
| 22 | If she misbehaved , she was packed off to sleep in the old people 's home in another part of the building — a terrifying prospect for a girl with such a vivid imagination . |
| 23 | Seb spent the evening drinking steadily , talking generalities , until Jacob was called away to intervene in a fight between two of his navvies . |
| 24 | ‘ Robert had just taken over the Seconds , but was called back to play in the first team . |
| 25 | ‘ What about Saturday , the following night , when Matthew was called out to see to the lights at Morvyl — did you hear him going or coming back ? ’ |
| 26 | INDUSTRY Secretary Peter Lilley was challenged yesterday to apologise to the people of Hartlepool . |
| 27 | The Berwyn catchment in north Wales is now too acidic even to support the American Brook Charr , which was introduced specifically to cope with the acid . |
| 28 | As early as 1985 the Better Health Commission was set up to report on the current health status of the Australian population and to identify underlying health problems and strategies for dealing with them . |
| 29 | SeaDocs was set up to act as a depositary-custodian of the paper based original bill as well as a registry of bill of lading negotiations . |
| 30 | Approximately 50 years ago , the Metropolitan Police Fraud Squad was set up to deal with the then growing incidence of company fraud . |