Example sentences of "was [verb] [prep] an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was furnished with an ancient iron bedstead and a wooden table so decrepit that it collapsed as I walked past it . |
| 2 | Since Dornie was now out of the question , I went on to the Kintail Lodge Hotel , where I was admitted and taken up to a single room which , mercifully , was furnished with an electric fire . |
| 3 | That training ( and the service that should have started with the Class 317 units at the beginning of the 1982 timetable ) was stopped by an industrial dispute about bonus payments for driver-only operation . |
| 4 | A preview of the Catechism was leaked to an Italian news agency , ANSA , which quotes the contentious death penalty clause : |
| 5 | In 1975 , the Imperial War Museum at Duxford acquired a B–17 that , by 1978 , was repainted as an exact replica of the original Mary Alice . |
| 6 | About 5 per cent of the manual work-force was enrolled in an occupational pension scheme , and well under 5 per cent owned their own property : in consequence , most old people depended on selling their labour power in an over-stocked labour market in order to live . |
| 7 | He was remanded to an open bail hostel , but while he was there he raped and murdered office worker Anna McGurk . |
| 8 | Ingram was propelled towards an open phaeton and a patient old nag . |
| 9 | He swung into a vacant parking space at that moment , right in front of the café that was tucked into an out-of-the-way corner of the city 's central business and shopping district . |
| 10 | How does the Minister react to the case , of which I have informed her right hon. Friend the Secretary of State , in which home help provision was withdrawn from an elderly couple , both of whom are severely and progressively disabled ? |
| 11 | She was reprimanded by an indignant Jacques Delors who said that fraud is a ‘ phony controversy ’ and a ‘ distraction ’ from important matters , like the ‘ real ’ issue of economic and monetary union . |
| 12 | From these deathly origins Nizan 's life span was to proceed in an anguished spiral . |
| 13 | The OFR was formed as an international response to the nationalist popular fronts in the republics , and united the Russian minorities in the national republics . |
| 14 | The head itself , with a non-reflective black surface , was larger than normal and the back of it was formed into an oval shape . |
| 15 | If parents are your primary role models , then Richard Jenkins was formed by an alcoholic father and a beloved mother who died and left him when he was two . |
| 16 | Thames , awarded the London weekday contract in 1967 , was formed by an ITA-initiated merger between A-R , the previous holder , and ABC , the previous holder of Midlands and Northern weekday and weekend contracts . |
| 17 | That one was dismissed as an unlucky incident , but my troubles continued . |
| 18 | I actually was consulted in an orderly way . |
| 19 | In the 1850s the ‘ Bampton Polderland ’ on the Thames just south of Kelmscott was drained by an entrepreneurial farmer , William Wood . |
| 20 | The familiar ride past the saluting gateman , past the lemon groves and the sharp roundabout to the little dirt road that was Santa Barbara 's main street , was tinged with an overwhelming gloom in spite of its beauty . |
| 21 | Using this symptom with those of the flushes which were worse at night and aversion to anything around the neck the remedy Lachesis LM1 was prescribed with an immediate improvement generally and in symptoms . |
| 22 | The summons was heard as an ordinary Friday summons in the Commercial Court and occupied about 20 minutes . |
| 23 | One patient with a severe form of the disease ( large tumour , poor general condition , and a rapid course ) was treated with an anthracin-containing regimen ( cyclophosphamide , adriamycin , vincristine , prednisone ) combined with radiotherapy ( 25 Grays ) . |
| 24 | In Ealing , approval was given for an administrative officer ( sum not specified ) to be appointed under MISG ‘ to co-ordinate the multi-agency work required by the care programme approach ’ . |
| 25 | Therefore , in the subsequent 56 patients adjuvant therapy with chenodeoxycholic acid 7 mg/kg/day and ursodeoxycholic acid 5 mg/kg/ day was given for an arbitrary period of three months after the procedure . |
| 26 | The meal was given with an additional volume of 500 ml water and imaging was continued for a further 40 minutes after the meal . |
| 27 | Health was given as an additional portfolio to Education Minister José Goldemberg on an interim basis . |
| 28 | Approval was given to an amended format for ballot papers , to permit each candidate for elected membership of Council/boards to include a short biographical note , in addition to the usual list of appointments . |
| 29 | The show was given before an invited audience of some 1,200 music fans each week , and as a visiting newspaperman I was afforded special treatment . |
| 30 | It was made clear to a friend of mine who was dying that he was not wanted on the ward , not through words but by the minimum care he was given after an unsuccessful operation and the refusal of any doctor to speak to him . |