Example sentences of "was [verb] the [noun prp] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dos Santos on Oct. 10 cancelled a visit to the USA , where he was to attend the UN General Assembly , having failed to obtain high-level meetings with US politicians , and in protest at " hostile US policy " towards his government ( which remained unrecognized by the USA ) . |
| 2 | Freelancer Tihomir Tunukovic , 25 , a Croatian known as ‘ Tuna ’ , was driving the BBC armoured vehicle in a convoy when it was attacked near Travnik as fierce fighting shattered the start of a UN-brokered ‘ Week of Tranquillity ’ . |
| 3 | AN RAF plane was searching the Atlantic last night for a missing solo yachtsman . |
| 4 | I was to study the PADI five day open water course and two day advanced course . |
| 5 | The effect of the Polish Corridor was to send the East Prussian economy into an abrupt and dizzying nosedive as it lost its traditional markets for beef , grain , timber , fur , sugar-beet and alcohol . |
| 6 | Sir Leon , who was giving the Grenada annual address in London yesterday , said that German reunification was becoming inevitable . |
| 7 | To understand them it is necessary to recollect that the period immediately after the publication of Morgenthau 's book was one in which a new behaviourist wave of thinking about the social sciences was sweeping the US academic community . |