Example sentences of "was [adv] [verb] [to-vb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The year that Christ was born , for example , was duly marked to help the onlooker bridge time long past . |
| 2 | The official receiver was duly ordered to exploit the film . |
| 3 | Moreover , the method was successfully used to clone a PCR-fragment of the dissimilatory nitrite reductase gene of Azospirillum brasilense Sp7 ( 7 ) . |
| 4 | Although development work on this discovery continued , it was a process called Lime Soda softening which was commercially developed to overcome the problems of hard water . |
| 5 | If the years 1829–49 show Beecroft 's genius for winning the friendship and respect of Africans , the period 1849–54 reveals him as a forceful interventionist , determined to establish British paramountcy over what was eventually destined to become the colony of Nigeria . |
| 6 | The NCOAP began by pressing a universalist demand but was eventually forced to accept a compromise which , although in line with working-class notions of respectability , did not reflect the absolute material wants of the many . |
| 7 | The wood was loosely stacked to provide the rabbits with temporary cover until such time as they enlarged the burrows themselves . |
| 8 | Also the Transport Authority was expressly empowered to require the Executive to provide a service at a cost the Executive considered to be too high , so long as the Transport Authority provided the necessary additional cost . |
| 9 | The Earl of Bothwell , nephew of the earl who had done James 's mother so much harm , was what today would be called a tearaway : he revelled in leading Border raids , once broke into the Edinburgh Tolbooth to free one of his men from custody , and was widely believed to hold the office of chief warlock to various covens of witches . |
| 10 | Repayment could be timed to smooth out the boom-slump cycle which was widely expected to follow the war . |
| 11 | In the late Middle Ages , symbolism was widely used to express a feeling of belonging to a people ; likewise institutions , such as monarchy , played an important part in creating a sense of national identity ; while the writing of history was deliberately fostered to encourage a feeling which the single word ‘ roots ’ will convey to a twentieth-century reader . |
| 12 | Donna McKemsley was so determined to become a pilot that while her friends were playing with dolls she was drawing and memorizing cockpit instrument panels . |
| 13 | The key question here — and it is not easy to answer — is whether Edinburgh , by employing Women in the period from the 1870s to the 1900s , was attracting more work than it otherwise would have from London and other publishers ; or whether it was merely managing to prevent the work leaving Edinburgh altogether for cheaper printing centres . |
| 14 | I was merely going to ask the Chief why he sent for me this morning . ’ |
| 15 | This was sufficiently pronounced to offset the drop in the oil import bill following the recent price collapse . |
| 16 | Field-work took place over a twelve-month period between 1987 and 1988 , and was sufficiently prolonged to avoid the criticism which brief ‘ smash-andgrab ’ ethnographies often deserve . |
| 17 | Lucie was all set to ignore the command — to go on doing what he was doing . |
| 18 | ‘ I was all set to do a solo record for Shrapnel , but a couple of months before I was due to do it , Mike Varney introduced me to Jason , who was only 16 at the time . |
| 19 | BOY soprano David Brennan was all set to give the performance of a lifetime — when his voice broke . |
| 20 | This business was all set to flood the club scene with Ecstasy capsules worth around 25 million . ’ |
| 21 | Andy says he was all set to get a place in the final until he was shunted on the second-last lap . |
| 22 | It was expected that the Congress , which was constitutionally bound to ratify the agreement , would vigorously criticize it , given the excessive social cost implied in the re-payment terms . |
| 23 | Course we was feverishly trying to chip the bricks and things off the horse then how , what had happened because we 'd got two stalls for them , and there was pigs in the one side and the horse in the other one , but of course when we eventually came to it , or they eventually came to the horse , he was dead , been killed standing up there like , you know and er , poor old pigs was all dead as well and as I said , about a hundred fell and two or three would been blown sky high . |
| 24 | Although they could afford to pay real money for USL , they were well aware that it was losing money and AT&T was highly motivated to make the sale . |
| 25 | Mildred did her best to arrange the bucket hanging from the back , but it was obviously going to spill the minute they took off , she put the bucket back onto the window-sill , climbed onto the broom first , and then settled the bucket in her lap . |
| 26 | You had to keep stirring all the time and , after an hour or so , the milk set solid and then was gently cut to allow the whey to flow out , leaving the curd . |
| 27 | He was entirely suited to enjoy the hospitality at the Castle , to relish Sir John 's venison and cranberry sauce and compliment him on the beauty of his larches . |
| 28 | It occurred to me that my doctor was only employed to treat the symptoms of our health problems in the same way as our landlord was only treating the symptoms of the dampness . |
| 29 | The European Parliament ( EP ) was only empowered to issue an opinion on them but |
| 30 | He felt Simon was only trying to prolong the visit . |