Example sentences of "was [adv] [verb] [conj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were therefore unable to ensure that justice was duly done because Amanieu de Fossat was protecting him . |
| 2 | Japanese officials noticed that politics , not trade , was mostly discussed when Mr Delors visited Washington in April . |
| 3 | For Wasps , there was no chance of making a recovery — even though their duck was eventually broken when Rick Brevant passed to Robert Forbes with 13 minutes remaining — Pandas running on to complete a comfortable victory with three goals in 90 seconds . |
| 4 | But the idea was eventually sunk when Scarborough Council did not back the idea , which was designed to give the shipyard a new lease of life . |
| 5 | It was widely believed that North Korea had the capacity — or was on the verge of achieving it — to produce a nuclear weapon . |
| 6 | It was widely believed that Paul Muite would be persuaded by younger members of the party to become the fourth FORD candidate . |
| 7 | It was widely believed that Eleanor Coade had invented a new process for making artificial stone . |
| 8 | It was widely assumed that motion pictures would be sexually suggestive and probably explicit , the whole tone seemed secular and irresponsible , and few doubted that children and the weak-minded were being pointed towards crime and degeneracy . |
| 9 | IT was widely assumed that Sir Lawrie Barratt was working for nothing when he re-took the reins of his housebuilding empire last summer . |
| 10 | Occasionally it was conceded that New York had elements of sophistication but it was widely appreciated that film tastes and standards were determined in the populous and philistine Midwest . |
| 11 | It was widely considered that US co-operation was essential to the success of any initiative on global warming , since one-fifth of all " greenhouse gases " ( carbon dioxide , chlorofluorocarbons or CFCs , nitrous oxide , methane and surface ozone ) were produced in the USA . |
| 12 | Geography was somewhat manipulated as Mr. Spencer 's empire included the Metropolitan Electric Tramways , the London United Tramways , the South Metropolitan and Croydon Corporation Tramways , while Mr. Thomas had the L.C.C . |
| 13 | The look that McAllister gave him when she said this was so killing that Dr Neil decided to remove temptation by removing himself . |
| 14 | By 1980 though , the US contribution had fallen to about one sixth , America 's day of being an oil exporter was long gone and oil dependence on the Middle East had begun . |
| 15 | OWING to an error in a report supplied by a news agency in last night 's Echo , it was wrongly stated that Mr Bryan Williams , of Wye Street , Walton , Liverpool , had been found guilty of conspiracy to rob and sentenced to four years in jail . |
| 16 | As usual , pace dominated the bowling , both in the Cup and in the A team series , and it was only fitting that Kenneth Benjamin should have been the latest addition to the Test attack . |
| 17 | Order was only restored when manager Bence doused them in a bucket of cold Bovril . |
| 18 | Bates was only playing because £100,000 signing Shane Westley was cup-tied after playing for Wolves . |
| 19 | Bates was only playing because £100,000-signing Shane Westley was cup-tied after playing for Wolves . |
| 20 | Keelan was suddenly gone and Nurse Lambert was in her place . |
| 21 | Important steps in reforming the structure of the economy during June included the launch of a mass privatization scheme , while the position of Yegor Gaidar , who was closely associated with the reform programme , was apparently strengthened when President Boris Yeltsin named him as Prime Minister on June 15 . |
| 22 | It was soon realised that media reporting of crowd disorder boosted the sales of newspapers — a matter of importance in an increasingly competitive industry . |
| 23 | Coleraine reduced the arrears when Cahal Deery shot home from an angle , but the home side 's two-goal advantage was soon restored when Jason Gilmore turned inside the box to fire into the next . |
| 24 | I am not sure how the law-breaking campaign is working or whether other companies would have joined B & Q , but the chief executive of my council felt that he was not in a position to commit the poll tax payers of Hull to what could have amounted to several million pounds , and a deal was finally struck that Hull city council would refrain from taking out an injunction and the cross-undertaking was therefore withdrawn . |
| 25 | The borderline between teasing and victimisation was easily crossed as Herbert Gale ( Hans Groschler ) discovered : |
| 26 | The thought was scarcely born before James Lambert himself appeared , hardly more than a shadow in the dusk , but unmistakable as he walked past the pile of kegs . |
| 27 | The 15 January deadline set by the UN was not met and Operation Desert Storm began . |
| 28 | He said he was not suggesting that Mrs Swami had tried deliberately to mislead the jury about the number of beatings . |
| 29 | Party chairman Chris Patten , who repeatedly urged caution , was not to know that Treasury forecasts of recovery were baseless . |
| 30 | ( He was not to know that Charles Olson , after next to no apprenticeship at all , would recklessly try to emulate him . ) |