Example sentences of "[verb] was [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Except that it 's more likely the man , because , you know , the child talked about him dying , but in a funny way , as if dying was another name for something else . |
| 2 | Over bacon , cabbage and wine we had admired the elegance of the line that as prison walls got lower what was really happening was that prison was not disappearing but dissolving . |
| 3 | Now that meant that there was massively increasing pressure on China 's land , and there was growing parcelization of the land and what was happening was that peasant families would of very often er produce two or three sons |
| 4 | He also on July 24 made remarks criticizing members of the UN Security Council for giving what he maintained was undue priority to the situation in Yugoslavia , which he described as a " war of the rich " . |
| 5 | But what the man did not know was that Angel One had also encompassed a darker facet in his mastery of the martial arts , namely a knowledge of ninjutsu , the deadly art of the ancient Japanese assassins from the Clan of Death — the Ninja . |
| 6 | But what the rest of the candidates did not know was that Pilger had already earmarked someone for the job — the man who had gatecrashed the capitalization-day party — Keith Sutton of the Wapping Post . |
| 7 | All I did know was that Scamp took a few steps forward into the street while stuffing home fresh cartridges . |
| 8 | What he did not know was that Chemical had run into massive internal problems . |
| 9 | One of the key techniques that Boyds wanted to encourage was deep cut or , as it 's known in the U S , extended cut . |
| 10 | They bought heroin which they reported was top quality and thought to come from Holland . |
| 11 | Councillor Ardor Deems was Galactic Minister of the Arts . |
| 12 | During practice the best time logged was twenty minutes . |
| 13 | Scalfaro had succeeded was Interior Minister in 1983-87 , and was known as a committed Catholic and anti-communist . |
| 14 | The distance involved was 90 miles in six hours , the route being in the Chichester area . |
| 15 | The mix used was two x 2 gallon buckets of building sand , one bucket of Portland cement and 250 grams of fibres — this mix is specified in the pamphlet that comes with the product . |
| 16 | Judge John Curran QC said the weapon used was some form of cap-firing pistol . |
| 17 | I need some le er the , I wanted a carton of live yoghurt I do n't think the live yoghurt I used was any good because , for a start it was fruit flavoured , no it was n't , it was natural , but it said mild flavoured |
| 18 | I do n't think the live yoghurt I used was any good because , for a start it was fruit flavoured , no it was n't it was natural , but it said mild flavoured and I do n't think it was the proper like the Greek style really live yoghurt that would have started all the fungus growing on it . |
| 19 | ABOVE The analysis of a small sample from this clay lamp by various methods , including infra-red spectroscopy , showed that the most likely fuel used was olive oil . |
| 20 | ‘ The most expensive ingredient that I used was fresh tomatoes . |
| 21 | The technique used was lazy-bed cultivation which is a form of hand cultivation . |
| 22 | But what 's more serious is that one of the phrases that he used was more people are going to suffer in cover . |
| 23 | The maximum value found was 850 g/t U within a 15 m intersection . |
| 24 | The oldest individual we found was eight years . |
| 25 | One of the first things he found was that golf is not something that can be watched that closely . |
| 26 | So widely dispersed was industrial activity that there can have been few parts of the country that did not support it in one form or another . |
| 27 | And so impressed was this man by the occasion that , having lived away from Curry Rivel for many years , he returned late in life to be re-married there — because of his cherished memories of the village in all its beauty on the day ‘ Old Benny Titford ’ was buried . |
| 28 | Oh we used to work er f er six days a week , er all day Saturdays erm eight to eight and er eight till eight at n at er eight till seven at night or er or eight till eight at erm most shifts was early , they used to have a a an hour er an hour break of a dinner time er sometimes they only used to have half an hour at night because , I mean well once you 've got er y y you was there , once you get you shift done it was no good sitting there doing for an hour and er it , it varies on what production what was wanted and how far advanced you was or how far behind you was , you know , but er the average hours was as I say was ten hours a shift that was working shift , you worked ten hours and then a break in between , ten minutes , half an hour |
| 29 | The first place that we visited was Nui Lenh forest reserve , one kilometre north of the Ben Hai river . |
| 30 | In Chic Fashions v. Jones ( C.A. , 1968 ) Lord Denning said that the police could seize , not only the items specified in the warrant , but also anything which they reasonably believed was that item , anything which would lead to the identification of the item , any other goods stolen from the victim of the offence being investigated and anything else stolen by the suspect . |