Example sentences of "[det] was [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was ruled invalid by the Georgian Supreme Soviet Presidium on the following day , on the grounds that only ethnic Ossete deputies had taken part in the session and that its conduct had been " unconstitutional " . |
| 2 | All this was to combat racism in all its manifestations . |
| 3 | What discussions took place before this was made law ? |
| 4 | This was made plain at a meeting with the Ledingham-Smiths . |
| 5 | While this was taking place , the deputy mayor spoke about the tradition and said he was sure Councillor Roland Simpson , who was about to take up his second year of office , would soon be discovered . |
| 6 | This was taking place at the kitchen table . |
| 7 | All this was taking place in an empty space at the end of the world . |
| 8 | As this was taking place amid the John Birt Productions Ltd furore over tax and Armani suits , he mentioned United Response 's first accounts . |
| 9 | This was taking place on five or six nights until early mornings a week for several hours . |
| 10 | He 'd take her up and she had only her vest on and her socks , and this was getting winter time , so I thought I ca n't have that . |
| 11 | The chase which followed was captured on a takeway restuarant 's security video , this was to form part of the prosecution evidence . |
| 12 | This was causing concern over a possible acceleration in deforestation in the region as a whole . |
| 13 | ‘ Mother , it 's ten to midnight ! ’ called Sally from the doorway , and Liz , looking around the confusion she had summoned into being , the scattered earth , the scattered people , the murmuring , the singing , the clustering , thought yes , this was a party , yes , this was living rather than not living , this was permitted , this was planned disorder , this was cathartic , this was therapeutic , this was admired misrule . |
| 14 | This was kept patent with heparinised isotonic saline ( 10 units/ml 0.85% saline ) . |
| 15 | This was to take place in the headquarters ship , HMS Calliope in the dockyard . |
| 16 | The window head was decoratively designed by stone ribs into varying patterns ; this was called tracery . |
| 17 | The reckoning came with a vengeance when ‘ The kynge out of hand sent commissions to gather ye loane , this was called practisyng of the loane , which sore emptied men 's purses . ’ |
| 18 | Around this was rammed tile stemming — usually clay . |
| 19 | This was organized crime , superorganized . |
| 20 | Both the substance and the manner in which this was done throw further light on the politics of the judiciary in dealing with industrial relations . |
| 21 | Okay so we can implement it like that in hardware but the major benefit and this was done sort of like sixties sort of sixty nine seventy was to realize that you could put it into a little package like that which of course is a random access memory . |
| 22 | This was done industry by industry at SIC Class level and separately for large and small companies . |
| 23 | This was done industry by industry [ at SIC Class level ] and separately for large and small companies . |
| 24 | One element of this was teaching English as a Second Language ( ESL ) to ethnic minority workers but the two-way nature of communication was recognised in the accompanying training for management , training staff and trades unionists . |
| 25 | A simple way of doing this was to use sandstone saws like those recently employed by the Alaskan Eskimos . |
| 26 | This was served buffet style from huge urns by the head chef . |
| 27 | The Third Earl of Egremont , like Lord Ashburnham , took an almost daily part in the detailed management of his estates , building model dairies , attracting his tenants with favourable long leases and using , by 1810 , one of the first threshing machines in Sussex , although this was to cause trouble later . |
| 28 | The lawyer said that the reason for this was to provide justification for opening fire on a car which was not endangering anyone 's life . |
| 29 | This was to involve lesson observation , and related discussion with the class teacher ; analysis of teaching material , departmental policy documents , and student ‘ products ’ ; discussion with course planning teams ; monitoring learning outcomes and dialogue with students ; involvement with INSET activities and dialogue with outsiders ; and commissioning , training , monitoring and debriefing co-observers . |
| 30 | This was to change assessment of advanced courses from a system driven by external examinations to one in which assessment is driven by the nature of the outcomes in the course and can assess the range of outcomes desirable in vocational courses . |