Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [verb] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only last month the French navy intercepted and seized another Greenpeace ship which tried to land to establish a ‘ peace camp ’ on the main test island of Mururoa atoll , where more tests were due to begin next month . |
| 2 | Talks between the two communities were due to begin next month but Mr Clerides has said he intends to seek a postponement . |
| 3 | These were followed or interspersed by a windswept Starmer-Smith standing on the touchline , microphone in hand , sporting a selection from his extensive wardrobe of scarves and neckties , and promising delights which were sure to come next week but which had unaccountably failed to materialise this week . |
| 4 | Juan Atkins gave all the major Motor City movers their initial recording breaks — Anderson , May and Fowlkes were all released first on Metroplex . |
| 5 | The British troops were powerless to stop last night 's shootings after the convoy was held up near the Bosnian town of Novi Travnik by a crowd of women and children . |
| 6 | If anything , TV should enhance the value of those unspoken moments so rendingly charted in this production , and it will preserve three near-definitive performances which too few people were able to see last year either at Stratford or the Young Vic : operate singer White 's sweet-faced Moor , shiningly simple acting about which many London critics were unduly patronising ; McKellen 's sweaty and furious Iago ; and Zoe Wanamaker 's unforgettable Emilia , a belated voice of conscience and wisdom in a household destroyed by passion . |
| 7 | The seven-plus immediately came under renewed fire after the results showed just a slight improvement in spelling , reading and maths and a 12 per cent drop in writing skills since the tests were first held last year . |
| 8 | The franchise proposals were first published last October . |
| 9 | But London offered too many hostages to fortune at a time when all foreigners were suspect , and the police were inclined to arrest first and ask questions afterwards . |
| 10 | The team Forest were obliged to field last night , because of injuries , were tailor-made for a game Luton simply had to win . |
| 11 | Construction of the £2.3 million Stonehouse bypass in Lanarkshire , which was due to start next month . |
| 12 | The final task he set himself for his Presidency , which was due to end next year , was to weed out of the Regatta calendar all the rowing courses which could be made unfair by the wind . |
| 13 | So devastated were they when she announced that the term was due to end last week for a long Easter break that they begged her to let them continue . |
| 14 | He took his case to an industrial tribunal which was due to resume next week . |
| 15 | An industrial tribunal hearing his case was due to resume next week . |
| 16 | Unless she was prepared to take second place in his life . |
| 17 | Lee is even more Machiavellian : ‘ It is a safe bet that there are those in the Pakistan dressing-room who believe Javed Miandad was wrong to bat first , ’ he declares boldly on Friday morning . |
| 18 | Tracy Edwards , the British skipper of the Jordanian-sponsored all-women crew on Maiden , was delighted to finish 20th ( 18th on handicap ) at midday on Saturday . |
| 19 | With all the rain emptying itself over the Feyenoord Stadium it was hard to put last night 's match in the context of a World Cup which is more likely to present problems of heat than waterproofing . |
| 20 | And realised that she was n't quite sure what she was supposed to do next . |
| 21 | He had never heard of anyone actually reaching the German trenches , so he was n't sure what he was supposed to do next , and despite all the training he still found it hard to shoot on the run . |
| 22 | The dispute was likely to escalate last night after the principal , Dr David Kennedy , accused the union of operating hidden agenda and Jack Dale , lecturers ' union leader , accused the principal of irresponsible scaremongering . |
| 23 | The strongest link between the UPV and illegal acts of violence came with a series of bombings in 1969 which , ironically , the Protestant Telegraph was quick to blame first on the IRA and then on the Eire government . |
| 24 | It was better to go first from choice . |
| 25 | Alain Prost , France 's triple world champion , had moved in and Mansell was unwilling to play second fiddle . |
| 26 | He came back full of the experience and made us all quite envious , but he was able to see first hand what went on at the business end of the oil industry and picked up some useful knowledge for future reference when dealing with the oil men . |
| 27 | And the fact that he was able to finish sixth in the 1991 Champion Hurdle confirms a telling turn of foot . |
| 28 | Peter Roberts of Kuperard , who launched the charity scheme last year , says this is enough to purchase 350 mats ( against the 90 he was able to distribute last year ) , and he is planning to hand them out in the second week of January . |
| 29 | Morley Street was beaten 16 lengths and trainer Toby Balding said : ‘ The jockeys on the fancied horses were so busy watching each other that Adrian was able to get first run and nick it . ’ |
| 30 | The family was able to buy first the supermarket in Lordship Lane — or as he calls it , ‘ Hardship Lane ’ — then a string of other stores including a wholesalers business . |