Example sentences of "[art] [noun] was [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The porter was expecting them and let Maxim park in an awkward position on the forecourt pavement . |
| 2 | The response was to push him off or to move away or no response at all . |
| 3 | ‘ The response was to lower our cost base and increase efficiency levels . |
| 4 | When the flap of the tent was disturbed it began to shudder , but hunger was now so powerful a force in its life that it could not bring itself to leave the stench of the kill . |
| 5 | Right , the story 's building up to a sort of crescendo erm the the Sanhedrin was saying he heard him say I will tear down this temple which men have made and after three days I will build one that is not made by men with our hindsight , with our knowledge of what went on . |
| 6 | Slowly , the NME was alienating its natural constituents , the reasonably liberal and informed rock fan . |
| 7 | The Prince was watching his face . |
| 8 | His transactions with his fellows began to lose their artificiality and it was generally admitted that the Prince was losing his rough edges . |
| 9 | The swing of the hurricane was bringing them back into the eye of the storm . |
| 10 | The other thing — and it was this , he averred , that led to his downfall — was that the wizard was covering his eyes with one hand . |
| 11 | Woodlice were miniature armadillos ; tomato-coloured mites scampered on the walls as if the brick was burning their feet ; herds of striped and chequered snails glued up their doorways each autumn ; and sluggish , fragile caterpillars , irritatingly , mummified themselves during the one interesting period of their lives . |
| 12 | The lieutenant was leading him away . |
| 13 | What did do the trick was getting its staff to ring the creditor every 30 seconds for an entire day , then beginning again at eight the following morning . |
| 14 | The trick was to portray one 's chief opponent as sectional , driven by class envy , and a danger to social and economic stability , and thereby to provoke a defensive coalition against him . |
| 15 | The trick was to get them all the same size . |
| 16 | Another , more understandable , view was that there was not a lot of it about and the trick was to get your hands on it . |
| 17 | Once he 'd achieved erection the trick was to keep it up without coming but without losing rigidity . |
| 18 | What we sought to do , in terms of Community competence , in the discussions was to extend it in areas where we thought it was appropriate and to define it more adequately than it has been defined in the past in order to prevent , as far as it is possible to prevent it , that element of creeping competence that so offends many people in this country . |
| 19 | ‘ It was getting dark , the fog was thickening and the tide was turning which made it even more awkward , ’ said Insp Cammish . |
| 20 | When the watch was started they would have fifty-five seconds to move clear . |
| 21 | It too , however , would soon make way to allow the changes necessary if the brewery was to take its place in the modern world . |
| 22 | One of the Pressmen was doing his own bit of asset-stripping as his eyes roved intimately over her body . |
| 23 | The snake was biding its time . |
| 24 | The alienation of king and archbishop gave added significance to long-standing grievances at a time when by protecting Eardwulf 's enemies the archbishop was allying himself against the king . |
| 25 | He said they were there the whisky was flowing you know hypocrites ! |
| 26 | The numbers attending fell short of expectations ; nonetheless the CP was pursuing its campaign to recruit 1,000,000 members in an attempt to persuade the government to hold a general election . |
| 27 | In this case the seller will not be in breach of the terms implied by section 12 provided that before the contract was made he disclosed to the buyer the existence of the lien . |
| 28 | In the pub that evening the hero of the hour was asked what his French friends had said . |
| 29 | ‘ Some people were saying one thing , the chairman was telling me another . |
| 30 | Until the election was called he has had to fit his campaigning around a job as senior business development officer for North Tyneside council . |