Example sentences of "[noun] was [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were , of course , many very clear signs that organised religion was feeling the effects of rapid social change , and this served to reinforce the general philosophical position adopted by people such as Mary Whitehouse . |
| 2 | Detroit was paving the way for Mueller to take over and run the whole bloody show from America . |
| 3 | Wally was awarded the job for his bravery in receiving extensive brain surgery after years of concussing himself on the crossbar . |
| 4 | As this house was structurally sound the remedy was to do the work one room at a time . ’ |
| 5 | His remedy was to divide the garden with a wicker arch into two sections , to create an illusion of space . |
| 6 | The remedy was to separate the essence of national life ( a language and a culture ) from the organization of economic activity , and embody it in a separate institution . |
| 7 | The steward was not left to mourn that his bottles found no custom : there was treating and return treating , and one humble Highlander who could sing Gaelic songs was made the sink into which was poured the spirits bought by sundry odd pence ; and , to the satisfaction of those who deem it a noble accomplishment the filling a man drunk , this Celt was brought into that pitiable condition , and manifested the power of the spirits over his brain in rather a curious way , — he was for kissing all round . |
| 8 | The objective of this association was to promote the adoption of the instruction of deaf children not through the use of sign language or any method that used it as then prevailed in many countries including the U.S.A. and Britain , but through oral methods to the total exclusion of sign language altogether . |
| 9 | ‘ The first time , ’ he said , ‘ I was standing at Sandown airport and told this man that Frank Spencer was flying the plane that was coming down to land . |
| 10 | The Labour MP Dr Jack Cunningham was touring the complex during the nuclear spillage , but the nuclear company failed to notify him of the incident . |
| 11 | Giles recalls one remark when Montini was criticizing the De Gasperi Christian Democratic government for inaction while denying that he was doing anything of the kind ( a typical Montini ploy ) : ‘ In political questions the Church has to be general , just as in religious matters she can not afford not to be particular ’ ( ibid. , p. 109 ) . |
| 12 | The ‘ I Should Be So Yucky ’ headlines returned as though by becoming more glamorous Kylie was jettisoning the secret of her success — her ordinariness . |
| 13 | Erm what 's his name Alan Titchmarsh was doing the interviewing . |
| 14 | Of course , one of the effects of these repeated cautions was to link the idea of ‘ accident ’ and ‘ water ’ in |
| 15 | The deal was to finance the power station 's gas and steam turbines which will become operational in early 1993 . |
| 16 | The deal was given the go-ahead by the Department of Trade and Industry in spite of protests to the European Commission and the Office of Fair Trading by BA 's competitors . |
| 17 | In future the advice of the Lord Chief Justice and the trial judge was to be obtained immediately after sentence , whether the life sentence was mandatory or discretionary , but in the latter case the judicial view of the tariff was to determine the date of the first review by the Parole Board machinery . |
| 18 | Schrödinger 's original reason for putting forward this thought experiment was to demonstrate the folly , as he then believed , of the quantum theory : clearly it was ridiculous to think of a cat being neither dead nor alive — or , as an obvious corollary , both dead and alive at the same time . |
| 19 | The next phase of the experiment was to test the ability of the virus to produce immunity to the hepatitis antigen — something that the antigen on its own is not very good at . |
| 20 | The purpose of the experiment was to train the dog to salivate at the sound of the tuning fork without food being present . |
| 21 | Like all royal children his chief function in his parents ' eyes was to undertake the role of a pawn in the diplomatic game . |
| 22 | Fierce Eyes was whirling the lure around his head . |
| 23 | A blunt-speaking Yorkshireman was guarding the door of the barn where the pie was cooking when these men from the ministry approached and demanded admission . |
| 24 | At that time the senior inservice adviser was to convene the meetings ( though this was soon delegated to others and " some sort of rotating role " would be devised to fill the chair . |
| 25 | By the last week of April the task force was nearing the Falklands . |
| 26 | To land a large , lightly armed force was dodging the realities of amphibious warfare when the difficulty of landing supporting weapons must be faced squarely . |
| 27 | The original idea behind Compacts was to redress the balance , to provide access to quality jobs for the people who lived next door . |
| 28 | However , the Supreme Soviet was to decide the strength and composition of armed forces and Interior Ministry troops , while the President was given the right to take decisions on the use of Interior Ministry troops in emergency situations . |
| 29 | On Aug 28 , Croatian television reported that the President was reducing the number of ministries from20 to 14 . |
| 30 | In Moscow , Yeltsin spokesmen said the president was awaiting the outcome of Mr Kozyrev 's US visit before deciding whether to ask Mr Clinton to transfer their planned Vancouver summit meeting next month to Moscow . |