Example sentences of "[adj] was [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was to support your long term development work as well as emergency and disaster relief . |
| 2 | This was to remain his only setting of English words . |
| 3 | This was to use his old friends of 216 Squadron to resupply his force by landing their Bombays in the desert . |
| 4 | But I was married with a baby then , and , in 1949 , this was considered my first duty . |
| 5 | As a Monk of the Abbey of Bec in France he made a study of architecture and this was to make him one of the foremost architects of his age . |
| 6 | The act of faith consisted of believing that the visible contained hidden secrets , that to study the visible was to learn something more than could be seen in a glance . |
| 7 | While the Chancellor was delivering his speech , prices were heading upwards and the FT-SE 100 was nearing its all-time peak of 2737.8 . |
| 8 | While the Second Crusade was dragging on , Richard 's father Henry II was consolidating his dynastic empire and England was in a state of civil war — which explains why no English king had yet appeared personally in the crusades . |
| 9 | Vatican II was to prove them correct . |
| 10 | The first task that faced the Government after the publication of Sandys ' White Paper of 1957 was to convince its European allies , the United States , and the Commonwealth , that nuclear weapons were a valid substitute for manpower , and that the proposed reductions in British forces deployed overseas would not increase world instability . |
| 11 | Their intimate conversations were usually by phone — and late at night , while Diana was away from Highgrove , and Camilla 's brigadier husband , Andrew , 52 was leading his largely-separate life in London and Aldershot , Hants . |
| 12 | Sir Charles Morrison , Mr Simon Parker-Bowles , and Norman Squires , and his wife , the latter was enjoying her first visit to London ! |
| 13 | ‘ A man at Railfreight International was doing his best but someone along the line at York said it was too much hassle . |
| 14 | In the remaining 11 provinces , M-19 was to present its own list of candidates . |
| 15 | But in the final analysis , the thing that used to make me happy was making me miserable , so I just had to get out . ’ |
| 16 | It was her perceptions of her kingdom which differed so crucially both from those of earlier kings of Scotland ( and , indeed , of her son James VI , who as James I was to infuriate his English subjects by his insistent interest in Scotland , and by his belief that his importance lay not in being king of England but in being a leading European monarch ) , and from those of her subjects . |
| 17 | He came to England aged ten years old and at seventeen was taking his higher school certificate in physics and hoping to study medicine as a Major scholar at King 's College . |
| 18 | Their correct address is 6 Stassinos Street , Larnaca , but whilst I was there their Cessna 172 was having its annual and they had no other four-seaters to offer , only Cessna 152s . |
| 19 | THE oldest Briton alive was celebrating her 115th birthday today … with a tasty fry-up and a stiff drink . |
| 20 | The impact on the Germans was immediate ; from this moment , said the Reichs Archives , ‘ began the flanking fire on the ravines and roads north of Douaumont that was to cause us such severe casualties . ’ |
| 21 | Erm and that was using their own U S A er catapult . |
| 22 | There were times when Blackadder allowed himself to see clearly that he would end his working life , that was to say his conscious thinking life , in this task , that all his thoughts would have been another man 's thoughts , all his work another man 's work . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'd like to live somewhere nice , that was called something nice , ’ she said . |
| 24 | Then a Rate 1 back onto 210 and descend towards the pilot ; the sun was low and that was causing me some problems ; seventy knots , no flaps in case I had to move fast , 100 feet — hold it . |
| 25 | And when I daydream of its beauty I think , too , of the people I met on Koraloona , of Doc Reid , the eccentric , wayward medic who first taught me about the island ; Bill Robins , the captain of the Mantela when our ship was attacked , and who before that was to become my first real friend ; Jason Purvis , the starving beachcomber and would-be great novelist who at last did achieve a kind of fame ; Paula Reece , the beautiful American with cold , appraising eyes who so loved the island — and several of its free and happy inhabitants . |
| 26 | Was it Rabbi Moishe 's imminent departure to Palestine that was making him more withdrawn than usual ? |
| 27 | At a time when DEA Nicosia was so frenetically overextended in so many sensitive areas , he needed to stay close to Hurley , and the key to that was to make himself useful . |