Example sentences of "[adj] was [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The moderate section of the FLNC , which announced on Jan. 8 that it was freezing all military action because this was alienating the Corsican people , attributed these murders to Mafia-style property speculators . |
| 2 | In a similar fashion it was becoming common for quite trivial legal disputes to go to the papal Curia on appeal : this was to transform the very nature of papal jurisdiction and authority , and is a striking example of the cosmopolitan links and assumptions of twelfth-century culture . |
| 3 | This was to mark the tenth anniversary of Roman 's company , with publicity to reflect the wide international market he appeared to operate in . |
| 4 | This was confirmed the following morning , and that evening , not devoid of relief , we went back to our own beds . |
| 5 | This was to celebrate the fiftieth birthday of the Marquess of Tavistock , who nearly two years ago was desperately ill , following a mammoth stroke . |
| 6 | The traditional requirement that there be reasonable grounds for taking the proceedings was accepted , and to this was added the subsidiary test that it must be reasonable to employ a legal representative . |
| 7 | This was to accompany the first showing in Europe of the musical Narnia , which played in All Hallows by the Tower . |
| 8 | This was to avoid the difficult and genuinely contentious question and to focus instead on a secondary matter . |
| 9 | This was to prevent the fine gravel from finding its way through the undergravel plate . |
| 10 | Although some other stick makers were bigger , this was to become the longest surviving stick manufacturer in the Stroud area . |
| 11 | The UN called for a ceasefire but before this was agreed the Dutch secured all major ports and the authority of the republic was confined to a mere one-third of Java , centred on Jogjakarta . |
| 12 | Chapman favoured a red and white sock to match the club colours , but when this was tried the red dye ran when the socks were washed . |
| 13 | This was to establish the new pattern of global authority in the post-cold war world — under the aegis of the United States , with or without the cloak of the United Nations sanction . |
| 14 | Corporate entertaining was considered the single most effective marketing technique by 14 percent of businesses . |
| 15 | A proposal for an internationally supervised ceasefire put forward by the FMLN on Nov. 22 was rejected the following day by Cristiani , who , however , offered on Dec. 10 to renew peace talks . |
| 16 | The results were overwhelming : ‘ So much was sold the first night it was almost scary ’ , recalls Gerald Stiebel of Rosenberg and Stiebel , Inc . |
| 17 | In England , Edward III was to make the fullest use of the military capabilities of his sons , in particular of Edward , Black Prince , whose employment in the war stressed the importance to the family of their father 's claim to the French throne . |
| 18 | Henry worked under his father at the abbey from 1495 , but from 1501 to 1506 was building the Observant friary in Richmond , Surrey , by contract along with a brickmaker , Robert Nevill , and Thomas Binks , carpenter . |
| 19 | Even before the collapse of France in June 1940 was to provide the Vietnamese communists with their golden opportunity , the Sixth Plenum meeting in November 1939 was looking towards national liberation in the foreseeable future as France 's efforts and resources were obviously being diverted to maintain her position in Europe . |
| 20 | The effect of these was to transfer the common land to private ownership ; the dispossessed commoners were given small pockets of land or other compensation , but these were not necessarily equivalent to the rights they had lost . |
| 21 | Although the decent instinct of many was to support the weaker side in a wholly legitimate quest for independence , their public utterances , alas , were to support the side which in their view was the more important to British interests . |
| 22 | Objective number one , then , in Nizan 's mind after 1916 was to avoid the terrible fate of his father . |
| 23 | A temporary ceasefire agreed on March 11 was broken the following day . |
| 24 | The motive behind much late nineteenth-century visiting was to put the social classes back in touch with one another . |
| 25 | At the start of August the former was telling the outside world of Russia 's quick recovery , just when the latter was still being very pessimistic . |
| 26 | In his last years even Louis XIV was giving the Dutch republic the treatment in this respect which it demanded . |
| 27 | When family 1 was detected the elder brother was under orthopaedic management for his abnormal gait but Duchenne muscular dystrophy had not been suspected . |
| 28 | The first was called The Golden Grove — or a Manual of Daily Prayers and Litanies . |
| 29 | The first was to complete the new science block next to the existing school in a design which mirrors its Grade 11 listed architecture . |
| 30 | The first was to make the six teachers more acceptable . |