Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] was [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The electricity between them was becoming unbearable , their light-hearted words so obviously hiding something deeper . |
| 2 | The most interesting thing for me was walking alone and quietly in the forest and listening to the birds singing , watching them make their nest and feed their chicks . |
| 3 | As far as Humphreys is concerned , firms which occupy the high ground in executive search are not necessarily limited in the variety , volume or type of search work that can be undertaken ; for example , Tyzack 's recent work includes finding the chairman of London Transport , looking simultaneously for three chief executives for an international trading company in the Far East , Europe and the US ( none of whom was to earn less than US$450 000 ) , searching for the chairman of the Monopolies & Mergers Commission , tracking down the chief executive of a building society and the MD of a conglomerate which , during the search , was defending itself against likely take-over bids . |
| 4 | The marriage produced four sons and three daughters , the youngest of whom was born seven months after her husband 's death , at the age of forty-one , in the influenza epidemic of 1918 . |
| 5 | A part of me was do terrified , that I did n't have anything to lose when my turn came , which is why I refused what they wanted to do to me . |
| 6 | And a short while before that , while one of them was getting some tools or something from the van , a car drove past quite slowly as if the driver was looking for somewhere . |
| 7 | Considering each member of the series of hypothetical Ks connecting the human eye to no eye at all , is it plausible that every one of them was made available by random mutation of its predecessor ? |
| 8 | From now on , she would touch him in any way she pleased , even when neither of them was feeling sexy , because she would still be feeling loving — for as long as the affair lasted . |
| 9 | Indeed erm I can say this now er that at that time , unknown to the top management of I was buying large quantities of leather from my old firm it into the town , right past the front door of my old offices which were now the hea the local headquarters of our and selling them , literally , within sight of the building that used to be the place where I operated from on their behalf . |
| 10 | I was breathing and I could hear sort of I was thinking first of all it was coming from , you know somewhere outside like somebody |
| 11 | My sister , however , kindly kept him informed of my whereabouts , and he replied in two letters , the first of which was dated 30 November 1940 : The second was dated 27 May 1942 : |
| 12 | The British Museum 's collection , much of which was collected last century or in the early half of this century , was shown by TL to contain some twenty forgeries , most of which had , in recent years , been suspected to be modern . |
| 13 | As de Groot ( 1983 ) reports , 90 per cent of the lad area was declared a national park in 1959 and the Charles Darwin Research Station was established in 1960 on Santa Cruz Island , the aim of which was to undertake scientific research and to begin a programme of goat eradication . |
| 14 | This group then went on to set up the Teifi Valley Economic and Social Regeneration Project ( TVESRP ) , the aim of which was to undertake more projects which would create employment in that part of Dyfed . |
| 15 | This type of inspection chamber may also be fitted with a ventilator with a hinged mica flap — the idea of which was to let fresh air into the drains but not let foul air out . |
| 16 | In addition it made some recommendations to BRAC , one of which was to encourage BRAC to make a greater effort to cooperate with the local village practitioners . |
| 17 | Extension services were set up to focus upon a target population of every couple , the wife of which was aged 15–44 years , backed up by medical services and financial incentives to adopters . |
| 18 | The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland , the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants and the Institute of Taxation all attacked the length and complexity of the bill , much of which was considered unnecessary . |
| 19 | The LCAC advice was produced in April , the effect of which was to reject any extension for rights of audience for the CPS and other employed lawyers and the Advisory Committee concluded that the Law Society 's application was inadequate in certain respects . |
| 20 | There were four nurses ' rooms each of which was to contain one bedstead , a flock bed , pillow and bolster and two blankets , two pairs of sheets and two pillow-cases ; the porter 's room was similarly furnished . |
| 21 | Denis noticed that his uncle , sitting about three seats ahead of him was coughing more than usual , and glaring openly at the briars either side of him . |
| 22 | The Cathedral apse provides a bastion in the city walls and this part of it was built 1088–91 . |
| 23 | No thought of the future , whether it was to be spent in jail or exile or even in restored fortune — no thought of it was to mar those living moments as they were given to her . |
| 24 | The existence of the tape has been known for months and a copy of it was made available to a newspaper many weeks ago . |
| 25 | None of it was made any easier by the fact that all the songs were in complicated French and to be able to sing them it helped to understand them . |
| 26 | Now I love the Labour Party and a lot of what was said this morning was painful . |
| 27 | But inevitably , the authorities regained control by force , it was a foretaste of what was to happen three months later in Tiananmen Square . |
| 28 | Everyone was glued to their seats in anticipation of what was to happen next . |
| 29 | She flinched , her head moving slowly from side to side , but more in denial of what was coming next than in answer to his question . |
| 30 | When I walked into that church hall I was unaware of what was to come next . |