Example sentences of "[conj] was [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fielding Goodney , with all kinds of developments : a " dream script " had come through from Doris Arthur , Caduta Mass and Butch Beausoleil had put their signatures on the line , Spunk wanted in , Lorne wanted out — Lorne Guyland was going crazy , or was staying that way . |
| 2 | No trace has yet been found of the French gallery owner Basmadjian who disappeared or was kidnapped two years ago in the former Soviet Union . |
| 3 | Easy though it is to criticize Positive Images ' theoretical short-comings , the fact is that this was almost the only group in the country that was addressing these issues at all . |
| 4 | Walter Bagehot 's The English Constitution , published in 1867 , constituted a classic description of a Constitution that had not previously been so well sketched , yet a Constitution that was to undergo significant modifications as a result of the passage that very year of the Second Reform Act . |
| 5 | I can tell you that that this area is not far from the area that was hit last month , also in helicopter raids , by forces . |
| 6 | Secondly , he devised the beginnings of a new mechanics that was to replace Aristotelian mechanics and with reference to which the mechanical arguments against Copernicus were defused . |
| 7 | The car , an ancient Pontiac taxi that was painted six shades of yellow and purple , stopped outside the twin piles of broken coral that were Bonefish 's proud gateposts . |
| 8 | erm but that specifically is one of the developments that is has had to be the cut with the budget that was made last month . |
| 9 | After being placed in quicklime to dry , they were steamed for twelve hours — a process that was repeated several times . |
| 10 | This machine here is doing the work that was done last year by twelve men . ’ |
| 11 | Such an aspiration prevailed among some geographers at least partly unaware of first , the revival of interest in human activity ; secondly , the focus in physical geography research upon the magnitude of human impact ; and thirdly , the hazard research that was facilitating closer links between physical and human geography although these links did not impress Johnston ( 1983c ) . |
| 12 | The new chairman will be putting into action the firm 's $4m internal study of international strategy that was developed last year . |
| 13 | Back in London , in February , at Central Hall Westminster , a movement that was to provide fertile soil for his work was launched . |
| 14 | Meanwhile a young infantry soldier who had fought in the trenches and had been taken prisoner of war was putting the finishing touches to a philosophical treatise that was to bring traditional philosophy crashing down about its ears . |
| 15 | The Chipmunk is also of interest , its previous identity suggesting it was recently acquired from the MoD but not so — it is an ex Army Air Corps example that was sold many years ago after storage at Kemble and has been kept as a spares source at the gliding site at Currock Hill , Northumberland , for at least fifteen years . |
| 16 | Whilst the one that did the buying was predominantly PC-based the one that was bought used Macintoshes widely . |
| 17 | The accounts reveal the effects the four long years had on people who lived , or failed to live , through the war that was to end all wars . |
| 18 | So but but on the other hand if you 've got somebody I suppose a firm that was doing that sort of work and they |
| 19 | In fact , in fact , tt it was a regular army division er from Italy that was doing this job . |
| 20 | The Minister of State spoke about overcrowding and the cost of adding a supervision requirement to the new sentence ; with Mayhew , in a phrase that was to gain increasing currency on the Conservative benches , pronouncing that whereas a great many people who get a suspended sentence , and their friends , think that they have got away with their crime , the effect of ‘ a short , sharp and I hope , nasty taste of prison ’ would linger on . |
| 21 | The social and economic changes of the nineteenth century were often dramatic and far reaching ; but they were sporadic in incidence , a characteristic that was to produce economic imbalance and to underlie civil war . |
| 22 | So one thing that was mentioned this morning was somebody wanted to be able to be more persuasive in order to put a point of view across . |
| 23 | The white paper that was published some months ago indicates I think , very clearly , the kind of commitments that we have and the way in which we are meeting those commitments . |
| 24 | The community charge provides that incentive , and our new local government Bill that was published last Friday provides local authorities with a way of so doing . ’ |
| 25 | However , as it now seemed certain that the Company would be taken over by the new authority that was to unify public transport in London , before very long , these projects were left in abeyance . |
| 26 | oh where he was working I do n't know , it was Ron that was saying last Sunday when I was there |
| 27 | It was a friendship that was to have terrible consequences . |
| 28 | The New Stone Age saw the introduction of an occupation that was to have vital importance for Denmark thereafter : agriculture . |
| 29 | Once she had thought he was coming in her direction and her heart had begun to pump with excitement but he had walked straight past , heading for the bar that was selling soft drinks only ( with a crate of beer hidden under the counter for the benefit of the band ) . |
| 30 | Catalonia , like Valencia , showed contrasts of progress and stagnation ; as in the Basque country an industrial civilization grew up surrounded by a conservative peasantry , a division that was to determine political alignments in Catalonia . |