Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As far as the programme itself was concerned , she felt it was a ‘ classic example of the way in which the BBC , with its penchant for ‘ South Bank ’ religion was allowing itself to be used as a launching platform for the ‘ new morality ’ ’ . |
| 2 | This first Report was read by Professor Brian Griffiths , whose duty as Prime Minister 's adviser was to present it to Mrs Thatcher with his comments . |
| 3 | Its irresistible force was pushing everything before it . |
| 4 | And they were both agreed that the thing to do with the club was to use it for their private purposes . |
| 5 | But Platt insisted that his only interest in Diego Maradona 's old club was beating them at the weekend to boost Bari 's survival chances . |
| 6 | But Platt insisted that his only interest in Diego Maradona 's old club was beating them at the weekend to boost Bari 's survival chances . |
| 7 | By then Cameron 's mind was rousing itself from shock , there were many things he wanted to say to James , but the moment they stepped down under the massive archway of the prison they were hustled in opposite directions . |
| 8 | There is no notable deceleration , but I do n't know that my mind was recording anything but fear , nor is there any particular screech or roll , but suddenly we 're around the corner and accelerating down towards the tunnel and Jackie 's saying , ‘ You can relax now , Keith . ’ |
| 9 | Gyggle was driving me along the coast road to Brighton as he spoke . |
| 10 | Curiously , if the cider was sour , the practice was to sweeten it by shaking it with some lead shot before storing it in barrels held together by lead bands . |
| 11 | His initial intention was to publish something on Epicurus merely as an appendix to the Exercises . |
| 12 | The government 's obvious intention was to identify me as the main source of all the criticism and speculation running counter to the official line on Flight 103 and then to destroy me . |
| 13 | The intention was to reduce it to that rate which would constrain aggregate demand to grow at a rate which could be met by increases in real output . |
| 14 | These were old aims but the intention was to pursue them with greater vigour and effectiveness . |
| 15 | The snow was smothering everything in whiteness , deadening all sound . |
| 16 | The Left in British politics had never had , nor needed to have , any single clear view about the structure of secondary education : the imperative was to provide it for all , and to provide it free . |
| 17 | ‘ What do you mean , ma'am ? ’ the sergeant grunted suspiciously , over-sensitive in his present mood , and fearful the superintendent was blaming him for some unknown misdemeanour . |
| 18 | There was even a time , John said later , when his one ambition was to devote himself to horses , but his father was not especially enthusiastic about that idea . |
| 19 | There were lots of young people working there whose main ambition was to get me into a good home . |
| 20 | ‘ The whole stupid , f—ing happy idea of putting the song on the album was to say something about struggle , ’ adds Fruitbat . |
| 21 | The result of this slight deformity was to leave him with a rather nasal drawl . |
| 22 | He took them through the cavernous littered kitchen , where an old woman in a grey shawl was mixing something in a basin on the table , and down the dark passage to the studio . |
| 23 | The only way he knew to heal the pain of his humiliation was to punish her for the crime of leaving him . |
| 24 | The alternative was to give it to them in 50 crates . ’ |
| 25 | The belief was that to ritually and voluntarily — and I stress the word ‘ voluntarily ’ — shed one 's own blood was to recommend oneself to and establish a link with the Creator of the Universe , and this is precisely what happened with circumcision . |
| 26 | Arthur and Geoff were already there and the ARP organist was surpassing himself with appropriate music . |
| 27 | So we put them all into bin bags and we was trying to carry these bin bags so the wind was taking them like balloons ! |
| 28 | A fresh north wind was carrying us into another Nile where the desert pressed close upon the riverbanks . |
| 29 | But the Dalek Killer was throwing himself at the golden cloud . |
| 30 | The girl 's distress was doing something to Cardiff . |