Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His first act after his coronation was to order a punitive attack on Naggaroth . |
| 2 | The fact is , however , that OW was given a supervised work training placement , helping care workers in a centre for the mentally handicapped for two days a week . |
| 3 | The second recommendation was to create a general management function throughout the service to focus responsibility and give leadership and direction . |
| 4 | The grounds of the cross-appeal were that ( 1 ) the judge had correctly held that a mortgagee 's right to costs , charges and expenses whether founded on equitable principles or an implied contract could always be varied , restricted or enlarged by the express terms of the mortgage and that the first defendant was entitled a full indemnity against the costs , charges and expenses on a true construction of the words used in the mortgage deeds other than the guarantee and mortgage debenture dated 6 June 1986 . |
| 5 | It was not until the appearance of Michael Cimino 's The Deerhunter ( 1979 ) that the Vietnam combat movie was to make a significant impact . |
| 6 | When the manacle was unlocked a weeping ulcer was exposed , and he was sickened , not by the sight of it , but because he had failed her in not acting sooner . |
| 7 | THE official launch of WINCH , the Wirral Initiative for Needy Children , at Tranmere Rovers Football Club was given a healthy start , thanks to £1,000 donation from BNFL . |
| 8 | His anxiety for equal terms in the nuclear club was echoed a few months later by , of all people , Aneurin Bevan , who urged his fellow left-wingers at the Labour Party conference not to vote for Britain to give up nuclear arms with the famous plea : ‘ Do not send the British Foreign Minister naked into the international conference chamber ! ’ |
| 9 | But a few weeks ago our youth rugby team could n't raise a side because the golf club was holding a junior scratch championship on the same day . |
| 10 | Navarre 's reply was to establish a massive fortified camp near the Lao border at Dien Bien Phu . |
| 11 | His long neck was tinged a bright pink as though reflecting some internal glow . |
| 12 | Gaston was occupying a high-backed chair in the place of honour , and she went to stand beside him , watching Marie-Christine , the skirts of her dress looped over her arm , being whirled round the floor by Jacques . |
| 13 | I shall tell him that we have every reason to believe that the bomber was carrying a smuggled explosive device aboard , that its detonation was triggered by a radio wave and that we have the miscreant responsible in our hands . |
| 14 | It was also reported that the Justice Department was conducting a criminal investigation of contract payments to the General Dynamics Corp. and the McDonnell Douglas Corp. , the contractors responsible for building the A-12 . |
| 15 | At this stage the State Department was contemplating a neutral high commissioner , possibly Dutch or Swiss , supported by an advisory council including representatives of the trusteeship powers . |
| 16 | Each department was set a minimum target of 52 per cent women and 10 per cent ethnic minorities . |
| 17 | This has been partly due to the new and attractive packages offered to depositors , and partly due to the increase in competition in the sector since the interest rate cartel was ended a few years ago . |
| 18 | After lunch in the restaurant Her Majesty was given a guided tour of the house by Director-General Angus Stirling which included opportunities to meet the donor , Mr. Henry Harpur-Crewe . |
| 19 | Her tea was getting a vigorous stirring , so that it swirled around the cup . |
| 20 | At the same time , she recognized that the photograph was exerting a considerable pull on her own imagination . |
| 21 | In an open letter to the government , 72 senior expatriate scientists representing Britain 's ‘ brain drain ’ gave warning of severe economic and social consequences unless scientific research was given a higher priority . |
| 22 | The aim of this study was to provide a rigorous statistical analysis of non-completion rates at all universities in the UK , but with particular attention being paid to Scotland . |
| 23 | The aim of this study was to verify a strong clinical impression that injecting drug misuse in Lothian has recently diminished . |
| 24 | As I happened to discover casually ( not a great discovery ) , the same pamphlet was given a new frontispiece and a new tit ] e in 1747 . |
| 25 | Meanwhile , the Bodegraven was having a hard time trying to dear Dutch waters . |
| 26 | When employees ' share schemes first came to be introduced here , the normal practice was to create a special class of shares with restricted rights regarding , in particular , votes and transferability ; only in relation to share option schemes , designed as incentive to top management , were ordinary voting equity shares on offer . |
| 27 | This occurred in Egypt and Asia , for instance , and the intention was to create a closed currency system whereby everyone entering the kingdom had to change their foreign coin into local coin and did not take the local coinage out of the country . |
| 28 | Their intention was to create a narrative experience for the pilgrim or initiand , an experience full of unsettling incident and surprise . |
| 29 | A response was that member States would be unlikely to give organisations such far-reaching powers and to empower them to implement such an agreement , unless the intention was to create a supra-national organisation . |
| 30 | Their intention was to introduce a new format to provoke competitive opportunities for our young players . |