Example sentences of "[noun prp] was [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nellie was doing the same at the other side . |
| 2 | She would have been surprised to learn that observant Dr Neil was thinking the same of her and her abundant energy . |
| 3 | ( It is interesting that in arguing that polygamy grows out of monogamy Engels was reversing the evolutionary sequence as most anthropologists of his time saw it . ) |
| 4 | Mixu Paatelainen was shown the same consideration earlier in the season and the word from the maternity unit at Pittodrie is that Mrs Duncan Shearer is next in the gynaecological line . |
| 5 | In Lisbon at that precise moment Walter Schellenberg was climbing the steep cobbled alley in Alfama towards the Lights of Lisbon . |
| 6 | Nicholson was obviously very grateful and benefited from the continuing rewards as the film made its way to Europe , where Dennis was voted the best new director of the year at Cannes . |
| 7 | Already in 1922 , Wheatley was attacking the conventional view that internationalism held the key to ending unemployment : |
| 8 | After flirting with Modernism in his earlier fiction , John Fowles was to deride the whole idea as late as 1982 , with Mantissa , which makes elaborate fun of the tradition of Joyce and argues that fiction may find it hard even to survive the grinding tedium of the nouveau roman . |
| 9 | it is , it 's exactly ten years although I reckon like , well , the thing is , these like late bookers like Richard was saying the other day , the flight ones , you du n no where your going |
| 10 | Even while Richard was attending the crusading conference at Le Mans a rebellion broke out in Aquitaine . |
| 11 | Rafiq was choosing the two teams . |
| 12 | Scott was awarded the highest prize , with third on the Foreign Office list , Deane and Woodward were fourth , and Street was awarded one of the fifth prizes on the same list . |
| 13 | What it did for David was have the same mushrooming effect , creating this balloon image of star power — all that staying at The Plaza and The Beverley Hills Hotel did . |
| 14 | All Western diplomats had left Kabul in the weeks leading up to the Soviet troop withdrawal in February 1989 [ see p. 36448-50 ] , when the United States was predicting the imminent collapse of the Najibullah regime . |
| 15 | As BR looked towards the 1970s and into the 1980s , it was realised that if InterCity was to survive the growing threat posed by the airlines and the rapid extension of motorways , train speeds would have to be lifted beyond the prevailing norm of 80mph start-to-stop between main business centres . |
| 16 | Quakers breathed a sigh of relief when Fashanu 's right-foot blast took a wicked deflection and floated just past the post when Prudhoe was diving the other way , but he was laughing after 39 minutes when the Darlington defence presented him with the most embarrassing gift of the season . |
| 17 | Steven was doing the front lawn |
| 18 | Julia Roberts was voted the worst dressed woman in the world . |
| 19 | Helen said quietly , ‘ That 's exactly what Edward was saying the other day . |
| 20 | Two years later St Sava was created the first Bishop of the autocephalous Serbian Church by the Patriarch of Byzantium . |
| 21 | Inigo Jones had started to build the Queen 's house , Greenwich , in 1616 , and Sir Christopher Wren was building the Sheldonian , Oxford , in 1664 . |
| 22 | Hammond Wilde had seen the advantages of producing a really lavish brochure which made the point that Royalbion was sponsoring the Million Sterling Tournament . |
| 23 | And Anna Freud was to write the famous book called The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defence . |
| 24 | Susanna was born the next May . |
| 25 | Reuben Boll was unwrapping the first of the boiled sweets he bought each morning in Tadley . |
| 26 | ‘ Frau Fegel was saying the other day when we were playing Bach that our technique was good but that we had to learn to put feeling into our playing . ’ |
| 27 | In another move yesterday which further highlighted the government 's problems , Sirkka Hamalainen was appointed the new president of the Bank of Finland . |
| 28 | At his subsequent trial , Charles Woolridge was to take the contradictory step of pleading not guilty , but the outcome was a foregone conclusion ; he was unanimously convicted . |
| 29 | Giles was appointed the first Professor of Surgery at Leeds University in 1973 , and continued to occupy the Chair until his death . |
| 30 | We completed the film during the early summer of 1979 and in August Mountbatten was granted the quick but not peaceful death he had asked for when his boat was blown up by an IRA bomb off the west coast of Ireland . |