Example sentences of "[vb past] was [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What transpired was a superb display in the line-outs and the driving rucks , where Garryowen 's Waikato lock , Brent Anderson , gave a typical display , well backed by no.8 Ben Cronin and Robert Costello at lock , but particularly by an astoundingly good all round performance by the 20-year-old hooker , Keith Wood . |
| 2 | The solution proposed was a two-tier system by which government appointed peers would have the right to vote , hereditary peers being allowed to speak but not vote while the delaying powers on legislation would be cut to six months . |
| 3 | The other fun competition that I entered was the same idea but it is played in the dark you use a special ball which is slightly transparent there is a hole in the middle of the ball which a lightstick goes through . |
| 4 | One of thems one of the er the gateways I just mentioned was the Open Server for Kix and the mainframe integration . |
| 5 | ‘ The woman involved was a married woman with a family and she and Philip had lived together for a couple of months but she decided to go back to her husband in September . ’ |
| 6 | The figure involved was a paltry £12.25 millions . |
| 7 | The money involved was a considerable sum , but in those days Dunedin was New Zealand 's commercial capital and many big businesses were represented on the Otago CA . |
| 8 | The c-Jun DNA binding site used was a 27 bp double stranded oligonucleotide containing the ‘ fat specific element ’ ( FSE ; refs 24 and 25 ) . |
| 9 | The tube used was a multifenestrated sump tube with a second channel for infusing phenol red into the proximal stomach and a third lumen for equilibration of intragastic and atmospheric pressure . |
| 10 | The type of ball used was the Scottish League 's Mitre Delta . |
| 11 | It was applied by Baulig to Brittany ( 1935 ) and seemed to work quite well as the basic map used was the old French 1:80 000 hachured map which had plenty of spot heights often on flattish summits or spurs . |
| 12 | If the injury sustained was an inherent risk of the procedure , then the doctrine will be inapplicable . |
| 13 | She went through his pockets but all she found was a spare clip for the FN FAL . |
| 14 | These files are indexed by the use of BDAM ( Basic Direct Access Method ) and in a typical database of just over 2 Gbytes , which they found was the average size of those they examined , the number of characters in the files comprising the database was as follows : |
| 15 | But all Mrs Ullman found was the intimidating bulk of three police constables . |
| 16 | The greatest danger we found was the distinct possibility of repetitive overeating . |
| 17 | all the satellites hanging down it was very good the way it had all been done in , in that respect but what I found was the first bit was very boring , I found but when it got going a bit it was better but the whole moral of the story was that nowhere is perfect to live but it 's hard for y young children like this |
| 18 | There was no novus actus interveniens as what occurred was a likely result of the original breach of duty by the defendants . |
| 19 | The article in the Financial Times to which the hon. Gentleman referred was a good article . |
| 20 | ‘ Anybody can do anything , ’ Josie said , which she knew was only so much bullshit but which she also believed was a reasonable dictum for getting a person through life . |
| 21 | Richard Baxter was further saddened by the loss of thousands of precious books in the fire , which he believed was a great loss to ‘ piety and learning ’ . |
| 22 | A Turkish print worker alleged a Harley Street doctor paid £2,500 for him to donate a kidney to a patient he believed was a fellow countryman . |
| 23 | ATURKISH print worker alleged yesterday that a Harley Street doctor paid £2,500 for him to donate a kidney to a patient whom he believed was a fellow countryman . |
| 24 | Martin Richmond , from Chalford in Gloucestershire , and a friend from London , pedalled through the Himalyas to establish what they believed was a new world altitude cycling record . |
| 25 | Colonel David Stirling was so alarmed at what he believed was the dubious ability of the government to cope with a major strike affecting essential services that he turned to the possibility of forming a private force of military and other experts to assist the civil authorities . |
| 26 | Up to the 1970s it was presumed to be proceeding towards the beech high forest which ecologists believed was the stable climax on limestone . |
| 27 | That was until Norman Tebbit spotted what he believed was the biggest chance of holing the impenetrable protective layer around the bill . |
| 28 | What jarred was the pugnacious self-justification : ‘ If the world condemns us , to hell with them . |
| 29 | The ironic , cynical tone that Nizan adopted was the visible sign of an effort to master a situation which was otherwise uncontrollable . |
| 30 | Considered objectively , they were an instrument of torture ; but the discomfort they caused was a small price to pay for the knowledge that Kate had persuaded him to buy them . |