Example sentences of "[det] [was/were] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the Indian Mutiny of 1857 they remained steadfastly loyal to the Crown , and for this were accorded a permanent 15-gun salute by the Viceroy . |
| 2 | WHEN the Angolan government delegates flew back last week to Luanda from Abidjan , capital of Côte d'Ivoire , few were mourning the abortive six-week peace talks they had left behind . |
| 3 | Some were allowed a relative degree of freedom , but others , like the Dutch East Indies , were kept under direct military rule , largely due to the importance of their natural resources . |
| 4 | This was called a branching programme as distinct from a linear programme which contained no loops . |
| 5 | The moderate section of the FLNC , which announced on Jan. 8 that it was freezing all military action because this was alienating the Corsican people , attributed these murders to Mafia-style property speculators . |
| 6 | In a similar fashion it was becoming common for quite trivial legal disputes to go to the papal Curia on appeal : this was to transform the very nature of papal jurisdiction and authority , and is a striking example of the cosmopolitan links and assumptions of twelfth-century culture . |
| 7 | No , this was done a long while ago , |
| 8 | This was confirmed the following morning , and that evening , not devoid of relief , we went back to our own beds . |
| 9 | This was to enable a whole cricket team to stay here with their valets . |
| 10 | Really , this was proving a disastrous day . |
| 11 | The significance of this was to give a much-needed niche for future leaders of the Third World in the years after 1945 to prepare themselves for their daunting task . |
| 12 | The traditional requirement that there be reasonable grounds for taking the proceedings was accepted , and to this was added the subsidiary test that it must be reasonable to employ a legal representative . |
| 13 | In the long term this was to have a marked effect , but the immediate result was to be Curteys 's deposition in 1580 , after the infuriated gentry had appealed to the Privy Council to stop his assaults on what they regarded as their own just rights . |
| 14 | This was to have a profound effect on the development of settlement , land use and the landscape . |
| 15 | This was to cover a seven-year period . |
| 16 | This was attracting an average weekly audience of 54 per cent by 1948 , a record for any regular light entertainment show on radio or TV ever since . |
| 17 | This was to avoid the difficult and genuinely contentious question and to focus instead on a secondary matter . |
| 18 | This was tempting a different breed into the job — it could now be seen as a rewarding all-year-round career . |
| 19 | This was to correct a lazy eye . |
| 20 | This was to correct a lazy eye . |
| 21 | Can only assume this was designed a long time ago , say roughly 1983 ; surely even Peter Snow must now realise that a Labour landslide is rather more likely than a Tory one . |
| 22 | Early Punk clothing mixed up every youth style since the war and joined them together with safety pins ; as its radical content faded , this was to supply a rich compost for new styles to grow , as each constituent part — Mod , Ted , skinhead — was unravelled in a series of revivals . |
| 23 | This was to prove a classic understatement . |
| 24 | This was to prevent the fine gravel from finding its way through the undergravel plate . |
| 25 | This was resolved a short time later when an unstable product of a short-term incubation of arachidonic acid with cyclo-oxygenase prepared from the vesicular gland of sheep was found to induce platelet aggregation ( Willis & Kuhn , 1973 ) . |
| 26 | This was to become a familiar story among those bookshops that opened along with other stores in city centres on the 28th . |
| 27 | At the beginning of the new school year , in February 1968 , ANDES held a two-month general strike and occupied the buildings of the ministry — the first time in El Salvador 's history that public buildings had been occupied , although this was to become a frequent practice in subsequent years . |
| 28 | This was to become a major grievance . |
| 29 | This was to become a celebrated and controversial rite of passage for the new Metropolitan Police , then not quite four years old . |
| 30 | This was to become an annual event if not the annual event in the British Skater 's diary . |