Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the mare basins were excavated the fragmentary material beneath them must have been compressed to a higher density than before . |
| 2 | And only two — Joshua and Caleb — were to enjoy the promised land . |
| 3 | More specifically , they were to support the Conservative party as being the most likely to tum back the revolutionary tide . |
| 4 | Diocletian ( reigned 284–305 ) was one of five sons of Illyrian peasants who were to wear the imperial purple . |
| 5 | The bar room was warm and inviting as always , and just enough people to be comfortable were enjoying the cosy environment . |
| 6 | In the schools , French became a compulsory language at the very moment when Arab nationalists were enjoying the linguistic triumph of Arabic over the Turkish of the now broken Ottoman Empire , a victory which had important political implications for the concept of Arab unity . |
| 7 | When the marshes were drained the new farmers chose to live on the embankments beside the canals and rivers . |
| 8 | The planetary governor , Lord Voronov-Vaux , and his entourage were seeing the victorious Harq Obispal off with a fanfare . |
| 9 | But the demands of a growing membership were outstripping the voluntary nature of the Campaign . |
| 10 | The objectives were to hit the main source of supplies to the Vietcong and to undermine the morale of the North Vietnamese people . |
| 11 | The elder Pinney , owner of the largest sugar plantations in Nevis , would certainly have been less pliable had he realized that his sons were allowing the new tenants to have Racedown rent-free ; but in the event he quickly warmed to the young poet , and welcomed him as a guest to the family 's town house in Bristol during the autumn of 1795 , the period which first brought Wordsworth into contact with both Coleridge and Southey.7sup18 ; |
| 12 | Made of strong willow cane , the cone-shaped traps were about five feet in diameter at the mouth tapering to a point Once the unfortunate salmon had entered the trap , it was doomed Yanto hoped the recent tide had yielded a fish which he would grab before the traps were checked the following morning . |
| 13 | It comprised a circular curtain-wall of stone enclosing a courtyard within which were placed the domestic apartments and service offices , probably of timber construction . |
| 14 | The two families , who have had no contact and do not plan to meet , face a week of agony before knowing if they were given the right child . |
| 15 | As Table 55c of Appendix I shows , although differences between groups were very small , it was often women more than men , older people more than younger people , and those with lower rather than higher educational levels who most often changed to a different choice after they were given the extra information about APR and/ or total credit cost . |
| 16 | It was only when Cairo confirmed their names and service numbers that they were given the honoured status of the first Eighth Army troops to meet up with the First Army . |
| 17 | In 1972 , when he chaired the Hearings before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee which were given the imposing title ‘ Causes , Origins , and Lessons of the Vietnam War ’ , a rather dyspeptic Senator Fulbright sought to put much of the blame for American involvement on Dean Acheson , on his European orientations and on his close war-time connections with the British . |
| 18 | Directors were given the exclusive right to manage the day-to-day business of the company . |
| 19 | In the previous chapter a distinction was made between the attitudinal function of intonation and several other functions that were given the collective names of syntagmatic functions . |
| 20 | And viewers were given the ridiculous impression that two blokes from Sussex University , rather than Eugene Garfield , had invented citation analysis as a means of assessing quality in research . |
| 21 | A GROUP of Japanese customers were given the red carpet treatment when they visited 's Buckie maltings in March . |
| 22 | The remaining 900 employees — out of a workforce once totalling 40,000 — were given the grim news yesterday at a meeting with managers and union representatives . |
| 23 | Workers were given the grim news by union officials at a mass meeting . |
| 24 | Nevertheless , we were given the green light — unfortunately , poor Molly was accidentally stepped on a couple of times . |
| 25 | They had made enquiries of someone in the village , Melchbourne , but were given the wrong directions , through ignorance or malice . |
| 26 | A hospital has began an inquiry into how the parents of a cot death baby who were encouraged to cuddle their dead child were given the wrong body to hold . |
| 27 | ‘ We were given the wrong advice in the first place , ’ says Jeremy Myles of TEM . |
| 28 | But they were given the wrong tape machine . |
| 29 | For the dramas were given the generic term of ludus ( play ) which carried overtones of pastime , merriment and revelling . |
| 30 | In the same ballot , voters were given the unprecedented opportunity to choose the PL candidate for the presidential election scheduled for May 27 , 1990 . |