Example sentences of "it was [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Vanguard , hinting at possible pragmatic advantages to the pro-Libyan stance , declared it was taking a populist , anti-terrorist position : ‘ We must condemn all terrorism even if it means upsetting the Libyans and getting no money from their Embassy ’ ( January 1987 ) . |
| 2 | Things had not gone too smoothly in hospital and it was taking a long time to recover . |
| 3 | Despite its claim to be an educational body , the Club could not escape the charge that it was taking an organized part in politics . |
| 4 | But there 's been a few hairy things , stabbings and it was getting a wee bit dodgy so she 's given that up . |
| 5 | And the the firm was very annoyed at hearing this name getting banded about because it was getting a bad name . |
| 6 | Erm and certainly I think I think in going to neighbourhood panels it was it was to serve a democratic process of tenants being able to panels local to their that area and I think in that sense erm it has been successful and certainly , I think as far as we were concerned er , it avoids the perhaps intimidating nature of , of tenants appearing in a large centre of the various panel which er I think was er , certainly one of the members wishes when we started on a neighbourhood basis but , yes it was our intention and , I would think that it 's quite reasonable to ask us to bring the report to the next meeting er with a better explanation of how the council works so far . |
| 7 | It was sounded a few years ago by Helen Gardner in In Defence of the Imagination , by the contributors to Laurence Lerner 's Reconstructing Literature , and in America by Gerald Graff 's Literature Against Itself ( Graff 's position has shifted somewhat in his more recent Professing Literature ) . |
| 8 | It was completed a few months after its companion piece ( the G major Quartet Op. 106 and subsequently the composer devoted himself to programmatic tone poems and operas . |
| 9 | It was leaving an impressive vapour trail . |
| 10 | The Unity Campaign could hardly avoid the accusation that it was creating a new organization to invite Labour Party members to work together with Communists , which every Labour Conference decision had forbidden over the previous ten years . |
| 11 | A controversial memo to hospital consultants has been withdrawn after claims it was creating a two-tier health system . |
| 12 | Dorries said two other companies had established Glaxo-style schemes , and BP Exploration recently announced that it was creating an in-house childcare information service on nursery places and childminders . |
| 13 | He added that it was believed an anti-aircraft gun was in the locality and that it was fired recently . |
| 14 | Cleveland police said it was believed an electrical fault started the fire in a ground-floor flat . |
| 15 | By the 1920s it was enjoying a wide circulation . |
| 16 | A clash with Saudi border guards at al-Khofous 130 km south-east of Doha on Sept. 30 left one Qatari warrant officer and an Egyptian national serving in the Emirate 's armed forces dead , and caused the government to announce on Oct. 1 that it was revoking a 1965 defence agreement with Saudi Arabia . |
| 17 | It was forming a tough bony carapace as stimulated cells altered their nature , hardening to horn . |
| 18 | The United States government stated on Oct. 5 that it was halting a commercial wheat shipment to Sudan until the distribution system was improved . |
| 19 | Douglas B-23 Dragon N4000B was stored outside the Museum building ( inset 1990 ) , it was blown a considerable distance . |
| 20 | It seemed to Joan that the wedding-ring was burning her finger ; it caught the light , glistering brightly as if wishing to draw attention to the fact that it was embellishing an alien hand . |
| 21 | And in fact that showed no relief to the A sixty one at all in that it was quicker for traffic to actually pass er through on the A sixty one going to the to the traffic model and the all the assumptions built into it , er than it was to use a southern bypass er out to the inner northern route and then back to the A sixty one south of Killinghall . |
| 22 | It was reaching a murderous conclusion . |
| 23 | It was coloured a garish blue , an obvious re-spraying job after massive areas of the body-work had been filled in after various collisions . |
| 24 | The first of these was the landowning class , the nobility and gentry ; the leaders of the community , whose duty it was to set a good example to the rest , to be ‘ the helpers and releuers of poore tenantes , and also be the maynteynors and supporters of all poore folkes ’ . |
| 25 | Yes you said David that in fact it was arranged a little late and some clubs did n't manage to fit it into their programme . |
| 26 | The morning it was announced a vast audience arrived for Ramsey 's lecture and cheered him all the way up to the dais . |
| 27 | It was decided a long time ago and the waiting is over . ’ |
| 28 | She might say ‘ no' ’ even if it was planned a long time . |
| 29 | The government also announced that it was beginning a public awareness campaign , and would draft new legislation to fill in gaps in its 1960 wildlife protection laws . |
| 30 | When it was reconstructed a rare turbine , instead of the usual waterwheel was installed . |