Example sentences of "was [verb] [adj] [noun] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He may be the Henry Wilde who was the son of Horatio Wilde and his wife Hannah , and who was christened 17 February 1833 . |
| 2 | , Henry ( 1628–1704 ) , bookseller-publisher , was born in Carshalton , Surrey , the son of John Herringman , yeoman , and was christened 14 March 1628 at the Carshalton parish church . |
| 3 | Word spread that he was producing custom-build detectors able to meet the most demanding requirements , and the foundations of the Garrett legend had been laid . |
| 4 | Since a right visual field advantage was still found when the word in the right field was exposed 20 msecs. later than the word in the left field it was subsequently concluded that temporal factors were not importantly involved ( McKeever and Huling , 1971 b ) . |
| 5 | Cross also admitted two counts of mortgage fraud and was given nine months concurrent for each . |
| 6 | His father Barry Cross , 44 , also of Mond Crescent , admitted six counts of mortgage fraud and was given 18 months concurrent for each suspended for two years and ordered to pay £500 costs . |
| 7 | Heybridge 0 Maidenhead 1KICK-off in this Diadora League Division One was delayed 25 minutes due to Maidenhead 's late arrival . |
| 8 | The group was to report full-year results next week . |
| 9 | Adam was snoring one morning this week . |
| 10 | And he claimed the county council was keeping other homes open which needed more money spent on them . |
| 11 | All I could think about at the time was keeping this lady happy . |
| 12 | The Ridge was a favourite target for Stuka dive-bombers and was attacked several times each day . |
| 13 | Actually I was wanting that Capri last night actually . |
| 14 | was wanting each other more than the rest |
| 15 | It was accepted that Amnesty International would investigate and draw up an adverse report . |
| 16 | Banking sources said in June that credit needs were expected to expand dramatically even though Romania was owed some $3,000,000 million from abroad and had hard currency reserves of $900,000,000 million . |
| 17 | Following a meeting in early August between Sarney , Ferreira da Nóbrega and John Reed , chairman and chief executive of the US Citibank ( which as Brazil 's largest creditor was owed some $4,000 million ) , Ferreira da Nóbrega confirmed the government 's intention to continue to make the payment of debt interest dependent on the state of reserves , which it wanted to keep at a " safe " level of at least $6,000 million . |
| 18 | But when New Consumer was writing this book Global Consumer , a couple of years ago , they sent a questionnaire to Nestle . |
| 19 | In Underwood v. Burgh Castle Brick & cement Syndicate ( 1922 C.A ) the contract was to sell a-30 ton condensing machine which at the time of the contract was standing bolted to a concrete emplacement in which it had become embedded because of its weight . |
| 20 | This no longer affects Rae Hast who was granted British citizenship five years ago . |
| 21 | Intensely fond of music , he invented high-quality components to incorporate in his invention of stereophony , which was granted British Patent 394325 in 1931 . |
| 22 | Gennady Burbulis was named first Deputy Prime Minister . |
| 23 | Other examples from his list of claimed sense-qualifiers turn out to belong , instead , to a class of peculiarly restrictive adjectives which we discuss elsewhere ( Chapter 7 and also Ferris , in preparation ) : ( 31 ) their main faults our prime suspect he was named first citizen These adjectives , unlike most , are inherently restrictive , and select the particular entity to be identified by a speaker out of an already assumed body of entities ; thus the faults in the first example are not main faults in any general sense , as would be required if they were to be sense-qualifiers ; they are those that come out in front , relative to the background group of all their faults , relevant on the particular occasion where the expression is used . |
| 24 | ‘ Neither of us wanted to go , but Doris was coming with me to London each week and because of all the road works on the A1 the journey was averaging six hours each way and getting worse . |
| 25 | The old building seems to have fallen on hard times , for on September 13th 1976 at a meeting of the owners , the A.P.C.M. , and the Health Dept. it was decided that No. 3 Chapel Houses tenanted by Mr T. Hawkins , was not suitable as living accommodation and the Housing Services Committee placed a Closing Order on the premises . |
| 26 | At the Police Federation meeting held at the Marton Hotel , Middlesbrough , it was revealed this year 34 juveniles had been bailed for 108 offences in Hartlepool . |
| 27 | Pemell 's will ( Public Record Office , PCC Allchin 1654 ) was dated 7 April 1652 , he being then in ‘ good health ’ ; he was buried in Cranbrook 3 June 1653 . |
| 28 | This was dated 11 June 1747 and was for Tilberthwaite , with a requirement that Sir John would also have a key of the mine storehouse , with free access . |
| 29 | Cavendish 's will was dated 5 July 1628 and proved six days later . |
| 30 | His certificate was dated 5 July 1794 . |