Example sentences of "was [verb] [adj] [noun] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Huy 's job was to tamp this second layer down on to the first . |
| 2 | A university professor , A. R. Dumbuya , was named Foreign Affairs Minister , and an executive Director at the World Bank , J. S. A. Funna , became Minister of the newly combined portfolios of Finance and of Economic Planning and Development . |
| 3 | I asked about side effects and was told all drugs have side effects , even paracetemol . |
| 4 | Cotton 's greatest interest for the rest of his life was to help young professionals follow and benefit from the high standards he had set for himself . |
| 5 | ‘ I was reading some people think AZT is a poison , ’ she says conversationally . |
| 6 | The Australian 's 61 off 69 balls , at a time when Tim Munton was making other batsmen jump , was of the highest quality and serves as a warning to other sides what awaits them at Chelmsford . |
| 7 | The effect of the development plan programme was to lay existing procedures bare , to make them explicit and visible to every citizen , not just the interested parties , parents and teachers . |
| 8 | In 1989 she was elected Foreign Member ofthe Royal Swedish Academy of Science . |
| 9 | The immediate effect was to make local authorities examine their existing provision . |
| 10 | As an appeal to help stricken flood victims was launched last Police set up road blocks in a bid to stop non-essential traffic reaching Llandudno and hampering emergency work . |