Example sentences of "was [verb] [verb] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps in one sense it does not matter that he ignored the sometimes vandalistic assaults on the gospel texts by Form-critics and Redaction-critics ; just as it could be seen not to matter that the school of philosophy in which he was reared had been rendered more or less obsolete by the man who — in the year that Lewis was writing The Problem of Pain — had become a professor of philosophy at Cambridge : Ludwig Wittgenstein . |
| 2 | A second-century cremation cemetery has been uncovered south of the defended area in Swan Street ; it was claimed to have been receiving additional burials as late as the third and fourth centuries , when it must have lain within the built-up area . |
| 3 | Minor bombing incidents in Buenos Aires and Santiago caused little structural damage and nobody was reported to have been injured . |
| 4 | Justice Minister Abdehamid Mahi-Bahi was reported to have been dismissed on Nov. 14 by the President of the High Committee of State , Ali Kafi , and replaced by Mohamed Teguia , President of the Supreme Court . |
| 5 | Wilko was reported to have been looking at Ronnie earlier this season but nothing came of it . |
| 6 | The fire was reported to have been caused by a wiring short circuit . |
| 7 | The fire was reported to have been caused by a wiring short circuit . |
| 8 | In February 1992 she was reported to have been sentenced to 5 years ' imprisonment . |
| 9 | A Parti de la troisième république ( PTR — Third Republic Party ) , with Francisco Javier Iturriaga Aste as president and Leonardo Rivera Reyes as secretary-general was reported to have been formed on Feb. 2 , 1990 . |
| 10 | On Nov. 5 , a third government was reported to have been formed by Zaïrean exiles in Brussels , headed by Antoine Bubulu Koi Bulonda , chairman of the National Unity Party . |
| 11 | On May 14 Wolfgang Berghofer , the former reformist mayor of Dresden [ see pp. 37827 ; 37170 ] , was reported to have been charged with electoral fraud in the May 1989 municipal elections . |
| 12 | The reorganization of the armed forces , which began in 1989 , was reported to have been completed in August 1991 . |
| 13 | The final assault on Bijeljina was reported to have been led by a Serbian guerrilla leader known as Arkan , whose units fought in some of the most ferocious battles in Croatia . |
| 14 | It is a measure of the grim recalcitrance of the region 's problems that Schultz 's message was reported to have been saluted by a strike called in protest among the Palestinians of the occupied territories . |
| 15 | Geoffrey Dudgeon , 35 — on the run from a Leicester jail when James Doy was shot dead last week in Rotherham — was reported to have been seen in Southampton . |
| 16 | External Affairs Minister Madhavsinh Solanki visited Japan on Jan. 19-24 where he was reported to have been warned that further Japanese economic assistance would depend on India 's adherence to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty ( NPT ) . |
| 17 | Oscar Mariano Ospina , the alleged " treasurer " of the Medellín cartel , was reported to have been killed in Medellín by an elite police corps on May 4 , along with seven others . |
| 18 | One policemen was reported to have been killed and three others injured . |
| 19 | Crocker expresses ‘ confusion ’ at the Thai conclusion that their positive samples could have been natural since a wide swath of the district was reported to have been sprayed with yellow rain . |
| 20 | In this connection , she was reported to have been co-opted to the Judicial Studies Board . |
| 21 | Despite Mahdi 's calls for unity and negotiation , his appointment as President was reported to have been rejected by other rebel groups , notably the SNM , as well as by factions within the USC . |
| 22 | Slimly-built Gilbey resigned from Holbein in February last year when the firm was reported to have been hit by the recession with large debts . |
| 23 | One shuttle tanker , Polikon , was reported to have been hit for the fourth time and written off as a ‘ constructive total loss ’ ( CTL ) . |
| 24 | An agreement with Colombia to exchange information on drug trafficking was reported to have been reached on March 2 , 1990 . |
| 25 | The decision was reported to have been reached after a long and tense debate in which a more moderate current , headed by the Imam Abdelkader al-Hachani , a mining engineer in his early thirties , argued in favour of participation as a necessary step towards the creation of an Islamic state . |
| 26 | In early February the Senate was reported to have been considering government proposals to reject responsibility for more than $200,000,000 in loans to the Stroessner government from international lending agencies . |
| 27 | On Dec. 10 the independent station Radio Galaxy was reported to have been ransacked and its director Félix Lamy kidnapped by heavily armed individuals claiming to be members of the armed forces . |
| 28 | Khafji was reported to have been retaken on Jan. 30 , and allied military briefings emphasised that this should be regarded principally as a victory for Saudi units in the coalition . |
| 29 | Monsengwo 's house was reported to have been attacked by armed men on Nov. 12 . |
| 30 | Abdullahi Mahmoud Mohamed , the secretary of the Somali Red Crescent Society , was reported to have been murdered on Nov. 16 . |