Example sentences of "was [verb] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most professional approach which I had was in fact via an intermediary who was acting on behalf of an existing customer of the company who employed me and whose objective was to sound out general interest without disturbing the importance of on-going business relationships . |
| 2 | All of these changes were happening at a time when the rapid expansion of television was encouraging even greater isolation . |
| 3 | By 1914 Great Britain alone was producing as much coal as the whole of Europe had done in 1880 . |
| 4 | The aim was to monitor only those outpatient referrals which incurred a charge against fundholders ' budgets and the corresponding referrals in the control practices . |
| 5 | He was dismissed later that day . |
| 6 | A new emphasis on the fruit of learning being inward experience of the truth of Christ was given particularly cogent expression by such men as the Carthusian Guigo II and the Cistercian Bernard of Clairvaux . |
| 7 | This view was given even greater prominence in the Griffiths report which , as we have seen , also advocated an enhanced role for the commercial sector . |
| 8 | Substitute Michael Zeyer was given too much room on the edge of the penalty area and he fired a low shot past Woods to score . |
| 9 | I lost count of the number of corners Leeds had or the amount of times Wallace was given as much space as he wanted . |
| 10 | More recently , they have contributed towards the services of a much needed nurse , and it is for this cause that they continue to donate a set sum each week together with raffle sales and other activities from which they will soon reach their target of another £600 , the same sum that was given earlier this year . |
| 11 | The idea was to see how much faith the blindfolded person had in his so called friends . |
| 12 | The idea was to promote more open rugby and see more points being scored . |
| 13 | This Minton did , afterwards taking Tindle back to Hamilton Terrace where his large picture , The Death of Nelson , still in progress , was hanging on one wall . |
| 14 | The next day I was hanging out some washing and he walked past me . |
| 15 | Then , while it seemed that he was the one who was going to apply the antiseptic — a job she could do quite well herself — he was speeding away any huffiness she felt at that last thought by asking her her name . |
| 16 | An operation , a moving coil D'Arsonval galvanometer connected to the line was arranged so that coil deflections , brought about by an incoming signal , controlled movement of a writing head across a moving paper tape . |
| 17 | Foreign Affairs Minister Theo Ben Gurirab , addressing on April 30 the UN General Assembly special session on economic co-operation [ see p. 37476 ] , said that Namibia was drawing up foreign investment legislation to provide the guarantees which " international investors normally expect " , with special incentives for projects promoting investment and training . |
| 18 | The outcome was that the school was to lose only one member of staff and consequently would have an improved pupil-teacher ratio . |
| 19 | The youngster was referred earlier this year to the Bristol unit , which has carried out 50 transplants involving unrelated donors — the highest number in Britain . |
| 20 | The youngster was referred earlier this year to the Bristol unit which has carried out 50 transplants involving unrelated donors — the highest number in Britain . |
| 21 | A morphological indexing system was developed whereby each word in the lexicon is associated with its root . |
| 22 | What has been meant by full social and economic membership of the community was developed earlier this century , first with the national insurance reforms of the 1906 Liberal Government , and then with the development of these policies , together with the commitment to full employment of the immediate post-war era . |
| 23 | Eight minutes later Keen played Slater through and his square pass was rammed home first time by Bishop . |
| 24 | Jehan was used to the kind of council at which nearly everything was decided before the participants sat down to talk , and he wondered why Alexei was allowing so much disruption and argument . |
| 25 | It was pointed out that SSC grades jobs , not SMT . |
| 26 | Erm but anyway you s you started off with er with some greeting and er and er appropriate sociability erm one thing I noticed that Martin seemed to take control of the handshake and that 's something that was pointed out this morning and , and looked at and from where I was it looked as though he was keeping hold of your hand some time , you had your buyer 's guide and whatever in your other hand and you could n't , you know , bring it over and , and put yourself back into control erm and an interesting one and a , an e an example to all of us I think . |
| 27 | As was pointed out earlier government guidance was equivocal on the issue of whether the older generation of asylum residents could live successfully outside that environment . |
| 28 | It was binding as mere furniture that Burns had in mind when he wrote : |
| 29 | It said that he had a big problem he did n't want to bother me with , but that if anything happened to him , I was to pass on this envelope to you . |
| 30 | Michael was walking up High Row with his brother David when he was attacked . |