Example sentences of "was [verb] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After landing on Kiwi soil , the Kerryman smiled : ‘ I thought I was seeing double the airport we touched down at was called Kerikeri ! ’ |
| 2 | In particular , it was to carry forward the engineering and financial planning of a barrage between Penarth head and Queen Alexandra dock . |
| 3 | Information Consulting , while independent , was formed about a year ago by five former Arthur Andersen partners with financial backing from Saatchi and Saatchi , the advertising and consultancy group . |
| 4 | In fact , one of the gardeners was dismissed only a fortnight ago because it was thought he was taking them . |
| 5 | After his second King George , in 1959 , he had developed tendon trouble and was given nearly a year 's rest by trainer Fulke Walwyn , but if anything he was improving with age , and he had gone through the 1961–2 season unbeaten . |
| 6 | This rating was given immediately the subject heard the bleep in the centre of the junction . |
| 7 | Mine seem to vary — I was given both a biography of Nancy Reagan , a quite old hardback of TV critical reviews and articles by Clive James and Muriel Spark 's autobiography ( about her childhood in Edinburgh ) recently and have enjoyed them all in different ways . |
| 8 | I was given only the pau . ’ |
| 9 | There is some evidence of the pope 's personal position on several issues — his reluctance to declare the count of Toulouse excommunicate , his care to see that Simon de Montfort was given only the wardship of the count 's lands , and his snubbing of Archbishop Siegfried of Mainz for his inopportune intervention , three times ordering him to sit down . |
| 10 | On the day Wendy was to go home a woman came to issue a birth certificate for the baby . |
| 11 | He was firing deliberately a bit wide , I thought , to scare rather than to hit me , for at that sort of range anyone with a rifle — unless he were truly an appalling shot — could scarcely miss . |
| 12 | The purpose of the law , which was not widely practised by the time of Jesus , was to preserve both a family line and the inheritance of family possessions and property . |
| 13 | She was referred again a year later with similar problems . |
| 14 | Lynda said that getting ready for the first visitors was proving quite a challenge . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm now going through what I experienced at Rosyth , except that Eastern Electricity had been privatised three years before I joined whereas the dockyard was contractorised only a month before . ’ |
| 16 | That was particularly so when the 50p levy was generating quite a lot of finance at local level . |
| 17 | For him to go to Stuttgart he would have had to pay his own way ( I was gaining only a pittance from athletics at this time ) . |
| 18 | Or if she was torn then the doctor would come er and stitch her up . |
| 19 | But that that we took the view that you know people were entitled to go to an H E institution , and and keep up to date with what was happening there every year . |
| 20 | Farafra still enjoyed the strict rites of Arab desert etiquette in which hospitality was considered both a duty and an honour . |
| 21 | I said nothing to her , of course ; she was considered almost a goddess in Berlin , had a huge following . |
| 22 | It was considered quite an innovation when , after the First World War , the " progressive officials " of R. & R. Clark decided on " a combined " Annual " " in 1921 , " instead of one section having a smoker all on their own and the other a high tea and gossip " , as the ST[ put it . |
| 23 | Being middle class was becoming more a matter of consumption than of belief . |
| 24 | In the cloistered shelter of the medieval monasteries brewing was becoming quite an art in the skilled hands of monks well used to brewing table beers for their abbots . |
| 25 | Although the jury acquitted him on one murder charge , it was deadlocked over a second and a riot charge , and a retrial was arranged for Sept. 17 . |
| 26 | Gary Hutchinson , 26 , was driving home a minibus of Newcastle United fans following Saturday 's away game at Port Vale when it was in collision with a car on the A66 near Bowes , Co Durham . |
| 27 | ‘ Hey , beautiful ! ’ the proctologist , back aboard Wavebreaker at sunset , called down the companionway steps to where Ellen was tearing apart a lettuce for the evening meal . |
| 28 | The effect of this explosion of trade between the advanced countries was to increase sharply the proportion of imported manufactured goods consumed inside these countries . |
| 29 | I was to write home every week . |
| 30 | One response was to create both an exodus of talent from the country and capital flight . |