Example sentences of "was [verb] the [adj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With a nice sense of timing the University allocated two extra rooms to the Collection , adjacent to the existing stackroom , one of which was designated the Old Vic Room . |
| 2 | Thirty-five years later , in 1818 , William Wordsworth was helping the new Lord Lonsdale , Sir William Lowther , in the Westmorland elections . |
| 3 | The game , against Nottingham Forest , was arranged the previous October when the player was guaranteed £350 , although the target was set at £500 . |
| 4 | Francis Newton was to found the firm Cossart Gordon & Co , which is one of the oldest and most respected madeira wine merchants and is today incorporated in the Madeira Wine Company Lda . |
| 5 | The destroyer was escorting the 36-year-old Saratoga and its 5,000 crew when it was hit . |
| 6 | The first task was to halt the rapid North Korean advance , then the Un commander-in-chief , General MacArthur , launched a counter-attack , allied with a brilliant flanking movement made possible by an amphibious assault on Inchon . |
| 7 | If was for service to the monarchy , however , that he was made the first Earl Ashburnham in 1730 ; for a family that had begun as modest farmers in the medieval Weald , this was no mean achievement . |
| 8 | The second decision , personally negotiated by Macmillan at Nassau , was to substitute the submarine-launched Polaris missile for Skybolt . |
| 9 | Catherine was buried the following Friday . |
| 10 | From the restrictions placed on and was to emerge the familiar Phillips curve : . |
| 11 | Susanna was born the next May . |
| 12 | Their aim was to keep the Catholic Habsburgs from swallowing them up . |
| 13 | Her body was found the next February and a man , hospital radiographer Frederic Blancke , was charged with murder . |
| 14 | It was feared the burning Alloprene was producing phosgene gas , carbon tetrachloride and hydrochloric acid . |
| 15 | Many Italians believe this could be the most decisive poll since 1948 when the Christian Democrats fought the scare of a communist takeover , and again in 1976 when it was feared the charismatic Enrico Berlinguer would win under the banner of Eurocommunism . |
| 16 | After them , the mill belonged to a Mr Chapman , thought to be the man who was running the nearby Sevilles Mill . |
| 17 | Conner himself — now ranking only third in America — was sailing the French Emeraude , with a core crew including Tom Whidden and Bill Trankle . |
| 18 | Suzanne was modelling the 1992 Gossard Wonderbra — a creation introduced back in 1968 to give even small-bosomed women breathtaking cleavages . |
| 19 | In 1975 Anderson was appointed the first EEC delegate in Southern Africa , responsible for the EEC Commission 's relations with Botswana , Lesotho and Swaziland . |
| 20 | Another East Surrey territorial battalion was the 7th which , until 1937 , was titled The 23rd London Regiment . |
| 21 | STOCKHOLM ( UPI , Reuter ) — A Norwegian professor , Trygve Haavelmo , 78 , described as a humble man who spends much of his time in seclusion at his mountain cottage , was awarded the 1989 Nobel Economics Prize for pioneering use of mathematical statistics to interpret economic data . |
| 22 | Last year Warnke was awarded the prestigious Leibnitz Prize of DM3 million , given to scholars who ‘ have already , despite being at a relatively early stage in their careers , shown outstanding achievement , and with the help of the prize will be enabled to increase substantially their scholarly output ’ . |
| 23 | Comprising some seventy paintings and forty works on paper , it has been selected by Christopher Green , Professor of the History of Art at the Courtauld Institute and author of Cubism and Its Enemies , for which he was awarded the prestigious Mitchell Prize for Twentieth-Century Art in 1987 . |
| 24 | Thiel ( born 1966 ) attracted much attention in 1990–91 with his black and white views of East Berlin , and was awarded the German Kodak Award . |
| 25 | He was carrying the American Frank Connor 's bag when he was approached by Nick Faldo to join up with him again . |
| 26 | Later he was to advise the next Lord Petre on planting around a proposed new home and again he wrote to Bartram for plants . |
| 27 | Pentos , he said on 31st December , was unlikely to find bookselling any easier than it was finding the difficult Athena and office furniture markets . |
| 28 | The answer was to expand the existing Macintosh operation and link it to the PC 's , either through a small local area network such as TOPS or via a hard wired link such as MacLink . |
| 29 | The king of Yodie Bodie was watching the latest U2 full length video , which features various video remixes , when suddenly , during the clip for ‘ Nothing But The Real Thing ’ — which features cut-ups of sentences interspersed with the action — he thought , hang on a mo' this is all looking mighty familiar . |
| 30 | then Chief Executive of the Northern Ireland Hotels and Caterers association ( now consultant ) was elected the new HCIMA President 1991–92 . |