Example sentences of "was [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Almost Newman 's first act at the BBC was to decimate the existing Script Department under Donald Wilson . |
| 2 | Not only was maintaining the British war effort imposing an ever-increasing burden , but subsidies to allies seriously inflated that burden . |
| 3 | It was as Cornelius waited humbly and receptively in prayer , that God 's supreme gift , the Holy Spirit , was poured out upon him before ever Peter who was preaching the good news to him , reached the climax of his sermon ! |
| 4 | He looked out into the roadway without seeing the rain beating mercilessly against the cobbled surface or the leaves of the trees dripping constantly as they shivered in the breeze , he was seeing the four walls of his cell and remembering his feeling of helplessness as the door slammed shut behind him . |
| 5 | Iggy Pop and the lippily ascendant Wonder Stuff aside , the only high point was seeing the pathetic Meat Loaf take umbrage at the traditional hail of plastic bottles . |
| 6 | As he responded , Rostov remembered the survey briefing and wondered if he was seeing the first evidence of genetic mutation . |
| 7 | Helen wondered if she was seeing the first moment of a gathering hysteria . |
| 8 | The thing that really motivated me was seeing the 1968 Olympics ; I saw Thommie Smith and thought , ‘ God , that 's it ! ’ |
| 9 | I have added a 40W actinic and a reflector as I did not think I was seeing the true colours of my fish . |
| 10 | And then , even while she was making valiant efforts to control herself , because for certain he was going to set about strangling her at any moment , after some seconds of looking at her as if staggered , suddenly , and to her amazement , he was seeing the funny side of it also — and he was laughing too ! |
| 11 | At that moment , hundreds of miles away in Yorkshire , Colin was seeing the secret garden for the first time , and saying , ‘ I 'm going to live for ever and ever and ever ! ’ |
| 12 | Posters appeared in some villages advertising what was intended the next market day and calling on " one and all " to join in . |
| 13 | He was reliving the harrowing moment when he discovered her unconscious , her neck in a ligature . |
| 14 | Moxon 's first revised plan was to continue the first innings on 317 for seven but he then decided to declare in an attempt to bowl out Somerset twice . |
| 15 | But his only answer was to continue the rhythmic stroking of her hair . |
| 16 | A further development was to embrace the stratigraphic sequence in the conclusions about denudation chronology , an effective comparison was made of Britain and Appalachia and the two were embraced within a general model which acknowledged the Tertiary stratigraphy of both areas ( Brown , 1961 ) . |
| 17 | T. S. Eliot was completing the Four Quartets . |
| 18 | Soviet support for the Chinese atomic programme , nonetheless , was withdrawn the following year , the USSR was neutral during the Sino-Indian war of 1959 , and in 1960 the dispute between the two communist giants came into the open . |
| 19 | The job of the competitive party system was to uphold the competitive market society , by keeping the government responsive to the shifting majority interests of those who were running the market society . |
| 20 | Britain 's only response was to cancel the Royal Ballet 's visit to Moscow . |
| 21 | Nothing , he was informed ‘ by his superiors , was to affect the main blow to be delivered in the area of Krevo ; but apart from that Brusilov was virtually empowered to do whatever he thought fit . |
| 22 | The mayor of Tamworth was there to officiate the opening of the facilities , and was encouraging the younger generation to help the environment by recycling . |
| 23 | Once changes have been made it is just as important to observe the modified unit in action as it was to conduct the initial trials . |
| 24 | Since swedes , turnips and radishes are brassicas , appreciative of lime and firm ground , they can be grown with cabbages and other members of this family if the ground was manured the previous autumn . |
| 25 | Because in a sense the , the whole our analysis of the was that this er very moderate policy of rent reduction , interest rate reduction , of building up reductions , that in itself was producing the required results was n't it ? |
| 26 | It is the time during which the evolutionary process was producing the human form as it now is , and laying down the pattern from which man , in remote retrospect , can now extract the necessary information on which to lay the foundation of the concept of the Created God , and to understand how he must develop that concept . |
| 27 | Paralleling the Commission was the Council of Ministers , the organ of the national governments , which was to carry the main burden of coordinating policies . |
| 28 | Sjahrir later acquired the reputation of a resistance leader , but although he refused to collaborate with the Japanese all he really did was to monitor the declining fortunes of Japan on his illegal radio . |
| 29 | The function of the state was to plan the social environment so that individuals could more fully realize themselves . |
| 30 | By the time ZTT was formed the new pop sensibility had been subtly transformed into a commercial sensibility — the way to make sense of the pop process was in terms of market competition and success . |