Example sentences of "was [verb] an [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was clear she was waging an internal battle with herself , but finally the actress in her won out , and she tossed her luxuriant hair back contemptuously . |
| 2 | By 1850 the company had seventy employees and was using an early form of mail order to sell seeds in Britain and overseas , as postal and railway services helped to expand its activities . |
| 3 | Billy Graham was using an adjustable lectern twenty-five years ago ; ( he needed to , since he is six feet four and some of his colleagues are a foot shorter . ) |
| 4 | The masks eyes hid my own eye 's movement , just as a filter over the mouth would alter my voice when I spoke , in case anyone was using an audio pick-up with instant voice-print comparison . |
| 5 | A jobless actor was annoying an off-duty bouncer , announcing loudly that he was due for a break . |
| 6 | In one case a field officer inspecting a large garage which had been causing problems with an oil discharge was given an extensive tour of the premises and an offer of ( unspecified ) help with his car ( this case , together with the lavish hospitality of the McDonald 's case described in Chapter 2 , were the only examples of an inducement , however vague , being made in my presence ) . |
| 7 | It was explained to her that her wound was the source of the discomfort and she was given an intramuscular injection of pethidine 75 mg . |
| 8 | He also claimed that player-coach Newberry was given an early bath for ‘ questioning a decision ’ . |
| 9 | The destroyer HMS Campbeltown was given an explosive warhead to ram against the outer caisson . |
| 10 | Thus we can say that in traditional Celtic societies the bard was given an honoured place in the official organization of the ‘ kingdom ’ or ‘ tribe ’ . |
| 11 | In July he was given an Irish peerage as Viscount Fitzhardinge , and would have received an English title had the king not been conscious of hostility to his courtiers in the English House of Commons . |
| 12 | Bride-to-be Sarah was given an extra wad of £20 notes by Barclays to make up the wages of 12 hotel workers . |
| 13 | His comment that the Moroccan event which this year was given an extra cash injection of £125,000 , was a ‘ bit of an amateur sham ’ , has upset the local organisers , and European tour chief executive Ken Schofield . |
| 14 | The London County Council was given an administrative home when their County Hall , Which had been erected on the south bank of the River Thames , at the foot of Westminster Bridge , was officially opened by King George V , in July 1922 . |
| 15 | Mr. Morgan was given an administrative post in the Traffic Development Office ( see Appendix C for biographies ) . |
| 16 | Joseph Berkas , an Austrian philatelist who got into a spot of bother with the police following a misunderstanding at his digs , was given an absolute discharge when his case went before a court in Vienna . |
| 17 | She was given an absolute discharge and ordered to pay Pounds 40 costs . |
| 18 | Sheila , 56 , was given an absolute discharge at Blyth , Northumberland , after admitting breaking a smoking ban . |
| 19 | Ronald Hutchinson , 70 , of Heaton , was given an absolute discharge and ordered to pay £1,170 compensation . |
| 20 | Roberts , who pleaded guilty to driving with excess alcohol in his breath , was given an absolute discharge but banned from driving for 12 months . |
| 21 | Mr Neilsen was given an absolute discharge , told to pay £10 compensation and £350 in costs . |
| 22 | Nacro was given an absolute discharge , but the county council was fined £200 and ordered to pay more than £450 costs . |
| 23 | In 1981 John Bryce , a former partner in an Edinburgh firm of investment managers , pleaded guilty and was given an absolute discharge after depositing £1400 compensation . |
| 24 | This west front was given an additional attic storey . |
| 25 | If the ulcer had healed , the patient started a maintenance regimen of ranitidine ( 150 mg at night ) otherwise he or she was given an additional supply of ranitidine ( 300 mg at night ) . |
| 26 | Inman was retired prematurely and his post abolished , and Hunt was given an annual salary of £1,000 for a minimum of one day a week at the Office , although according to the Secretary , he was usually there ‘ nearly half a week ’ . |
| 27 | Each verse was given an increasing number of translations , all in voice-over , and soon a babble arose , noisome to the ears , and a great confusion was made . |
| 28 | The controversy was given an authoritative boost by the 1976 report of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution , chaired by Sir Brian Flowers , Rector of Imperial College and a part-time member of the Atomic Energy Authority . |
| 29 | In 1872 Baron Julius de Reuter , a British subject , was given an exclusive concession to build railways and to mine almost all of Persian minerals . |
| 30 | She was an untrained actress who was given an enormous task of carrying so many episodes in the early days . ’ |