Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The British Isles became , in 1941–43 , a giant aircraft-carrier punished by German raids but giving more than was received as the air war was intensified by 1943 . |
| 32 | A former Soho waiter and later assistant banqueting manager at the Savoy Hotel , he was interned when the war with Italy broke out , but was later released to join the Pioneer Corps . |
| 33 | He said the hazards of long-term smoking were far greater than was realised when the link with lung cancer was first made 40 years ago . |
| 34 | Montenegro 's complement of seats in the FRY Assembly was filled when the Montenegrin Assembly on July 2 elected a further five deputies to the Chamber of Republics . |
| 35 | RISC I was developed as the university believed it was feasible to build a single chip computer faster than the Digital Electronics Corporation 's VAX-11/780 , a CISC design . |
| 36 | ‘ I 'll give you your letter back , miss — unread , ’ the police-sergeant told Rosalind , with a grin , ‘ but I 'd like to keep the envelope , please , because it 's got a nice glossy surface and the man your sister saw stealing bulbs has left two lovely big fingerprints on it , which may or may not enable us to find out who he is , but will certainly prove whether the gardener who was sacked as the thief is innocent . |
| 37 | After a short successful test flight it was wrecked when a pilot in a Bristol Fighter landed on top of it , and rebuilding had to begin . |
| 38 | And in April 1990 , Brooke Meadow housing estate in the town was wrecked when a lorry-load of mortars blew-up opposite Mahon Road security base . |
| 39 | So , for example , the rule was broken when the court heard one side in the absence of the other . |
| 40 | The silence was broken as the telephone rang and he said , ‘ I must go . |
| 41 | Here it was held that the chain of causation was broken where the buyer continued to use the goods with actual knowledge of the breach , as regards subsequent consequential loss ( compare Basildon District Council v JE Lesser ( Properties ) Ltd [ 1985 ] QB 839 ) . |
| 42 | A COMMUTER train was delayed while the driver plucked a pheasant on the platform , it was claimed last night . |
| 43 | According to the official statement the process was delayed because the census had still to be completed and the election code had not been adopted by the HCR . |
| 44 | The decision to lift the 1986 embargo on iron , steel and gold coins was taken in April 1991 [ see p. 38132 ] but implementation was delayed when the minority Danish government failed to win the necessary parliamentary support [ see p. 38318 ] . |
| 45 | To add to their misery , the flight was delayed when the plane had to land at Belfast because of bad weather . |
| 46 | A more straightforward case is that concerning Jack Straw 's Castle , which was listed after a scheme was submitted to cover the courtyard with a new restaurant . |
| 47 | The Comet was listed after the damage had been done , and with the Prospect Inn it was necessary to itemise all the things that had not changed , since the superficial impression of change was predominant . |
| 48 | The family of a five year old boy who was crushed when a wall collapsed are to sue their local council . |
| 49 | During the late 1980s the line to Doncaster was severed when the swing–bridge over the River Ouse are Goole was damaged by a Swedish freighter on 23 November 1988 . |
| 50 | The difference between a town Hells Angel and a country Hells Angel was epitomised when a Gravedigger went round to get a colleague to assist in the ensuing skirmish . |
| 51 | The vast mountaintop panorama was forgotten as the focus of the world shrank to six inches away from his nose . |
| 52 | A certain amount of research into the effects of ageing went on in that period ( and not only in Britain ) but much of it was forgotten when the crisis of ageing and labour shortage seemed less acute in the 1960s — the ‘ age of automation ’ ( Bagrit , 1965 ) , of greater availability of female and immigrant labour and of youth . |
| 53 | A senior Australian UN officer was wounded when a helicopter of the UN advance mission in Cambodia was hit by gunfire on Feb. 26 while flying over Khmer Rouge-controlled territory in Kompong Thom Province . |
| 54 | A 16-YEAR-OLD boy who fired a catapult at a low-flying Sri Lankan air force helicopter yesterday was wounded when the copter 's gunner mistook him for a Tamil terrorist and shot back at him . |
| 55 | The other man was rescued after an officer held out his truncheon and pulled him ashore . |
| 56 | She was rescued when the door behind her suddenly opened and one of the junior chemists put his head round the door . |
| 57 | Light from some distant objects was emitted before the sun first shone , and has been making its way to mankind 's eyes throughout the history of the earth . |
| 58 | An emergency EC summit was called for Aug. 23 , but was cancelled after the coup collapsed . |
| 59 | a proposed meeting between officers of the Board and the LEA was cancelled as the county council had no clear policy over adult educational provision and the only result of the proposal was confirmation of the LEA 's existing policy of specific grant-aid . |
| 60 | But luckily for golf this was cancelled when the land was ear-marked for a camp site instead . |