Example sentences of "was [verb] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The company sounded a note of caution yesterday when it said it was seeing margin pressure in some other areas of the business . |
| 2 | It was christened Homo habilis ( Handy Man ) . |
| 3 | The US wanted to be able to remove that screen with a fanfare to reveal a machine that was producing fusion energy . |
| 4 | It was feared the burning Alloprene was producing phosgene gas , carbon tetrachloride and hydrochloric acid . |
| 5 | His other principal concern was using steam power to open up the interior of Africa to trade . |
| 6 | In 1870 , G.F. Tabram was using Dyehouse Mill for shoddy . |
| 7 | During the last years of the century some of the school boards even became involved in secondary education , producing a confused pattern of educational growth that was to prompt government action at the beginning of the twentieth century . |
| 8 | One particularly macabre statue of Saint Sebastian , arrows poking out of every limb , was given centre stage . |
| 9 | She was given pethidine cover while it was done , and is resting now . |
| 10 | Bulstrode Whitelocke , English ambassador there in 1653 – 54 , was given £2,500 worth of the metal which was eventually cast into guns for the navy ( though he also received a miniature of Queen Christina in a diamond setting and the heir to the throne , the future Charles X , gave him a gold box set on one side with diamonds and with Charles 's portrait on the other ) . |
| 11 | A similar scheme was given outline planning permission in 1989 but the applicants did not go ahead and let the planning permission lapse . |
| 12 | The casino , containing restaurants and a flat for the owners , was given holiday spirit with a viewing platform reached by a spiral stair adjoining the entrance . |
| 13 | She was given Natrum muriaticum 10M with no effect . |
| 14 | He hung on until I came out and I was given embarkation leave or demob leave rather and I did n't even have a chance to have that , they wanted me down there so quickly , I think I came out of the forces one week and I was working down there the following week because was way past his retiring age . |
| 15 | The 19th session of the Islamic Conference Organization ( ICO ) Foreign Ministers ' conference met in Cairo on Aug. 1-5 under the chairmanship of the Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Esmat Abdel Meguid , and was attended by representatives from all member states ( now 44 , since the unification of Yemen in May 1990 ; Mozambique was given observer status on Aug. 1 , joining Nigeria and the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus ) . |
| 16 | Morag Taylor from Polmont was given community service . |
| 17 | CCETSW , in a survey of social work qualification courses , found one in nine did not include anything on substance problems , and only one in 20 students was given practice training with specialist alcohol or other drug services . |
| 18 | A BILL clamping down on asylum-seekers was given Commons backing last night , despite Labour protests that the legislation was ‘ profoundly flawed ’ . |
| 19 | He was given VIP treatment and was besieged by the media . |
| 20 | Top town : Lisburn Mayor Alderman Ivan Davis was given star attention from Kathy Reid and Jane Hodgers when he received awards for the 1992 Progressive ‘ Ulster in Bloom ’ competition . |
| 21 | This treaty was enlarged and extended on 24 June 1931 and it was given material expression in Afghan neutrality during the Second World War . |
| 22 | Each adult in the group of 51 who were sent back yesterday was given $30 pocket money , and each child $15 . |
| 23 | When Harry smeared away the blood from his face and opened his eyes again it was to see Isambard standing with one foot flattening the whip to the floor , and the bronze lantern of his face blazing with such an intensity of dangerous , silent fury that even Harry , who was no longer threatened , shrank with sympathetic dread . |
| 24 | This event was to see Erdodi/Baranyai way out ahead on their own . |
| 25 | The second part of Wade 's work was repairing Edinburgh Castle and Fort William , at the western end of the Great Glen which runs diagonally from Inverness right across Scotland and forms a natural barrier separating the northern third of the country from the rest . |
| 26 | In the years when Hartley was building Albert Dock and other extensions of the system , Liverpool was rapidly becoming established as the second most important port in Britain , and Albert Dock , which has outlived its usefulness , stands as a monument both to Hartley and to Liverpool 's Victorian prosperity . |
| 27 | Thirdly , by agreeing to hold the duchy of Aquitaine as an hereditary fief from the crown of France , Henry III was putting both himself and his heirs into an untenable position since a king in his own right was to perform liege homage to another king . |
| 28 | Since one of the functions of the project was to stimulate library awareness and development among all schools , and since as the project progressed more schools made active attempts to achieve necessary thresholds for inclusion , it follows that in the early years , appropriate schools were sometimes hard to find . |
| 29 | Dr Wyn came at lunchtime while Lydia was eating pheasant leg and wondering whether the goodness inherent in a broth made from pheasant carcase was sufficient to justify sneaking it , disguised as soupe bonne femme , on to the supper tray of an ailing vegetarian , and what her real motives were . |
| 30 | ‘ In those days I was eating Almond Toffee Creams and they came in much cracklier paper . ’ |