Example sentences of "was [verb] [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This practice was stopped after review indicated that it was not of diagnostic value in our hands . |
| 2 | Rolando Herrera was ratified as C.-in-C. of the navy [ for 1990 appointments see p. 37772 ] . |
| 3 | While the church was preaching and teaching , Brian sang with a Christian music group called Shekinah ( Hebrew for ‘ the presence of God ’ ) , performing at schools and universities . |
| 4 | However , at the first meeting of the convention on 25 April 1660 the House of Lords ordered Scobell to return the records to Browne , who was reinstated as clerk of the parliaments , making a declaration of loyalty to Charles II on 30 May . |
| 5 | Alijon Selekhbayev was reinstated as Chair of the Committee for National Security , a post from which he had been removed by Nabiyev on Aug. 4 . |
| 6 | He was reinstated as licenser on 30 September 1647 at the express request of the commander-in-chief of the parliamentary army , Sir Thomas Fairfax ( later second Baron Fairfax of Cameron , q.v . ) . |
| 7 | With the final removal of Bute from the king 's advisers in 1765 George Grenville forced Mackenzie 's removal , but in the 1776 administration of William Pitt , first Earl of Chatham , he was reinstated as lord privy seal for Scotland for life , at the same £3,000 salary but without power . |
| 8 | Jesus was designated as Messiah or ‘ Christed ’ by the coming of the Spirit to rest upon him , and he could claim that the prophecy of Isaiah 61:1 had been fulfilled — ‘ He has anointed me ( echrisen ) to preach the good news ’ ( Luke 4:18 ) . |
| 9 | It was interesting to note that the responses to the CRUS question as to whether a member of library staff was designated as training officer also indicated that title held is not necessarily indicative of time devoted to training . |
| 10 | After his brother , Robert , bishop of Chichester , was dismissed as chancellor in December 1340 the king resolved to do without clerical ministers and no other cleric held the office until five years had passed . |
| 11 | Catalino Macaraig was dismissed as Cabinet Executive Secretary in December 1990 [ see p. 37919 ] ; his replacement , Oscar Orbos , resigned in July 1991 , as did the Defence Secretary , Gen. Fidel Ramos [ see p. 38344 ] . |
| 12 | Their strategy was to claim that output targets were unattainable , and not to attain them . |
| 13 | In Paris in March , 1951 he assured Eisenhower , then Supreme Allied Commander in Western Europe , that with 12 extra infantry battalions plus the Vietnamese army which he was organizing and training , he would repel the anticipated Vietminh mass attack in September and go on to deal them a decisive blow . |
| 14 | Prior to its use in the EHA it was revised and pre-tested on two groups of DN trainees at the Brighton Polytechnic , where the author was completing a degree in professional nursing studies . |
| 15 | The spearhead of their sales drive was cooking and water heating , in which their major competitors were the gas boards . |
| 16 | Immediately after measurement of pancreatic blood flow , which lasted three to four minutes , the vena cava was exposed and blood was drawn into a 2 ml plastic syringe containing 0.2 ml heparin ( 200 IU ) ( Polfa , Poland ) . |
| 17 | He was disorganized and slobby . |
| 18 | No penalty was given and insult was added to injury when Brugge equalised through Staelens in the 50th minute . |
| 19 | Approval was given and reclamation started on an area of over 20 hectares to the North of Imperial Dock . |
| 20 | The cause of death was given as shock , internal haemorrhage in the chest cage , lesions in the left lung and all main arteries . |
| 21 | To determine whether enteric nerves participated in the response , intravenous hexamethonium ( 10 mg/ kg body weight ) was given or lidocaine ( 1% solution ) was placed on the serosa of the intestinal segment . |
| 22 | The Government 's most pressing task now was to see that inflation was brought down still further . |
| 23 | Another possibility , at that time very speculative , was to see whether allopurinol would prevent uric acid from being formed from xanthine in man . |
| 24 | THE PURPOSE OF the study was to see whether gender differences existed in a range of formal and informal exchanges between teachers and pupils according to gender . |
| 25 | The plan was to see if feminism had really had any impact on what was available by way of art books to the art-loving public . |
| 26 | The primary aim of the second trial was to see if eradication of H pylori led to resolution of intestinal metaplasia . |
| 27 | The idea behind the repetition was to see if performance improved with repetition ; the idea of the group discussion was to see if that improved performance . |
| 28 | ‘ I think the most famous sexual moment in the world was to go and conquest this person as my love , and I succeeded , ’ he laughs . |
| 29 | She was grazed and grass-stained from her fall , even more dishevelled because of having to fight her way through massed bushes . |
| 30 | Meanwhile , in laboratories in Essen , Bernard Prinz was suggesting that forest decline was caused by damage to foliage by ozone , another gas produced as a by-product of industry . |