Example sentences of "was [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cimetidine was replenished every day and was given from day 0 to the end of the experiment . |
| 2 | This victory was to delight the masses just as it brought little pleasure to the newly energized forces of the political left , but , just as significantly , it was now also an occasional delight to a growing audience drawn from amongst critics , intellectuals , and the more respectable classes generally . |
| 3 | It was stopped a while afore I mind . |
| 4 | Kriss Akabussi , World and Olympic finalist , when he was stationed in the Army in Germany brought a new car into Britain and was stopped a number of times on his way to Hampshire . |
| 5 | ‘ Last time I was stopped the car had a bell . |
| 6 | In 1540 he transformed the office of Wards , formed in 1503 , into the Court of Wards , to which was joined the office of Liveries in 1542 . |
| 7 | The French Navy passed the problem to the DGSE who at first suggested that the simplest course of action was to tow the Rainbow Warrior out to the test area . |
| 8 | It was not until the Basque iron deposits were exploited by foreign capital , instead of by the archaic techniques of the Basque miners , that Spain was to acquire a substitute for wool . |
| 9 | There the Revenue argued that , at the time the tax payers subscribed their shares , Newco did not exist for the purpose of carrying on a trade ; its only identifiable purpose was to acquire a business . |
| 10 | He often said that he never really wanted to be a dancer , and his only purpose was to acquire the knowledge of dancing necessary to become a choreographer . |
| 11 | Pinochet had ordered his own investigations into the affair , as had the government , which denied on Nov. 12 that it was waging a campaign against the Army . |
| 12 | Pasok denied yesterday it was waging a battle on two fronts . |
| 13 | In those days the old Empire News was waging a circulation battle in the West Country . |
| 14 | France was maintaining an army of 150,000 men in Indo-China , of whom , by the end of 1949 , 16,000 were killed or missing . |
| 15 | Our custodians used to be dressed in the same uniform as prison warders and their task was maintaining the monument and its grounds . |
| 16 | Philip of Swabia , meanwhile , was maintaining the illegality of the meeting on the grounds that there was a legitimate heir , that oaths had been taken to that heir by all the princes and that , furthermore , few of them had been present at Andernach . |
| 17 | At the next table , the black African diplomat was impressing the girl he was with . |
| 18 | Jacques was speaking enthusiastically about the crop of grapes which the vines had produced , and was prophesying a bumper harvest . |
| 19 | ‘ Nurse Dungarvan , why did you not explain at once that Mr Leland was seeing a patient in here ? ’ |
| 20 | Ken himself was seeing a psychiatrist because of his own depressions . |
| 21 | Agassi was seeing a specialist in Seattle in a bid to beat the injury which kept him out of the French Open . |
| 22 | Myler , 31 , was seeing a specialist amid fears he could be advised to quit . |
| 23 | I knew that there was a problem and made a note of it erm that it was hereditary and that he was seeing a consultant , but there 's other parts of the C C Q that would actually relate to that and go into it in a lot more detail |
| 24 | I thought I was seeing a ghost . |
| 25 | Now , though , she was seeing a Mickey that she did n't know . |
| 26 | ‘ Listen to this , ’ he said , and read a passage : ‘ I was seeing a colleague from work , but just as a friend , because I need someone to talk to . |
| 27 | Late on Friday afternoon Shelley was trying not to think of the exciting young Miguelito , while she was seeing a family of four children who had all caught chickenpox . |
| 28 | ‘ I knew that Elise was seeing a lot of someone . |
| 29 | It was as if she was seeing a stranger , a stranger with her daughter 's face and body . |
| 30 | One of the chief pleasures was seeing the reunion of many people who had first-hand experience of travelling or working on the Line , and met against after many years . |