Example sentences of "was [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the declaration of the Schuman Plan in May 1950 , European union was to acquire a new momentum and dimension , one that would proceed on a narrower front with the involvement of only a few countries , and in policy terms with a much more specific focus than that held by those who dreamed of European political federation . |
| 2 | In his youth , his first ambition was to take holy orders ; his second was to acquire a thorough knowledge of medicine . |
| 3 | Concurrent with these military developments the British aircraft industry was waging a losing battle with the Americans for a large share of the civilian passenger and freight markets . |
| 4 | At his feet their five-year-old , Wu , was waging a ferocious battle between two armies of miniature dragons , their tiny power packs making them seem almost alive . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ I was maintaining a tactful silence . ’ |
| 7 | Supposedly he was in disgrace for an affair with a female student ( the AFPFL , and particularly the Communists , were strictly puritanical ) but he was preaching a stiffer line against the British than any of the others . |
| 8 | He believed that Paris was seeing a forward surge in the arts . |
| 9 | I was very proud of having got movement back in my second leg and was twiddling my toes , but he thought that he was seeing a bloody ghost . |
| 10 | The vamp was soon turning into a lady again though , and by the third song , a moody version of the classic Little Anthony and the Imperials hit ‘ Tears On My Pillow ’ , the audience was seeing a sophisticated side to Kylie too . |
| 11 | I was seeing a different Tom again . |
| 12 | She had dropped stitches continually in her knitting ( she was knitting a yellow angora sweater for Victoria ) and started whenever the shop-bell jangled or the parakeet muttered a few words to itself . |
| 13 | His lawyer said the unnamed woman was demanding a great deal of money . |
| 14 | I was demanding a big rise in salary , just to prove my worth ; and Andrew was refusing to give it to me , as a matter of principle . |
| 15 | ‘ All that remained was to kill a few hours in town , so I went to visit an old friend . |
| 16 | Umberto , Alejandro 's laziest groom , was holding tightly on to her , while Raimundo , who was wearing a leather apron to protect his Gaucho pants , his little eyes glinting with pleasure and cruelty , was attaching a long lead rope to her headcollar . |
| 17 | England 's one fitness doubt tomorrow concerns Phillip DeFreitas , who was resting a sore elbow yesterday , but otherwise their major problem is whether to play both their spinners . |
| 18 | The position might be more delicate if , say , a central purpose of the exchange 's action was to affect a particular non-member , or the way in which it was carrying on its business . |
| 19 | I went in the belief that I was encouraging a modern renaissance of the Egyptian theatre . |
| 20 | For example , he identifies Debord as the source of Godard 's innovations : ‘ Indeed , well over a decade before Godard 's Vent d'Est , Debord was producing a revolutionary , materialist ‘ counter-cinema ’ . ’ |
| 21 | The business became well established and , by the early 19th century , was producing a wide range of blotting papers . |
| 22 | In 1988 , I was producing a major women 's conference at the Barbican and we needed a big bank of flowers . |
| 23 | The moralization of public life , under pressure from evangelicals , was producing a new language of politics and an insistence that men holding public office should outwardly subscribe to respectable standards of personal conduct . |
| 24 | The Spanish Civil War was producing a stronger antagonism to Fascism and the National Government than had previously existed in the Opposition . |
| 25 | Within two years of the investment the company , realizing that it could now offer customers more custom-built specifications , was producing a considerable range of products from the new machines . |
| 26 | He was angry that the next day 's Guardian was to carry a damning review of Etruscan Pots Reconsidered , and more angry that this was common knowledge . |
| 27 | Peter Davies , the 1988 winner of the silver arrow , was using a composite bow in order to have a better chance of winning , but next year he intended to shoot longbow for he thought this was really a longbow tournament . |
| 28 | ‘ One time , back in the Metaltronix days , I got a call from a violinist who was in one of the Philharmonic orchestras , and she was using a Perfect Connection preamp for her electric violin . |
| 29 | Long before humans devised the sniperscope , this strange fish was using a similar surveillance system . |
| 30 | He was using a modern style of movement therefore the rise and fall of his design had far greater dimensions and therefore greater emotional content , His dancers had to parallel the sonorities of Fauré 's solemn ritual of mourning . |