Example sentences of "was [verb] a [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1939 , as war looked increasingly likely , the clubhouse was designated a First Aid Post and a special three guineas Service subscription was introduced . |
| 2 | It was given a second one after the interval . |
| 3 | The Bill was given a Third Reading on 20th July and became law on 14th August , 1855 , with the short title , The Downing Street Public Offices Extension Act 1855 , but it was not until the following March that the Office of Works circulated the necessary notices to the tenants of property to be acquired . |
| 4 | They made one minor amendment on timing ; it was given a Third Reading on 5th April , and sent to the Lords . |
| 5 | The Bill was given a Third Reading in the House of Lords on 26 October 1965 by 169 votes to 75 . |
| 6 | Before the Vancouver summit with Boris Yeltsin , the Russian leader , he was devoting a third of his time to the summit agenda . |
| 7 | It was while he was bringing a second helping of kedgeree to Fishbane that the row broke out a few tables away . |
| 8 | The tiara was in essence a white cap , having two bands at the back like a mitre , but it had incorporated in it a coronet round the lower rim to which was added a second coronet under Pope Boniface VIII at the end of the thirteenth century , symbolizing sacerdotal and regal powers . |
| 9 | He said the secret was to hide a second box . |
| 10 | And now he was passing a second and more dilapidated pillbox and it struck him that the whole headland had the desolate look of an old battlefield , the corpses long since carted away but the air vibrating still with the gunfire of long-lost battles , while the power station loomed over it like a grandiose modern monument to the unknown dead . |
| 11 | PLM leader John Osborne , who was seeking a fourth consecutive term as Chief Minister , lost his seat and stated that he was retiring from politics . |
| 12 | Datuk Seri Mahathir Mohamed , Prime Minister since 1981 , was seeking a third term and led an 11-party multiracial National Front coalition ( Barisan Nasional ) , which held 133 seats in the outgoing parliament . |
| 13 | He was granted a second term by Home Secretary Kenneth Clarke in a move that effectively guarantees the existence of the Board for the foreseeable future . |
| 14 | Athelstan and Cranston looked at each other despondently as they left the church and reentered the priest 's house where the boy was lapping a second bowl of soup as hungrily as a starving dog . |
| 15 | So she was offered a second flat . |
| 16 | The second was to get my knitting room organised and the third was to buy a second machine ( a chunky ) . |
| 17 | From parliament he was promised a ninth on sheep , wool and corn for two years , a grant difficult to quantify and very easy , as it turned out , to overestimate . |
| 18 | There was intense opposition to these proposals but the only concession made in both instances was to require a second ballot if less than 50 per cent of those entitled to vote did so . |
| 19 | The function of the secondary speakers was to give a third dimension to the acoustical properties of the recording , and thus provide extra realism . |
| 20 | After it was found a second time — minus the tools — Mr Brettel , 48 , of Ash , Hants , said : ‘ I thought they were winding me up . |
| 21 | The old city was abandoned a second time , given over to romantics , theorists , transients and dogs . |
| 22 | In 1963 , the BBC was allocated a second TV channel ( BBC 2 ) and by the end of the decade there were also a large number of local , commercial , and non-commercial , radio stations . |
| 23 | By the time he moved to Aberdeen University in 1979 , becoming head of the department of politics and international relations , he was spending a third of his time researching and writing on it . |
| 24 | He was having a last vicious swipe at his father and his father 's religion . |
| 25 | Elsewhere in the Lakes the tourist industry was having a last determined autumn fling , but not here , not in this quiet and relatively undiscovered cul-de-sac . |
| 26 | that 's just they 're the people I 'm going to interview okay then you 've got example yesterday at approximately nine twenty Bacon 's technical college at went up in a barrage of smoke taking one life which is believed to be that of the caretaker who was having a last minute check before leaving the building in the evening . |
| 27 | What a man like Siward would do , who was hiding a second time in a forest and had blown the withdrawal within minutes of the Normans ' arrival . |
| 28 | That was to allow a second face to be opened to help speed up production . |
| 29 | Later , in 1855 , he was to name a thirteenth Tasmanian species , the scrub tit or Acanthomis magna , from a specimen sent to him by his friend Ronald Gunn . |
| 30 | Bristow , who has just regained the world No.1 ranking and was chasing a fifth title , lost 3-1 . |