Example sentences of "was [adj] [verb] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Construction of the £2.3 million Stonehouse bypass in Lanarkshire , which was due to start next month . |
| 2 | The final task he set himself for his Presidency , which was due to end next year , was to weed out of the Regatta calendar all the rowing courses which could be made unfair by the wind . |
| 3 | So devastated were they when she announced that the term was due to end last week for a long Easter break that they begged her to let them continue . |
| 4 | He took his case to an industrial tribunal which was due to resume next week . |
| 5 | An industrial tribunal hearing his case was due to resume next week . |
| 6 | Unless she was prepared to take second place in his life . |
| 7 | Lee is even more Machiavellian : ‘ It is a safe bet that there are those in the Pakistan dressing-room who believe Javed Miandad was wrong to bat first , ’ he declares boldly on Friday morning . |
| 8 | Tracy Edwards , the British skipper of the Jordanian-sponsored all-women crew on Maiden , was delighted to finish 20th ( 18th on handicap ) at midday on Saturday . |
| 9 | With all the rain emptying itself over the Feyenoord Stadium it was hard to put last night 's match in the context of a World Cup which is more likely to present problems of heat than waterproofing . |
| 10 | And realised that she was n't quite sure what she was supposed to do next . |
| 11 | He had never heard of anyone actually reaching the German trenches , so he was n't sure what he was supposed to do next , and despite all the training he still found it hard to shoot on the run . |
| 12 | The dispute was likely to escalate last night after the principal , Dr David Kennedy , accused the union of operating hidden agenda and Jack Dale , lecturers ' union leader , accused the principal of irresponsible scaremongering . |
| 13 | The strongest link between the UPV and illegal acts of violence came with a series of bombings in 1969 which , ironically , the Protestant Telegraph was quick to blame first on the IRA and then on the Eire government . |
| 14 | It was better to go first from choice . |
| 15 | Alain Prost , France 's triple world champion , had moved in and Mansell was unwilling to play second fiddle . |
| 16 | He came back full of the experience and made us all quite envious , but he was able to see first hand what went on at the business end of the oil industry and picked up some useful knowledge for future reference when dealing with the oil men . |
| 17 | And the fact that he was able to finish sixth in the 1991 Champion Hurdle confirms a telling turn of foot . |
| 18 | Peter Roberts of Kuperard , who launched the charity scheme last year , says this is enough to purchase 350 mats ( against the 90 he was able to distribute last year ) , and he is planning to hand them out in the second week of January . |
| 19 | Morley Street was beaten 16 lengths and trainer Toby Balding said : ‘ The jockeys on the fancied horses were so busy watching each other that Adrian was able to get first run and nick it . ’ |
| 20 | The family was able to buy first the supermarket in Lordship Lane — or as he calls it , ‘ Hardship Lane ’ — then a string of other stores including a wholesalers business . |
| 21 | Because some of the volunteers subsequently joined my slimming and exercise classes which I hold weekly at the Holiday Inn in Leicester , I was able to hear first hand the kind of encouraging comments which only served to confirm what I was seeing with my eyes as each week passed . |
| 22 | Yesterday 's poor figures to 30 June were expected after the fire alarm and data storage group warned two weeks ago that it was unlikely to beat last year 's £10m . |
| 23 | The existence of the computer was first revealed last month in New Scientist ( 10 February , P 351 ) . |
| 24 | When the case was first heard last week , the judge , Harold Wilson wanted to know why police were n't called in in 1990 when Social services first knew of the abuse . |
| 25 | The sale was first mooted last October , but Hanson took out the injunction after Costain later announced it was concluding a sale with Altus , a venture-capital subsidiary of Credit Lyonnais , the French bank . |
| 26 | The leak was first discovered last December when the Challenger 's engines were test-fired in preparation for Challenger 's first , and the space shuttle programme 's sixth flight . |
| 27 | Reviews from the West Yorkshire Playhouse where the show was first seen last year suggest that it might be funnier than it sounds . |
| 28 | ‘ L'Esprit Français ’ was first issued last August and the second batch came in January ; more are promised for June . |
| 29 | But some incidents in his later career suggest that he was inclined to act first and let his legal advisers sort out the formalities later . |
| 30 | At the beginning of this century he joined the rather weird religious sect known as the Khlist , which cleaved to the belief that in order to receive absolution it was necessary to sin first . |