Example sentences of "was [verb] [prep] [be] [adj] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could n't threaten the Soviet Union directly because the Soviet Union was a nuclear power and could n't be threatened er so the course of action he took was intended to be moderate and to secure the objective solely of removing the missiles from Cuba , not of doing anything about the Cuban government or the regime or anything of that sort . |
| 2 | He could n't threaten the Soviet Union directly because the Soviet Union was a nuclear power and could n't be threatened er so the course of action he took was intended to be moderate and to secure the objective solely of removing the missiles from Cuba , not of doing anything about the Cuban government or the regime or anything of that sort . |
| 3 | With 27 ministries and little co-ordination between them it was recognized to be cumbersome and inefficient . |
| 4 | But in so doing , they ignored a continuing problem ; and they created a new one , for the price they paid for the French troops who solved the English military problem was a monarch who was taught to be French and Catholic , and who would return to her country only when both these things clashed with the prevailing balance of power in Scotland . |
| 5 | By November , Wigan were promising to scour the world for a cure , while Hanley in his enforced idleness was reported to be depressed and frustrated . |
| 6 | This is in contrast to the sociology of knowledge which was designed to be non-evaluative and not to distinguish between false and true knowledge . |
| 7 | What a child found out for himself was deemed to be real and usable knowledge , while what he learned ‘ parrot-fashion ’ was not . |
| 8 | The analysis required that any relative with Crohn 's disease in the ulcerative colitis group was considered to be normal and vice versa in the Crohn 's disease group . |
| 9 | Despite extensive flight testing and development , the project was considered to be uneconomical and was shelved in 1975 . |
| 10 | The effect of sanctions on the island 's weak economy , highly dependent on trade with the USA , was expected to be instantaneous and food and oil supplies were already reported to be nearly exhausted . |
| 11 | Rather it was the whole ethos of the monarchy which was felt to be dowdy and second-rate . |
| 12 | As long as power was concentrated in the ownership of land , time was felt to be plentiful and was primarily associated with the unchanging cycle of the soil . |
| 13 | The 76-year-old was said to be shocked and upset by the incident . |
| 14 | An instructor Karen Gardner , 21 , was said to be stable and the other instructor , Anthony Mann , 23 , stable and comfortable . |
| 15 | The event was supposed to be staged a couple of weeks back , but was postponed because Lewis was said to be unwell and still in America . |
| 16 | Mr Rushdie , who went into ‘ deep hiding ’ after his appearance , was said to be depressed and disappointed by the hard-line Iranian renewal of the edict . |
| 17 | He was said to be super-strong and super-virile , invulnerable to mortal harm , and had occupied the throne for more than two centuries . |
| 18 | Eleanor , on the other hand , was said to be beautiful and lively ; she was certainly headstrong and indiscreet . |
| 19 | The atmosphere in the the Ynys Hywel Countryside Centre at Cwmfellinfach , overlooking his Islwyn constituency , was said to be grim and depressed . |
| 20 | Knox modestly demurred , but the meeting was said to be happy and humorous . |
| 21 | She also suffered from epilepsy and diabetes but was said to be happy and cheerful despite her disabilities . |
| 22 | If symptoms of disease occurred during any five day reintroduction then that particular food was said to be suspect and was temporarily omitted from the diet . |
| 23 | He was said to be level-headed and unlikely to be affected by a few fancy words . |
| 24 | The princess was said to be furious and Channel 4 came under fierce attack from MPs who said the drawings were highly insulting . |
| 25 | She was decided to be agreeable and unobtrusive . |
| 26 | The tailwheel was made to be retractable and a third seat was added along with a gun position . |
| 27 | The bricks it was built of were old and crumbly and very pale red . |
| 28 | He did n't explain why it was going to be helpful and the pilot told him the car he 'd specified was waiting for them . |
| 29 | The train was going to be late and there was nothing left in first class . |
| 30 | After two hours she no longer believed that ordinary delays were keeping her daughter , who , according to her mother , was usually very punctilious about telling her if she was going to be late and where she was going as she knew her mother worried . |