Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [vb past] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The majority cited was not in fact the Belorussian Communists , since Russians predominated : the reference was to the Belorussian ethnic majority in the republic 's population . |
| 2 | The cynical might say that all the Prince needed was a mother for a future heir . |
| 3 | The cynical might say that all the Prince needed was a mother for a future heir . |
| 4 | Hence the provision made was in the form of public sector over spill , particularly at Longbenton , but also within Wallsend and Tyne mouth County Borough . |
| 5 | Therefore the letter is either a fake , or the diver the writer saw was a Russian still inspecting the ship for other British frogmen . |
| 6 | It was developed originally to promulgate priestly or legislative initiatives , and since these were collective and in some sense impersonal productions , what the writer meant was to all intents and purposes recoverable from what he wrote down . |
| 7 | The institutions involved were Eagle Star Investment Managers , Foreign & Colonial Ventures , Ivory & Sime Development Capital , NatWest Ventures and Rothschild Ventures . |
| 8 | As though he had suddenly realised that Curtis was bluffing him , frightening him into pleading for mercy in a pathetic attempt to humiliate him — or perhaps to force from him a confession of what the lieutenant claimed were his crimes against the whores he had exterminated . |
| 9 | ‘ What the sack did was make me very determined that next time round that I 'd do a better job . |
| 10 | The sentence imposed was correct . |
| 11 | By re-amended notice of appeal dated 30 August 1991 the defendants sought an order to set aside or vary the judge 's order or to order a retrial and sought leave to adduce fresh evidence on the grounds , inter alia , ( 1 ) that the judge had erred in law in failing to take into account ( a ) the lack of a penal notice on the order which it was claimed that the appellants had breached ; and ( b ) the plaintiff 's delay of 18 months in applying for the committal order ; ( 2 ) that the judge 's decision was arrived at without regard to fresh evidence which the defendants had obtained since the hearing , part of which related to matters subsequent to the hearing and the remainder of which could not have been obtained with reasonable diligence ; which , if given , would probably have had an important influence on the result , which was credible and which should , therefore , be admitted ; ( 3 ) that , alternatively , the court should exercise its discretion to admit the fresh evidence as the liberty of the defendants was at risk ; and ( 4 ) that the sentence imposed was excessive . |
| 12 | The technique used was lazy-bed cultivation which is a form of hand cultivation . |
| 13 | The measure used was simply the total number of accidents reported at a junction in this period . |
| 14 | Savory argued that a stranger to whom money had been paid in breach of trust could only be held liable as a constructive trustee to account for the money after he had parted with it , if it could be shown that he knew the money misapplied was trust money . |
| 15 | When the democratically-elected Colombian senate rejected Mr Roosevelt 's proposal because the money offered was too low , he sponsored an invasion instead . |
| 16 | The money raised was given to the Holy Childhood and the scheme was adopted by Australia and Scotland . |
| 17 | Up to 20 miles each was walked by dogs and owners on the 1 mile route round the Serpentine and the money raised was in excess of £1,200 . |
| 18 | In other words the money spent was one way of stopping ‘ leakage ’ to other denominations ; the new chapels also tended to enhance loyalty and to lessen disaffection over trifling matters . |
| 19 | The money involved was a considerable sum , but in those days Dunedin was New Zealand 's commercial capital and many big businesses were represented on the Otago CA . |
| 20 | The dream that the resort offered was of economic independence by being in business on one 's own . |
| 21 | Say was remanded to Royal Cornhill Hospital in Aberdeen and the case continued was without plea until Thursday . |
| 22 | All that the case decided was that the Food Controller was acting outside the Regulations since the Regulations did not give the power to tax . |
| 23 | On 6 December 1990 , the case stated was signed by the Special Commissioner and sent to the taxpayer . |
| 24 | In English , the text studied was A Kestrel for a Knave . |
| 25 | In other words , the graphs investigated were three times more likely to exaggerate , rather than underestimate , an upward trend . |
| 26 | The graphs investigated were three times more likely to exaggerate , rather than underestimate , an upward trend |
| 27 | But Ms McGinley said she had refused to move because the houses offered were ‘ dirty , uninhabitable and dangerous ’ . |
| 28 | The programme and strategy mapped out before the election began was followed — down to Tuesday 's photo opportunity in a Cornish seal sanctuary — and was undiverted even by the War of Jennifer 's Ear . |
| 29 | A third way in which the courts have moved from considerations of procedural form to substance , is by interpreting the concept of fairness as allowing them to consider , in a general sense , whether the decision reached was fair and reasonable . |
| 30 | The decision is discussed more fully below , but it is of importance in the present context because the House of Lords explicitly disapproved of statements made in the Court of Appeal that a court could exercise a general power to consider whether the decision reached was fair and reasonable . |