Example sentences of "[adj] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | USED FLEETINGLY in the military manoeuvres of September 1912 near Cambridge , Cody Biplane No 304 was presented to the Science Museum the following year . |
| 2 | Thus now the Germans , after the costly failure of their first series of attacks on the Mort Homme , decided they could proceed no further until Côte 304 was theirs . |
| 3 | With some force he told von Knobelsdorf , the Crown Prince 's Chief-of-Staff , that it would be pointless pursuing the attacks on the Mort Homme until Côte 304 was finally conquered . |
| 4 | Finally , under the obscurity of dust and smoke the Germans managed to get a foothold on the summit , but it took three more days of bitter close combat before the vital Côte 304 was finally theirs . |
| 5 | The final of the Carlsberg Tens was won by Aliens from Japan , who accounted for White Hart Marauders 24-12 . |
| 6 | Yes , the reason why we picked a forty year lifespan of work or working life er with four tens was because Professor Good himself told us that er on their research the common employment pattern today is in fact four employers over the working life and of course that is very different from the experience of many pensioners who are drawing today from their pension funds , because many of them were long-term , long-service employees throughout their lives with one employer . |
| 7 | At Brora the date 1895 was on the station building . |
| 8 | In Germany , the drift was more rapid : whereas 35.8 per cent of the population of 1895 was connected directly with agriculture , in 1907 this figure had sunk to 28.6 per cent . |
| 9 | Assuming that income per member was about the same as in 1893 , the membership at the end of 1895 was about 4,700 . |
| 10 | Perhaps the most influential of the European ecological botanists was the Dane , Eugenius Warming ( 1841–1924 ) , whose Plantesamfund of 1895 was translated into German the following year and into English as Oecology of Plants in 1909 . |
| 11 | In 1881 the 35th was linked with The 107th Regiment of Foot , which was raised in 1854 as part of the Bengal Infantry . |
| 12 | This was the beginning of ACET . |
| 13 | This was coordinated from the living room of a local doctor . |
| 14 | This was in September 1989 and he has been in prison since . |
| 15 | This was the plea of a young Eritrean boy as he was being dragged back to the plane that had just brought him to the UK , when in September 1990 , he and his sister were denied access to the asylum procedure . |
| 16 | This was difficult to understand for impassioned artists who saw Surrealism and Abstraction as struggling for the soul of modern art . |
| 17 | It might be thought that this was a natural consequence of the popularity of great artists , but in fact the economics of publishing result in some bizarre decisions about art books . |
| 18 | His aim in this was as far as possible to translate changes of tones into changes of colour , feeling that only by this method could the full saturation and pressure of colour be realized . |
| 19 | But this was a drama , the story of the circumstances of Van Gogh 's life ; ‘ No attempt has been made , ’ wrote Meier-Graefe , ‘ to make a critical analysis of the pictures , which enter upon the scene only in so far as they concern the drama directly or indirectly . ’ |
| 20 | This was not his intention but iconographical echoes of this sort do not surprise him . |
| 21 | This was Ursula of the long blonde hair and double-barrelled baronial-barbaric surname ( withheld by Behrens ) , who had fled what survived of ancestral estates — on one view of the matter — and had made her courageous way across Europe , shot at and winged by border guards , to Vienna , and on to London , where she fell among art historians and was counselled by Anthony Blunt . |
| 22 | This was hubris , pure and simple … |
| 23 | I think myself that this was the case , and that it scarcely makes him very different from many other hard-working people . |
| 24 | This was not , however , ‘ personal ’ . |
| 25 | This was none of your mensa-a-table , this was a flash from the forbidden planet , and it was everywhere . |
| 26 | This was none of your mensa-a-table , this was a flash from the forbidden planet , and it was everywhere . |
| 27 | Yes , and my parents had booked the audition for the Central School and found me a bed-sit in Swiss Cottage and being completely naive it was assumed that this was where I would be going . |
| 28 | I finally made it into Webber Douglas where I finally realised that this was where I belonged . |
| 29 | This was despite the fact that the reform of Irish catholicism in the nineteenth century sprang mainly from urban areas . |
| 30 | This was seen to be the democratic process at work . |