Example sentences of "[vb -s] was [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | George Headley and Learie Constantine were the giants of the early Test years who did most to establish the team ; Garfield Sobers was for twenty years the supreme all-rounder of the game 's history ; Clive Lloyd devised the concept of a quartet of pace bowlers who would carry all relentlessly before them . |
| 2 | The highly organised St Stephen 's Society programme which she now leads was at that time a closed book to her ! |
| 3 | The first record of the term ‘ long-firm fraud ’ which Levi uncovers was in a journal of 1869 , while the obtaining of goods under the false pretence that one had an honest and solvent business is an activity with a much longer history . |
| 4 | To cross the Atlantic in the early Fifties from the modest hopes of Britain to the United , Euphoric , You-name-it-they-had-it States was to court vertigo . |
| 5 | Zimbabwe 's environment minister Herbert Murerwa ( who had also unsuccessfully advocated a limited legalisation of trade in rhino horns ) complained afterwards that the integrity of CITES was in question , and that politicians and pressure groups had ignored scientific evidence that southern African elephant populations were " not only healthy but growing " . |
| 6 | Back to his best Billy Lancaster , who goes from strength to strength each season , beat the talented Mark Jones , last year 's runner-up , by 21–16 , while Bob Severs was at his best to beat Michael Ryan 21–7 . |
| 7 | The one Kelly admits was to ‘ tell the truth ’ . |
| 8 | Peters was at his legs now , holding in his own transformed innards with one hand , and clutching at Cardiff 's leg with the other . |
| 9 | While Don Peters was on his feet on the second day of the meeting of the European Planning Committee , explaining his plan to rejuvenate the ailing British vehicle division , Fred Clasper was also on his feet setting in motion his scheme to put the final nail in its coffin . |
| 10 | On the day that Don Peters was on his feet at the EPC meeting , fighting for the survival of the British Vehicle Division and the jobs of the fifty thousand people it employed , Fred Clasper was setting in motion the third and final stage of his scheme to sabotage any possible chance of the company 's recovery . |
| 11 | There may however be a way of adapting it to say that the solipsist will be unable to use the term ‘ beetle ’ to communicate with his later self ( in a diary , perhaps ) , since what gives the term its meaning to him now can not be what was then in the box ( an object to which he now has no access ) but what he now thinks was in the box . |
| 12 | If I was a man and I thought the only way to get my jollies was by coughing up for a woman 's veal in a sorrel coulis , I would be suicidal . |