Example sentences of "was [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The place was reconsecrated Roman Catholic and the Little Sisters of Pity were in business . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ The architect 's plans for the changes made in nineteen hundred and ten when the Priory was reconsecrated Roman Catholic and the Little Sisters took over . ’ |
| 3 | Traffic behind and on the opposite carriageway was stopped ready for the police to take control . |
| 4 | I was stopped short by torchlight in my face . |
| 5 | On a visit to New York that summer I was stopped short by an elaborate poster on 47th Street welcoming all to Danny 's Den for drinks and food , and to see the appearance of ‘ the one and only Miss Ella Shields ( from London , England ) , the Original Burlington Bertie ’ . |
| 6 | After just eight minutes a strong drive by centre Pete Manning was stopped short of the line but the ball was quickly moved for scrum-half Watts to score . |
| 7 | It was cut low across the top and high above the thighs , and for a moment Lucy was stopped short by the thought that Jesus , it looked hell to wear , but would n't it just kill 'em on the disco floor back home ? |
| 8 | Chambers added a penalty goal for Banbridge after 15 minutes but Bangor were now well in control and Jeffrey McMaster almost got his name on the score sheet following a run down the left wing but he was stopped short and hooker Darryl Flanagan was up quickly for the try which Strutt converted . |
| 9 | For example the western margin of southern Africa has a relatively narrow continental shelf and a well-developed marginal upwarp , whereas the opposing margin of the eastern coast of southern South America to which it was joined prior to the break-up of Gondwana has a very broad continental shelf and no significant marginal upwarp . |
| 10 | The skraggin' o' the city was goin' good , from his point-a-view . |
| 11 | In the 1680s , when Colbert de Croissy was preaching honourable behaviour to his son , the theft or attempted theft of despatches was still a commonplace of diplomacy . |
| 12 | He was seeing small things with such clarity now . |
| 13 | Against that there 'll be seventeen percent of this population was seeing home-helps , five percent was seeing social workers . |
| 14 | Millions and millions of bits of information were still in her head , correctly labelled and neatly stored , but she could not work out the geography of this house , she was seeing green tigers and she was afraid in a way she had not been since childhood . |
| 15 | This fresh blow came just as Exxon felt it was struggling free from the morass of the Alaskan spill . |
| 16 | Liartes , by far the most cautious of the two brothers , was circling high above them . |
| 17 | The aim of this short exploratory project was to gather empirical evidence of scanning practices in the UK . |
| 18 | The new pole , painted in bands or blocks of red , white and blue — not striped as it is now — was erected complete with weathercock and the tradition was once again established . |
| 19 | German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher , in the context of meetings both of NATO and of the EC , was demanding swift recognition to avoid the creation of " uncertainties " . |
| 20 | I turned my head and , partially blinded by my chaos of hair , saw Leon was kneeling naked at my back . |
| 21 | During my relatively short period as a city detective , I was implicitly aware that quality had to be sacrificed to quantity , for the ‘ arrest list ’ was checked monthly and the numerical totals counted . |
| 22 | Wayne Cummings , 32 , was plucked unconscious from the water by the crew of an RAF helicopter more than three hours after the craft capsized off Llantwit Major , South Glamorgan . |
| 23 | On the left flank , three ridges north of Ypres — Bixschoote , St Julien and Pilckem — were taken in an advance of some 3.2km/2mls ; but on the right , the thrust southeast of Ypres , toward the Ypres-Menin road , was halted short of its objectives . |
| 24 | ‘ Like the good doctor Scawsby , I was completing certain errands — Scawsby was buying medicines for the Queen , ’ he yawned , ‘ I , of course , for the Lord Cardinal . ’ |
| 25 | Shortly after this fight , my father was reinstated amateur and , as an amateur , he fought for England against Germany in 1937 at the Albert Hall , beating Otto Kastner , the Olympic champion and Golden Gloves winner . |
| 26 | The ‘ new pathway ’ was to emphasise basic concepts rather than facts , topics were to be integrated , and clinical contact was to be introduced early . |
| 27 | The Turkish government was to uphold religious liberty and equality ; the recognition of the governments of Serbia and Bulgaria was made conditional upon their doing the same . |
| 28 | A decision which was to affect future events in Burma was now concluded in New Delhi . |
| 29 | The influence of the war was to affect social classes , groups and individuals in Britain in a variety of ways and many came to support fascism for disparate political , economic and social reasons . |
| 30 | National Office was producing new packs as soon as possible and these would be distributed free to tutors . |