Example sentences of "was [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kriss Akabussi , World and Olympic finalist , when he was stationed in the Army in Germany brought a new car into Britain and was stopped a number of times on his way to Hampshire . |
| 2 | It was stopped a while afore I mind . |
| 3 | With the declaration of the Schuman Plan in May 1950 , European union was to acquire a new momentum and dimension , one that would proceed on a narrower front with the involvement of only a few countries , and in policy terms with a much more specific focus than that held by those who dreamed of European political federation . |
| 4 | In his youth , his first ambition was to take holy orders ; his second was to acquire a thorough knowledge of medicine . |
| 5 | It was not until the Basque iron deposits were exploited by foreign capital , instead of by the archaic techniques of the Basque miners , that Spain was to acquire a substitute for wool . |
| 6 | There the Revenue argued that , at the time the tax payers subscribed their shares , Newco did not exist for the purpose of carrying on a trade ; its only identifiable purpose was to acquire a business . |
| 7 | Pasok denied yesterday it was waging a battle on two fronts . |
| 8 | Concurrent with these military developments the British aircraft industry was waging a losing battle with the Americans for a large share of the civilian passenger and freight markets . |
| 9 | In those days the old Empire News was waging a circulation battle in the West Country . |
| 10 | At his feet their five-year-old , Wu , was waging a ferocious battle between two armies of miniature dragons , their tiny power packs making them seem almost alive . |
| 11 | Pinochet had ordered his own investigations into the affair , as had the government , which denied on Nov. 12 that it was waging a campaign against the Army . |
| 12 | It was clear she was waging an internal battle with herself , but finally the actress in her won out , and she tossed her luxuriant hair back contemptuously . |
| 13 | ‘ I was maintaining a tactful silence . ’ |
| 14 | France was maintaining an army of 150,000 men in Indo-China , of whom , by the end of 1949 , 16,000 were killed or missing . |
| 15 | Supposedly he was in disgrace for an affair with a female student ( the AFPFL , and particularly the Communists , were strictly puritanical ) but he was preaching a stiffer line against the British than any of the others . |
| 16 | Jacques was speaking enthusiastically about the crop of grapes which the vines had produced , and was prophesying a bumper harvest . |
| 17 | He believed that Paris was seeing a forward surge in the arts . |
| 18 | The vamp was soon turning into a lady again though , and by the third song , a moody version of the classic Little Anthony and the Imperials hit ‘ Tears On My Pillow ’ , the audience was seeing a sophisticated side to Kylie too . |
| 19 | I was very proud of having got movement back in my second leg and was twiddling my toes , but he thought that he was seeing a bloody ghost . |
| 20 | I was seeing a different Tom again . |
| 21 | ‘ Nurse Dungarvan , why did you not explain at once that Mr Leland was seeing a patient in here ? ’ |
| 22 | Now , though , she was seeing a Mickey that she did n't know . |
| 23 | It was as if she was seeing a stranger , a stranger with her daughter 's face and body . |
| 24 | ‘ Listen to this , ’ he said , and read a passage : ‘ I was seeing a colleague from work , but just as a friend , because I need someone to talk to . |
| 25 | I thought I was seeing a ghost . |
| 26 | ‘ I knew that Elise was seeing a lot of someone . |
| 27 | Ken himself was seeing a psychiatrist because of his own depressions . |
| 28 | I knew that there was a problem and made a note of it erm that it was hereditary and that he was seeing a consultant , but there 's other parts of the C C Q that would actually relate to that and go into it in a lot more detail |
| 29 | Late on Friday afternoon Shelley was trying not to think of the exciting young Miguelito , while she was seeing a family of four children who had all caught chickenpox . |
| 30 | Agassi was seeing a specialist in Seattle in a bid to beat the injury which kept him out of the French Open . |