Example sentences of "[noun] was [verb] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The stone free date corresponds to the first time the gall bladder was considered to be free of fragments and sludge . |
| 2 | He advocated the combined system and regretted that , at the very moment when state aid was going to be available for the education of the deaf and dumb for the first time , oral teaching was recommended by the Report of the Royal Commission . |
| 3 | The electorate was expected to be weary of elections and possibly apathetic as well . |
| 4 | By Nov. 24 the death toll was said to be 214 , with 300 seriously wounded . |
| 5 | Oil revenue was expected to be 257,000 million francs CFA , with other revenue ( excluding loans ) set at 181,000 million francs CFA ; the investment budget was set at 102,000 million francs CFA . |
| 6 | Although the SLORC promised to respect the result , the opposition was reported to be reluctant to claim victory before ascertaining the response of the country 's effective ruler Gen. Ne Win , and of the Directorate of the Defence Services Intelligence ( DDSI — the secret police ) . |
| 7 | Mr Akashi insists on looking on the bright side : Khmer Rouge artillery was known to be inaccurate and their shells often failed to explode , he said . |
| 8 | As previously reported , the serum gastrin concentration was found to be high in the renal failure patients compared with those with normal renal function . |
| 9 | The retirement of the Rev William Sleight was intended to be partial . |
| 10 | Professor Jack Shaw , the SHEFC 's chairman , said the system for allocating funds was meant to be predictable and would allow clear budgeting and stability at a time when student numbers have been growing rapidly , some fee levels have been cut sharply , and large efficiency gains expected . |
| 11 | For all these reasons the future was thought to be uncertain . |
| 12 | Over 35,000 plant species were carefully screened for anti-cancer properties , and yew bark extract was found to be effective against tumours in mice . |
| 13 | As far as myself , Mike and Marius were concerned , this was a good thing , as it meant that the march was going to be tough and that those of us who finished would deserve their white képis . |
| 14 | The TBC was intended to be self-financing , yet in 1960 it obtained only £5,002 from licences and £6,896 from advertising . |
| 15 | The tailwheel was made to be retractable and a third seat was added along with a gun position . |
| 16 | HMI methodology was found to be inadequate and the research findings of Bennett 's team contradict HMI ‘ findings ’ . |
| 17 | Although an attempt was made to be representative in the choice of these films it is clear that if the effects observed are of any practical significance it should be possible to observe them on a more varied stimulus set . |
| 18 | This practice was held to be lawful in an earlier case , in which Lord Justice Woolf referred to ; |
| 19 | Whether in fact any such obligations have been created depends on the construction of the lease ; and there is nothing which requires the lease to be constructed in such a way as to avoid , if possible , the creation of such obligations ( Bradshaw v Pawley [ 1980 ] 1 WLR 10 , where liability for rent was held to be retrospective ) . |
| 20 | It was not that ruffianism was thought to be funny , but the radical and socialist press wished to place a different emphasis on the criminal question which took full account of the social and material circumstances of working-class life . |
| 21 | In spite of himself , the lawyer was beginning to be interested . |
| 22 | It was agreed that systematic use should be made of the words ‘ safety ’ , ‘ security ’ ( a word Labour was believed to be fond of and which might therefore be turned to advantage ) , and ‘ support ’ . |
| 23 | The parser was shown to be incapable of processing garden-path sentences ( i.e. sentences which cause incorrect syntactic premises to be made e.g. ‘ the cotton clothing is made of grows in Mississippi ’ ) . |
| 24 | In Jones v Livox Quarries , the plaintiff 's position on the traxcavator was held to be one of the causes of his damage , although the most obvious risk to the plaintiff was that he would fall off . |
| 25 | Yeah , yeah , I 'm , none the less we have got the comments of three , three in front of us and we see that the accumulate effect was going to be dangerous in the extreme if the money is not forthcoming |
| 26 | Sometimes Henry wondered whether the junk food industry was going to be able to take the kind of demands Maisie was going to make on it in the years ahead . |
| 27 | Frightening a woman by looking into her bedsit at eleven at night causing her to fear violence was held to be immediate despite the fact that the victim could have escaped in the time it would have taken for the accused to get to her : Smith v Chief Superintendent , Woking Police Station ( 1983 ) 76 Cr App R 234 ( DC ) . |
| 28 | The alternative was believed to be another Great Crash.The maxim ‘ Waste not , want not , ’ became obsolete too ; ‘ waste not , work not ’ was the new fear . |
| 29 | A Hungarian with relatives employed at a Timisoara hospital told Budapest radio that at least 250 bodies had been admitted to one hospital and that the death figure was bound to be higher . |
| 30 | At least 33 people were killed in the Bahamas , Florida ( where the death toll was greatest ) and Louisiana , although the final figure was expected to be higher . |