Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] was [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During its course Borrow was instrumental in saving at least one man from drowning and , as a result , was mentioned in the Plymouth press . |
| 2 | The court held that there was no evidence to suggest that the decision to exclude was unreasonable on Wednesbury grounds . |
| 3 | Both relied heavily upon the goodwill of the private profession because the payment involved was minimal . |
| 4 | The technique used was lazy-bed cultivation which is a form of hand cultivation . |
| 5 | The light produced was equal to that from a medium sized candle . |
| 6 | The effect produced was unpleasant , nasty . |
| 7 | Angel One had argued in vain that the actual heroin loss involved was negligible , most of it having been moved on , and that the setting up of a new base was only a matter of time and resourcefulness . |
| 8 | Dull , physically unattractive and solidly Germanic , the new king was hardly the sovereign to arouse his subjects ' patriotic enthusiasm , and that in the opening years of his reign no invasion attempt occurred was due largely to his chief minister , the all-powerful Sir Robert Walpole . |
| 9 | Then you 'll hear from the second of officers namely the officers that went into the flat that were carrying the guns , carrying and who conducted the operation and from their evidence you 'll be able to judge whether or not the force used was reasonable and was necessary . |
| 10 | Another department studied was explicit about the residualist nature Of its services : |
| 11 | For their refreshment , to be eaten at their workplace underground , miners carried sandwiches and a metal flask of water or cold tea , and some sweet cold tea remaining was important to John . |
| 12 | It is thus not possible to tell whether the significance of the laterality effect observed was due to " same " and/or " different " trials . |
| 13 | These authors considered that the antiplatelet action observed was unrelated to effects on glycaemic control as the two effects were dissociated in time ( Poari et al , 1979 ) . |
| 14 | Greg Brittenham , from the National Institute of Fitness and Sport , coached Courier in running drills and discovered that the aerobic capacity Courier possessed was similar to marathon runners . |
| 15 | The test is clearly an objective one , in the sense that it is for the magistrates to say after the event whether or not what the defendant did was reasonable . |
| 16 | The Court of Appeal , after a full consideration of Lonrho , held that the omission of an allegation of intention to injure was fatal to the claim . |
| 17 | Pearl also required full real-time integration ; any dependency on batch updating was unacceptable . |
| 18 | Every moment of pleasure missed was painful to her . |
| 19 | Certainly my mother 's successful campaign to have the nearby men 's urinal closed was vigorous and rewarding . |
| 20 | Much good that 'd do her , if what his department suspected was true . |
| 21 | The damage done was considerable . |
| 22 | He 's had a series of clashes with Sony , which his counsel says was unhappy when he wished to play down his sex symbol image , and did n't put its back behind promoting recent albums . |
| 23 | Brian Leith 's job was to film the political campaign of a Sarawak conservationist , when the last thing the campaign needed was Western broadcasters hanging around . |
| 24 | Admitting that " the existing system of serf owning " had to change was so commonplace in mid-nineteenth-century Russia that its capacity to shock was minimal . |
| 25 | He referred to the six pack and my initial thought was well , what 's a six pack of Newcastle Brown Ale got ta do with Health and Safety ? |
| 26 | For the reasons given above , I am of the opinion the judge 's answer to the question posed was correct and I would dismiss this appeal . |
| 27 | Whether the girl consented was crucial to the case . |
| 28 | The most contentious issue discussed was Latin America 's attitude to Cuba following the change in its relationship with the former Soviet Union . |
| 29 | ‘ Much of the poetry studied was contemporary or near-contemporary , although many classes had encountered at least one poem by a first world war poet . ’ |
| 30 | How far this reorientation extended was likely to depend at least as much upon the responses of Western governments and the behaviour of the other states concerned as it did upon the Soviet authorities themselves . |