Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 1–7 A powerful crane was building a new quay at Ardbeg distillery and a diver was laying the outer walls . |
| 2 | There were , of course , many very clear signs that organised religion was feeling the effects of rapid social change , and this served to reinforce the general philosophical position adopted by people such as Mary Whitehouse . |
| 3 | As this house was structurally sound the remedy was to do the work one room at a time . ’ |
| 4 | His remedy was to divide the garden with a wicker arch into two sections , to create an illusion of space . |
| 5 | The accountants ' view tended towards an acceptance of them as an inevitable consequence of credit trading and their remedy was to increase the bad debt provisions . |
| 6 | The remedy was to separate the essence of national life ( a language and a culture ) from the organization of economic activity , and embody it in a separate institution . |
| 7 | The objective of this association was to promote the adoption of the instruction of deaf children not through the use of sign language or any method that used it as then prevailed in many countries including the U.S.A. and Britain , but through oral methods to the total exclusion of sign language altogether . |
| 8 | We moved forward again some way and into the assault trenches — the Rifle Brigade was to form the second wave of the attack . |
| 9 | The deal was to finance the power station 's gas and steam turbines which will become operational in early 1993 . |
| 10 | The deal was given the go-ahead by the Department of Trade and Industry in spite of protests to the European Commission and the Office of Fair Trading by BA 's competitors . |
| 11 | In future the advice of the Lord Chief Justice and the trial judge was to be obtained immediately after sentence , whether the life sentence was mandatory or discretionary , but in the latter case the judicial view of the tariff was to determine the date of the first review by the Parole Board machinery . |
| 12 | Schrödinger 's original reason for putting forward this thought experiment was to demonstrate the folly , as he then believed , of the quantum theory : clearly it was ridiculous to think of a cat being neither dead nor alive — or , as an obvious corollary , both dead and alive at the same time . |
| 13 | The next phase of the experiment was to test the ability of the virus to produce immunity to the hepatitis antigen — something that the antigen on its own is not very good at . |
| 14 | The point of this experiment was to strengthen the alloxan data . |
| 15 | The purpose of the experiment was to train the dog to salivate at the sound of the tuning fork without food being present . |
| 16 | A blunt-speaking Yorkshireman was guarding the door of the barn where the pie was cooking when these men from the ministry approached and demanded admission . |
| 17 | At that time the senior inservice adviser was to convene the meetings ( though this was soon delegated to others and " some sort of rotating role " would be devised to fill the chair . |
| 18 | Radiotherapy was considered the best option for treatment but before this could be started , rapidly progressive dysponea developed . |
| 19 | By the last week of April the task force was nearing the Falklands . |
| 20 | To land a large , lightly armed force was dodging the realities of amphibious warfare when the difficulty of landing supporting weapons must be faced squarely . |
| 21 | This was the time when the old style of gabled manor was feeling the first breath of classical ideas . |
| 22 | However , the Supreme Soviet was to decide the strength and composition of armed forces and Interior Ministry troops , while the President was given the right to take decisions on the use of Interior Ministry troops in emergency situations . |
| 23 | On Aug 28 , Croatian television reported that the President was reducing the number of ministries from20 to 14 . |
| 24 | In Moscow , Yeltsin spokesmen said the president was awaiting the outcome of Mr Kozyrev 's US visit before deciding whether to ask Mr Clinton to transfer their planned Vancouver summit meeting next month to Moscow . |
| 25 | In 1311 , for example , he demanded one foot soldier from each vill for service in his projected campaign in Scotland , and the vill was to pay the soldier 's wages for seven weeks by means of a special aid levied on each vill by the sheriff . |
| 26 | TWENTY-five-year-old Lesley Fitzpatrick received a £2,000 cheque from the Royal Bank after her hairdressing salon was voted the most environmentally friendly business in the Scottish finals of the 1993 Live-Wire Business Start-Up Awards . |
| 27 | Her initial instinct was to hit out at him in violent retaliation , the insults unendurable and unanswerable in any other way , and yet at the same time , some still , small place of recognition at the centre of all that red-hot emotion was acknowledging the kernel of truth hidden within the offensive words . |
| 28 | Confronted with evidence that the performer in question was neither Japanese nor female , and in any event was dressed in pantaloons , Parkinson confessed that he had difficulty observing the performance , and that his object in making the allegation was to revoke the Aquarium 's dancing licence . |
| 29 | Marco was looking the other way . |
| 30 | The theory developed to account for these findings , Lapse Theory , proposed that the special effect of sleep loss was to increase the number of lapses in attention , possibly through " microsleeps " . |