Example sentences of "[coord] was [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was in The Little Review for May 1919 , where Williams was taking issue with praise of Eliot by one of Pound 's British friends , Edgar Jepson ; but Williams 's hostility to British culture ran deeper than that , and was to be a permanent feature of his outlook . |
| 2 | Mr Porras , considered a chieftain of the Medellin cocaine cartel , was arrested on Thursday in the northern town of Tulcan , about 10 miles from the Colombian border , and was to be handed over to Colombian authorities ‘ as a show of Ecuador 's support ’ for the drug crackdown , an Ecuadorean spokesman said . |
| 3 | Despite his busy schedule , he made time to visit the conference ‘ Geordie night ’ — a gathering of north eastern MPs and activists — and was to be found one evening at the Brighton Trade Union and Labour Club with his friend Michael Elliot , a political comedian with whom he toured the coalfields during the 1984-85 pits strike . |
| 4 | The second method was more peculiar to Morgan and was to be the source of many controversies in his time . |
| 5 | Purism was to be unsullied by ornament , fantasy or individuality and was to be inspired by the machine . |
| 6 | Co-operation with the LEAs was equally important and was to be sought on a basis of complementary provision rather than through competitive relationships . |
| 7 | Boyle had been , with one short break , continuously in Government office for eleven years and was to be the last Minister of Education , as Butler had been the first . |
| 8 | Seb had stopped taking Gloria out and was to be seen every night with the rest of his team running in shorts and a singlet round the Greycoats ' playing field , being timed by old Plumpton . |
| 9 | George Annand Mackenzie was active in the work of the British Deaf Association and was to be Missioner at Cardiff after leaving Cambridge in 1922 , retiring in 1931 . |
| 10 | He was already a canon of Notre-Dame-de-Paris , and was to be given the first vacant prebend at Bordeaux or Bourges by papal provision . |
| 11 | The commission for a new tomb for the philosopher , to replace the simple stone that marks his grave on the Catalan coast , had been given to the Israeli artist Dani Karavan in 1989 by the Arbeitskreis Selbständiger Kulturinstitut and was to be financed to the tune of DM1 million by the German Foreign Ministry . |
| 12 | In the late 1880s , he was able to make major improvements to this pen , and was to be found assembling them every evening in his hotel room . |
| 13 | He had specially designed a lovely brooch incorporating the Prince of Wales feathers , two polo sticks and a crown ; it was made in Welsh gold from the Gwynfynydd mine , with diamonds , emeralds , and rubies , and was to be auctioned after luncheon . |
| 14 | The authority initiating the request had , however , to be identified in the written request delivered by the consul , which was also to contain information about the parties and the nature of the document to be served and was to be prepared in the language of the state of destination . |
| 15 | Chiang visited Seoul and was to be followed by other Kuomintang emissaries until June 1950 . |
| 16 | Brenner was the prince 's man rather than Gloucester 's , and was to be removed from office after Richard 's accession . |
| 17 | The inter-war era saw the birth of some great cars , none of which could match the elegance and speed of the Type 35 Bugatti which first appeared in 1924 , and was to be credited with more than 2000 wins during its life-time . |
| 18 | At first it was conjectured that Dorman-Smith had gone to London to obtain a new policy , but on 5 August it was announced that he had resigned ‘ for health reasons ’ and was to be succeeded by Major-General Sir Hubert Rance , whom Mountbatten had appointed in May 1945 to head his military administration after he fell out with the Civil Affairs officers who wanted to get rid of Aung San . |
| 19 | The American art historian whom she had met in Perugia reappeared as professor on a sabbatical from his East Coast university , and was to be seen dining with Esther in restaurants beyond the reach of the undergraduate purse : the Arts Theatre Restaurant , Miller 's , the Garden House Hotel . |
| 20 | There is evidence to suggest that the walls which carried these pictures were not normally plastered but panelled , though plaster is used in the tombs of Etruria and Paestum , as it had been in Bronze-age palaces and was to be in Hellenistic tombs in Greece ( below , p. 176 ) . |
| 21 | Of his collaborative works with Herbert , Marble Hill and the White Lodge are classic examples of the first-generation Anglo-Palladian villa , of which the former in particular was to be a highly influential model amongst later designers ; while the bridge at Wilton is one of the most perfect and most memorably inventive of all Anglo-Palladian images , and was to be faithfully copied on four occasions — at Stowe ( by 1742 ) , Prior Park , Bath ( 1756 ) , Hagley ( by 1764 ) , and Amesbury ( 1777 ) . |
| 22 | Thereafter the dispute grew fiercer and was to be further exacerbated by Crowe 's royalist and the company 's parliamentarian sympathies . |
| 23 | The Scottish system offered an unequalled banking stability and was to be followed eventually by most industrialised nations . |
| 24 | The budget of the Transport Department was to increase to $26,900 million , and was to be directed primarily towards improving the country 's air traffic control system . |
| 25 | A new investment code was approved by the CCM in late March 1990 and was to be put before Parliament in April . |
| 26 | This was the first independent radio station in the republic and was to be run by the students ' official youth organization . |
| 27 | He collapsed at the inaugural conference of the Serbian Socialist Party for Kosovo and Metohija , which replaced the Kosovo LC and was to be subordinate to the Serbian Socialist Party formed in July [ see p. 37622 ] . |
| 28 | A review of the organization 's Charter was currently being undertaken and was to be submitted to the 1992 summit in Dakar ( Senegal ) . |
| 29 | Garcete also faced charges of involvement in the Sept. 29 attempt on the life of Hermes Saquier , a leading member of the main opposition Authentic Radical Liberal Party ( PLRA ) , and was to be questioned on the military 's alleged involvement in drug trafficking . |
| 30 | She had bought her own copy of the Koran and was to be seen reading it on her way to work in the morning . |