Example sentences of "was [verb] [conj] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is no doubt because it is the Government which would , on the hypothesis that section 47 was invalid because inconsistent with article 30 , have failed to take the necessary steps to ensure that section 47 was amended or repealed as necessary . |
| 2 | There was coughing and shuffling and a lot of page-turning as the court prepared to move on to the next case , and Donaldson helped Mrs Balanchine down from the witness-box . |
| 3 | And then , suddenly , she was struggling and screaming and I had to hold her wrists to stop her from scratching me . ’ |
| 4 | Widmark had recently joined John Ford 's repertory company and so Wayne , who was producing and directing as well as starring as Davy Crockett , was delighted when Widmark accepted the role of Jim Dowie — so much so that he took an ad in the Hollywood Reporter reading ‘ Welcome aboard , Dick . ’ |
| 5 | Sa'adoun Hammadi was dismissed and replaced as Prime Minister by the Deputy Prime Minister , Muhammad Hamzah al-Zubaydi , on Sept. 13 . |
| 6 | Her evidence of damage was limited and established that her reputation was already damaged . ’ |
| 7 | " Extent " was regarded as limited if sexual intercourse or other experience beyond kissing and petting had been limited to not more than one partner during lifetime . |
| 8 | The very existence of Article 23 was regarded as indicating that the Convention was not mandatory , on the rather tortuous argument that if the Convention had been intended to replace the broad discovery powers previously exercised by the United States , acceptance of Article 23 ( which enables other States to refuse to operate the Convention in this area ) ‘ would have been most anomalous ’ . |
| 9 | He was pin high to the left of the flag and the crowd was stamping and cheering as we walked down to the green . |
| 10 | They asked if he was cheating and decided that if he was able to do his work so well , there was no harm in giving him some more . |
| 11 | The principle of treatment by similars — that what a remedy could produce it could also cure — was as far as we know first put forward by the Greek physician Hippocrates in the fifth century B C. Over the centuries , however , it was forgotten or disregarded and it was not until the end of the eighteenth century that it was rediscovered empirically by the German physician Samuel Hahnemann . |
| 12 | — their fear of being burned alive on a barbecue like the young slave who ran away last week and was caught and tried and sentenced to death by this method |
| 13 | Her hand was caught and held before it was anywhere near its target . |
| 14 | Clare was devastated and swore that she would never go back to school again . |
| 15 | After the Joint Liaison Group 's August 1989 meeting [ see above ] it was reported by the French news agency Agence France-Presse on Aug. 3 that Chinese officials responsible for the transfer of Macao had assured their Portuguese counterparts that the recent crushing of the pro-democracy movement in China ( the June 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre — see pp. 36720-21 ) , would not jeopardize the terms of the 1987 transfer agreement [ see pp. 35063-64 ] , and on Aug. 18 Li Peng , the Chinese Premier , was reported as stating that the work on the Macao issue was unaffected by the recent " turmoil " in China , with the meetings of the Sino-Portuguese group proceeding normally . |
| 16 | In September Information Minister Hamutenya was reported as stating that a diplomatic mission , but not a fully-fledged embassy , would be established in Pretoria . |
| 17 | IN YESTERDAY 'S parliamentary sketch ( page 5 ) , Mr Tim Janman MP ( Conservative , Thurrock ) was reported as saying that Britain would take even one refugee from Hong Kong ‘ over my dead body . ’ |
| 18 | It was the time of suffragettes and Mr Norman McCorquodale was reported as saying that a spray of water through the hose on them would be a good thing . |
| 19 | A senior police officer was reported as saying that ‘ we believe he was influenced by some blue videos he had seen ’ . |
| 20 | She was reported as saying that the trial had taught her one important lesson as a barrister — how the victim feels — and called for changes in the law which would give greater protection to victims . |
| 21 | In August 1953 Sir John Nott-Bower took over as the new Commissioner at Scotland Yard and was reported as saying that he would ‘ rip the covers off all London 's filth spots ’ . |
| 22 | The former Lord Chancellor , Lord Hailsham , was reported as saying that the Government was ‘ thinking with its bottom and sitting on its head ’ . |
| 23 | Just a fortnight ago , on 14 November , Councillor Mike Hastie , who is the Tory leader on Aberdeen district council , was reported as saying that he could not believe that the Government would now push through the measures . |
| 24 | One of the narcotics experts was reported as saying that there was evidence that provincial Army commanders were involved in trafficking heroin and that some senior military figures in Rangoon also had an interest in the drugs business . |
| 25 | On Feb. 23 the leader of the government delegation to the Rome talks , Transport and Communications Minister Armando Guebuza , was reported as saying that the MNR 's reading of the Rome agreement differed from that of the government 's . |
| 26 | On Aug. 19 he made a dramatic call for resistance , standing on one of the tanks stationed outside the Supreme Soviet building ( 10 tanks went over to Yeltsin on the night of Aug. 19 — see below ; the commander of tanks stationed outside the Russian Supreme Soviet building was reported as saying that he would not order an attack on Yeltsin . ) |
| 27 | President Menem , who was not obliged by the Constitution to call an election , was reported as saying that one was not necessary since his brother was Duhalde 's " natural successor as established by the law " . |
| 28 | After his meeting with Jorge Mas Canosa , leader of the Miami-based Cuban-American National Foundation ( CANF ) , in late December [ see p. 38669 ] , the Russian Foreign Minister , Andrei Kozyrev was reported as saying that all aid to Cuba would be halted . |
| 29 | Foreign Affairs Minister Michael Somare was reported as saying that he was " confident the agreement would bring lasting peace to Bougainville " . |
| 30 | Abdurahim Pulatov , leader of the Birlik movement , was reported as saying that " the totalitarian regime has been destroyed in Moscow but in Tashkent it continues to exist " . |