Example sentences of "was [verb] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Almost Newman 's first act at the BBC was to decimate the existing Script Department under Donald Wilson . |
| 2 | With the declaration of the Schuman Plan in May 1950 , European union was to acquire a new momentum and dimension , one that would proceed on a narrower front with the involvement of only a few countries , and in policy terms with a much more specific focus than that held by those who dreamed of European political federation . |
| 3 | In his youth , his first ambition was to take holy orders ; his second was to acquire a thorough knowledge of medicine . |
| 4 | Concurrent with these military developments the British aircraft industry was waging a losing battle with the Americans for a large share of the civilian passenger and freight markets . |
| 5 | At his feet their five-year-old , Wu , was waging a ferocious battle between two armies of miniature dragons , their tiny power packs making them seem almost alive . |
| 6 | It was clear she was waging an internal battle with herself , but finally the actress in her won out , and she tossed her luxuriant hair back contemptuously . |
| 7 | ‘ I was maintaining a tactful silence . ’ |
| 8 | Not only was maintaining the British war effort imposing an ever-increasing burden , but subsidies to allies seriously inflated that burden . |
| 9 | Supposedly he was in disgrace for an affair with a female student ( the AFPFL , and particularly the Communists , were strictly puritanical ) but he was preaching a stiffer line against the British than any of the others . |
| 10 | It was as Cornelius waited humbly and receptively in prayer , that God 's supreme gift , the Holy Spirit , was poured out upon him before ever Peter who was preaching the good news to him , reached the climax of his sermon ! |
| 11 | He believed that Paris was seeing a forward surge in the arts . |
| 12 | I was very proud of having got movement back in my second leg and was twiddling my toes , but he thought that he was seeing a bloody ghost . |
| 13 | The vamp was soon turning into a lady again though , and by the third song , a moody version of the classic Little Anthony and the Imperials hit ‘ Tears On My Pillow ’ , the audience was seeing a sophisticated side to Kylie too . |
| 14 | Iggy Pop and the lippily ascendant Wonder Stuff aside , the only high point was seeing the pathetic Meat Loaf take umbrage at the traditional hail of plastic bottles . |
| 15 | As he responded , Rostov remembered the survey briefing and wondered if he was seeing the first evidence of genetic mutation . |
| 16 | Helen wondered if she was seeing the first moment of a gathering hysteria . |
| 17 | And then , even while she was making valiant efforts to control herself , because for certain he was going to set about strangling her at any moment , after some seconds of looking at her as if staggered , suddenly , and to her amazement , he was seeing the funny side of it also — and he was laughing too ! |
| 18 | At that moment , hundreds of miles away in Yorkshire , Colin was seeing the secret garden for the first time , and saying , ‘ I 'm going to live for ever and ever and ever ! ’ |
| 19 | Posters appeared in some villages advertising what was intended the next market day and calling on " one and all " to join in . |
| 20 | She had dropped stitches continually in her knitting ( she was knitting a yellow angora sweater for Victoria ) and started whenever the shop-bell jangled or the parakeet muttered a few words to itself . |
| 21 | He was reliving the harrowing moment when he discovered her unconscious , her neck in a ligature . |
| 22 | His lawyer said the unnamed woman was demanding a great deal of money . |
| 23 | I was demanding a big rise in salary , just to prove my worth ; and Andrew was refusing to give it to me , as a matter of principle . |
| 24 | Umberto , Alejandro 's laziest groom , was holding tightly on to her , while Raimundo , who was wearing a leather apron to protect his Gaucho pants , his little eyes glinting with pleasure and cruelty , was attaching a long lead rope to her headcollar . |
| 25 | But his only answer was to continue the rhythmic stroking of her hair . |
| 26 | A further development was to embrace the stratigraphic sequence in the conclusions about denudation chronology , an effective comparison was made of Britain and Appalachia and the two were embraced within a general model which acknowledged the Tertiary stratigraphy of both areas ( Brown , 1961 ) . |
| 27 | England 's one fitness doubt tomorrow concerns Phillip DeFreitas , who was resting a sore elbow yesterday , but otherwise their major problem is whether to play both their spinners . |
| 28 | Soviet support for the Chinese atomic programme , nonetheless , was withdrawn the following year , the USSR was neutral during the Sino-Indian war of 1959 , and in 1960 the dispute between the two communist giants came into the open . |
| 29 | The job of the competitive party system was to uphold the competitive market society , by keeping the government responsive to the shifting majority interests of those who were running the market society . |
| 30 | Britain 's only response was to cancel the Royal Ballet 's visit to Moscow . |