Example sentences of "[vb past] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought I was getting David and maybe a few personal possessions , but when he actually turned up , he was with a friend in a very large van , and this rather ethereal , thin , slightly spotty figure that was David in those days , dressed in extremely scruffy clothes , emerged from this van carrying a twelve string guitar , which it transpired was a present from Pete Townshend . |
| 2 | What transpired was a superb display in the line-outs and the driving rucks , where Garryowen 's Waikato lock , Brent Anderson , gave a typical display , well backed by no.8 Ben Cronin and Robert Costello at lock , but particularly by an astoundingly good all round performance by the 20-year-old hooker , Keith Wood . |
| 3 | Not all data provided was that useful . |
| 4 | Security in any situation can never be guaranteed but the security that farming provided was obviously appreciated . |
| 5 | Preliminary observational studies of the self-instructional material provided for library orientation showed that the material provided was of help to new users , but that it did not , alone , supply adequate orientation information . |
| 6 | The hotel that we stayed in was just awful , and the food provided was worse . |
| 7 | The final stage in the process was to make sure that the box provided was filled to half-way with plaster of Paris to absorb moisture , though he gives no guidelines as to how deep such a box should be ; ‘ after this , the cover and two windows were put down ’ . |
| 8 | The accommodation provided was often fairly spartan . |
| 9 | Taxpayers , ratepayers , policy makers and administrators all demanded information about the way in which the money they provided was being spent . |
| 10 | During the 1960s the scheme was widened to include more categories of workers and the financial assistance it provided was also considerably raised . |
| 11 | As in some earlier parts of the questionnaire , information provided was too patchy to allow strong generalisations . |
| 12 | ‘ But it was a good thing I was n't impatient , because the entertainment Linda and Emelda provided was far superior to anything I could have managed. ! |
| 13 | He shows clearly that he did not find evidence of the so-called two-tier phenomenon to which the hon. Lady refers , but that the total of care provided was increased . |
| 14 | But it is likely that loss of liberty was more often held against the workhouse than the belief that the subsistence provided was lower than that available from out-relief . |
| 15 | The company information provided was aggregated and a ‘ correction factor ’ applied to account for the missing output , relative to the total output of the Scotch Whisky industry . |
| 16 | The information provided was gathered electronically from right across the European Community . |
| 17 | The subject proposed was The Problem of Pain . |
| 18 | For the British delegation , the pace of change proposed was far too hasty . |
| 19 | Indeed , we were so anxious to get the figures right that we had little time to spend explaining why what we proposed was morally necessary . |
| 20 | After the Queen 's Speech at the opening of the new session of the Stormont parliament , it criticised the failure of the Government to give any commitment on a universal franchise and the Special Powers Act , but the only action it proposed was a low-key educational programme . |
| 21 | The salvation it proposed was based on a reduction in the amount of first-class cricket to a 16-match one-day competition without over limitation , a reduction in county staffs and the involvement and use of part time cricketers . |
| 22 | What might be said is that the ethical connotation of the method of action he proposed was being made clear by the choice of satyāgraha rather than sadāgraha . |
| 23 | Between Sutton and Wallington , the route now proposed was to avoid the centre of Carshalton , by following new roads to the south , some of which were not yet constructed ; although this routing was opposed by some frontagers in Sutton , the company was assured the co-operation of the Carshalton Park Estate Company , who were developing the area at the time . |
| 24 | What Ceauşescu proposed was the ‘ expansion of the socialist farming system to encompass all agriculture … ’ |
| 25 | However , as the majority of schemes proposed was to have been in small towns where there was already a relatively good provision of council houses , they have often not been implemented . |
| 26 | The management that the local authority proposed was straightforward . |
| 27 | Thus in 1969 the Lords rejected a bill that sought to free the Home Secretary from a legal obligation to present to Parliament the report of a commission that had reviewed parliamentary constituencies : the more equitable redistribution of seats it proposed was likely to cost the Labour Government up to twenty seats at the forthcoming general election . |
| 28 | The solution proposed was a two-tier system by which government appointed peers would have the right to vote , hereditary peers being allowed to speak but not vote while the delaying powers on legislation would be cut to six months . |
| 29 | In this case , it was held that a woman lacked capacity to consent if she had neither the knowledge nor understanding to comprehend that ( a ) what was proposed to be done was the physical fact of penetration of her body by the male organ or if that were not proved , ( b ) that the act of penetration proposed was one of sexual connection as distinct from an act of a totally different character . |
| 30 | The Minister of Cabinet Affairs and Administrative Development , Atif Ubayd , speaking in January 1990 about Egypt 's view on the IMF proposals of a devaluation of the Egyptian pound to boost exports and an increase in the interest rate to encourage savers , said that the amount proposed was " not justified and bigger than needed " , but added that Egypt was willing to reach a compromise agreement on both issues . |