Example sentences of "was a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a ripe collection of April Fool items flying around the industry this year , with BICC Plc 's BICC Information Systems & Services promoting its underware , the first two items being BISS-SLIP for Synchronised Linked Internet Protocol and BISS-NICS Network Integrity Circuit Service , and Chase Research Inc of Nashville , Tennessee threatening to knock MS-DOS , Unix and NT off their perches with a resurrected CPM/93 version of the late lamented CP/M operating system — and comes on 300 8″ floppies , bundled with an 8″ floppy drive for $100 ; but the prize has to go for Hewlett-Packard Ltd , which yesterday announced new security features for its Vectra personal computers — User Fingerprint Recognition on all models , and both Photographic Recognition — a tiny camera in the middle of the screen that recognises you even when you come back with a tan , and Odour Recognition — designated users must not change their perfume or after shave — on 80486 models ; not recognised ? |
| 2 | Outgoing Mr Alia , 67 , was a right-hand man of the late dictator Enver Hoxha . |
| 3 | This was a modified account of chapter III of The Green Book which argues that justice demands women should be free to fulfil their nature . |
| 4 | Neither of these was adopted — the executed bridge was a conventional masonry structure of three arches — but in his design for the Coalbrookdale bridge , made in 1775 , he adapted some of the principles of the timber proposal to a structure wholly of cast iron ; and it was a modified version of this design which was executed by the Coalbrookdale Ironworks in 1777–9 — the first iron bridge in the world . |
| 5 | Until this point , the issue system was a modified Browne charging " system based on a weekly rather than a daily record . |
| 6 | Elisha was a gentler person than his master and proved to be a wise adviser to the kings of Israel , with the result that the danger from the Syrians was outwitted and avoided . |
| 7 | Last night , perhaps , the bombs that fell from Rob 's plane had killed women and children and old , helpless men , but for all that he was a tender lover . |
| 8 | But he was a tender and affectionate child and he saw that something more was required of him . |
| 9 | She was Van 's piano teacher right up to the Moscow prize , and will tell at the drop of a hat the story of his childhood promise , which first manifested itself when Van was a tender lad of three . |
| 10 | On examination there was a tender spot on the left costal margin in the mid-clavicular line and pressure there reproduced her pain exactly . |
| 11 | ‘ There was a transitional moment of delicious uneasiness and then — instantaneously — the long inhibition was over , the dry desert lay behind , I was off once more into the land of longing , my heart at once broken and exalted as it had never been since the old days at Bookham . ’ |
| 12 | It is probable that this was a transitional period , in which cavalry techniques and the use of stirrups were being developed , while the earlier form of the armed group and shield wall was still extensively used . |
| 13 | Clearly it was a transitional object , purpose-built to drag me back into the world of men and affairs . |
| 14 | ( This is because 1988 was a transitional year from GCE and CSE to GCSE . |
| 15 | Just below his left shoulder was a raised welt , about four inches long . |
| 16 | Under the large west window was a raised platform reached by two steps at each side of the pulpit-desk which was placed in the centre . |
| 17 | On its return journey at 5.30 pm it ran back on the slow up line and into Loughton siding where there was a raised platform some 60ft long at coach footboard height , for milk churns to be loaded on the daily milk train . |
| 18 | In the centre of the room there was a raised dais , roofed with gold . |
| 19 | In the centre of the room there was a raised dais , and it was also roofed with gold . |
| 20 | There was a raised dais on one side of the square on which the Sheikh Osman sat cross-legged . |
| 21 | The orchestra was restricted to a semicircle in view of the needs of Roman drama and , in front of this was a raised stage . |
| 22 | There was a raised dais at one end underneath a skylight , with a sort of bed on it . |
| 23 | I am big for my age and I did n't mind if he thought I was a young man . |
| 24 | ‘ He said he could see I was a young man with all his wits about him . ’ |
| 25 | Waiting in the wings , there was a young colleague of his from his museum days , Paul Spence , a sculpture man . |
| 26 | The Salvation Army worker living there was a young girl , Sharon , so that balanced the house up a bit . |
| 27 | He was a young , strong dog . |
| 28 | Here was a young man learned in the New Testament and in the early Fathers ; thinking hard for himself ; manifestly a lover of God and of the gospel ; an Anglo-Catholic but one who spoke in tones more persuasive to Protestants than was usual among Anglo-Catholics , with tolerance , and respect , and a gratitude for all that was best in the Protestant tradition . |
| 29 | When I was a young girl I and my sisters would get a boat and slip away , visiting friends from island to island . |
| 30 | ‘ They had met when he was a young and not tremendously enthusiastic policeman and she was a waitress in a seafront cafe . |