Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] [was/were] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the latter case this was notwithstanding a finding that the wife ‘ did sufficiently understand the general nature of the document . ’ |
| 2 | On the western side this was always an area characterised by a militancy which is presumably going out of fashion now too . |
| 3 | By some kind of irony this was exactly the reverse of the trouble with masonry cathedrals which fell down because they turned out to be in tension when the builders held that they were in compression . |
| 4 | In essence this was less a system than the resort by the Crown to whatever means came to hand for raising and controlling money . |
| 5 | The British were dismayed but a further memorandum from the Americans in January 1943 was virtually a declaration of dissociation . |
| 6 | The Americans and their allies have always made it plain that January 15th was merely the point after which war would become authorised , not necessarily the date for attack . |
| 7 | Surprisingly perhaps , January 1993 was generally a degree or two milder than normal . |
| 8 | This being so , the famous final and belated discussion of the problem at Rockingham in February 1095 was largely a display of shadow-boxing . |
| 9 | The ‘ lights out ’ issue in December 1984 was just the tip of the iceberg . |
| 10 | The second reason why two justices were not required was that the proceeding under section 7(5) of the Bail Act 1976 was neither the trial of an information summarily nor the hearing of a complaint within the meaning of section 121(1) of the Magistrates ' Courts Act 1980 . |
| 11 | The Education Act 1902 was largely the work of R. L. Morant , the chief civil servant at the Board of Education , one of a number of policy-innovating civil servants in his generation . |
| 12 | May 9 was certainly a day for rallying to the cause . |
| 13 | With a new rabbit and a short-haired piebald guinea pig in a box , Victoria arrived at a once-grand Queen Anne house in Wiltshire that was now a school devoted to raising the daughters of the gentry . |
| 14 | The situation was almost the same at Exeter , but 48 per cent of the subsidy assessments were at £1 , mostly on wages , while in Coventry these were only a handful out of a total of some 700 taxpayers , meaning that almost half the population literally ‘ possessed absolutely nothing but the rags they stood up in , a few sticks and boards for ‘ furniture ’ , and the tools of their trade , if any' , Exeter clearly enjoyed full employment — as full , that is , as was attainable in the conditions of the time — while Coventry languished in the grip of severe unemployment , and indeed in the early 1520s was undergoing a series of acute economic crises . |
| 15 | But his appointment as steward of the royal household in November 1318 was both a snub to Lancaster , who claimed the right of appointment , and a mark of his growing association with Hugh le Despenser the younger [ q.v. ] , the chamberlain of the household and the rising star at court . |
| 16 | That they were at least in part effective was clearly the case . |
| 17 | No. 28 was formerly the wheel turning shop , but it is now used mainly for automatic machines . |
| 18 | For Jay that was only a start . |
| 19 | One shot near Jury 's Gap on 1 August 1916 was possibly an escape . |
| 20 | Sweated trades have traditionally been seen as a residual sector , and in some traditional women 's occupations this was undoubtedly the case . |
| 21 | As she 'd returned everything he 'd given her before he 'd left for Japan this was quite a surprise . |
| 22 | On the other hand this was also the year when the British government had reluctantly bowed to American pressure and agreed to the establishment of a base in the Holy Loch in the west of Scotland for American Polaris submarines . |
| 23 | Clough jnr was generally an irrelevance ; once more , it seems that he struggles when faced by defenders who can react faster than he thinks . |
| 24 | Fighting went on in New France for another twelve months , but after the fall of Quebec this was more a matter of moving forces over long distances than of confronting threats that the French might retrieve their position . |