Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] was [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 | Before people started to need calendars this was n't a problem . |
| 5 | If this were the case one would also expect to find increased basal secretion in smokers — in our study this was not the case . |
| 6 | In essence this was less a system than the resort by the Crown to whatever means came to hand for raising and controlling money . |
| 7 | In the control condition this was not the case . |
| 8 | The British were dismayed but a further memorandum from the Americans in January 1943 was virtually a declaration of dissociation . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I decided that in the circumstances this was not a job that I would entrust anyone else to do , and I motored to Hampstead myself . |
| 11 | Surprisingly perhaps , January 1993 was generally a degree or two milder than normal . |
| 12 | This being so , the famous final and belated discussion of the problem at Rockingham in February 1095 was largely a display of shadow-boxing . |
| 13 | The ‘ lights out ’ issue in December 1984 was just the tip of the iceberg . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | May 9 was certainly a day for rallying to the cause . |
| 17 | In support of his argument , Mr. Coghlan relied on Cozens v. Brutus [ 1973 ] A.C. 854 , a case in which it was held in the House of Lords that the meaning of the word ‘ insulting ’ used in section 5 of the Public Order Act 1936 was not a matter of law but a matter of fact . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | His grandson and successor Louis XVI was not the man to regain either the power or the popularity of the monarchy . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | That they were at least in part effective was clearly the case . |
| 22 | No. 28 was formerly the wheel turning shop , but it is now used mainly for automatic machines . |
| 23 | For Jay that was only a start . |
| 24 | One shot near Jury 's Gap on 1 August 1916 was possibly an escape . |
| 25 | ( Remember a penny then was not a penny now — there were 240 of them to £1 ! ) |
| 26 | Attorney-General v. Wilts United Dairies Ltd. ( 1921 ) 37 T.L.R. 884 was not a case concerned with the recovery of a payment unlawfully demanded . |
| 27 | Sweated trades have traditionally been seen as a residual sector , and in some traditional women 's occupations this was undoubtedly the case . |
| 28 | As she 'd returned everything he 'd given her before he 'd left for Japan this was quite a surprise . |
| 29 | Thereafter , clause 54 was not the subject of further debate and passed into law as it now stands as section 63 of the Act . |
| 30 | Although it may seem that the developments were exclusively within geomorphology this was not the case , because environmental reconstruction was increasingly shown to be dependent upon knowledge of the ways in which the soils and sediments as well as the surface morphology related to past systems of vegetation and to patterns of climate . |