Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [was/were] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Andy was fourteen , I 'd just turned thirteen and was proud of my new status as a teenager ( and , as usual , of the fact that for the next couple of months I was only a year younger than Andy ) . |
| 2 | ( In Artillery Lane , nearby , there is a warehouse which was originally a Huguenot chapel . ) |
| 3 | And once again Ric is attempting to go beyond the normal boundaries of cricket-writing : ‘ If I wanted to write a biography which was simply a record of CTB 's achievements I would have finished it some time ago . |
| 4 | Craig had fielded twice as many candidates and won fewer seats ; a result which was probably a combination of public reaction to Vanguard 's lack of clear policy and a lack of enthusiasm for some of the Vanguard candidates . |
| 5 | A boat which was once the pride and joy of Lawrence of Arabia is to sail again . |
| 6 | They wanted this colossal rent which was just a recipe for bankruptcy , ’ said Mr Anderson . |
| 7 | In 1899 , when there was a sharp increase in the number of reported cattle thefts , H. W. Brodhurst , the Government Agent , attributed it to false cases which were instituted because the magistrate was inexperienced : ‘ I therefore attach little importance to this apparent recrudescence of a crime which was once the curse of the Province , but has been little heard of in late years . ’ |
| 8 | Mick Ronson : ‘ After the tour , we recorded the album , ‘ Pin-Ups ’ , an album which was just a collection of songs that David really liked from the 60's period , and shortly afterwards , we went to Italy for a holiday . |
| 9 | hens who were once the oats were so were sown they had to they were closed down and that . |
| 10 | Wetherall did very well against Dowie who was literally a handful the whole match . |
| 11 | — instructing an expert witness who was previously a client albeit in a matter totally unrelated . |
| 12 | But luckily help was at hand in the person of Anna-Lisa Hammer , a blonde , Norwegian freelance journalist who was also the Press Officer for the Bislet Games in Oslo . |
| 13 | Thorn , the big defender who was also the hero of the midweek Coca-Cola Cup triumph over Liverpool , powered the Eagles ahead with a 29th minute header and Steve Coppell 's men grimly fought tooth and nail to claim their fourth successive victory . |
| 14 | The flat string of squares flickered slightly just sufficiently to show it was a projection , nothing real ; but although it was apparent the line of squares itself was merely an image , on its surface sat seemingly real and solid wooden chess pieces made from black and white wood , and set on that strange line like tiny isolated guard towers on a chequered frontier wall . |
| 15 | In this condition she was hardly a siren , she thought with an ironic little smile . |
| 16 | This patient 's verbal output consisted almost entirely of content words there were almost no function words and no grammatical structure . |
| 17 | Beneath their opposition there was often an undercurrent of admiration and fellow-feeling . |
| 18 | During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries there was also the possibility of informal adoption . |
| 19 | The valley ended quite suddenly in a massive amphitheatre of surrounding mountains rising to 7,000 ft , and as it had been a cold spring there was still a lot of snow . |
| 20 | He did n't think it was a case of God 's being vindictive , more a case of rules being rules and God having to administer them , like a caning head , and where there was Adultery there was always a Death , that was the way it was . |
| 21 | In its recommendations the report noted that while some kind of internal evaluation is part of good management practice for all organizations there was nevertheless an absence of external moderation of those evaluations . |
| 22 | But of fat fairies bearing hot sweet tea there was never a sign and the fingers of the station clock jerked away the minutes with maddening languor , the tedium of their watch being broken only by the intermittent arrivals and departure of train . |
| 23 | While he was enthusing about future advancements in the industry there was perhaps a hint of sadness in leaving it behind — but thoughts of the ‘ challenges of my new career ’ soon put back the sparkle in his eye . |
| 24 | When these characters were combined with letters in a third experiment there was again an increase in reaction time with set size for the RVF but only for letters , not for the typological characters . |
| 25 | He found that by giving the salt in low potency there was often an improvement in the patient 's well-being . |
| 26 | By the time we left the Parrot there was only an hour left to closing time . |
| 27 | For all the eight years I attended school in Parma there was always the problem of where to eat the midday meal at that time no school in Italy provided lunches . |
| 28 | He said all the independent surveys agreed there would be some job losses it was simply a question of how many . |
| 29 | As a result it was also a place where much could be learnt and where people went , not only in need of a drink , but in search for something or someone . |
| 30 | In her eyes it was only a stepping stone . |