Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] was [adj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it is the horse who was third the day before who could give him his biggest win , matching Omerta 's success in the National Hunt Chase at Cheltenham in 1986 . |
| 2 | By half-time it was obvious the rest of the game would continue in darkness , and to save time the referee ordered the players to stay on the field for an interval of two minutes only . |
| 3 | Cindy gave a laugh which was half a sob . |
| 4 | There is no licence for the sale of alcohol at today 's fairs , in an attempt to curb the drinking which was such a feature in the past . |
| 5 | This fact , and the limited spread of settled land suggested in Chapter IV , do much to explain the lack of vocal protest about settlements which was such a feature of the early modern counterpart of the Roman settlement . |
| 6 | Dennis Bond wrote in his ‘ chronology ’ in 1639 : ‘ The 27th December there was such a wind that it did blow down divers houses and several woods . |
| 7 | There they were at the table , his mother in a hat like a helmet , his father carving the bloody paw which was all the food on offer . |
| 8 | Paul Girouard in The Return to Camelot pointed out that the chivalric code of conduct ‘ never recovered from the Great War partly because the War itself was such a shattering of illusions , partly because it helped to produce a world in which the necessary conditions for chivalry were increasingly absent ’ and that the absence of so many men at the Front ‘ had put women in a position of responsibility which made many of them distrust chivalry as a form of concealed slavery ’ . |
| 9 | And in the years after the end of the 1939–45 war there was such a spate of generals ' diaries that it at times seemed difficult to understand how these men had time for the job in hand , so busy were they with their diaries . |
| 10 | Unfortunately over the years there was such a deficit for whatever reason lot 's of things were tried it was then decided that it was two options one was closing lose so much money or actually put it out to franchise fortunately enough that people were at all the money and we did n't get an income from it . |
| 11 | After a bit , me dad went out to see what was going on and all of a sudden there was such a crash , and erm then there was two more like , you know and er we heard what , what we assumed was somebody 's house tumbling down but it was our stable unfortunately . |
| 12 | One of the first complaints was made by three members of CND who were told on 7 July 1986 by the Tribunal ‘ that after careful investigation it was satisfied no contravention of the [ statutory ] criteria had occurred ’ . |
| 13 | But he said last night he was confident the convoy would reach Srebrenica early today . |
| 14 | By mid-morning it was obvious the vigil was unnecessary . |
| 15 | The BR watchdog body , the Central Transport Consultative Committee , said last night it was evident the crash was caused by human error , although it became clear that arrangements for supervising and auditing the quality of work were ‘ lamentably defective ’ . |
| 16 | Now , er , before I hand over to Frank er , a word about the dividend er , in recent years we 've paid an interim dividend which was half the total of the previous year 's dividends and so , er , had a built-in increase . |
| 17 | Mr Albion Small , former manager of the Eldon Gardens complex in Newcastle , has been appointed manager of the Cornmill and said on Wednesday he was confident the centre would weather the current recession and attract more shoppers to Darlington , bringing more business to other shops and offices in the town centre . |
| 18 | Wanting a man who was such a louse . |
| 19 | I even saw one video of a council meeting where an irate councillor , having virtually dug himself into a trench in an attempt to protect his interests in the face of strategic questioning by the YCCC , actually lost his cool and demanded that an old man who was tape-recording the meeting should either stop recording or get out ! |
| 20 | It was a short hop for Foucard to suggest that as her colleague was such a dull man it was unlikely the flat had been searched for something belonging to him , more likely that the hunt was for something belonging to Rain or Oliver . |
| 21 | For Europe , Marshall Aid was an important element in its recovery : for Britain it was first a safeguard and then a prop to the sterling area [ cf. |
| 22 | ‘ He told me that all his life he was such a shit , and he finally realized he could make someone as happy as he made me , ’ recalls Joey . |
| 23 | I felt I could hardly lift my arm to comb my hair it was such an effort ; but most of all I got so depressed knowing everything was piling up and I was n't doing anything about it , and soon I would n't be able to . |
| 24 | Of course it was possible the van was parked there only because the man was inside destroying coypu or moles or rats or woodworm , but somehow Adam did n't think so . |
| 25 | She had so clearly implied that of course it was all a charade , but that Conchis must not know it was ; that she was in fancy-dress for him , not for me . |
| 26 | The reason he was such a flop was becuase he was sposed to herald the new era at Leeds . |
| 27 | Saw all the logs of wood up , put it on a trailer it was half a mile away from the cottage , when we came to the cottage door , give a shout , they all came out one after the other , there was a chain , put it under the stairs and that was us fine for about three weeks |
| 28 | ‘ I feel I should say that if I had to get washed up on a beach minus my memory I was lucky the beach was yours , Dr Vaughan . ’ |
| 29 | At the time of his trip he was such a novelty that he was featured in several Reykjavik newspapers , and treated with great hospitality wherever he went . |
| 30 | The trouble was that Melanie believed I was in bed with one of them every time I was half an hour late . ’ |