Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] was [adj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To put the price into perspective Mr Vernon added that although the 18-knot Arun class building programme was complete the price would now be somewhere around £800,000 . |
| 2 | The side window was open a couple of inches , and Lucy closed it . |
| 3 | One warm-up race at Goodwood ( for which Dancing Brave was such a certainty that the bookmakers returned no starting price ) , and it was off to his appointment with greatness in the Arc . |
| 4 | His officers were aghast , pointing out that the minimum turning circle was half a mile and did their best to dissuade him . |
| 5 | The monthly aircraft production of Ford 's Willow Run Factory was half the peak monthly output of the entire German airframe industry . |
| 6 | The Linear Regression Coefficient was 0.84 The detection limit of the expression of AII receptor gene was 15 µg of total RNA by CE . |
| 7 | Acid House was all the rage ; multi-rhythmed electronic stuff popular on the disco circuit but only comprehensible when taken with the designer drugs now supplied as openly as condoms in some of the smarter venues . |
| 8 | I was trying to rehearse to your listeners the philosophy behind the opting out legislation , i.e. that if an Education Authority was bad a school could opt out . |
| 9 | brick inset was all the brick and then plastered over and that gave the black and white effect , but that was the original and the , the proper way to do it |
| 10 | IT SEEMS only yesterday that falsetto singing was such an oddity that mention of it surfaced in a Marx Brothers film in order to give Chico Marx a chance to observe , ‘ My aunt , she got-a falsetto teeth ’ . |
| 11 | Chris believes the Bay Horse was first a pub in the 1560s and was also a coaching inn . |
| 12 | Whenever a pirate attack was imminent a bonfire was lit on the nearby Pico do Facho and the people would flee inland , leaving the soldiers to guard the forts and the city . |
| 13 | And because the Crabb operation was unauthorised the Director General of MI6 could also honestly tell the inquiry that he too knew nothing about such a plan . |
| 14 | The pine bedroom furniture display was such a success at trial stores it has been introduced as a permanent fixture at Wandsworth . |
| 15 | And yet the end of the Second World War was such a celebration of the defeat of the fascist enemy that there was a failure to grasp the fact that the universal Enemy had merely been rehearsing for Armageddon . |
| 16 | The next day , I countered with a speech arguing that as far as the health service was concerned the issue had been settled and that the Government 's policy was to continue to make the service as effective as possible . |
| 17 | This chapter will , therefore , examine evacuation as an historical episode by addressing three issues : first , why the initial evacuation scheme was such a failure — and whether this failure was caused , as many middle-class observers argued , by the children 's behaviour . |
| 18 | At the time the UK feed industry was concerned the situation should not escalate , but , in fact , it has had little impact on trade . |
| 19 | The Soul II Soul stand was jampacked every day . |
| 20 | Alice Fell was such a stumbling-block that Wordsworth withdrew it from the 1820 edition of his poems . |
| 21 | Ash End House Farm was such a success for parents and children that I have organised another day out for the Christmas Holidays . |
| 22 | The result was to keep linesmen 's wages down : before 1862 , when the stab wage was 25s a week , most linesmen averaged 15s 2d ; in 1894 , when the stab rate was 32s , 24s was the best a piece worker could hope for . |