Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [adj] [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was no comfortable emotion that pierced the veil , but even pain and fear were better than the emptiness that had preceded them . |
| 2 | Commitment and concentration were better if the bulk of the day 's work was past . |
| 3 | Subjects were eligible when the period between the last test result negative for HIV and the first test result positive for HIV-1 was no longer than six months . |
| 4 | His ears were sharp as a jackal 's and he could spot the tracks of a hippo from an extraordinary distance . |
| 5 | A pool of people who could read and keep ledgers was essential if the world of commerce were to expand . |
| 6 | Was it true that the mind was wiser than the body ? |
| 7 | It was still dark and the weather was wet and foggy , but the blue fog inside the car was worse as the Substitute lit his third pungent little Tuscan cigar . |
| 8 | The boat was late because the train was late … |
| 9 | Bald planned to follow it with other county surveys of similar quality , but this ambition was frustrated when the Ordnance Survey was directed to produced its own map of Ireland in 1824 , and henceforth he devoted his energies to civil engineering , a profession for which he further equipped himself by a period of renewed study and foreign travel . |
| 10 | Before we went on air , the number of people disagreeing that RBS had high rates of interest for savings was higher than the number agreeing . |
| 11 | The consent of two-thirds of the directors of the House of Industry was necessary before the building could be transferred , and after the Mayor , Dr. George Witt , had met in ‘ a somewhat private way ’ with the Commissioner , a special meeting was called to obtain the required number of signatures . |
| 12 | The speed of light was slower than the intelligence of the clerical network in matters of gossip . |
| 13 | Friday was bright albeit the wind was somewhat stronger and it was colder . |
| 14 | With little experience of Visual Effects construction techniques , Cusick was concerned lest the labour fees involved ( the costliest part of any Effects job ) would make his drawings cost-impractical . |
| 15 | His innocent co-partner was liable as the money had originally been paid into the firm 's account ) . |
| 16 | In the later Middle Ages as more and more families became armigerous , the abuse of arms by illegal assumption grew to the point where corrective action was necessary if the dignity of possessing a valid grant was not to be eroded beyond reclamation . |
| 17 | Dunwoody was surprised when the judge called him the winner on Remittance Man in the opening Bristol Novice Hurdle , believing Peter Scudamore had got back in the final strides on the favourite Regal Ambition after being headed halfway up the run-in . |
| 18 | For example in Office Angels Ltd. v Rainer-Thomas ( 1991 ) , it was held that a covenant precluding an ex-employee from opening an employment agency anywhere in an area only within 1,000 metres radius of the previous employer 's agency for a period of only 6 months was unreasonable as the area included most of the City of London . |
| 19 | An earthquake measuring 6.0 on the Richter scale struck southern California on June 28 , killing at least one person and injuring several others ; casualties were light because the epicentre of the 15-second tremor was deep beneath the San Gabriel Mountains , 65 km north of Los Angeles . |
| 20 | Even directly below high-voltage lines levels of exposure to EMF were lower than the safety guidelines issued by the National Radiological Protection Board . |
| 21 | For example , Pamela was surprised that her parents were concerned when a boy she had just met at a discotheque brought her home in the early hours of the morning . |
| 22 | One person on site was taken to the local hospital complaining of eye irritation but was later discharged and the crew of a vessel in the Humber estuary reported exposure to an irritant cloud , but not ill effects were evident when the crew was checked by a doctor . |
| 23 | The 10 patients who were lost to follow-up were younger than the rest of the cohort ( mean age : 48 yr vs 60 yr , p=0.05 ) , but otherwise had similar baseline characteristics . |
| 24 | A few days after his consecration the new Archbishop conducted a formal enquiry and pronounced , as Convocation had already done , that the King 's first marriage was invalid because the Pope had no power to allow him to marry his deceased brother 's wife . |
| 25 | The diocese was larger than the diocese of Durham and more varied ; industry on Teesside , moors of the North Riding , wolds of the East Riding , the plain of York , cities like York and Hull . |
| 26 | Hosiers were accused of making too little allowance for normal waste , so that they could fine knitters whose returned work was lighter than the yarn which had been given out . |
| 27 | The officer 's mess was smaller than the sergeant 's . |
| 28 | Astronomers know that the early universe was uniform because a remnant of that period , the cosmic microwave background radiation which bathes the Earth from all directions , is remarkably uniform . |
| 29 | In terms of Figure 17–2 , it is highly questionable whether the cost saving rectangle B was larger than the dead-weight burden triangle A. |
| 30 | However , that sort of reference was nugatory because the money did not follow the patient . |