Example sentences of "[noun] was [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Deeside was enjoying an Indian summer of mild , windless days and skies piled with white cumulus . |
| 2 | THE Consumers ’ Association was holding an urgent meeting yesterday over British Airways ' £35m take-over of debt-ridden Gatwick airline Dan-Air . |
| 3 | His first act after his coronation was to order a punitive attack on Naggaroth . |
| 4 | He also claimed that player-coach Newberry was given an early bath for ‘ questioning a decision ’ . |
| 5 | The ones appointed to do the job had never been very good at it , but he had heard a rumour that Horemheb was training a secret corps of police , answering to him alone but set up in the pharaoh 's name and in the interests of national security . |
| 6 | The fact is , however , that OW was given a supervised work training placement , helping care workers in a centre for the mentally handicapped for two days a week . |
| 7 | The second recommendation was to create a general management function throughout the service to focus responsibility and give leadership and direction . |
| 8 | The grounds of the cross-appeal were that ( 1 ) the judge had correctly held that a mortgagee 's right to costs , charges and expenses whether founded on equitable principles or an implied contract could always be varied , restricted or enlarged by the express terms of the mortgage and that the first defendant was entitled a full indemnity against the costs , charges and expenses on a true construction of the words used in the mortgage deeds other than the guarantee and mortgage debenture dated 6 June 1986 . |
| 9 | This lack of appreciation was to have an adverse effect upon his stance in some of the debates in the 1920s ; something he came to realise and rectify later on . |
| 10 | It was not until the appearance of Michael Cimino 's The Deerhunter ( 1979 ) that the Vietnam combat movie was to make a significant impact . |
| 11 | Manville was playing a wild hunch . |
| 12 | When the manacle was unlocked a weeping ulcer was exposed , and he was sickened , not by the sight of it , but because he had failed her in not acting sooner . |
| 13 | THE official launch of WINCH , the Wirral Initiative for Needy Children , at Tranmere Rovers Football Club was given a healthy start , thanks to £1,000 donation from BNFL . |
| 14 | But a few weeks ago our youth rugby team could n't raise a side because the golf club was holding a junior scratch championship on the same day . |
| 15 | The agent was doing an efficient demolition job on Harry 's ebullience . |
| 16 | I felt guilty for challenging his motives and , even though a tiny corner of my mind was hearing an imaginary Ellen scoff at my naïvety , I believed the senator 's sudden and passionate sincerity . |
| 17 | It failed to find a publisher either in Macmillan or elsewhere , but Hardy was given a great deal of largely conflicting and unsettling advice at a time when he was ‘ feeling his way to a method ’ . |
| 18 | Gaston was occupying a high-backed chair in the place of honour , and she went to stand beside him , watching Marie-Christine , the skirts of her dress looped over her arm , being whirled round the floor by Jacques . |
| 19 | Richard was having a lean time . |
| 20 | But such work did not seem to be forthcoming , and his sole immediate chance of usefulness was to become an air-raid warden for his area of Kensington : in this new role , he had to rehearse the procedure for marshalling people in the event of an air raid , and to practise his fire drill by putting out bonfires in Emperor 's Gate . |
| 21 | It was also reported that the Justice Department was conducting a criminal investigation of contract payments to the General Dynamics Corp. and the McDonnell Douglas Corp. , the contractors responsible for building the A-12 . |
| 22 | Each department was set a minimum target of 52 per cent women and 10 per cent ethnic minorities . |
| 23 | In my innocence and with musical aspirations , I thought it would be lovely to be married to a professional pianist ; after all , my good friend Fraser Muirhead was paying a great deal of attention to Margaret Geddes , another of the city 's first class piano teachers . |
| 24 | After lunch in the restaurant Her Majesty was given a guided tour of the house by Director-General Angus Stirling which included opportunities to meet the donor , Mr. Henry Harpur-Crewe . |
| 25 | At the same time , she recognized that the photograph was exerting a considerable pull on her own imagination . |
| 26 | At the time my feeling was that David was making a conscious decision to become big .. |
| 27 | By then , Westminster had merged with National Provincial and Wanless was offered a new job working in market intelligence for another King 's graduate , David Lomax . |
| 28 | At this time , too , the vigorous and largely indigenous current of thought and research in social psychology in the United States was given a powerful boost by the influx of expatriate German scholars , liberal democrats most of them , fleeing from the Nazi regime . |
| 29 | The United States was receiving a good return on its investment . |
| 30 | The aim of this study was to analyse an unselected series of coeliac disease patients presenting in their seventh decade or beyond to a District General Hospital . |