Example sentences of "[noun] was [adj] [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A pool of people who could read and keep ledgers was essential if the world of commerce were to expand . |
| 2 | Was it true that the mind was wiser than the body ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The boat was late because the train was late … |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The speed of light was slower than the intelligence of the clerical network in matters of gossip . |
| 9 | Friday was bright albeit the wind was somewhat stronger and it was colder . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | His innocent co-partner was liable as the money had originally been paid into the firm 's account ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The officer 's mess was smaller than the sergeant 's . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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. |
| 21 | However , that sort of reference was nugatory because the money did not follow the patient . |
| 22 | The plaintiff argued that the prior disclosure was irrelevant as the share sale agreement contained clauses stating that the warranties were given subject to the matters set out in the disclosure letter but that no other information whether actual , constructive or imputed would affect any claim made by the plaintiff or reduce any amount recoverable . |
| 23 | Bismuth is still used by some practitioners as an adjunct to penicillin therapy , but in most centres the advent of penicillin and other antibiotics has , at long last , brought an end to the many centuries during which the treatment of syphilis was worse than the disease itself . |
| 24 | They ended up laughing about that , but it was the uneasy laughter of desperation and displacement , and all they could do after that was finish the whisky and have the joint Rory had been working on , and it was almost a relief when Fergus was sick as a dog out of the window , hanging out barfing onto the slates and into the guttering while Rory tried to clean the plaster off the top bunk and stowed the guns out of harm 's way . |
| 25 | It is not clear why the consent of the parties should be a precondition to leapfrog appeals , and the issue was contentious when the Bill was debated in Parliament . |
| 26 | The council was doubtful whether the public would want to pay for the changes . |
| 27 | ‘ The girl was dead when the ambulance arrived . ’ |
| 28 | There had n't been any time to find a new skivvy , and a skivvy was vital if the evening was to be a success . |
| 29 | Abolition of the Southern League also robbed players of a useful safety valve , for no transfer fee was payable when a player moved into it from the League . |
| 30 | The sound was louder than the bus of cars along the highway I had left . |