Example sentences of "[noun] was [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Christian religion was naturally of the greatest importance — the Master was in Holy Orders — but the Latin Vulgate had been replaced by the English of King James 's Bible . |
| 2 | Before the 1980s its lowest ebb was probably during the last years of Stalin 's life when his private office and the secret police seem to have had more influence than the party . |
| 3 | Jamila was soon in the felicitous position of neither liking nor disliking her husband . |
| 4 | Tayside 's deputy chief constable William Spence , noting the report , said there had been various elements of improvement and said his force was still above the national average in detection . |
| 5 | Emily 's mind was partly on the enjoyable walk she had taken with Heinrich , who had unexpectedly proved a most delightful companion during the week ; partly on the bright green foulard dress she had seen on sale at Bobby 's in Margate yesterday when they visited the famous menagerie at the Grand Hall by the Sea , and partly it was on the coming evening . |
| 6 | A small part of his mind was still on the unidentified weapon in the Connon case . |
| 7 | We work with about 60 women a year , and I know many of them would genuinely say that at the start they were unemployable , that they could have gone back to drugs , ended up back in prison , but they did n't because Clean Break was there at the right time for them , to give them the opportunities they needed . |
| 8 | Rather , the analogy was perhaps with the 1915 coalition , a government supported by the Liberal , Conservative , and Labour parties with definite but limited wartime objectives . |
| 9 | This year , FOX F M was there for the first time and Phil Angel managed to catch Dr John Howard to explain what it all meant . |
| 10 | Her talk was all about the recent fine weather , the record yield , the completion of harvest — all but the linseed . |
| 11 | James 's victory gave him 35 points to Lauda 's 61 , his car was clearly among the best , he had matured greatly as a driver , he was on a good roll himself : the championship seemed to be there for his taking . |
| 12 | This effect was less in the intention-to-treat analysis : 3/30 vs 9/30 ( relative risk=0.33 , CI=0.10–1.11 , p=0.106 ) . |
| 13 | No great number of people need have been directly engaged in ironmaking , for the Wealden industry was still in the 1520s no more than poised on the threshold of greatness , with only three blast furnaces in operation , and indeed the original one at Newbridge standing idle without a tenant . |
| 14 | The newspaper industry was therefore among the first to make use of the development of scientific surveys for measuring opinion . |
| 15 | MacLane was still on the running board , his arm wedged into the squashed wreck of the car . |
| 16 | Now to be fair , the dilemma was there as the whole soft crust thing got going on 10 November 1989 , when the fall of the Berlin Wall gave a prop of plausibility to the caring-Nineties mediaschlock , and to Rifat Ozbek 's baggy Kleenex-vagabond numbers . |
| 17 | Ellen was also in the winning team last year which will make it a hat-trick if the 1993 season brings her another win . |
| 18 | Kubitsky was below on the main bay deck . |
| 19 | The nuclear-free zone proposal was reportedly in the annual ASEAN discussions in 1986 , and Soviet spokesmen underlined press reports at the close of the following annual ASEAN Conference in June 1987 that specific plans were being worked out to set up such a zone which would be examined at a summit level meeting of the ASEAN states in Manila in December . |
| 20 | The appeal of the New Connexion was largely to the industrial poor ; Primitive Methodism attracted humble folk not only in the towns but in the agricultural villages as well . |
| 21 | The Central Committee was already considering the wider implications of the Unity Campaign . |
| 22 | ‘ You have not enquired as to the size of the fortune , ’ Colonel Moore said , in a tone which suggested that Hope was somehow in the wrong for this negligence . |
| 23 | Where he differed from Darwin was mainly on the critical issue of evolution , i.e. , the proposition that one species could change over time into another species , but his arguments on these matters were by no means obscurantist or naive . |
| 24 | The entrance with its kiosk and museum was away at the far side , and not inhabited by night . |
| 25 | I 've got an idea they 're a Cornish family and that 's why the old lady was here in the first place . ’ |
| 26 | He recently purchased some capacitors ( from a well established supplier ) only to find ( on close examination ) that the marked working voltage was well below the advertised value . |
| 27 | Fergus was also in the right field , which was literary theory . |
| 28 | Fifteen years after the incident the issue was again before the Privy Council in a case inevitably to be known as The Wagon Mound ( No 2 ) [ 19671 1 AC 617 . |
| 29 | By 1820 investment in shipping , docks and harbours was also around the million mark , and there were similar trends in bridge building . |
| 30 | Held , allowing the appeal , that once an order was made under section 31 of the Children Act 1989 placing a child in the care of a local authority , responsibility for the care of the child was firmly with the local authority and the family proceedings court could not retain a power of review over the care order by including directions ; and that , accordingly , the direction relating to the continued involvement of the guardian ad litem would be deleted ( post , p. 812B , G ) . |