Example sentences of "[noun] was [adj] [verb] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its founding members were drawn heavily from former members and supporters of the DLP , and there was speculation that its intervention in the presidential contest was likely to damage further the chances of Kim Young Sam securing victory . |
| 2 | But in this case the enlightened engineer was concerned to do precisely the opposite , and as the digger pulled back the rubble , he exposed an area of wall which looked for a moment as if it was made entirely of shiny cream bones . |
| 3 | This group of three- and four-year-olds were quite happy on their own , but by listening their teacher was able to learn quite a lot about their use of words and understanding of their meaning . |
| 4 | Any move of this kind towards the " summit diplomacy " of our own day was likely to undermine somewhat the position formerly enjoyed by the heads of great diplomatic missions . |
| 5 | What now became clear was that Cadwallon was prepared to tolerate neither the family of Eadwine nor that of Aethelfrith as rulers of the northern Angles . |
| 6 | In particular the central committee had been deprived of its ultimate power to dismiss the general secretary or the full politburo ( since the majority of politburo members sat ex-officio ) , while the composition of the politburo was likely to reduce drastically the frequency of its meetings . |
| 7 | Each subject was able to adjust both the height and the angle of a toilet seat by remote control . |
| 8 | In the 1830s and early 1840s Palmerston was able to handle both the Belgian question and the Near Eastern crises of 1832 – 33 and 1839 – 41 with little interference from parliament , so that in 1839 an acute observer of British politics could say with much justification that " foreign affairs are never discussed except at the House of Lords " . |
| 9 | Food was unlikely to provide exactly the right nucleic acids ready-made , and it was more likely that they were being built up from their components . |
| 10 | By the early 1920s it was evident that the monarchical system in its existing form was ill-equipped to negotiate successfully the difficult transition from ‘ oligarchic ’ liberalism to genuine democracy . |
| 11 | Sharp was unable to name specifically the brands which had most successfully taken this approach , but confirmed the list was dominated by the large US multinationals such as Ford and Coca-Cola . |