Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] was [adj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Florrie did not eat anything herself — a cup of tea was all the breakfast she ever wanted — and as soon as she had finished , she put on her coat and hat and left the house . |
| 2 | I was in love before I left England and the hope of marriage was such a spur that with help from the two Williams , I was able to pass with distinction not only two , but three exams . |
| 3 | William of Warelwast was such a man . |
| 4 | Prussia 's pre-eminence was institutionalised in that the King of Prussia was ex-officio the chairman of the Bundesrat , but this was only as titular Head of State , not head of government : in all matters Bismarck was keen to stress the federal , decentralised aspects of the constitution , both to reassure the smaller states that they were not being swallowed up and also to convince Prussia that she was not losing sovereignty to the supranational authority either . |
| 5 | The upturn in sales was double the increase the economic forecasters had been expecting , but the City remained sceptical . |
| 6 | At a non-denominational school in the west end of Glasgow a head teacher explained that the maximum time to be spent on homework was half an hour . |
| 7 | She had sent her younger son to a private school because the switch to comprehensives was such a mess and because he had a horror of a huge education factory after his primary school where everybody was known by their first name . |
| 8 | Small wonder that there was high glee within the Command when the first sortie to Flensberg was such a debacle , due in the main to weather . |
| 9 | Cookham cancelled their match on the river because of poor weather and although the waterway at Maidenhead was fishable the match had to be cancelled because of frozen banks . |