Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] was [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did not breathe spontaneously and died in a pulmonary W with lungs filled with water and we ca n't exclude that the reason for that was just the water bath . |
| 2 | However , the basis for that was not a matter for the Divisional Court . |
| 3 | The reason for this was also the reason for her sorrow . |
| 4 | It is no accident that there is a similarity between the diagnostic test , above , and the claim which used to be advanced in transformational grammar to the effect that an attributive adjective incorporated in a noun phrase is derived from some such structure as : ( 6 ) the N present BE ADJ This proposal was questioned quite early in the development of transformational grammar ( see Berman , 1974 ) , and a major reason for this was precisely the fact that too many phrases with attributive adjectives were discovered where the derivation does not seem to be usable ; as we shall see later , there are other reasons why such a derivation may not work , apart from the issue discussed here . |
| 5 | In his summing up the judge said that the co-defendant 's plea of guilty was not the issue and the jury knew of it to make the background accurate . |
| 6 | The other major issue of 1935 was also a non-event for the BUF . |
| 7 | One recent example of this was when a scientist reported , what was known as cold fusion . |
| 8 | It was a time before I began to understand her a little better and realise that a lot of this was actually a sort of ‘ attention-getting ’ — a bit of theatre just to see how people would react — to manipulate situations a little . |
| 9 | In front of this was usually the atrium or forecourt . |
| 10 | One of these was probably the carver known as ‘ Guillaume de Nourriche ’ ( William of Norwich ) in documentary sources . |
| 11 | Membership of Rotary was always a delight to Tom , as was membership of his Masonic Lodge where he held top offices in both organisations . |
| 12 | The Act of 1897 was partly the result of trade union pressure . |
| 13 | The Recessional of 1897 was not the hymn of a nation strong in its own security . |
| 14 | Jacob studied at the Yeshiva de los Pintos at Rotterdam and at the age of twenty-five was already a rabbi in Amsterdam . |
| 15 | Only three batsmen got past twenty and none got to thirty , and a total of 137 was clearly a waste of everyone 's time . |
| 16 | The year of 1990 was truly the beginning of a new decade . |
| 17 | She had never held a baby before that was not a fat , well-dressed , sweet-smelling thing , but not one of them had ever given her the strange sense of fulfilment which the pitiful scrap of humanity in her arms , wrapped in the square which she had earlier scissored from her petticoat , did . |
| 18 | Not until 1980 was there a proposal to establish a permanent liaison committee between the two organizations . |
| 19 | St. John 's Roman Catholic Church founded in 1138 was formerly the Chapel of the medieval Hospital of St. John . |
| 20 | The reopening of the Halls in 1985 was just the beginning . |
| 21 | The revolution that toppled this edifice in 1979 was not the work of any single organized movement . |
| 22 | The NUM 's strike action in 1984 was thus a conflict between the perceived ‘ irresistible force ’ of the union and the ‘ immovable object ’ of the government . |
| 23 | — Viscount Whitelaw , introducing the Prime Minister ‘ What happened in Russia in 1917 was n't a revolution . |
| 24 | ‘ What happened in Russia in 1917 was n't a revolution . |
| 25 | This reorganization in 1962 was largely a result of the pressing need of the railways for financial readjustment . |
| 26 | Labour 's rather narrow parliamentary majority in 1964 was chiefly an effect of a slump in Tory support and continuing electoral revival of the Liberals ( who received over 10 per cent of the vote for the first time since the war ) . |
| 27 | The ascent in 1865 was just a week before Whymper climbed the Matterhorn , Moore was partnered by Horace Walker , who , the same year , was with him on the first ascent of the Brenva Ridge on Mt Blanc , and by guide Jakob Anderegg . |
| 28 | The building of the present Thomas Street Church in 1860 was not the result of the 1859 Revival but a providential event parallel to it . |
| 29 | The mistress of the church school in a Somersetshire parish in 1805 was not a widow but still sufficiently poor for her ten-year-old son to be killed working in a coal mine . |
| 30 | At constant prices , the real value of government drug imports in 1989 was only the value in 1980 ( Noormahomed et al , op. cit . ) . |