Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] was [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Thorarin is reliable this was also the point at which he entrusted Denmark to one of his sons . |
| 2 | But in my sense , my Top 30 was how the world should have been . |
| 3 | In the car , on the homeward journey , Cassie found herself reflecting , as she glanced covertly at his profile and at the thin hands lightly gripping the steering wheel … those same brown and capable hands that had figured so prominently in her earlier fantasies … that he would make the perfect lover , if it were n't for his apparent indifference to women ; and perhaps , also , to having sex ; although this last was only an assumption . |
| 4 | At tha at this time in , in the twenties and early thirties was there a lot of people unemployed in , in Street and around there ? |
| 5 | So the early Carboniferous was again a time of very widespread carbonate deposition . |
| 6 | The expansion of the early 1970s was largely the result of the oil crisis , a strategic decision made in the face of economic blackmail by the Arab members of OPEC ( Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries ) during the Yom Kippur War . |
| 7 | Nineteen twenty-nine was necessarily an election year . |
| 8 | Certainly those who had been accused of witchcraft or committed suicide could not be buried in the churchyard : second best was usually the crossroads , a memory perhaps of some measure of sanctity which may over time have become attached to leys because of their association with other sacred sites . |
| 9 | The North East of the 1950s and early 1960s was not the North East of 1914 , not least in terms of domestic arrangements , demography and completed family sizes . |
| 10 | The conciliar debate of the early 1960s was essentially a debate not only within the walls of St Peter 's , but throughout the Church . |
| 11 | In the UK the depression of the early 1980s was mainly a failure of growth of individual incomes of those who remained in employment . |
| 12 | Unless all that was just a dream , after all , and nothing to do with what really happened . ’ |
| 13 | I was so rattled I glanced round to make sure this was n't a signal for an army of bunnies like this Dobermann of a beast to come up from behind and tear me to shreds . |
| 14 | All this was merely a convention as far as I was concerned , an exercise I had anticipated for nearly ten years . |
| 15 | What if all this was merely a wind-up ? |
| 16 | With Kylie at her most vulnerable this was also the time when those who most despised her success happily fuelled rumours that she was anorexic . |
| 17 | My becoming homeless was not a result of my dropping out of a system which probably would have supported me until retirement age ; it was the result of a chain of events which took place much , much later . |
| 18 | In a letter replying to these allegations , Newman is very adamant this was not the case , insisting instead that Thomas was confusing Doctor Who with the Pathfinders series . |
| 19 | Pat saw just how true that was so the night that Ken was due to go out with one of his current close friends . |
| 20 | In 1987–88 this was not the case and we failed to predict a dramatic upturn in School of Business F T E s , principally as a consequence of students electing to take tourism modules as an extra-field choice . |
| 21 | That seven thousand was only the overtime payment . |