Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] was [adj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although admission was free the public had to purchase Red Cross badge which gave the spectators temporary membership . |
| 2 | Several other sets of doors were dotted around the floor and , far off to the left , a black maw opened up in the wall , with so little light coming from it that Benny was certain the tunnel beyond turned several times before reaching the outside world . |
| 3 | It was evident , from conversations with him at the Kolbitar , that Lewis was such a man , and in version of his Lay of Leithian , the story of how the mortal Beren , returning from the wars , through the forests of Neldoreth , encounters the elfish maiden Luthien and falls in love with her . |
| 4 | As with the land , if division was difficult the business or the family home would be sold to allow it . |
| 5 | ‘ It would n't matter if you were at home and lunch was half an hour late . |
| 6 | The persons solicited in this way reacted with annoyance , perhaps indicating that they supposed that they were being solicited for the purposes of prostitution ( the magistrates having found as a fact that ‘ it would be impossible for anyone so touted or solicited without enquiry to appreciate the purpose of the solicitation , and that a solicitation for this purpose in the circumstances of time and place was such an affront that it might provoke a breach of the peace . ’ ) |
| 7 | To be married would be diverting ; she would be free to do as she pleased , and Paul was such a dear he would cause her no anxiety . |
| 8 | Madness and Civilization was such a study , but the assumption that it was possible simply to lift the repression and to let otherness speak for itself was questioned by Derrida in his well-known critique , ‘ Cogito and the History of Madness ’ . |
| 9 | Her mama had said as much , but D-M was such a zeroville . |
| 10 | But Bianco was adamant the expediting of the process was for the benefit of staff and users alike . |
| 11 | ‘ We are expecting about 300 people at the supporters ’ club after the funeral because Dennis was such a character and everybody who went on away matches knew him . ’ |
| 12 | You still have an essentially static situation ( X killed Y because X was such-and-such a person ) and you still therefore have the problem of presenting that situation to your readers in a progressive way . |
| 13 | Mr. Gordon was young and , in a way , handsome , but he was n't somehow as fine as Judy was sure the man who married Brown Owl should be . |
| 14 | All too soon as far as Maggie was concerned the waltz was over and they were clapping the band . |
| 15 | Yes , they still want one , even though Eva was such a disappointment . |
| 16 | The marriage was a happy one and when Carol was 24 the couple were blessed with their first child , Kylie Ann . |
| 17 | When Roy was three the family moved to another famous place , Elderslie . |
| 18 | When Michael was 5 the family moved house , only half a mile , to a larger house nearer Magdalene College , Howfield beyond Castle Hill . |