Example sentences of "[conj] was [vb pp] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may refer to uncertificated achievements but might include those which have been certificated , especially where the certification does not record the precise nature of the achievement , or was acquired in a different/unrelated context . |
| 2 | One of the things that he objected to about a tradition of painting that was governed by a scientific , single viewpoint system of perspective was that it gave the spectator an incomplete picture or idea about the subject . |
| 3 | I kept a cowardly silence that was broken by a strident and sudden eruption of Goombay music from one of the nearby beach hotels . |
| 4 | The Marshal was examining a photograph that was propped on a fifteenth-century prayer stool by the bed . |
| 5 | She was sitting before a mirror that was propped against a large pan on the stove . |
| 6 | She breezed on by , presumably expecting him to follow ; she was heading for a side-entrance to the house that was reached through an overgrown kitchen garden . |
| 7 | He saw a room that was lit by a pale yellow light of some sort and it was furnished with beautifully made miniature chairs and a table . |
| 8 | Even better followed when the intelligent Coleman , always capable of rising above the mundane , made a marvellous break that was followed by a superb inside pass to Divorty . |
| 9 | He swung into a vacant parking space at that moment , right in front of the café that was tucked into an out-of-the-way corner of the city 's central business and shopping district . |
| 10 | The Williamses installed a window in the kitchen that was made from a genuine cartwheel with glass specifically cut to fit between the spokes of the wheel . |
| 11 | President Somoza personally pocketed the international funding that was raised for a national mental-health programme in 1972 . |
| 12 | Before the Act a hut that was bolted onto a concrete base was held not to be part of the land whereas the concrete base , obiter , was . |
| 13 | He was also the most vigorous opponent in the House of the attempts of some purity advocates to amend the Bill by including punishment by flogging for certain types of offenders , a provision that was renewed in a similar atmosphere of hysteria in 1912 . |
| 14 | The lower animals still alive in the world today could be identified with particular stages in the overall development of life — a process that was replayed like a speeded-up movie film in the life of every human being . |
| 15 | Here is a true marriage of traditional methods and equipment with modern health and hygiene requirements — their vat , tools and press are old equipment that was purchased from an elderly cheesemaker some twenty years ago , together with the recipe for the cheese . |
| 16 | Joe brought tea and sandwiches on a tin tray that was decorated with a colourful imprint of Queen Victoria . |
| 17 | The first run was at Stratford-upon-Avon , a place that was used to a different kind of theatre entirely , and ended at what was regarded as the graveyard of intimate revue , Blackpool . |
| 18 | Certainly , Derry lifted the McKenna Cup but it was a hollow victory against hollow opposition — a match that was reduced to a meaningless championship preamble . |
| 19 | This study confirms that subcutaneous infusion of caerulein induced acute oedematous pancreatitis that was accompanied by a marked increase in the content of endogenous platelet activating factor in the pancreatic tissue and shows that the pretreatment with highly specific and potent platelet activating factor blocker ( TCV-309 ) ameliorated the biochemical , circulatory , and histological manifestations of caerulein induced pancreatic damage . |
| 20 | Scholz took out a meerschaum pipe that was burned to a dark orange and blew through it . |
| 21 | He slid out of the saddle and gratefully sat on a bench that was shaded by a small chestnut tree . |
| 22 | This short manuscript , which was only rediscovered in a private library at the turn of the century , spells out the sort of behaviour that was expected of a young Mughal gentleman in Delhi about 1650 . |
| 23 | He was occupied with sketching whatever came into view ; a mother with a baby that was draped in a purple shawl , lean cows of a delicate brown , meagre birches , scourged oaks , poplars . |
| 24 | Peace that was shattered by a mocking male voice . |
| 25 | He had found his lighter in the briefcase , as well as a letter that was embossed with a blue and gold eagle above the rubric ‘ From the Washington Office of Senator George Crowninshield ’ . |
| 26 | This attribute has a place in an adverse stereotype of the woman that was promoted by a medieval tradition of antifeminist writing . |
| 27 | There was a hint of a smile on the pale , unmade-up face that was surrounded by a black maghnéeh hood . |
| 28 | After a while they clapped , and then his sister walked on to the low platform that was surrounded by a frothy sea of pink and white azalea plants . |
| 29 | It was only water that was let into a confined space but we had a Sports Association which had a section for the swimming and er I way remember bought a couple of old single decker buses from somewhere , I do n't know where and he had them fitted out and rigged up at Stoke Bathing Place , especially for us to go there and change and w we did have quite a good strong section , we used to hold our , an annual what you call a regatta , or , no not a regatta but er in the St Matthew 's Swimming Baths a festival , a swimming festival a gala , yes |
| 30 | Then Harvey gave him a prismatic compass that was designed as an old-fashioned turnip watch ( complete with a chain that was used as a measure for distance-judging ) . |