Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] and [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three subsequent balloon dilations were unsuccessful and finally the patient was referred to our institution . |
| 2 | Environmental concern mushroomed during the 1960s and was stimulated by warnings about the impact of human activity and by debates about the extent to which earth resources were finite and therefore the basis for a pessimistic or optimistic future for spaceship earth . |
| 3 | Young Roberto 's mother died when he was eight and thereafter the boy rarely left the family villa of Baronta near Florence . |
| 4 | The plucky little hedgehog kept at it until the dog dish was empty and not a scrap remained . |
| 5 | The Speech Institute group was similar and perhaps a rival to the band directed by Miss Elsie Fogarty , who had done the choruses in Murder in the Cathedral , and I believe that one of them had asked me what were the chances of taking part in its successor . |
| 6 | The performance of the EEC during the Uruguay round of GATT discussions was instructive and probably a foretaste of what is to come . |
| 7 | The King , however , made it clear that neither mother nor son was welcome and so the journey to England had to be resumed . |
| 8 | It was argued that since any payment above the standard rent would be illegal and indeed a criminal offence under section 17 of that Act , the lease itself was unlawful and accordingly the agreement for commission fixed upon the amount of the rent stipulated in it was also illegal and irrecoverable . |
| 9 | However , this seepage was slight and not a problem . |
| 10 | It was adventurous and yet a bit modest and down-to-earth . |
| 11 | The West saw revolution coming through military struggle , misunderstanding that the appeal of Communism was sociological and thus the struggle was political . |
| 12 | The success was phenomenal and soon the company opened factories in other parts of the United Kingdom . |