Example sentences of "[was/were] [art] [adj] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | McKee ( 1987 ) reports that siblings of unemployed men were the second most important category ( after parents ) to give assistance . |
| 2 | Binding was the second most frequent reason for the non-availability of material , and — since the most frequent reason was simply that a requested item was already in use — it was the main reason which could be considered as in some measure attributable to the Library 's own procedures . |
| 3 | My father , Sir Tom , was the second most famous man of the British stage , of any stage for that matter ; a towering and famous figure , one of the great actors of all time , who accepted the adulation as his due and who had expected me , like the rest of his children , to follow in his footsteps . |
| 4 | The company 's vice-president , Horst Nasko , said that , before merger , Nixdorf was the second most important manufacturer in the country as regards volume sales . |
| 5 | The company 's vice-president , Horst Nasko , said that , before merger , Nixdorf was the second most important manufacturer in the country as regards volume sales . |
| 6 | It shows that for those people without work and looking for a job , the ending of a temporary job was the second most important reason for having left their last employment . |
| 7 | In the case of both men and women , drowning was the second most common method used . |
| 8 | She turned to say something about this to Caspar and then stopped and listened , because now — yes , surely — there was the faint eerily beautiful singing of the sidh . |
| 9 | In the private sector printing was the only heavily unionized industry . |
| 10 | The Black prince was the only smoothly tapered statuette , easily grasped , eleven inches from helmet to plinth . |
| 11 | In the physical examination of the low grade/mixed grade group , abdominal tenderness was the only relatively common finding , occurring in 29% , and in 48% physical examination disclosed no abnormality . |
| 12 | Hiatal hernia was the only statistically significant predictor of oesophageal mucosal status . |
| 13 | After Leavis , students and teachers of English need no longer feel that their activities were trivial : on the contrary , theirs was the only morally serious university subject . |
| 14 | Lamarckism was the only morally acceptable theory of evolution , and Darwin was all the more to blame because he had concealed the fact that better mechanisms of evolution than his own had been proposed long before the Origin of Species was published . |
| 15 | The beat was the only genuinely musical element in it , of course . |
| 16 | Here was the only really contemporary test , and Bournonville failed it . |
| 17 | But representative government was the only really legitimate form of government . |
| 18 | Although chance dictates that the evidence relates to two major centres , the situation thereby depicted does not necessarily misrepresent the economy as a whole , inasmuch as clothing was the only really large-scale manufacture , ranking high even in towns like Leicester and Northampton which had leather wares for their principal products . |
| 19 | Thomas Carter came right out and told you that he thought England was the only truly civilized country in the world and that as the most English of English cities , Oxford was its heart and soul , the core of everything that had formed us , the repository of our values and the guarantor of our standards , an expression in stone of our whole Western civilization , a cultural Stonehenge which , etc , etc . |
| 20 | This was the first commercially successful steam engine and was used for pumping water out of a mine . |
| 21 | Eagle 's Nest Direct was the first Very Severe rock climb in the British Isles and a route so serious then that to contemplate leading it at that time of primitive rope technique meant you also contemplated death . |
| 22 | The museum , set up in the 1780s by his great-great-great-grandmother Izabela , was the first didactically historical museum in Europe ( both the famous ‘ Lady with an Ermine ’ by Leonardo that starred in the National Gallery of Washington 's recent ‘ Circa 1492 ’ exhibition and the remarkable Rembrandt landscape were collected for their historical associations rather than their artistic merit ) . |
| 23 | The Abyssinian crisis , referred to in the previous chapter , was the first really serious issue which moved British public opinion against fascism . |
| 24 | It was the first really warm day of summer . |
| 25 | Dichloro-diphenyl trichlorethane , dicophane or DDT , was the first really specific agent to become available and it is still effective against the adult lice , although there is evidence of the development of resistance . |
| 26 | Ironically , ‘ Strangeways , Here We Come ’ was the first truly depressing record the band ever made . |
| 27 | The project was the first publicly funded research investigation and evaluation of the linguistic and educational aspects of the university language curriculum in UK French studies . |
| 28 | Plessey plc was the eighth most important corporation in Table 5.7 , and continued to consolidate its activities through mergers in the 1980s before themselves falling prey to takeover activity in 1989 . |
| 29 | According to opinion pollsters Harris it was the third most important issue on voters minds in 1987 . |
| 30 | Sugar was the third most important export after tobacco and tea , providing about 10 per cent of export earnings . |