Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adj] [was/were] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the latter case this was notwithstanding a finding that the wife ‘ did sufficiently understand the general nature of the document . ’ |
| 2 | On the western side this was always an area characterised by a militancy which is presumably going out of fashion now too . |
| 3 | By some kind of irony this was exactly the reverse of the trouble with masonry cathedrals which fell down because they turned out to be in tension when the builders held that they were in compression . |
| 4 | In essence this was less a system than the resort by the Crown to whatever means came to hand for raising and controlling money . |
| 5 | The second reason why two justices were not required was that the proceeding under section 7(5) of the Bail Act 1976 was neither the trial of an information summarily nor the hearing of a complaint within the meaning of section 121(1) of the Magistrates ' Courts Act 1980 . |
| 6 | The Education Act 1902 was largely the work of R. L. Morant , the chief civil servant at the Board of Education , one of a number of policy-innovating civil servants in his generation . |
| 7 | That they were at least in part effective was clearly the case . |
| 8 | No. 28 was formerly the wheel turning shop , but it is now used mainly for automatic machines . |
| 9 | On the other hand this was also the year when the British government had reluctantly bowed to American pressure and agreed to the establishment of a base in the Holy Loch in the west of Scotland for American Polaris submarines . |