Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The accountants ' view tended towards an acceptance of them as an inevitable consequence of credit trading and their remedy was to increase the bad debt provisions . |
| 2 | We moved forward again some way and into the assault trenches — the Rifle Brigade was to form the second wave of the attack . |
| 3 | Radiotherapy was considered the best option for treatment but before this could be started , rapidly progressive dysponea developed . |
| 4 | This was the time when the old style of gabled manor was feeling the first breath of classical ideas . |
| 5 | Marco was looking the other way . |
| 6 | He returned to Los Angeles and then caught a plane to Europe where he had been invited to show the finished article at the Venice Film Festival at which The Last Movie was voted the best picture on exhibition . |
| 7 | The result was called the ultraviolet catastrophe " ultraviolet " because that means high frequencies , and " catastrophe " for a reason too obvious to need elaboration . |
| 8 | The German soldier was holding the white flag above his head . |
| 9 | Willingly she would have surrendered the gift of consciousness if only she might drift like these in a blind passion of being , exempt from question ; yet even as she yearned wistfully so , another voice inside her agitated mind was whispering the old caveat from the Rosarium : that all error arose from failure to begin with the proper substance , from a proud forgetfulness that the magisterium is Nature 's work and not the worker 's . |
| 10 | The Forces Programme was renamed the Light Programme in 1945 , ‘ designed to appeal not so much to a certain class of listener — but to all listeners when they are in certain moods ’ ( BBC , 1946 , p. 53 ) . |
| 11 | He told staff yesterday that the university had more staff whose research was given the top grade five rating than all the other Scottish universities put together . |
| 12 | Councillors were jeered and heckled as they emerged and the mayor was given the Nazi salute as he drove off . |
| 13 | The aim of this study was to measure the overall plasminogen activator activity and concentrations of individual fibrinolytic system mediators in ascites secondary to alcoholic liver disease or malignancy to gain a greater understanding about the aetiology of this condition . |
| 14 | In that country the original intention was to oppose the compulsory arbitration system which employers had regarded as a fundamental challenge to management rights , and subsequently to disseminate information and advice to association members ‘ in interpreting the maze of awards , classifications and legislation that the system was producing ’ ( Plowman , 1980 , p. 253 ) . |
| 15 | Mussolini took advantage of these largely theoretical impositions to say that the League 's intention was to destroy the Italian economy and , surprising as it may seem today , the people of Italy reinforced what proved to be his growing megalomania by demonstrating , when inspired to do so by the press , that they were ready to make any sacrifices that might be asked of them . |
| 16 | The intention was to relate the linguistic variation revealed to social patterns within the communities themselves , avoiding prior assumptions about social norms that might seem to be imposed from outside . |
| 17 | When fasting , for example , was first used by Gandhi as a form of satyāgraha in a dispute between textile mill-owners and labourers in Ahmedabad the intention was to rally the flagging spirit and resolve of the workers , but it had the added effect of forcing the mill owners into negotiation . |
| 18 | His later Lives do not inspire great confidence in their historical details about a young king seeking the hand of Offa 's daughter in marriage and falling a victim to the machinations of Queen Cynethryth , who alleged that Aethelberht 's real intention was to reconnoitre the Mercian kingdom with a view to invading it , and when the Chronicon ex Chronicis also claims that Aethelberht was put to death by Offa at the instigation of Queen Cynethryth it is not necessarily independent of the legend . |
| 19 | Our intention was to express the equivalent region of the homologous VZV IE protein 140k , encompassing its DNA binding domain , in order to study its DNA binding characteristics for comparison with those of the HSV-1 Vmw175 DNA binding domain . |
| 20 | Similarly teams of medical advisers were brought down to William Osborne to inspect and comment on the level and location of medical equipment so that as the boat was built the right equipment was installed in the right place . |
| 21 | Roscoe 's ambition was to drain the whole wetland , and to this end he organized ditching , marling , and importation from nearby Manchester of boatload upon boatload of human ordure , which was forked by hand on to the moss . |
| 22 | His ambition was to have the primary survey of Britain completed during his term of office and the Highlands formed a stumbling block . |
| 23 | Before the season started , Ian McGeechan 's secret ambition was to win the two home games and possibly either one of the matches in Paris or London . |
| 24 | His ambition was to reduce the standard rate of tax to 25p in the pound by the next election . |
| 25 | Same as labour was done the other day . |
| 26 | Its immediate effect was to harden the Turkish attitude to the demands of the Serbs . |
| 27 | The effect was to bar the luckless employee from unfair dismissal rights , even though he would have had sufficient continuous employment to found a claim had the original termination date stood . |
| 28 | ‘ You said the wheelbarrow was doing the natural thing — but it was n't falling . ’ |
| 29 | Its ethereal light was bathing the dizzy drop from the high citadel of Mdina , silvering the hillside and the valley across to the sea . |
| 30 | The morning light was piercing the old house now , sending shafts of pure colour sliding across the floor , making the dust motes dance in and out of the rays . |