Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [adj] [subord] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Was it true that the mind was wiser than the body ? |
| 2 | Significant compression has only developed comparatively recently ( the Alpine Fault was transtensile until the Pliocene ) but has generated rapid uplift with the highest peaks in the Southern Alps now exceeding an altitude of 3000 m . |
| 3 | This indication was false since the bars labelled ‘ Extra value ’ contained slightly less chocolate for the sale price as the bars not so labelled . |
| 4 | It was still dark and the weather was wet and foggy , but the blue fog inside the car was worse as the Substitute lit his third pungent little Tuscan cigar . |
| 5 | The boat was late because the train was late … |
| 6 | Bald planned to follow it with other county surveys of similar quality , but this ambition was frustrated when the Ordnance Survey was directed to produced its own map of Ireland in 1824 , and henceforth he devoted his energies to civil engineering , a profession for which he further equipped himself by a period of renewed study and foreign travel . |
| 7 | The consent of two-thirds of the directors of the House of Industry was necessary before the building could be transferred , and after the Mayor , Dr. George Witt , had met in ‘ a somewhat private way ’ with the Commissioner , a special meeting was called to obtain the required number of signatures . |
| 8 | The speed of light was slower than the intelligence of the clerical network in matters of gossip . |
| 9 | Echo was unclear whether the programs shifted over were System 7 or System 3 based . |
| 10 | His innocent co-partner was liable as the money had originally been paid into the firm 's account ) . |
| 11 | In the later Middle Ages as more and more families became armigerous , the abuse of arms by illegal assumption grew to the point where corrective action was necessary if the dignity of possessing a valid grant was not to be eroded beyond reclamation . |
| 12 | Dot was pleased when the Children 's Officer called at the basement and said she was strong enough to start school . |
| 13 | A few days after his consecration the new Archbishop conducted a formal enquiry and pronounced , as Convocation had already done , that the King 's first marriage was invalid because the Pope had no power to allow him to marry his deceased brother 's wife . |
| 14 | The diocese was larger than the diocese of Durham and more varied ; industry on Teesside , moors of the North Riding , wolds of the East Riding , the plain of York , cities like York and Hull . |
| 15 | Hosiers were accused of making too little allowance for normal waste , so that they could fine knitters whose returned work was lighter than the yarn which had been given out . |
| 16 | The officer 's mess was smaller than the sergeant 's . |
| 17 | Astronomers know that the early universe was uniform because a remnant of that period , the cosmic microwave background radiation which bathes the Earth from all directions , is remarkably uniform . |
| 18 | However , that sort of reference was nugatory because the money did not follow the patient . |
| 19 | The plaintiff argued that the prior disclosure was irrelevant as the share sale agreement contained clauses stating that the warranties were given subject to the matters set out in the disclosure letter but that no other information whether actual , constructive or imputed would affect any claim made by the plaintiff or reduce any amount recoverable . |
| 20 | Bismuth is still used by some practitioners as an adjunct to penicillin therapy , but in most centres the advent of penicillin and other antibiotics has , at long last , brought an end to the many centuries during which the treatment of syphilis was worse than the disease itself . |
| 21 | The hall was bigger than the Cromarty Hall in the village ; it could accommodate more local people and more of the television cameras that by now were multiplying daily , along with their crews , reporters , producers , and the army of newspaper journalists and feature writers that by this time had gathered in Orkney . |
| 22 | It is not clear why the consent of the parties should be a precondition to leapfrog appeals , and the issue was contentious when the Bill was debated in Parliament . |
| 23 | The council was doubtful whether the public would want to pay for the changes . |
| 24 | Vanguard was stronger than the DUP in urban working-class areas and , as the pacts were designed to maximize loyalist votes by giving the strongest party in any area a clear run , this would have reduced the number of DUP people standing in urban areas . |
| 25 | ‘ The girl was dead when the ambulance arrived . ’ |
| 26 | There had n't been any time to find a new skivvy , and a skivvy was vital if the evening was to be a success . |
| 27 | Abolition of the Southern League also robbed players of a useful safety valve , for no transfer fee was payable when a player moved into it from the League . |
| 28 | It was held that the refusal was unreasonable because the employers had agreed to pay the extra travelling costs . |
| 29 | It creaked open , and the sound was worse than the bangs . |
| 30 | The sound was louder than the bus of cars along the highway I had left . |