Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [adj] [conj] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The experiment was short-lived and a failure ; but it suggested that the young king might not be able to reckon as a matter of course on wielding all the powers of his great predecessor . |
| 2 | At least I 'd say his reasoning was good but the conclusions suspect . |
| 3 | has two separate main entries for this , corresponding to its occurrence in The sky-light was open and The duchess refused to open the safe . |
| 4 | By contrast with the offence of assaulting the police in the execution of their duty , it is clear that the prosecutor must show that the defendant was aware that the person obstructed was a constable . |
| 5 | The result was disastrous and a scandal to the country 's law and trade . |
| 6 | It was warm sunshine and the seat was easy and the progress slow . |
| 7 | In the early days ordinary mill-stones were used as the clinker was soft and the cement need not be finely ground . |
| 8 | The search was thorough and a number of items were removed ; there was talk of ritual sexual abuse . |
| 9 | By lunchtime the department was manic and the pace relentless but it still did not stop the old man who brought back a kettle complaining it did not work . |
| 10 | An ODA official claimed that the department was unaware that the project was " as environmentally sensitive as now seems to be the case " . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | This indication was false since the bars labelled ‘ Extra value ’ contained slightly less chocolate for the sale price as the bars not so labelled . |
| 13 | An airstart attempt was unsuccessful and the aircraft touched down on the extended landing gear at a point 900 feet short of the runway pavement . |
| 14 | He drove slow ! y because the rough road was always treacherous in winter and insufficiently sanded , but the inside of the car was warm and the sky alive in blue beyond the windows . |
| 15 | On the first official day of training on the course , the snow was soft and the conditions became extremely bumpy during the training run . |
| 16 | Ranulf was harmless but the potion could be dangerous . |
| 17 | ‘ But the child you abducted was of six years of age and although the period of abduction was short and the child came to no harm , this was a crime , particularly now , of the most serious kind . ’ |
| 18 | The boat was late because the train was late … |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The labour was uneventful and the child , now aged 10 , shows normal development . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Nizan was convinced that the novel in the contemporary period was as significant a genre as tragedy had been in the classical period . " |
| 23 | When he looked up the light was pearly and the sky a blue so tender he could hardly take his eyes off it , with the result that on several occasions he collided with people coming the other way . |
| 24 | Echo was unclear whether the programs shifted over were System 7 or System 3 based . |
| 25 | The Roman script was phonetic and the book consisted of a series of dialogues , building up with phrases rather than individual words . |
| 26 | It was not a ‘ brilliant ’ movie ; the script was flawed and the premise was suspect , but the underlying presence that Fonda , Hopper and Nicholson caught , perhaps without even realizing it , was an air of tension that prevailed among youth right across the world in 1969 . |
| 27 | The oval face was white and pinched , a nasty swollen bruise marring the high , smooth forehead , the beautiful mouth was pale and the almond eyes looked dull and sunken . |
| 28 | The result became apparent in cases such as In re Missouri S.S. Co. where an English court held that a bill of lading issued in Massachusetts , to an American shipper for goods loaded in Massachusetts , was subject to English law because the carrier was British and the parties were presumed to have intended the application of English law . |
| 29 | His innocent co-partner was liable as the money had originally been paid into the firm 's account ) . |
| 30 | ’ The enemy ship has fired on us again , ’ Posi said easily , ’ but ny evasive action was effective and the blast did not strike us . ’ |