Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [was/were] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did not breathe spontaneously and died in a pulmonary W with lungs filled with water and we ca n't exclude that the reason for that was just the water bath . |
| 2 | The reason for this was also the reason for her sorrow . |
| 3 | It is no accident that there is a similarity between the diagnostic test , above , and the claim which used to be advanced in transformational grammar to the effect that an attributive adjective incorporated in a noun phrase is derived from some such structure as : ( 6 ) the N present BE ADJ This proposal was questioned quite early in the development of transformational grammar ( see Berman , 1974 ) , and a major reason for this was precisely the fact that too many phrases with attributive adjectives were discovered where the derivation does not seem to be usable ; as we shall see later , there are other reasons why such a derivation may not work , apart from the issue discussed here . |
| 4 | The other major issue of 1935 was also a non-event for the BUF . |
| 5 | It was a time before I began to understand her a little better and realise that a lot of this was actually a sort of ‘ attention-getting ’ — a bit of theatre just to see how people would react — to manipulate situations a little . |
| 6 | In front of this was usually the atrium or forecourt . |
| 7 | One of these was probably the carver known as ‘ Guillaume de Nourriche ’ ( William of Norwich ) in documentary sources . |
| 8 | Membership of Rotary was always a delight to Tom , as was membership of his Masonic Lodge where he held top offices in both organisations . |
| 9 | The Act of 1897 was partly the result of trade union pressure . |
| 10 | Jacob studied at the Yeshiva de los Pintos at Rotterdam and at the age of twenty-five was already a rabbi in Amsterdam . |
| 11 | Only three batsmen got past twenty and none got to thirty , and a total of 137 was clearly a waste of everyone 's time . |
| 12 | The year of 1990 was truly the beginning of a new decade . |
| 13 | Not until 1980 was there a proposal to establish a permanent liaison committee between the two organizations . |
| 14 | St. John 's Roman Catholic Church founded in 1138 was formerly the Chapel of the medieval Hospital of St. John . |
| 15 | The reopening of the Halls in 1985 was just the beginning . |
| 16 | The NUM 's strike action in 1984 was thus a conflict between the perceived ‘ irresistible force ’ of the union and the ‘ immovable object ’ of the government . |
| 17 | This reorganization in 1962 was largely a result of the pressing need of the railways for financial readjustment . |
| 18 | Labour 's rather narrow parliamentary majority in 1964 was chiefly an effect of a slump in Tory support and continuing electoral revival of the Liberals ( who received over 10 per cent of the vote for the first time since the war ) . |
| 19 | The ascent in 1865 was just a week before Whymper climbed the Matterhorn , Moore was partnered by Horace Walker , who , the same year , was with him on the first ascent of the Brenva Ridge on Mt Blanc , and by guide Jakob Anderegg . |
| 20 | At constant prices , the real value of government drug imports in 1989 was only the value in 1980 ( Noormahomed et al , op. cit . ) . |
| 21 | Fur example the devaluation of sterling in 1967 was mainly the consequence of higher inflation in the UK over a number of years than that experienced by her major trading partners . |
| 22 | Until public transport became an every day means of travel getting from one village to another was quite a problem . |
| 23 | The fall in this share from 1979 to 1983 was mainly the result of the nearly 10 per cent decline in that period in the personal incomes of government employees in comparison with incomes of employees in productive industries . |
| 24 | Among these was definitely a call to her only son Gamal , who was then in Florida . |