Example sentences of "[art] [noun] was [adj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He admits : ‘ The verdict was such a shock , but it 's only as time goes by you realise what the implications are . |
| 2 | If the crime was accidental the family of the deceased may collect ‘ blood money ’ . |
| 3 | And the car was such a mess nobody would have been looking for a sawn brake cable . ’ |
| 4 | Excision biopsy was carried out and before the result was available the patient deteriorated rapidly and died . |
| 5 | ‘ This is a country , my dear gentle brother , my dear monkey who sees no evil , hears no evil , speaks no evil , a country of cowardice and brigands , and no one in between , except , and the hero was such an exception he had to be … . ’ |
| 6 | Because the jury heard evidence that the judge himself had regarded as impressive to the effect that the confession was unreliable the verdict was unsafe and unsatisfactory . |
| 7 | When the compensation was exact the absorption of the photons by the thin layer of 57 Fe was maximized and the counting rate on the photomultiplier behind it was minimized . |
| 8 | Apart from the swine , and a few small fields where corn was grown , and half a dozen apple trees , and the pigeons and the rabbits , the money the travellers spent at the Inn was all the wealth of Ridgery Butts . |
| 9 | ‘ I thought the room was sixty-five a night . ’ |
| 10 | I mean if the room was full a projector and slide show and everything and then usually everybody falls to sleep |
| 11 | The plaintiffs argued that the auditors had to use a basis of valuation which was capable of producing a figure which represented the fair selling value of the shares , and that if that basis were challenged , the court could decide whether the basis was such a basis . |
| 12 | Afterwards I have to go to the Headmaster and explain to him that running off with the papermate was all a joke and could I help it if people had no sense of humour … ? |
| 13 | The presentation was such a success that SCOTVEC intends to organise similar events for other groups of college staff at venues around Scotland . |
| 14 | Although the conclusion of the court was unanimous the reasoning of the three judges differed . |
| 15 | The event was such a success that club members are very much looking forward to him making a return visit . |
| 16 | Hence if a trigram was not present in the corpus then a probability was generated for it based on the bigrams , and if the bigram was absent the probability was based on the unigram . |
| 17 | The news was such a shock to Mark that he dropped his celebratory drink . |
| 18 | In each case , our intuition agrees with Bolinger that the adjective acts to qualify the description inherent in the noun , rather than the entity identified by the noun ; one may readily agree that there is a significant contrast between these and the following adjectives , in predicative position , which he gives as instances of referent-qualification ( in our terms , instances where the adjective is straight-forwardly assigned to the entity of the subject and shares the same referential locus ) : ( 3 ) the student was eager the man was hungry the lawyer was criminal ( One might , though , add the comment that criminal is seldom used ascriptively of human beings as opposed to their actions . ) |
| 19 | The decision is that its value is due , so long as the testator was aware the beneficiary was a slave . |
| 20 | When the rain was falling and the sky was overcast the number of men on watch at night had had to be doubled , men already exhausted by lack of food and the interminable restoration of the ramparts . |
| 21 | Yet even so , the dispensary was busy every day , and we did have a great deal of work , dealing with the humdrum , everyday ailments — yaws , measles , ‘ flu and accidents — accepted by the Polynesians with a philosophical resignation , as though they were saying , ‘ This is the price we pay for living in paradise . ’ |
| 22 | You knew where the jade was all the time . ’ |
| 23 | In the first class compartments the seating was two a side and in the brake third three a side . |
| 24 | My job was er to actually open the door and then once the door was open the team would enter the flat and I together with P C , would er cover the hallways inside the flat . |
| 25 | In each case , our intuition agrees with Bolinger that the adjective acts to qualify the description inherent in the noun , rather than the entity identified by the noun ; one may readily agree that there is a significant contrast between these and the following adjectives , in predicative position , which he gives as instances of referent-qualification ( in our terms , instances where the adjective is straight-forwardly assigned to the entity of the subject and shares the same referential locus ) : ( 3 ) the student was eager the man was hungry the lawyer was criminal ( One might , though , add the comment that criminal is seldom used ascriptively of human beings as opposed to their actions . ) |
| 26 | The merchant 's long face was even more mournful and the friar was sure the man had been crying . |
| 27 | Although the training was short the couple made excellent officers , full of zeal and compassion . |
| 28 | At first the doctor was worried the boy would get too tired , but when he heard that Dickon would push the wheelchair , he agreed . |
| 29 | If the guess was correct the subject was told so and moved on to the next letter . |
| 30 | Long before the meal was ready the kitchen was hazy with smoke , blown back down the chimney by the wind that was howling around the farmhouse . |