Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [adv] [art] [noun sg] was " in BNC.

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1 This is the only company whose entire membership appears to have figured in the loan ; in the case of such as the Goldsmiths and the Ironmongers it seems clear that only the livery was assessed .
2 I recently had a liver transplant at Addenbrooke 's Hospital and still feel guilty that inevitably the decision was made to give me a liver rather than someone else whose life expectancy may have been marginally longer .
3 Three subsequent balloon dilations were unsuccessful and finally the patient was referred to our institution .
4 Approaching Heligoland the weather was obviously unsuitable and so the mission was abandoned and the aircraft went home .
5 Law had indeed already done enough as leader to make his departure unthinkable and so a memorial was drawn up by Carson and signed by almost all the party 's backbenchers , stating full confidence in Law and begging him to stay on with a revised tariff policy .
6 ‘ And during those two weeks in Grasmere , Mrs Moore became convinced that you would — ’ again the blank and again the word was conjured up between them like a spirit conjured from the mountain .
7 In Manchester , as in Scotland , it was a good night for Labour but overall the result was still devastating .
8 Not only were customary tenants in the West Country , for instance , powerless to resist rising fines , it is quite feasible that everywhere the land was , to a great extent , actually cultivated by leaseholders or tenants from year to year paying an economic rent .
9 The West saw revolution coming through military struggle , misunderstanding that the appeal of Communism was sociological and thus the struggle was political .
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