Example sentences of "[coord] [noun] was [adj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It would n't matter if you were at home and lunch was half an hour late . |
| 2 | The persons solicited in this way reacted with annoyance , perhaps indicating that they supposed that they were being solicited for the purposes of prostitution ( the magistrates having found as a fact that ‘ it would be impossible for anyone so touted or solicited without enquiry to appreciate the purpose of the solicitation , and that a solicitation for this purpose in the circumstances of time and place was such an affront that it might provoke a breach of the peace . ’ ) |
| 3 | To be married would be diverting ; she would be free to do as she pleased , and Paul was such a dear he would cause her no anxiety . |
| 4 | Madness and Civilization was such a study , but the assumption that it was possible simply to lift the repression and to let otherness speak for itself was questioned by Derrida in his well-known critique , ‘ Cogito and the History of Madness ’ . |
| 5 | Her mama had said as much , but D-M was such a zeroville . |
| 6 | But Bianco was adamant the expediting of the process was for the benefit of staff and users alike . |