Example sentences of "[coord] [was/were] [adj] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Section 15(1) enacts that ‘ notwithstanding anything in any other enactment , a claim under the Act shall not be entertained after the expiration of 30 years from the date of the occurrence which gives rise to the claim , or , where that occurrence was a continuing one , or was one of a succession of occurrences all attributable to a particular happening ’ on a particular site , the date of the last event in the course of that occurrence or succession of occurrences is the relevant one . |
| 2 | The class came into the library and were involved in a Prestel search . |
| 3 | ‘ They made us more professional and were useful as a basis for court reports , ’ he says . |
| 4 | ONE DAY , SHE VISITED THE CHURCH AT FOTHERINGHAY WITH A FRIEND AND WAS IMPRESSED BY A PICTURE BEHIND THE ALTAR . |
| 5 | He went on several more expeditions to the Himalaya and was involved in a race to the south pole . |
| 6 | The PPP called for an independent inquiry to clear the damage to its reputation caused by assertions that the hijackers were members of Al Zulfiqar , an armed resistance group with PPP connections which had operated in the 1980s and was involved in a hijacking in 1981 [ see pp. 31071-72 ] . |
| 7 | Remarkably , more than seven years later he ran laps of 58½ , 63½ , 65¾ , and 66 seconds at Lillie Bridge , London , on 23 August 1886 to establish a world 's best time of 4 minutes 12¾ seconds that was unbeaten anywhere for the next twenty-eight seasons and was unbeaten by a Briton for forty-nine years , until Sydney Wooderson returned 4 minutes 12.7 seconds , running in Glasgow on 3 August 1935 . |
| 8 | Peter of Corbeil was a theologian who lectured on scripture and was famous as a preacher . |
| 9 | The inflammatory process was seen to extend into adjacent skeletal muscle and was consistent with a diagnosis of Riedel 's thyroiditis . |
| 10 | Sarah was the daughter of my mother 's eldest sister , Janet , who had trained as a doctor and was married to a psychoanalyst . |
| 11 | He had been brought-up in London and was stereotypical of a Londoner 's accent and use of language . |
| 12 | I ate three small carrots and was half-way through a can of sardines when I noticed a sea shell in the sand almost beneath me . |
| 13 | Then Finlayson put down his bottle and cup , rolled over , and was sick into a fire bucket . |
| 14 | ‘ Then he sang two choruses from Nelly Dean and was sick in a bucket . ’ |
| 15 | Below right : Brabham BT55 used lie-flat BMW turbo and was knee-high to a grasshopper , but was never half as fast as it looked |
| 16 | She was well into her sixties , looked older , and was eligible for a pension . |
| 17 | Crookes took up Faraday 's work on the passage of electricity through gases , and was excited by a passage in an early lecture of Faraday 's where he had speculated that there might be a ‘ fourth state of matter ’ simpler than the gaseous , just as gases are simpler than liquids ; they all expand alike when heated , for example . |
| 18 | I could feel the different textures of wood , gravel and asphalt racing beneath my fingers as they came to rest on the road , and was terrified of a car coming up the cul-de-sac and smashing my hand . |
| 19 | Kate Collingwood , who had read Modern Greats at Oxford and was well-known as a luminary of the Kelvedon Players , gave up her seat as a Labour county councillor , was appointed in November 1954 but eventually resigned in December 1957 . |
| 20 | Culley dialled and was patched-in to a conversation straight away . |
| 21 | He had grown up in the splendid sixties , had been born with a silver spoon in his mouth , enjoyed whatever he did to the hilt and was enough of a gentleman never to look back . |
| 22 | In the present case Mr. Mahmoud was not bankrupt when he signed the documents and was open to a claim for an indemnity , which has in fact been made . |
| 23 | The level of rates could also rise substantially from one year to the next and was unpredictable as a basis for business decisions . |
| 24 | With more spectacular growth in purchases of refrigerators , freezers and washing machines , the home provided physically less onerous domestic drudgery for housewives , and was more of a centre of leisure-time entertainment . |
| 25 | He shuddered and was silent for a while . |
| 26 | He smiled and was silent for a moment . |
| 27 | She sat at his bedside and was silent for a time , letting him watch her . |
| 28 | After the Conflagration ( his Monument being broken ) somebody made a little hole towards the upper edge of his Coffin , which was closed like the coffin of a Pye and was full of a Liquour which conserved the body . |
| 29 | It will be seen , however , that although the Rules required that if the notice related to and was prejudicial to a person other than a member , a copy of the notice must be served upon him , such a person not only did not have any prior opportunity of making representations why the notice should not be issued , but was not given , under the Rules , the right to apply to set it aside , nor any right to appeal against the notice . |
| 30 | Ronni looked back at him and was aware of a flicker inside her as she suddenly caught sight of those wonderful eyelashes . |