Example sentences of "was [pron] [adj] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tory legal-constitutionalism was nothing new in the early eighteenth century — it is in evidence during the years of the Exclusion Crisis and Tory reaction , and its roots can be traced back to the Clarendonian position at the Restoration . |
| 2 | ‘ Excuse me , please , ’ she said politely , but there was nothing polite about the angry , scornful glitter in her grey eyes . |
| 3 | But there was nothing quaint about the masculine form that adorned it . |
| 4 | There was nothing distinctive about the black London taxi except that it swooped to pick Rain up when she had not hailed it . |
| 5 | Perhaps she had ; but there was nothing mad about the composed face I 'd been shown in the portrait and the photograph , only an infinity of patience . |
| 6 | The United Mineworkers of Scotland had enrolled about 4,000 Fife miners , but otherwise there was nothing comparable with the Communist-led unions of Germany or France . |
| 7 | I find the remark significant for the assumption which is made that there was nothing harmful about the previous view of the relation between men and women ; indeed the previous view may have accorded with the divine will and our present outlook not . |
| 8 | There was nothing wrong with the heavy net curtains of Healy 's Hotel . |
| 9 | There was nothing wrong with the noble creed they were taught-it was just that it played no part in the actual operation of the military dictatorship . |
| 10 | There was nothing elaborate about the small accommodation units , but , as Jean had said , they were cosy . |
| 11 | Nor was I ready for the inconsistent treatment of the subject . |
| 12 | Cierva was himself dissatisfied with the required forward run of the aircraft , he wanted vertical lift at take-off . |
| 13 | Was you involved in the Labour Party for a long time before erm before you were the election agent ? |
| 14 | In The Knossos Labyrinth ( Castleden 1989 ) , the evidence is summarized for believing that it was in the Central Court that the bull-leaping ritual took place , a ceremony that was itself central to the Minoan belief-system . |
| 15 | Or if she was aware of him , was she aware of the political turmoil the previous cancellation of a Mapplethorpe show has engendered in the U.S. over the last two years , with the director of the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati indicted for obscenity ( but acquitted ) and the very principle of government funding of contemporary art called into question ? |
| 16 | In her discussion on the exchange rate mechanism , was she aware of the growing unease of many of the member countries about a fixed exchange rate mechanism covering such a broad spectrum when there is so much uncertainty about German monetary union ? |
| 17 | Neither was she aware of the mumbled words that passed her lips as the hours went by , nor of the method he used to warm her when she started to shiver again . |
| 18 | There was something stimulating about the warmed air so heavy with the smells of living . |
| 19 | There was something odd about the whole procedure because there was no great urgency . |
| 20 | There was something cabalistic about the bandy legs of a road sweeper , who stood with his back to me leaning on his outstretched broom as on a catamaran while he lit his pipe … . |
| 21 | There was something fishy about the whole set-up . |
| 22 | There was something familiar about the feminine umbrella with its orange roses and Spanish flamenco frill that was shaken firmly before the green headsquared figure bent to enter . |
| 23 | There was something familiar about the checked suit , lit up by the flashing blue light . |
| 24 | Cos , there was something wrong with the receiving part of the dish . |
| 25 | There was something nightmarish about the slow approach of the lorry . |
| 26 | In fact I am convinced he was part Alsatian because though he had a luxuriant black and white coat there was something significant in the massive limbs and in the noble brown-shaded head with its upstanding ears . |
| 27 | There was something suicidal about the whole pretentious enterprise , which Dustin should have been talked down from before he leaped . |
| 28 | There was something reptilian about the old man 's grip . |
| 29 | It sighed and groaned and creaked so that sometimes it was easy to believe ghostly footsteps were padding about ; but this noise was something different from the usual spasmodic little creaks — it seemed regular and deliberate . |
| 30 | When I took it over from Matt I realised that a wilderness was something different from the average person 's orderly life . |