Example sentences of "was [adj] [conj] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Young Roberto 's mother died when he was eight and thereafter the boy rarely left the family villa of Baronta near Florence . |
| 2 | It was possible that even a reject like him could be of use in such a godforsaken spot . |
| 3 | Underlining this was not only a sense of what was proper but also a sense of what was politically and socially wise . |
| 4 | It was interesting that quite a number saw their being easily located at their place of work as a benefit . |
| 5 | They stood to attention , but it was clear that both the administrator and his deputy were unsure of the proper response . |
| 6 | The plenum , in the event , made little influence upon the continuing discussion , and by the early 1990s it was clear that only a reconsideration of the very bases of Soviet statehood would be likely to satisfy the aspirations of the various republics and nationalities . |
| 7 | Shearman recalled that , at first , discussion with Hickson was unpromising but eventually the appointment of Pateman to the post , vacant from 1928 , was confirmed . |
| 8 | The Speech Institute group was similar and perhaps a rival to the band directed by Miss Elsie Fogarty , who had done the choruses in Murder in the Cathedral , and I believe that one of them had asked me what were the chances of taking part in its successor . |
| 9 | The performance of the EEC during the Uruguay round of GATT discussions was instructive and probably a foretaste of what is to come . |
| 10 | The King , however , made it clear that neither mother nor son was welcome and so the journey to England had to be resumed . |
| 11 | Law and morality were not yet clearly distinguished , nor could one even say that the whole of law or justice was to be found in any one court ; the Ecclesiastical Courts , and Local Courts of many different kinds , administered a justice which was not the justice of the Common Law Courts ; so the thought was natural that even the King 's justice was not exhausted in the power conferred on his courts . |
| 12 | It was argued that since any payment above the standard rent would be illegal and indeed a criminal offence under section 17 of that Act , the lease itself was unlawful and accordingly the agreement for commission fixed upon the amount of the rent stipulated in it was also illegal and irrecoverable . |
| 13 | I would n't of thought so , I would of thought it was more or less the van than anything else |
| 14 | It was adventurous and yet a bit modest and down-to-earth . |
| 15 | The West saw revolution coming through military struggle , misunderstanding that the appeal of Communism was sociological and thus the struggle was political . |
| 16 | The success was phenomenal and soon the company opened factories in other parts of the United Kingdom . |
| 17 | He was eighteen but still a lad , awkward , like his arms and legs were longer than he could cope with . |
| 18 | The term ‘ an efficient farm ’ has defied description from many authorities but from this survey it appeared that it was not a farm or a system or an enterprise that was efficient but rather the man who ran it . |
| 19 | It was true that both the house and the grounds had the curious quality of seeming larger than they were . |
| 20 | The time was approximately 12.30am and all was quiet when suddenly the door handle rattled . |