Example sentences of "was [adj] [conj] [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1896 La Chapelle was receiving more than a million tonnes , but by now the bulk of it was French and only a small proportion Belgian , testimony to the industrialization that had taken place in the wake of the railways . |
| 2 | But for years the garden , with its extraordinary follies and temples , had been decaying , and it was clear that soon no more than a few heaps of stone would be left . |
| 3 | From March 1918 it was clear that only a crushing military victory by one or other side would bring ‘ peace ’ . |
| 4 | Shipbuilding was in crisis , and it was clear that only the fittest could survive . |
| 5 | The kind of boat fishing at sea that I 've always done has had quite a few fathoms below the boat , but here the water was clear and only a few feet deep , we were certainly less than one hundred yards offshore . |
| 6 | The rate ratio for admission was similar when only the first admission of each child was counted ( 27 vs 42 , rate ratio 0.65 [ 0.41–1.04 ] , p=0.09 ) . |
| 7 | Still , on-the-move shifting was simple and even a small gearing drop helps . |
| 8 | It was unlikely that even a common language could create a common national spirit to unite Spanish-speaking people divided by the salt , estranging sea , but as long as empires based on the principles of allegiance to a monarch were the dominant form of political organization they were very well adapted to face the problems of expanding and then of ruling new subjects . |
| 9 | Marion , a ripely handsome woman in her mid-thirties , who had played a season at Stratford-on-Avon and toured as Mrs Tanqueray , was extremely displeased at having to share Jessie , let alone a dressing-room , and particularly with a chit like Bunty ; but the Regent was small and naturally the two Star dressing-rooms , 1 and 2 , went to Salt and Pepper , that perennial and professionally married pair of comedy-thriller performers whose productions never ran for less than a year — a godsend in a profession where rehearse for three weeks , open and close in two was not unusual . |
| 10 | Something like £1,500 shared among the family , not to mention generous bequests , including £200 towards the completion of Lavenham steeple and cash distributed among the parishes where Spring owned property , virtually accounts for what was far and away the greatest personal estate owned by any commoner , or for that matter almost any peer : only the duke of Norfolk 's £4,000 topped it . |
| 11 | The crash of 1974 was far and away the biggest since 1929 . |
| 12 | The competition was fierce and only a few could obtain the valuable passports , visas and tickets to leave the confines of China . |
| 13 | For example , the incidental take from squid gill-net fisheries by Taiwan and Korea was unreported and therefore an unknown quantity . |