Example sentences of "was a [adj] [noun] [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The story is , that in bygone days before the advent of the white man , there was a young Siwash Indian whose ardent love of nature made him come to that point of land on the inlet every day to watch the sunset . |
| 2 | There was a strong merchant class whose aspirations were no less than his . |
| 3 | One performer was a deaf flute player who had the habit of playing long after the others had finished . |
| 4 | The CNAA was a marvellous learning process which … drove me into intimate contact with a wide range of higher education courses , in dance primarily , which taught me the criteria for judging dance as a higher education subject … |
| 5 | This was a two-seat reconnaissance fighter which adopted the name given to an earlier Fairey fighter , the single-seat Firefly biplane of the mid-1920s . |
| 6 | If there was a spare fuel tank she did n't know about it . |
| 7 | And although it was a typical Lineker goal which ensured England 's place in the European Championship finals , when he scored a late equaliser in Poland , Taylor 's doubts began to emerge clearly . |
| 8 | Richart , who plotted to assassinate the king in a brothel , was a liberal army paymaster who was passed over for absorption into the civil service — the only career for superfluous officers . |
| 9 | In one corner next to a store house was a rusting metal cage which housed a pet crow with broken wings and tatty feathers . |
| 10 | Now this was a retrospective analysis bit it was done on prospectively recorded information . |
| 11 | He was a major war contractor whose interests extended to nascent industrial enterprises , such as the growing sugar capitalism of the West Indies , the mines , works , and specialist timbers of the East , and saltpetre imports and gunpowder production at home . |
| 12 | there was a holistic world vision which brought about an understanding of the natural order . |
| 13 | Ahead of me was a glass-panelled oak door which led out to the sun terrace . |
| 14 | There was a practical circus item which asked pupils to weigh given letters and then cost them using the postal charges table ( see Table 4.8 ) . |
| 15 | By contrast , in the same case it was held that once the council had decided that the applicant was entitled to be housed , the right to be housed was a private law right which did not have to be enforced by AJR procedure , but could be enforced in a tort action for breach of statutory duty in the County Court . |
| 16 | Barry Stewart , prosecuting , said Sinclair , who was born with only one arm , was a persistent confidence trickster who had served a sentence of 18 months imprisonment for deception in 1990 . |
| 17 | Well she was gon na have the three piece suite actually but she lives in a bungalow and of course the settee was a six foot settee which they do n't make now |
| 18 | The burka was a long face veil which reached almost to the ground . |
| 19 | He was a middle class radical who fancied the idea of being around two real street kids . |
| 20 | What was needed was a good control system which would tell them where in the organization the problem lay so they could tackle it at source . |
| 21 | Yes he was a good travelling companion I should |
| 22 | Well Tony , was who manager at the associated now , er he was very a very popular player , he was a goal scorer on one occasion , they played an away match at Swindon and he scored a goal and the goalkeeper got sent off a John so Tony went in goal and he saved a penalty later in the match , but he was a very popular player he was a a good goal scorer then there was Colin he , he had one of the hardest shots in the league you know , I 've , I 've seen the goalkeeper shrug his shoulders at , at defenders and say well how do you stop those , they used to call him Cannonball at one time , and er there was Tommy he had his collarbone broken and he never played again after , but he was a great centre forward he used to make a lot of space for the other forwards you know . |
| 23 | Opposite them was a small elfin fellow who wore a shiny blue waistcoat over his gallibaya . |
| 24 | His father was a small Nottinghamshire landlord who was glad for one of his sons to be quartered on the Church . |
| 25 | In an alcove , which could be shut off from the main room , near a window , was a small writing table which the Empress used for writing her personal letters . |
| 26 | His first car was a 1964 Ford Consul which he and three friends bought for £15 , plus an additional £5 for petrol . |
| 27 | Socinus was a radical Reformation thinker who saw Rome as the great harlot of Revelation 17 . |
| 28 | The worst affected was a 1935 Lagonda tourer which had been stored in a barn for some years before passing into the Museum 's hands . |
| 29 | The outcome of the Report and the following debate which this generated was a new ERDF Regulation which came into force on 1 January 1985 . |
| 30 | He went past the bo , my brother wanted dropped off , it was a one way street he went the way down came back up and parked and by the time he come up and parked it was thirty P extra ! |