Example sentences of "[noun] was [adj] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had brilliantly and successfully argued that the Toraja religion was one and the same with whatever " Hindu-Balinese animism " might be — and thus Toraja religion was permitted to survive . |
| 2 | A pool of people who could read and keep ledgers was essential if the world of commerce were to expand . |
| 3 | Arthur Stephenson was 22-years-old and the sight of the tragic woman 's corpse has haunted him . |
| 4 | The experiment was short-lived and a failure ; but it suggested that the young king might not be able to reckon as a matter of course on wielding all the powers of his great predecessor . |
| 5 | During the first months of war life in Fontanellato was uneventful and the fighting seemed far away . |
| 6 | The total electorate was 12,319,787 and the turnout was 75 per cent . |
| 7 | George Burt was delighted that the Club had come to Swanage . |
| 8 | At least I 'd say his reasoning was good but the conclusions suspect . |
| 9 | The crews knew them as Spivs , and initially their speed was such that a driver complained : ‘ I 've been catching seagulls with that thing ! ’ |
| 10 | Turn of speed was devastating and the final touchdown was true showmanship . |
| 11 | The flight planned speed was mach-70 and the alternate airport Sondrestrom , Greenland . |
| 12 | The initial proposal for transferring the religious to the larger houses to ensure a strengthened reformed monasticism was short-lived and the great houses began to surrender in 1537 , as an insurance policy against wholesale deprivation . |
| 13 | has two separate main entries for this , corresponding to its occurrence in The sky-light was open and The duchess refused to open the safe . |
| 14 | By contrast with the offence of assaulting the police in the execution of their duty , it is clear that the prosecutor must show that the defendant was aware that the person obstructed was a constable . |
| 15 | In England the sale of offices was illegal and no such department existed . |
| 16 | Vaguely Meredith was aware that the protesters and the other surrounding crowd members had parted like the waves of the Red Sea , falling back on either side leaving Harriet , Blazer and the protester isolated . |
| 17 | The result was disastrous and a scandal to the country 's law and trade . |
| 18 | In return , Moore 's respect for the Brazilian was total and the two exchanged jerseys after that game . |
| 19 | On the entertainments side er , last year of course we had that one-off benefit with not having to absorb the first quarter 's loss and this year the er first quarter was pretty disastrous because we had an er er an er amalgamation of , of A the Gulf War B the recession and in London I R A bombing and that really stopped tourists coming to London from overseas and from the rest of the U K. But I 'm pleased to say that er we , we 're coming back very strongly and for instance in July at virtually all of our centres attendances were either up to last year very nearl very nearly up to last year or ahead of last year and er at Chessington our revenue was thirteen and a half percent up on last year which I think justifies our investment there . |
| 20 | Ceauşescu was aware that the ‘ moulding of the new man , the human prototype of communism , can not be accomplished within one , or several , five year periods ’ . |
| 21 | Although slow and the wrong side of 43 , ‘ Gabby ’ Hinton was classy and a strong believer in football and family entertainment . |
| 22 | Each club was deader than the last ; frigid and dirty , empty or inhospitable , with Robin increasingly silent and me feeling guilty for living in Hicksville . |
| 23 | It was warm sunshine and the seat was easy and the progress slow . |
| 24 | Never mind the name was shared with Sussex 's biggest , baddest inland town ; the jazz was hotter than the scorching asparagus soup , and many cut the rug until closing . |
| 25 | The quota was 8,907 and the first count gave Paisley 14,533 votes , a surplus of 5,626 . |
| 26 | Was it true that the mind was wiser than the body ? |
| 27 | In the early days ordinary mill-stones were used as the clinker was soft and the cement need not be finely ground . |
| 28 | The search was thorough and a number of items were removed ; there was talk of ritual sexual abuse . |
| 29 | By lunchtime the department was manic and the pace relentless but it still did not stop the old man who brought back a kettle complaining it did not work . |
| 30 | An ODA official claimed that the department was unaware that the project was " as environmentally sensitive as now seems to be the case " . |