Example sentences of "[verb] [noun prp] was the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another woman who met Courtney was the singer-songwriter Lynsey de Paul . |
| 2 | The prosecution say Kelly was the second running man , but the police took a calculated risk . |
| 3 | Long-standing staff say February was the busiest they had seen for 20 years . ’ |
| 4 | I expect Dante was the same . |
| 5 | Anti-racist campaigners say Ashiq was the sixth racist murder victim this year . |
| 6 | The report on page 13 of the April Journal erroneously stated that steve Hansen was the only english rugby supporter in Swansea . |
| 7 | BAe has argued Raytheon was the better deal for employees and shareholders . |
| 8 | In last summer 's run , actress Linda Rooke who played Diane was the only member of the cast who bared all . |
| 9 | Spokesman Ken Gardiner says Oxford was the natural choice . |
| 10 | Friends said last night that Cleese and his new bride had decided Barbados was the perfect place for the wedding after holidaying there . |
| 11 | They suggest that the particular problem that confronted Beccaria was the observable fact that criminals were in one important respect clearly differentiated : they were mostly poor . |
| 12 | I should have thought Malawi was the one country any right-thinking person would be trying to support . ’ |
| 13 | And you only mentioned that briefly , once , at management team meeting and it was included in all the discussions , you know Ray was the first one , you know . |
| 14 | Besides , he knew in his heart of hearts evacuating Heymouth was the right thing to do . |
| 15 | And she decided Hawick was the better bet , particularly since he was n't married . ’ |
| 16 | What distinguishes Burton was the formidable nature of the obstacles he set himself and the growing weaknesses of body which he ignored . |
| 17 | Thomas Carter came right out and told you that he thought England was the only truly civilized country in the world and that as the most English of English cities , Oxford was its heart and soul , the core of everything that had formed us , the repository of our values and the guarantor of our standards , an expression in stone of our whole Western civilization , a cultural Stonehenge which , etc , etc . |
| 18 | ‘ The fear that I could be had begun to haunt my days and keep me awake at nights , and , although I knew Simon was the wrong person to take into my confidence , he was familiar and he was there . |
| 19 | ‘ I thought Robert was the only man in the world for you , ’ observed my mother . |
| 20 | She thought Barry was the best . |
| 21 | I think Troon was the greatest Arnold Palmer has ever played in his life . |
| 22 | Sri Lanka , for whose tea exports Iraq was the second largest customer and which also suffered from the impact on its expatriate nationals and the loss of their earnings , sought international compensation for its reluctant imposition of sanctions . |
| 23 | So I think Madrid was the best choice : a very nice palace in the middle of the town . |
| 24 | ‘ You would n't think Brown was the oldest , though , would you , sir ? |
| 25 | One of the facts of Caribbean life that suited Stephen was the early hour at which people rose to start the day . |
| 26 | Laura Channing was about to be blackmailed , and my money said Vecchi was the would-be collector on that deal , too . |
| 27 | Coun Carr said Cleveland was the only county in which bus services were provided free to those who qualified for bus passes . |
| 28 | In those days , the road leaving Tomdoun was the only way over to Cluanie and Glen Shiel from the south : it crossed the River Loyne and climbed over an intervening ridge before descending to Cluanie . |
| 29 | He said Hunter-Blair was the real reason he was ringing . |
| 30 | It 's like Jenny , like Tracey said Carla was the best at She even said apparently to the big girls on a Monday there 's gon na be a lot of heads turning a lot of chat going on when Carla comes out . |