Example sentences of "[verb] a [adj] [noun sg] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cost of feeding and clothing a giant child was astronomical because they demanded large quantities of food and needed large pieces of cloth to cover them . |
| 2 | He said that at times it appeared that the only effective opposition to what was becoming a single-party government was from the press . |
| 3 | The probability of becoming a longterm user was highest for those who were 50–69 years in 1977–81 . |
| 4 | The highest risk of becoming a longterm user was seen for those aged 50–69 years in 1977–81 . |
| 5 | The probability of becoming a longterm user was higher for duodenal ulcer patients than for gastric ulcer patients , and higher for those who had the initial diagnoses based on a radiographic examination rather than endoscopy . |
| 6 | Secondary schools offered more rungs on the career ladder , but the chance of becoming a head teacher was much lower . |
| 7 | Many years ago , before aerobics was invented , Clare , the well-known natural beauty and massage guru , expounded her theory that keeping a serene face was the best bet for a wrinkle-free future . |
| 8 | There was scarcely room enough to turn ; it was surprising how obstinately single a single bed was . |
| 9 | The fact that a vote for Margaret was the only way to secure a second ballot was also turned to advantage . |
| 10 | For married women this tendency was even more pronounced — Temporary workers working part-time were also more likely to have taken temporary jobs because they did not want Permanent jobs , whilst among those working full-time inability to find a permanent job was by far the most frequent reason given . |
| 11 | Upon learning that these deaf people had no place to go to , or even to worship , Mr. Patterson held a meeting at which the above Association was formed , and enough money was raised to purchase a plot of land at Grosvenor Street where a social meeting place incorporating a small chapel was built . |
| 12 | All claimed that they had attacked La Tablada because they believed a military coup was under way and that they were trying to forestall it ; they also said that their attempts to surrender had been ignored and that at least four of their comrades had been tortured and killed . |
| 13 | Another major enemy said , with ostentatious sadness , that he feared once the public decided a Prime Minister was not up to the job , he 'd find it all but impossible to eradicate that impression . |
| 14 | What aggravated the problem of developing a genuine bureaucracy was the paltry level of salaries . |
| 15 | A Social Credit Party convention to choose a new leader was expected to be held in June . |
| 16 | Because this study was designed to facilitate the interpretation of recognition results a fundamental distinction was made between information which would be shared by all exemplars of a particular junction ( fixed information ) and that which could potentially differ between exemplars ( variable information ) , the assumption was that the fixed information would be relatively unimportant to recognition performance . |
| 17 | Discovering how to reverse a declining circulation was famously difficult and , as the figures show , was not often achieved . |
| 18 | The recipe which was causing a minor commotion was for a lobster set ablaze with whisky . |
| 19 | At the beginning of the Kyoto meeting a working party was set up to consider proposals from the southern African countries , which would differentiate between " critically endangered " and " endangered " species , and under which trade would be banned only if there were strong evidence that it was affecting the conservation of the species . |
| 20 | The friends of the Queen belong to a small coterie of aristocrats , the children are educated exclusively ( one of the reasons Gordonstoun seemed a good bet was because , unlike metropolitan Eton , it was miles away in rural Scotland ) , and all are limited to a narrow circle of suitable acquaintances . |
| 21 | On the other hand , for women not wanting a permanent job was the single most important reason given , and a considerably smaller share said they were working on a temporary basis because permanent work was not available . |
| 22 | For people over pension age on the other hand , not wanting a permanent job was the most common reason . |
| 23 | For women , on the other hand , not wanting a permanent job was the single most important reason given ( 37 per cent ) . |
| 24 | Over her eleven year premiership the only substantial issue of penal policy in which Mrs Thatcher played a decisive part was the privatization of prisons and remand centres , and the contracting out of certain criminal justice services . |
| 25 | Dorothy explained that they had n't given her any money ; she was here as a reporter for a journal whose name they knew ; her membership of the feminist abortion campaign to which PopCon had just made a large grant was irrelevant to the present discussion ; she was just doing her job . |
| 26 | The reason for writing a purpose-built routine was to simplify the output when the dedicated instrument was constructed . |
| 27 | In the later Middle Ages as more and more families became armigerous , the abuse of arms by illegal assumption grew to the point where corrective action was necessary if the dignity of possessing a valid grant was not to be eroded beyond reclamation . |
| 28 | A conference called by interim President Ali Mahdi Mohammed to discuss a new constitution was postponed as groups continued to withhold recognition from his provisional government , formed by the Hawiye-dominated United Somali Congress ( USC , active in central Somalia ) . |
| 29 | They failed to do so and the chance of forcing a negotiated peace was lost . |
| 30 | That he 'd noticed she 'd got a decent figure was to be expected , she supposed , seeing that the lace cotton blouse and culottes she had worn that time she 'd gone out to dinner with Travis had touched her contours comfortably . |