Example sentences of "[verb] was [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What transpired was a superb display in the line-outs and the driving rucks , where Garryowen 's Waikato lock , Brent Anderson , gave a typical display , well backed by no.8 Ben Cronin and Robert Costello at lock , but particularly by an astoundingly good all round performance by the 20-year-old hooker , Keith Wood . |
| 2 | Rush hour crowding was a serious hazard , and the station was 39 per cent understaffed . |
| 3 | Mr. Scott was at the head of his art in Europe , and he ( Sir Joseph Paxton ) said , that the building he had designed was a beautiful building . |
| 4 | The solution proposed was a two-tier system by which government appointed peers would have the right to vote , hereditary peers being allowed to speak but not vote while the delaying powers on legislation would be cut to six months . |
| 5 | I really did n't need another jumper , but what I did need was a button-to-the-neck cardigan . |
| 6 | The last thing Hazel had expected was the immediate support of a member of the Owsla . |
| 7 | Ian soon learned how to dodge the flying hooves of Boy and remain in control of his bike , but what he had n't expected was the clinging weight and depth of wet Wadhurst clay — somersaulting with a squelch into one of the deepest bogs which appeared regularly between the level stretches of good galloping ground where both could make good speed . |
| 8 | The other fun competition that I entered was the same idea but it is played in the dark you use a special ball which is slightly transparent there is a hole in the middle of the ball which a lightstick goes through . |
| 9 | Three days ago , a 400lb bomb which destroyed the Stewarts supermarket in Derriaghy went off just 15 minutes after what the terrorists had claimed was a 45-minute warning . |
| 10 | The film showed the inspection of a plant at Yongbyon which US intelligence had claimed was a nuclear reprocessing facility . |
| 11 | Sitting up in bed , I scanned the article , which the News of the World claimed was an exclusive interview . |
| 12 | I was told that all I needed to know was the total spend and that was it . |
| 13 | The point was made that jobs ‘ promoted ’ were not a true count of REAL jobs ; what we needed to know was the true job completion rate effected for what length of time — actual jobs and how long they lasted . |
| 14 | I also find an enduring quote from a friend of mine , a Pathfinder , who makes this comment : " The way all my crew were picked was a sheer gamble , I think , therefore , I was exceedingly lucky . " |
| 15 | ( Halikarnas , as all classical scholars will know was the ancient name for Bodrum ) . |
| 16 | Typically , as soon as the minister or other speech maker had finished on each occasion , the media would leave , and the following day all that was reported was an edited version of the speech . |
| 17 | Adjoining was a sizeable grocers — Tom Oke 's , whilst at the Brown Street Corner came Snelgars , the Corn and Seed Merchants . |
| 18 | One of thems one of the er the gateways I just mentioned was the Open Server for Kix and the mainframe integration . |
| 19 | ‘ The woman involved was a married woman with a family and she and Philip had lived together for a couple of months but she decided to go back to her husband in September . ’ |
| 20 | The figure involved was a paltry £12.25 millions . |
| 21 | The money involved was a considerable sum , but in those days Dunedin was New Zealand 's commercial capital and many big businesses were represented on the Otago CA . |
| 22 | Amongst the books , tracts , poetry , and pamphlets that the young would-be intellectuals began to absorb was the new writing from the United States , that accompaniment to the modern jazz that survived alongside rock into the 1960s . |
| 23 | On the whole then , left criticism of Distant Voices , Still Lives was a missed opportunity to develop an effective political analysis of a ‘ popular ’ film . |
| 24 | Often included was a humorous presentation by a deaf man . |
| 25 | The c-Jun DNA binding site used was a 27 bp double stranded oligonucleotide containing the ‘ fat specific element ’ ( FSE ; refs 24 and 25 ) . |
| 26 | The tube used was a multifenestrated sump tube with a second channel for infusing phenol red into the proximal stomach and a third lumen for equilibration of intragastic and atmospheric pressure . |
| 27 | The type of ball used was the Scottish League 's Mitre Delta . |
| 28 | It was applied by Baulig to Brittany ( 1935 ) and seemed to work quite well as the basic map used was the old French 1:80 000 hachured map which had plenty of spot heights often on flattish summits or spurs . |
| 29 | If the injury sustained was an inherent risk of the procedure , then the doctrine will be inapplicable . |
| 30 | She went through his pockets but all she found was a spare clip for the FN FAL . |