Example sentences of "[verb] was a [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 7 | The film showed the inspection of a plant at Yongbyon which US intelligence had claimed was a nuclear reprocessing facility . |
| 8 | 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 . " |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Often included was a humorous presentation by a deaf man . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | She went through his pockets but all she found was a spare clip for the FN FAL . |
| 15 | In a letter to the court , Barwick said he was told that the part of the Esk where he was caught was a free stretch and that there were some good catches to be had there . |
| 16 | She stood at the back of the dingy room , the child close by her side , and she listened to the clerk calling out the offences — soliciting was a common phrase , but once he said ‘ Procuring of men ’ — and she noticed that the Justice hardly raised his head : ‘ One pound or one month . |
| 17 | The young man who was hanged was a special friend of Claudia . |
| 18 | A unique talent , honed and polished in the Lenin Institute , where brainwashing was a fine art . |
| 19 | There was no novus actus interveniens as what occurred was a likely result of the original breach of duty by the defendants . |
| 20 | For the girls reforming was a scary idea : |
| 21 | The article in the Financial Times to which the hon. Gentleman referred was a good article . |
| 22 | In what police say was a tragic coincidence , gunfire was heard from a house across the street . |
| 23 | No one knows when or by whom whisky was invented , but it was being made in Ireland when Henry 11 carried out his invasion in the twelfth century , and by Tudor times distilling was a thriving industry in Scotland . |
| 24 | ‘ Anybody can do anything , ’ Josie said , which she knew was only so much bullshit but which she also believed was a reasonable dictum for getting a person through life . |
| 25 | Richard Baxter was further saddened by the loss of thousands of precious books in the fire , which he believed was a great loss to ‘ piety and learning ’ . |
| 26 | A Turkish print worker alleged a Harley Street doctor paid £2,500 for him to donate a kidney to a patient he believed was a fellow countryman . |
| 27 | ATURKISH print worker alleged yesterday that a Harley Street doctor paid £2,500 for him to donate a kidney to a patient whom he believed was a fellow countryman . |
| 28 | Martin Richmond , from Chalford in Gloucestershire , and a friend from London , pedalled through the Himalyas to establish what they believed was a new world altitude cycling record . |
| 29 | Two solicitors challenged this decision but the House of Lords held that since , in administering the scheme , the Society was acting in a public capacity in the interests of all solicitors and members of the public who employed them , the legality of its decision was to be judged according to principles of public law , not private law ; and so judged , what the Society had done was a proper use of its statutory powers . |
| 30 | The collection of Pasha , who died last October in his villa at St Jean Cap Ferrat , and who Tajan says was a personal friend , goes on show in his former home 6–9 March . |