Example sentences of "[verb] was a [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 | 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 | Sitting up in bed , I scanned the article , which the News of the World claimed was an exclusive interview . |
| 9 | 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 . " |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Adjoining was a sizeable grocers — Tom Oke 's , whilst at the Brown Street Corner came Snelgars , the Corn and Seed Merchants . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 13 | The figure involved was a paltry £12.25 millions . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Often included was a humorous presentation by a deaf man . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | If the injury sustained was an inherent risk of the procedure , then the doctrine will be inapplicable . |
| 19 | She went through his pockets but all she found was a spare clip for the FN FAL . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The young man who was hanged was a special friend of Claudia . |
| 23 | A unique talent , honed and polished in the Lenin Institute , where brainwashing was a fine art . |
| 24 | There was no novus actus interveniens as what occurred was a likely result of the original breach of duty by the defendants . |
| 25 | In the minds of those who gave positive thought to it , the Commonwealth was to be an organization to which no one who was unwilling need apply , and in which those who had joined were to reach their decisions on the basis of consensus : the goal to be pursued was an uncoerced acknowledgement of Britain as the senior partner in a world-wide enterprise ; the position to be sought was the supremely equivocal but potentially supreme satisfying one of primus inter pares . |
| 26 | For the girls reforming was a scary idea : |
| 27 | The article in the Financial Times to which the hon. Gentleman referred was a good article . |
| 28 | In what police say was a tragic coincidence , gunfire was heard from a house across the street . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | ‘ 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 . |