Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [was/were] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was in his 30s and was a member of the Royal Irish Regiment . |
| 2 | In public life , Holford served as Conservative MP for East Gloucestershire from 1854 to 1872 and was a JP , but he took little interest in politics . |
| 3 | He said that credit costs had been rising partly as a reaction to global inflationary fears , but that the current high interest rates were necessary and appropriate and were a way of keeping inflation in check . |
| 4 | To claim that Britain has nurtured something in a matter ultimately pertaining to worship ( the choral singing of cathedral and chapel ) which is purified and controlled beyond anything possessed by Catholic Europe , which is purged of excessive artifice and rhetoric ( Continental reviewers consistently find English a cappella performances impassive ) and whose excellence gives Britain a mission these are among the ideas that have been the principal source of British national identity since the Act of Union in 1707 and were a foundation stone of English identity long before . |
| 5 | Prof Montgomery graduated MD with honours in 1946 and was a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Glasgow , the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh , the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and the Royal College of Pathologists . |
| 6 | and I thought well , I , I asked cos I was so sure that was a male |
| 7 | For Whitehouse , Neville 's avowed ‘ revolutionary ’ stance was aimed particularly at the young and innocent and was a form of ‘ ideological warfare ’ from which they needed to be protected . |
| 8 | The fact that nobody wrote and said that he was brilliant and was a genius convinced him that it was n't Robert Bolt who was at fault or the director Noel Willman , but himself as an actor . |
| 9 | He joined the Labour Party when he was 16 and was a councillor in Lambeth . |
| 10 | The lower house of the National Congress , the Chamber of Deputies , voted by 88 to 76 on Aug. 16 to withdraw the constitutional immunity from prosecution of former President Alan García Pérez , who held office in 1985-1990 and was a senator for life , so that he could face trial for the " alleged charges of embezzlement , extortion , fraud and the breach of public faith " . |
| 11 | Although crew cuts had been around forever , all-over short hair of ½″ or less started in about '64 & was a conservative-suit-mod staple until '68 when it went even shorter — ¼″ and less & in '69 near-shaven styles ( baldness never caught on ) ½″ or so of hair in the 60s was not as noteworthy as a backward glance might suggest — because long hair got all the publicity , you 'd think that everyone below 25 grew their hair long . |
| 12 | A well-known walking enthusiast , he started the Darlington and district youth hostel association in the 1930s and was a founder member of the rucksack club the town 's first rambling group . |
| 13 | In the ensuing proceedings custody of Miss T. was granted to her mother , which is not altogether surprising as she was still very young and was a girl . |
| 14 | Together with the Ukraine and the USSR itself , Belorussia became a founder member of the United Nations in 1945 and was a member of the International Labour Organisation and UNESCO . |
| 15 | Long involved in Institute affairs , he headed its Taxation Committee from 1978 , became a Council member in 1988 and was a founder member of the Tax Faculty when it was set up in 1991 . |
| 16 | He is another one of the Ireland Schools ' side that toured New Zealand the summer before last and was a member of the Coleraine AI Schools ' Cup winning side in 1992 . |
| 17 | More significant though was a displacement into , a condensation within , the homosexual of a whole range of political fears and anxieties made possible by existing and long established representations of homosexuality : |