Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [was/were] [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then they played cards until stifled yawns and missed tricks told them that tiredness was now king . |
| 2 | The girl who would only appear in school plays if she had a non-speaking part was now centre stage . |
| 3 | Ltd. v. Hawkins ( 1859 ) 4 H. & N. 87 was authority for the proposition that it was an ordinary incident of all corporations ( including municipal corporations ) that they might sue for libel ; that case was only authority for the proposition that a trading company might sue for libel by which its property was injured ; ( 3 ) in holding that the Manchester Corporation case was decided per incuriam when there was no basis for so holding and he should have followed it ; ( 4 ) in holding that in bringing an action for libel not alleged to have caused actual damage , no valid distinction could be made between trading corporations and municipal corporations , which ignored the true basis on which a trading corporation was permitted to sue for libel , namely that it had a trading character , the defamation of which might ruin it : South Hetton Coal Co . Ltd. v. North-Eastern News Association Ltd. [ 1894 ] 1 Q.B. 133 , 145 . |
| 4 | Erm the Conservative thirty three million and the Policy Committee is that Labour was actually sort of lowest . |
| 5 | Shelley gazed as he sang , wondering if Dr Rafaelo had been right in saying that this act was only showmanship , with no genuine feeling or emotion in it . |
| 6 | Gradually , it became apparent that this lady was definitely part of David 's life . |
| 7 | A relatively clear-cut organisation of this kind , later to become the typical form of internal structure of all foreign offices , had already been introduced in 1661 in Sweden , where the small machine for the control of foreign policy was still part of the royal chancery and hardly an independent entity at all ; but it is interesting that it should also have evolved relatively early in a country still so isolated and underdeveloped as Russia . |
| 8 | It ran across three weekly issues , and was blatantly lifted from the big city papers and radio , but the editorial comment was strictly home town . |
| 9 | Top choice was still MS-DOS with Windows , with 44% ; the 18 percentage points it has lost in the past six months have all gone to Windows NT and OS/2 . |
| 10 | He subsequently er went to work at the Berlick in latter years and , and this man was just sweeping-up at the Berlick and I could n't believe it cos he was so high up in the technology in the war and he 'd be a dental mechanic and he 'd come down to just being a sweeper-up , and he used to show me the pay packets he 'd got in the war and you know it was fantastic money even , even by today 's standards this is going back fifteen years |
| 11 | This old established British maker was also part of the Benson group , but is now up for sale . |
| 12 | Indeed he agreed that a great deal of hypocrisy had been involved in what Macaulay had called one of the ‘ fits of morality ’ to which the British nation was periodically subject . |
| 13 | Yet although the old company was largely moribund its legal powers were still extant and this had resulted in a decline in milling since the Civil War , here and elsewhere , for it was plainly an obstacle to private enterprise . |
| 14 | For most Japanese there were no longer formal restrictions on mobility , and , especially in the Meiji period , social ranking was relatively fluid . |
| 15 | Along with most other docs , I used to believe that this fluid was always urine — and that the ladies were being slightly incontinent under the wholly understandable stress of ‘ coming ’ . |
| 16 | Indeed , this was shown before it was demonstrated that the inferotemporal cortex was anatomically part of the visual system . |
| 17 | The main reason why women took up such work was undoubtedly poverty , resulting chiefly from either the low wages , sickness , unemployment or absence of the male breadwinner . |
| 18 | He disapproved of the Prince 's involvement in Operation Raleigh ; he even felt that Charles 's youth and inner-city work was politically border-line and unwise . |
| 19 | The variables with a skewed distribution were therefore log transformed for statistical calculation . |
| 20 | But of course it turns out that the blithe estivant was only planning what he doubtless terms a Weekend Break . |
| 21 | This true type , having found her man , was forced to accept that biology was indeed destiny . |
| 22 | The elephantine new medium in the 1945 — 90 period was obviously TV . |
| 23 | In antiquity , regardless of the metal being joined , soft solder was generally tin or lead or an alloy of the two . |
| 24 | He said that the national priority was now privatization . |
| 25 | Although Gedge 's voice was high in the mix , the basic brew was unmistakably Wedding Present , even if more genteel than what followed . |
| 26 | The lengthy , complicated and interesting case of Richard of Anstey ( of some two generations before Innocent III 's time ) shows how it was already accepted that the Crown could have no jurisdiction over the solemn sacrament of marriage , though at this stage the canon law of marriage and what actually constituted a legal marriage was extremely fluid . |
| 27 | Bonar Law was now Leader of the House of Commons without a department , and it was indeed a full-time job to keep the governmental process going there . |
| 28 | When I examined the differences between success and failure in change projects or development efforts , I found that one major difference was simply time — staying with it long enough to make it work . |
| 29 | Mr Patten said the 120-clause bill was only part of the Government 's strategy for the environment . |
| 30 | Romainmôtier Church was originally part of a Cluniac Monastery , built in the early tenth century . |