Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] was a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To ensure that this progressive building was a success , it was essential –hat a supply of completely manufactured parts was on the ground at the point of erection , before the building of a vehicle was commenced . |
| 2 | Mixed-ability teaching was a principle fairly widely accepted , at least for children in their first year at secondary school , but in some schools for far longer . |
| 3 | That lane was a delight . |
| 4 | In neither case was a child resistant lid contraindicated . |
| 5 | It must have seemed clear to him at once that Tolkien was a man of literary genius , and this fact only brought home to him his own sense of failure as a writer . |
| 6 | The garden 's sole glory was a laburnum , which blossomed wonderfully each year : but even that she associated more with its dry black fatal pods than with its flowers , so often and so rigorously had she been warned of its poison . |
| 7 | The court held that necessity was a defence to the claim in trespass and nuisance . |
| 8 | The court held that necessity was a defence to trespass provided there was no negligence on the part of the defendant . |
| 9 | The House considered the decision in McGhee and stated that the judgment of Lord Wilberforce in that case was a minority one and did not represent the law . |
| 10 | Jack was never flurried , his cool , unruffled play was a hallmark of his game , along with some immensely powerful clearances . |
| 11 | ‘ My elder sister was a pig to me . |
| 12 | Despite students ' insistence , as we saw earlier , that physics was a subject concerned with ‘ understanding ’ , note-taking in lectures was necessary for learning and examination revision . |
| 13 | Under each seat was a packet . |
| 14 | In defence of the faith , in defence of his crown , he had no choice but to stand rigidly upon the law , but every cutting off of the least citizen was a maiming of his own nation and his own body , and he found no remedy against the grief and horror into which his own procedures cast him . |
| 15 | Special Branch had warned that political violence was a possibility as the communists were planning to disrupt the meeting ; they allegedly had plans to locate the main power switch so that the lights could be cut off at a favourable moment . |
| 16 | In the bottom of each boat was a gourd of pitch , alight and smouldering , but covered with a lid to prevent the reek escaping and alerting the watch on the Rebecca . |
| 17 | The Labour defeat was a disaster , but it might be a blessing in disguise . |
| 18 | I have said that in the classical version each murder was a duel between two giants . |
| 19 | From the condition of the meat when the cages were regurgitated , he inferred that digestion was a chemical rather than a mechanical process . |
| 20 | All he could discern on that side was a shade of difference between dark and light ; but with the one eye remaining he missed very little of what went on about him , and within the week he was out of his bed and trying his skill at aim and balance about the rooms and staircases . |
| 21 | Then the doctrine common to all ages and nations had been that insolvency was a crime , and that the debtor might be properly made to pay in person the penalty for his offence . |
| 22 | Each action was a cause of the stopping , then , and so we have two causes . |
| 23 | That disbelief was a challenge , and Deacon Billingsley was not a man to resist a challenge . |
| 24 | A part of this change was a fall in the number of widowed mothers . |
| 25 | How could she possibly tell him that her limited sexual experience was a matter of choice , not lack of opportunity ? |
| 26 | When in 1913 Alison Neilans of the Ladies ' National Association announced that ‘ we and our former antagonists can work cordially together ’ , Wilson explained that the olive branch was a result of the change of heart among medics and their new expansive definition of health . |
| 27 | ‘ The so-called chairman was a Jordanian . |
| 28 | This story was a favourite of the headmistress of her primary school , so she heard it often at Morning Prayers , and long before she could see it as a parable , she already felt shock before its injustice . |
| 29 | Needles were stored in a two-pound Robertson 's jam jar ; and in a long glass-topped case was a selection of knives , scalpels , forceps , scissors and syringes . |
| 30 | This trial was a parallel , double blind , double placebo trial for one year comparing 20 mg enalapril plus placebo hydrochlorothiazide ( enalapril group ) with placebo enalapril plus 25 mg hydrochlorothiazide ( hydrochlorothiazide group ) . |