Example sentences of "[adj] was [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was part of Fender 's problem , of course , and the 30″ scale length strings were so unusual at the time as to cause major headaches in manufacture . |
| 2 | He expelled his laugh in a single breath and was serious again , wanting to study her more , like a doctor , she thought , looking for symptoms , and she allowed him , remembering that this was part of sorrow . |
| 3 | This was Hymns for Infant Minds , which won the praise of Scott , Southey , Browning , Arnold of Rugby , and many others . |
| 4 | This was £80,000 in excess of the loan asked for in the application in its unaltered form . |
| 5 | The floor was carried on joists and under this was space for storage , scenery , gladiators and animals . |
| 6 | The first was that they were legally members of the National Church by virtue of being Crown Subjects ; this was nonsense of course as the tolerance introduced after the ‘ Glorious Revolution ’ recognized Dissenters ' right to exist , even if it were a restricted right . |
| 7 | This was thanks in part to the gradual liberalisation of the economy . |
| 8 | This was Peru as farce . |
| 9 | get the , this was sort of part just along here |
| 10 | One was excessive public borrowing ; another was intervention in industry . |
| 11 | ( a ) How could you test if the factor which causes SAD was lack of light or the cold weather ? ( b ) Would you get more information by considering patients who had suffered for several years rather than only once ? ( 2 ) Bright light is often found to bring relief . |
| 12 | Our bill for three was £123 without service . |
| 13 | Such was the Doctor 's rage , so accustomed was Louise to obedience , that she could not prevent herself from hurrying to execute his orders . |
| 14 | The Indecent Displays ( Control ) Act 1981 was sound in principle , but so narrow in application that it has rarely if ever been tested in the courts . |
| 15 | True , the recession has something to do with it but far more important was lack of snow . |
| 16 | It also reminds us of how recently belief in the supernatural was part of life . |
| 17 | The first was lack of knowledge about how to set up a system . |
| 18 | The niece of an eminent surgeon , Edith Pye trained as a nurse ( SRN ) and midwife ( SCM ) and by 1907 was superintendent of district nurses in London . |
| 19 | Indeed it has been argued that 1945 to 1951 was government by committee — hundreds of them — rather than Government by Cabinet . |
| 20 | The feature they came to have in common was occupancy of land in South Kensington purchased with the profits from the 1851 Exhibition at the Crystal Palace . |
| 21 | A novelty for the home crowd at reserve matches in 1924–25 was music from gramophone records broadcast through a loudspeaker . |
| 22 | One of the freeholders whose continuing friendship to Panmure appeared uncertain was Erskine of Dun , one of the lords of session , but a relative of Lord Dun was then the collector of supply for Angus . |
| 23 | In the climate of the time anyone who appeared strange was suspect of heresy , especially those who voluntarily embraced poverty and wandered about . |
| 24 | For a wild moment I thought I 'd made a mistake , had put it elsewhere , but that was nonsense of course . |
| 25 | That was William of Orange , was n't it ? |
| 26 | Of these the most memorable was Brothers in Battledress , directed by William Hankin . |
| 27 | Equally significant was research on landscape evolution , which was now focused on those timescales intermediate between those used for earlier chronological studies and those adopted in process investigations . |
| 28 | France 's President in the 1980S was Minister of Information in 1948 . |