Example sentences of "[adj] was a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Various proposals were canvassed , but the most popular was a reduction in the rate of development charge . |
| 2 | We played various games there , of which the most popular was a kind of bingo . |
| 3 | The fifteen year old was a passenger in the Escort XR3 which crashed on Shaftesbury Avenue in Swindon . |
| 4 | Central was a commitment to the universality of natural rights and the need to protect them by maintaining balanced systems of government in which concentrations of power were avoided . |
| 5 | The Barry Hills-trained seven-year-old was a model of consistency last season , winning this Group Three event and a trio of other contests over distances around two miles . |
| 6 | DENNING J. stated the facts and continued : If I were to consider this matter without regard to recent developments in the law , there is no doubt that , had the plaintiffs claimed it , they would have been entitled to recover ground rent at the rate of £2,500 a year from the beginning of the term , since the lease under which it was payable was a lease under seal which , according to the old common law , could not be varied by an agreement by parol ( whether in writing or not ) , but only by deed . |
| 7 | Typical was a view of the past which left women invisible . |
| 8 | The accused was a stallholder in a market . |
| 9 | The offences were committed over six years at the society 's museum at Comrie , initially when the accused was a trustee of the society and latterly when he was curator . |
| 10 | • One senior Mercedes-Benz executive admitted the vulgar V12 badge on the C-pillar of the S-class was a triumph of marketing over design and quickly added that it was a delete option intended for the Japanese and Americans . |
| 11 | Well black leading was a sort of erm going out cleaning the old fireplaces , for people that were slightly better off than we were , their husbands might have been a tram driver or a railway driver . |
| 12 | Ruth rose , her heart beating with a confusion of emotions — but predominant was a sense of rightness , that she and Fand should unite against Fincara . |
| 13 | After a photo or a snapshot with the instematic , the official result of the 1993 Egg Grand National was a win for New Mill House , 2nd , Roc de Prince and 3rd Laura 's Beau . |
| 14 | Is it really that long ago since ALF carried out a bombing campaign during which one of the injured was a child in his pushchair , almost killed by flying shrapnel ? |
| 15 | Last week BBC2 's Newsnight happened to have a reporter travelling down the AI , the ‘ backbone of Britain ’ , and what he laid bare was a chain of slipped discs and abscesses . |
| 16 | The Minister will recall that during the first Tory recession , Ministers claimed that making many people redundant was a price worth paying to make British industry leaner and fitter . |
| 17 | Neither the 1911 Act nor the 1956 one contained provisions to allow the system of stamps to be short-circuited , so the fact that such short-circuiting eventually became feasible was a tribute to the maturity of the industry . |
| 18 | The widening gap between rich and poor was a stain on our civilization . |
| 19 | Most local derbys are hard bitten and bruising battles , but Town against United was a game of quality ; a match of distinction . |
| 20 | The original plan to make the skirt section conical was a victim of this thinking , although totally by accident rather than design … |
| 21 | The caterpillar you had found boiled was a part of your cabbage . |
| 22 | His Empire contained big national minorities , of which the most important was a population of 2,500,000 Poles in Prussia itself ; 250,000 Frenchmen lived in Alsace and there were also substantial numbers of Wends , Danes and Lithuanians within the Empire . |
| 23 | In their eyes the Asiatic was a menace to British livelihoods , for behind him stood the reality of the unscrupulous shipowner , of whom anything , however disreputable , could be believed . |
| 24 | Tyneside in particular and the North East in general was a zone of great prosperity . |
| 25 | She felt as if he was paying homage to their love , his every caress a thanksgiving , and for once the wildness left them alone so their loving was a thing of tenderness and healing , of joy and celebration . |
| 26 | Most impressive was a demonstration of real-time speech to text , where Digital Equipment Corp 's chief tempted fate by getting the machine to translate a few words . |
| 27 | Most impressive was a demonstration of real-time speech to text , where Digital Equipment Corp 's chief tempted fate by getting the machine to translate a few words . |
| 28 | Whether , as many prehistorians suspect , the Upper Palaeolithic was a time of notable progress in articulate speech is something which archaeology can hardly determine . |
| 29 | Of the Imperial Camel Corps he would say that it comprised an aristocratic element among its officers and complete ruffians in the ranks ; all they had in common was a disdain for danger . |
| 30 | What the styles had in common was a number of letter forms . |