Example sentences of "[noun pl] was a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The few social scientists who bothered with the issue pointed out that the control of risks was a social activity and in its analysis ideas like objective facts and rationality were a positive hindrance . |
| 2 | The awakening of national consciousness amongst the subject peoples was a major factor in undermining the power of the sultans . |
| 3 | The decision to intern 110,000 Japanese-Americans was a wholesale violation of civil rights . |
| 4 | Centuries was a sad phase in the history of the English Church . |
| 5 | One of those who told the court of hearing screams was a 14 year old canoist . |
| 6 | Leroy Burns he never wished to see again , and Paul Franklin with his bicycling and innumerable kids was a right ponce . |
| 7 | For example , recall that when anyone aged thirty today was born , computers were rare ; the standard equipment in all offices was a manual typewriter ; jumbo jets were only at the development stage ; transatlantic phone calls went by cable , not satellite ; and television was virtually unseen outside the developed world . |
| 8 | Looking at the greyish-green sea streaked with white waves was a good antidote , as indeed the grand and infinite was always . |
| 9 | In 1864 , therefore , Maxwell 's theory was bold and the subsequent prediction of radio waves was a novel prediction . |
| 10 | When ships were slow and there were no dockyards on the other side of the world , the fouling of ships ' bottoms by weed and the attack on timber by boring animals was a serious matter . |
| 11 | Waste from animals was a valuable fertiliser — all you had to do was to plough it into the land . |
| 12 | Jim said : ‘ The Potting B side running out winners was a real surprise because they turned the form book on its head . |
| 13 | But the new Queen 's champion admitted that the first meeting ever between the two players dominated by heavy serves and containing few spectacular winners was a poor spectacle for a 6,000 crowd which included Princess Diana . |
| 14 | ABC News has confirmed that one of those couriers was a young Lebanese-American named Khalid Jafaar . |
| 15 | Laxity among the parish clergy was a continual problem , not least their habits of taking wives or , after the legislation for priestly celibacy , ‘ concubines ’ . |
| 16 | One concomitant of the close link between landed patrons and Anglican clergy was a growing divorce between the church and people which was made worse by the generally lax state of the eighteenth-century diocese of Chichester . |
| 17 | Although Newsreel made some startlingly good documentaries , shortage of funds was a constant problem . |
| 18 | Using a couple of minutes for private imperatives was a serious violation of property rights . |
| 19 | He also dismissed Mr Robinson 's claim that excessive delay in the security screenings of recruits was a major factor in the decline of the part-time force . |
| 20 | Imperial Typewriters was a large firm , but again , like Grunwick , Spiralynx and so many others , marginal to British capital . |
| 21 | The common feature of all the cars was a central entrance complete with platform doors , which Luff claimed speeded loading , reduced accidents and made cleaning quicker ! |
| 22 | ‘ I went to several used car dealers and found that the way most of them described their cars was a far cry from the actual condition they were in , ’ he recalls . |
| 23 | Indeed , one had only to go to Rhodesia to see the ample supply of consumer goods in the shops from every part of the world to realise that sanctions were nothing but an empty farce , and that the claim that they were going to bring Mr Ian Smith to his knees was a total fraud . |
| 24 | Her exposure to and enjoyment of French museums and antique shops was a key element which enriched her life in France . |
| 25 | The existence of the routiers was a further aspect of the same problem . |
| 26 | They therefore concluded that a lack of social relationships was a causal factor in the onset of neurosis . |
| 27 | The best model for organic relationships was a branching tree , not a linear scale . |
| 28 | Soloway 's comment that , ‘ The birth control groups found it difficult to persuade the middle and upper-class membership of the feminist organizations that access to the contraceptive methods was a genuine problem ’ , seems both ill-founded and unnecessary . |
| 29 | Huey ( 1908 ) believed that some kind of internal auditory imagery of words was a legitimate feature of skilled silent reading , and devoted an entire chapter of his book to the functioning of inner speech . |
| 30 | Writing , he said , was a pleasure ; 4,000 words was a normal day 's work . |