Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The East Anglian side were also the culprits the last time Atkinson hit an all-time low , when Ipswich beat his West Brom side in the 1978 FA Cup semi-finals . |
| 2 | The denizens of the canteen were mainly the accountants and the data-processing buffs , huddles of grey or navy blue suits exchanging the distinctive jargon of their respective trades , the young upwardly mobile middle managers . |
| 3 | Moreover , given the disparity in actual salaries , it is unlikely that the more general " managerial labour market " constraint on operation is fully effective since , as we said in chapter 3 , it is likely that the public sector trawls for talent in a different pool , at least in the UK.6 On the assumption that the people actually being appointed were ( unlike their private sector counterparts ) altruistic , this would be no bad thing , but it would be foolish to believe altruism were always the case . |
| 4 | The discovery of impressive ruins which illustrated the past existence of a great Sinhalese-Buddhist civilization in the dry zone provided Buddhists with proof that their religion was not the cause of their colonial status . |
| 5 | Religion was not the area of civilization which Polybius and Posidonius found easiest to understand . |
| 6 | In Benton v Campbell , Parker and Co Ltd [ 1925 ] 2 KB 410 , it was held that the auctioneer was not liable to the purchaser for the sale of a car when it transpired that the person who put the car into the auction was not the owner . |
| 7 | Disappointment was also the reaction of Sealink British Ferries , whose parent company Sea Containers is currently fighting a $1.036 billion bid from Temple Holdings which would involve the UK ferry business ending up in Swedish hands if it succeeds . |
| 8 | Seen in this light de-industrialisation was not the onset of a foreign disease but the unavoidable expiation of past neglect . |
| 9 | By the time Coleman picked up the threads of the plot in February 1987 , there was still no clear plan of attack , although it was generally agreed among Hurley and his colleagues that luring Younis into a drug deal was probably the key , and that a lot of political hassle would be avoided if he could be taken , say , in international waters . |
| 10 | The suggestion put forward by Hall and Schachtman was that the dishabituation observed in their experiment was not the consequence of a failure of input and representation to match , but rather depended on a change in level of arousal . |
| 11 | , can I , can I just say , thank you Chairman , but could I just say on two three , I think that one of things that built the partnership was actually the launch of Ludlow , and that all those organizations were there , and helped part of the process , and I think one of the things we need to think about , Chairman , is now we 've got that B status , even though we 're arguing at the fringes , we 've actually got it , is perhaps doing another event like Ludlow , to involve all the organizations that , that , that will be participating in the programme , to give them a , so that they feel a , a common ownership of the programme , they can put forward the projects they want , they feel they are part of the process . |
| 12 | Julia 's bedroom was now the heart of the house with the family spending every possible moment with her , and although her face was almost fleshless she could always manage a smile to greet them . |
| 13 | However , the time zone niche was also the basis for LIFFE 's introduction of US T-bond futures in 1986 and Japanese bond futures in 1988 . |
| 14 | Erm my metabolism was out the window . |
| 15 | By a respondent 's notice dated 20 February 1991 the plaintiffs gave notice of their intention to contend that the judgment should be affirmed on the additional grounds , inter alia , that ( 1 ) leave to appeal from the order of 4 November 1988 should have been refused ; ( 2 ) there was no ground for interfering with the judge 's finding that the first defendant was not the agent of the plaintiffs ; ( 3 ) there was no evidence that the second defendant was at any material time under the influence of or dominated by the first defendant so as to be prevented from exercising independent judgment ; ( 4 ) in so far as the first defendant repeated his over-optimistic expectations to the second defendant it was not a misrepresentation , fraudulent or otherwise ; and ( 5 ) as to whether there was manifest disadvantage , the charge was required as a condition of further increased overdraft facility to Heathrow Fabrications Ltd. , without which that company , whose success would have been of benefit to the second defendant , would have been in financial difficulties . |
| 16 | The speed of the upswing was largely the result of the scale of monetary and fiscal stimulus given to the system as a whole . |
| 17 | The great problem of uniformitarianism was always the amount of time needed to explain what was known to have happened in the history of the earth ( including the evolution of all its species ) if one could only Postulate present processes . |
| 18 | Many windows were shattered all over Edinburgh , including many at Donaldson 's — its most grievous loss was perhaps the oriel window in the chapel famed in Scotland as one of its earliest figure-stained windows . |
| 19 | The result was precisely the opposite of that intended . |
| 20 | The Iranian embassy issued a statement saying the murder was probably the result of a settling of old scores within the Iranian opposition . |
| 21 | Factory greyness had dulled the senses and while the club was still the place to be , it certainly was n't the place to play . |
| 22 | Which London club was once the headquarters of the Conservative Party ? |
| 23 | The church of St Peter , Vauxhall , was built between 1863 and 1865 on part of the area formerly occupied by the Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens ; its altar is on the site of the Neptune Fountain , and the late-eighteenth-century house which adjoins the church and is now the vicarage was originally the home of the manager of the gardens . |
| 24 | His reply was soon the property of every taxi-driver in Moscow , the most certain network in those days for news . |
| 25 | An elective despotism was not the government we fought for ; but one in which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced among several bodies or magistracies , as that no one could transcend their legal limits , without being effectually checked and restrained by the others . " |
| 26 | The site in mind was where the turnpike ( now called Greek Street ) left Wellington Road , and was owned by the Hon. |
| 27 | Fisher saw that this mind was not the grammarian or writer of Greek and Latin prose such as Cambridge liked , but was a meditative , half-philosophical mind , which might be better suited in the Oxford school . |
| 28 | As the unashamedly extravagant Continental R in the most outrageous shade of red majestically revolved on the stand to an upbeat and immensely loud recording of ‘ Land Of Hope And Glory ’ the last thing on anyone 's mind was how the CFCs in the air conditioning were going to rip the ozone to pieces . |
| 29 | REMEMBER the man who made a fortune out of a book which claimed that the Old Testament was really the story of how extra-terrestrials landed on earth or , to put it plainly , that Elijah 's still small voice was a wee green man speaking in his ear ? |
| 30 | Aaron the priest was thus the spokesman , even though the authority was that of Moses . ) |