Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Sir James and the prison cell were simply a warning not to go too far , not to presume too much on our present weakness . ’
2 If coaching were simply a matter of putting down on a piece of paper 10 points to improve , we 'd all be world beaters .
3 But the lifts of the pen came regularly at every fourth letter — Middlemass had never found a forger who remembered to vary the interval at which he lifted pen from paper — and the dot above the i , high and slightly to the left , and the over-emphatic apostrophe were almost a trade-mark .
4 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 .
5 It would not matter so much if a Turkish president were just a figurehead .
6 Full-time football and a career at a more glamorous club were both a matter of time .
7 The teaching of religion was always a feature of the curriculum , and until 1988 was the one subject legally required .
8 Religion was more a background , a context .
9 It would be easy to do so on the basis that his fusion of science and religion was really a confusion .
10 Religion was sometimes a mixture of Celtic , Roman and Christian beliefs and this affected the rites at death ceremonies .
11 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 .
12 The democratic element in the party 's thinking was mainly a conviction that ‘ the people must be right ’ , but popular views were indicated by the act of choosing every four or five years between the two major parties .
13 Springall was also a moneylender , a usurer .
14 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 .
15 point out that this change in procedure will tend to equalize the associative statutes of the two contexts and suggest that the context-specificity they observed in their first experiment was solely a result of their failure to equalize the two contexts in this respect .
16 , 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 .
17 As a result , the police force was rudimentary and inexperienced while the Belpan Defence Force was primarily a supplier of honour guards for the rare visitor of sufficient importance to warrant ceremony .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 Bob Naish of the Agricultural Development and Advisory Service , gave warning that the ‘ when ’ of succession was often a matter of considerable irritation and even aggravation between the parties .
21 The language used by the president was also a shock to many , and the transcripts of the tapes were punctuated with the phrase " expletive deleted " .
22 The Edinburgh panel decided , however , that HLA alloimmunisation was simply a laboratory end point and that the evidence was inconclusive that filtered blood prevented platelet refractoriness and bleeding .
23 The speed of the upswing was largely the result of the scale of monetary and fiscal stimulus given to the system as a whole .
24 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 .
25 In fact , her mate Klono had been killed and dragged off by a leopard one night when her son Krono was about a year old .
26 She preferred it to preparing food , and took the greatest care to see that each piece of cutlery was exactly an inch from the edge of the snow-white damask cloth .
27 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 .
28 Ursula 's interruption was almost a scream .
29 The result was patently a fraud , in Davidson 's words .
30 The result was precisely the opposite of that intended .
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