Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | His reply was soon the property of every taxi-driver in Moscow , the most certain network in those days for news . |
| 33 | May I on behalf of my right hon. and hon. Friends point out that the disgraceful barracking and shouting which came from the mob opposite during the reply was clearly an exercise orchestrated by the Labour Whips ? |
| 34 | The draft reply contained one threat to report I M R O to the Securities and Investment Board for excessive enquiries er and for an unreasonable attitude and the other er bit of the reply was effectively a form of covering up presenting full financial information and disclosure to I M R O. Those replies were drafted by people inside the Maxwell organisation and you may want to comment on er the position , although I should stress at this stage that I like you have not seen the final version of any reply and I do not know whether I M R O persisted . |
| 35 | She thought she 'd found the perfect place to live , yet already it was slipping away and this cosy compartment was only a stage on to something else . |
| 36 | The place that Belov had in mind was just a couple of hundred metres further , he told her . |
| 37 | ‘ If you ask me , that story about Gebrec having something on his mind was just a cover-up . |
| 38 | But twenty minutes later , as the big car swung off the motorway and began to thread its way along country roads , her mind was still a blank . |
| 39 | ‘ My style of playing over the top of the neck was just an accident . |
| 40 | Her neck was perhaps a trifle long and her head rather small but her features were symmetrical and her brown eyes large . |
| 41 | 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 ? |
| 42 | Aaron the priest was thus the spokesman , even though the authority was that of Moses . ) |
| 43 | What would be the difficulties — and the strengths — if a priest was also a mother with small children ? |
| 44 | But the ritual was nevertheless a way of protecting the devotional intimacy , whereas the non-liturgical denominations exposed it in a way he would have found offensive . |
| 45 | However , the government insisted that the ritual was only an extension of the Niinamesai ceremony ( a 2,000-year-old annual tradition in which the Emperor offered a token of the new rice harvest to the Sun Goddess ) , and as such it was an integral element of Japanese culture . |
| 46 | The brightest splash in the newsagent was probably the display of orange and green Penguin paperbacks — the main paperbacks available . |
| 47 | The meat tea was probably the answer . |
| 48 | The origin of civilisation was probably the arrival of a mental process in the evolving human being which , for the first time , was not a purely instinctive one . |
| 49 | The Room of the Plaster Couch was apparently a vestry , robing room or cloakroom : the ‘ couch ’ was probably a stand for water ewers . |
| 50 | Relocation was therefore an option . |
| 51 | As things worked out the hat/rabbit analogy was nearer the truth than anyone suspected . |
| 52 | Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk , making a public apology for Ukraine 's part in the massacre , acknowledged for the first time that Babi Yar had been primarily a massacre of Jews , and commentators noted that the ceremony was also a way of emphasising the government 's insistence on minority rights in Ukraine ( where 500,000 Jews still lived ) . |
| 53 | Our finding is similar to that of Walker et al , who reported that the rise in gastrin with eating was solely the result of a rise in G17 in duodenal ulcer patients . |
| 54 | It was always accepted that the FAOR study was essentially a research project , and any reservations about the final outcome in relation to the extensive analysis that was undertaken must be viewed in this context . |
| 55 | This evening 's talk was primarily an account of Mr Mulholland 's recent journeys , lasting over several months , in Brazil where he was working with CAFOD . |
| 56 | The word ‘ changing ’ in the title refers mainly to the electrification of some of these lines , and Vic 's talk was largely a record of these lines as they were , with Deltics , Class 31's , 37 's and 47 's and Sprinters of Class 150 and even 156 , interspersed with slides of the overhead wire installation , and the Class 317 's and 321 's to be seen now . |
| 57 | Linda was not only Ms Duxbody 's editor , she was also one of the founders of Women 's Word and her short talk was consequently a mixture of congratulatory remarks about Revelations and a progress report on the company . |
| 58 | The property boom was certainly a factor in the increase of bargaining : developers were pressing for planning permissions while local authorities were experiencing financial difficulties in providing the necessary infrastructure . |
| 59 | A second attempt was also a failure , this time after 257km . |
| 60 | The first attempt was almost a disaster , but he got the plane up again and came round for a second shot . |