Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] was [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Tory High Command warned tonight 's knife-edge vote could be uncomfortably close , the Premier was dealt a huge blow by the EC 's German vice-president Martin Bangemann . |
| 2 | The crook was given a reference but ran out of luck when his new bosses caught him fiddling £60 million . |
| 3 | The next day the Prince was leading a small group of businessmen he had brought over from Britain , including Stephen O'Brien , to look at a scheme called the Boston Compact , evidence that the United States had woken up sooner than anyone else to the dilemma of falling educational standards . |
| 4 | ‘ The change was suggested a couple of weeks ago . |
| 5 | The trial was resumed a week later , only to be adjourned once more after the opening proceedings and the prosecution 's opening address , setting out the charges . |
| 6 | Given the robust level of reserves that the board has enjoyed , and given that about £6.5 million of the reserves is being drawn down by the board to ensure a continuous and constant level of training , I should have thought that the board was exhibiting a responsible approach . |
| 7 | After he had signed his card , the winner was given a peaked cotton cap bearing the embroidered inscription : ‘ Daniel Silva , Jersey Open champion 1992 ’ . |
| 8 | The case was to set a stamp on the decade , and one question from prosecuting counsel Mervyn Griffiths-Jones was to mark the period as precisely as Neville Chamberlain 's ‘ Peace in our time ’ had done in 1938 . |
| 9 | They have , in my judgment , considered all the significant aspects of the case and they have decided , first of all , that the threshold conditions have been satisfied and , secondly , that the appropriate order in the circumstances of the case was to grant a care order to the local authority . |
| 10 | She made a twenty pound donation back to the village hall the clerk was to send a letter of thanks . |
| 11 | The Clerk was to send a letter of apology to Mrs thanking her for twenty years of service and ask if she 'd reconsider the job . |
| 12 | Far from being an instrument of struggle against the prerogatives of private capital , and the multinationals in particular , the contract was to provide a means of national reconciliation . |
| 13 | Returned ‘ without any seeking or soliciting ’ on his part to Richard Cromwell 's Parliament in 1659 for Castle Rising , again on a double return , he was allowed to sit but was inactive until the election was overturned a few days before the dissolution in April . |
| 14 | The magnitude of the NLD 's victory placed into question the validity of the SLORC 's stricture that the sole purpose of the election was to establish a Constituent Assembly without legislative power , whose task would be to draw up a new constitution before power could be handed over to a " strong " government , generally interpreted as meaning one acceptable to the military . |
| 15 | But there then came a different and terrible world with the ‘ men in the mohair suits ’ and the glory was making a quick buck . |
| 16 | The midget was smoking a cigar and had a tommy gun . |
| 17 | The grant was to fund a project which had been previously rejected as ineligible . |
| 18 | But of course , though not before ten-thirty as the Archdeacon was taking a matins for someone on holiday . |
| 19 | The difficulty was finding a time to instruct them . |
| 20 | The storm was reaching a savage pitch . |
| 21 | Text is input as if the user was using a word processing program and files from VIEW or WORDWISE can be incorporated . |
| 22 | ‘ The warrior was carrying a bow but no arrows . |
| 23 | The driver was hit a number of times on the head and back , either with fists or with an implement , and suffered injuries to the face and eyes as well as bruising . |
| 24 | He was thrown about in the back of the car and the driver was having a Chinese attack of the wobblies made worse by bouts of dizziness and sickness due to the height at which they were travelling . |
| 25 | The budget was to include a ID6,600 million deficit projection for 1990 , compared with an actual deficit of ID7,200 million in 1989 ( US$1.00=ID0.31 was the official fixed exchange rate as at January 1990 ) . |
| 26 | The lines were coming out as written , but the play was dying a slow death . |
| 27 | In 1991 , the College was granted a Royal Charter , recognition , we believe , of our contribution and status in the world of management development . |
| 28 | Yesterday , illicit smokers were fined for taking a puff as the college was declared a no smoking zone , while more health-conscious students tried their hands at the Clacton Olympics . |
| 29 | When the manacle was unlocked a weeping ulcer was exposed , and he was sickened , not by the sight of it , but because he had failed her in not acting sooner . |
| 30 | Now , at last , the snow was easing a little . |