Example sentences of "[noun prp] [was/were] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Miguel Montepeque and Antulio Castillo were both MAS leaders . |
| 2 | The class issues at stake in Hungary were only one illustration of the conflict throughout the empires and in Europe generally . |
| 3 | That Diniz Vasquez was also in Famagusta was not common knowledge , although le Grant had told Astorre , Loppe and Tobie . |
| 4 | SHROVE Tuesday was flipping good fun for lots of people in the region . |
| 5 | Some of the A.A. was either poor shooting at the bandit or very accurate shooting at me ! ’ |
| 6 | The truth is probably that Ceauşescu cheated on everyone , and that Pacepa , involved on the pro-Russian side , was unaware of the extent to which Ceauşescu was also double-crossing Moscow . |
| 7 | The fact that Dustin was only six years younger than Bancroft never seemed to bother anyone . |
| 8 | The estimate of stores to be move by rail from Woolwich to Donnington was initially 16,000 tons requiring 500 closed railway wagons and 2,500 open railway trucks . |
| 9 | Then , as we drove down the steep little hill we could see the sea glinting , for the coast at Frejus was about 12 miles distant . |
| 10 | Then her father walked out on her mother Marie when Lucy was just nine months old . |
| 11 | He stayed in the flat until Lucy was about two months old then he left again . |
| 12 | To Sigouri was perhaps thirty miles and , although the rain kept away , it was dark and treacherous underfoot and they hardly spoke , men-at-arms or servants or principals , as they guided fresh horses across the grey soil of the Messaoria , splashing over burgeoning rivers ; imperceptible to silent villages , churches and monasteries except by a thud of hooves and the swimming spawn of their brands . |
| 13 | Manley was also honorary adviser in medical engineering to the Westminster Group of Hospitals and honorary clinical assistant in anaesthesia and intensive care to the Medical Research Council Clinical Research Unit . |
| 14 | Reich , born in 1897 , was thirty-two years old when the first part of The Sexual Revolution was published in 1929 ; Freud was already sixty-four years old when the notion of the death instincts first appeared in Beyond the Pleasure Principle in 1920 . |
| 15 | The rent to Mrs Parvis was only ten shillings . |
| 16 | But Gyggle was n't that kind of shrink ; he kept on at me . |
| 17 | Eventually , on a day when the visibility at Bourn was about twenty yards , the powers-that-be decided that four Mosquitoes from our squadron would make the attempt to take-off for an undisclosed destination in France , each carrying a 4,000lb bomb . |
| 18 | While the early Waltz-Caprices , composed when Reger was only 19 years of age and a student at the Wiesbaden Conservatory , are evidently modelled on the numerous dance sets by Brahms ( yet another of the composer 's musical heroes ) , they amount to much more than blatant pastiche . |
| 19 | The Verne-Smiths were not long livers . |
| 20 | Calderpark Zoo in Broomhouse was building up a collection of small furry things and a few larger ones , and Easterhouse , Garthamlock and Ruchazie were still bramble-filled lanes between the Edinburgh Road and Stepps . |
| 21 | His rank was way above that of Moore : the Hopes of Hopetoun were far better stock than the Moores of wherever they sprouted up ! |
| 22 | You said that the Blemleys were terribly boring people , but they had an excellent cook . ’ |
| 23 | Richardson and Lishman were both local artists and teachers of art . |
| 24 | She had forgotten that many castles in Spain were now official hotels . |
| 25 | The bishops of Norman Sicily were as much parvenus as their Norman masters . |
| 26 | The Gotobeds were n't hard people , the young ladies gave him sweets and toys and made a real pet of him , but they could n't comfort him , and in the end they said he could go back home one day . |
| 27 | Large areas of Western Russia were under German occupation until the collapse , in turn , of the Central Powers in November 1918 . |
| 28 | The hospital of San Giovanni di Dio was practically next door to Headquarters , which was convenient in the case of patients who required a permanent guard or who had to be questioned at intervals . |
| 29 | Isaiah was not one person but three . |
| 30 | Ironically , Rockefeller was exactly that type of capitalist he would have despised back in England . |