Example sentences of "[noun prp] [was/were] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unlike their children , Nicolae and Elena Ceauşescu were not the subject of much trivial gossip . |
| 2 | He reminded himself again that he was dealing with premeditated murder and the Glynns were not the sort to resort deliberately to force except in dire circumstances . |
| 3 | Rank and ABPC were still the powers in the land but , when it came |
| 4 | Did n't you say that those youths who got their friend drunk the other Saturday were not the kind of visitors you liked here ? ’ |
| 5 | Really , thought Liz , really : Deirdre was exactly the kind of neurotic that she did her best , professionally , to avoid — narcissistic , exhibitionistic , selfish , manipulative , childish , unreliable , unpunctual , self-satisfied even in the depths of self-reproach , and yet there she somehow managed to stand , in the middle of Liz 's own kitchen , brandishing a pie knife . |
| 6 | The last time I travelled from Wick to Dingwall was when the railway only reached as far north as Golspie ; the other portion of the road was an overnight stage-coach journey ; and to accommodate some ladies I took a seat on the top : it was a clear cold night , and the air was keen indeed . |
| 7 | Edward Adeane was not the man for the job . |
| 8 | El Alamein was really the beginning of the end of the desert campaign . |
| 9 | The wine , though Richard was not the kind of person whom the sommelier kept waiting , was not particularly good . |
| 10 | Mr Alastair Brett , for the journalist and Times Newspapers Limited , said : ‘ The defendants , having made extensive inquiries into the allegation , are quite satisfied that Mr Bouvier was not the father of the plaintiff 's twins and very much regret that the allegation was ever published . |
| 11 | Promotion for Hilde was not the cause for celebration she had expected : |
| 12 | No doubt he slept soundly at night — Josh was n't the sort of man to be tormented by bad dreams . |
| 13 | Its influence in the United States was largely the result of the work of C. S. Peirce , William James , and John Dewey who , by challenging the prevailing conceptions of knowledge , tried to redirect the course of philosophy . |
| 14 | Neil Latimer was not the gunman who shot Catholic council workman Adrian Carroll in Armagh City nine years ago , according to a former loyalist paramilitary boss . |
| 15 | Mexico was also the object of early Comintern interest : Moscow was keen to promote Communist activity in Mexico in order to distract the United States from intervening against the Soviet Union , and dispatched Mikhail Borodin in 1919 partly to achieve this end . |
| 16 | But , said the Authority , Orfordness was not the place where Mr Claydon was employed under his contract . |
| 17 | But if Surere was not the killer , then the murders would go on . |
| 18 | The school was extremely pleased with the news , he said , because Mr Burge was precisely the sort of teacher who deserved such a vote . |
| 19 | Michael Ramsey was therefore the grandson of a Congregationalist minister on one side and of an Anglican vicar on the other . |
| 20 | Of the old forest cantons , Uri was always the leader in policies of expansion over the Gotthard into the Ticino . |
| 21 | But , despite Ofahengaue 's interest in playing with Rovigo , Italian rugby has a one import rule and South African goal-kicking wizard Naas Botha was already the club 's overseas player . |
| 22 | Home for Ken was now the Park West block of flats off the Edgware Road , a far more posh environment than any he had been used to up to then . |
| 23 | Some accounts have it that the Leviathan was actually the mate of the land beast BEHEMOTH . |
| 24 | Jesus of Nazareth was now the prism through which the various shafts of light in the Old Testament about the Spirit became luminous and in focus to them . |
| 25 | Bracken Cottage , which had come to her on Elise 's death , was all very well , but living out in one of the Sherwood Forest villages would have entailed long rush-hour drives twice a day , and already Merrill had gathered that Luke Travis was n't the sort of man to take kindly to excuses about traffic-jams . |
| 26 | Obviously Luke Travis was not the kind to let the grass grow under his feet . |
| 27 | Officials in Moscow claimed that communist party buildings in Lithuania were rightfully the property of the Soviet Communist Party ( CPSU ) since the CPL 's declaration of independence in December 1989 [ see pp. 37128-29 ] . |
| 28 | The use in these works of an unusual form of surface trellis indicates that Alexander was also the architect of the great parochial towers in Grantham and in Newark-upon-Trent , Outside the circle of architects to the Crown , Alexander was one of the most significant masters of the mid-thirteenth century , and his Lincoln vault ( copied at Ely before 1250 ) was the source of future development . |
| 29 | Some have bemoaned the fast food outlet that has now taken over the odd corner of the Piazza , but this is the site of the ancient Milanese fiera ( fair ) — the name itself means Square of the Merchants — and doubtless on fair days the Piazza was not the ocean of calm many claim it must have been . |
| 30 | Agatha was arguably the daughter of King Stephen of Hungary , or of Bruno , brother of the German Emperor Henry II , or of a half-brother of the Emperor Henry III , or of none of them . |