Example sentences of "[noun prp] [was/were] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An eighteenth century travelling commode from the Duke and Duchess of Wellington , a pair of Georgian chairs from the people of Bermuda and wrought-iron gates from the neighbouring village of Tetbury were just a sample of the cornucopia of presents which had descended on the royal couple . |
| 2 | The accident-prone Frank Spencer was just a step away from Runnicles , the witless bank clerk . |
| 3 | Assistant manager Edwin Stein was also a player under Fry and knows him better than most . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He had forgotten that Marie was only a girl ; forgotten that she was wearing a ridiculous dressing-gown . |
| 6 | Dennis was also an adviser on it . |
| 7 | Yet , for all its self-importance late-medieval Chichester was only a quarter the size of Salisbury in terms of its taxpayers , 869 of them in 1377 . |
| 8 | Ian Paisley was once a member of the Shankill Road Lodge of the Orange Order and a lodge chaplain , but he resigned from the Order when the County Grand Lodge refused to expel Sir Robin Kinahan for attending a funeral service in a Roman Catholic chapel . |
| 9 | El Alamein was really the beginning of the end of the desert campaign . |
| 10 | Paddington was essentially a station for mixed general traffic , but foodstuffs of various kinds formed a large proportion of incoming merchandise . |
| 11 | Jack could not possibly run the house from Oxford , and Warnie was still a serving officer in the Army . |
| 12 | As a person , David was almost a man born out of his period . |
| 13 | George Underwood : David was always a bit over the top and he decided to write to John Bloom , a millionaire business , saying something to the effect ‘ Brian Epstein has got The Beatles but you can have us ’ , but Bloom was n't that interested and passed his letter to Les Conn , an agent . ’ |
| 14 | It seems , therefore , " that however much a " civic deity " at the centre of such a radIal format might be interpreted in terms of worldly peace or counsel Tyche was simply a figure which was very amenable to this form of representation . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Despite his age , Len Hatch was still a man to be reckoned with . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | A guidebook on the mantlepiece adds that until the plague did for Wensley , Leyburn was just a speck on the map anyway . |
| 19 | Like Cantona , Wright was also a spectator , although he had his full kit on . |
| 20 | The Castell Rocamar was hardly a house ! |
| 21 | In general , the US response to the dispute had been very muted , reflecting the prevailing view in the West that the Iraqi campaign against Kuwait was primarily a scare tactic timed for the start of the OPEC conference in Geneva . |
| 22 | A measure of the extent to which évolués were drawn into French life was the fact that President Houphouet-Boigny of the Ivory Coast was previously a member of five successive French cabinets during the 1950s . |
| 23 | Secondly , Sir Angus was barely a year out of the Civil Service after a career which had taken him to the chairmanship of the Customs and Excise . |
| 24 | The school was extremely pleased with the news , he said , because Mr Burge was precisely the sort of teacher who deserved such a vote . |
| 25 | Ramsey was already a leader , not just in the diocese of Durham , but in the Church . |
| 26 | Ramsey was now a channel for Barthian influence into England . |
| 27 | Michael Ramsey was therefore the grandson of a Congregationalist minister on one side and of an Anglican vicar on the other . |
| 28 | Friday was quite a morning . |
| 29 | It is difficult to say whether this was a fertility belief or whether this day was chosen simply because Good Friday was usually a holiday for the old farming community and therefore a convenient occasion for a workman to plant his own garden . |
| 30 | Of the old forest cantons , Uri was always the leader in policies of expansion over the Gotthard into the Ticino . |