Example sentences of "[vb past] was [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The price proposed was on the open market and Stuttgart was happy to offer it . |
| 2 | Huge cresset torches were placed high on the walls , the tables had been covered with white linen and the only plate used was of the best thick silver . |
| 3 | I like to think I am broad-minded , but the language my father used was beyond the pale , and all because he could n't have a shave ! |
| 4 | He was permitted to take his family with him , but the only intellectual companionship he found was among the Catholic missionaries : the local inhabitants remained strangers to him . |
| 5 | The closest they came was in the mid-Eighties when their group , Trash , Flash And Money — ‘ straight down-the-line uninteresting Billy Idol rock music ’ — was signed to a development deal by Capitol records in America ( in a development deal they give you some money while they decide whether you are any cop after all ) . |
| 6 | Celtic finished the half well on top , though the closest they came was from the powerful long range shooting of Polish defender Wdowczyk . |
| 7 | Er all those that finished was in the finishing union , yeah . |
| 8 | The condition which the court imposed was in the very terms subsequently incorporated in paragraph 33 of Buckley J. 's order . |
| 9 | Books dealing mainly with science and the occult lined the walls , bits of engineering projects littered the table , his ultra-feminine dresses hung in one corner and the printing press of the transsexual/transvestite magazine he edited was in the other corner . |
| 10 | The only poor shot I hit was at the 14th , when a little wedge went right over the green . ’ |
| 11 | Was that the ar was that the area that you felt was of the most of er benefit to you ? |
| 12 | In particular the sharpened leading-notes ( a feature of some of his other editions ) are in this small space especially intrusive and seem stylistically odd , leading to a situation in the Credo where the plainchant itself has to be altered to accommodate the harmony , which I understood was against the commonly-accepted rules of musica ficta . |
| 13 | The other piece of extra-curricular casting I did was of the young boy playing the grandson — ‘ voice like an angel ’ — Oliver . |
| 14 | It is relevant that the time at which this text appeared was in the late 1970s . |
| 15 | The drivers were Ch'kassians : small olive-skinned men from an island country which Hodai said was on the other side of the Inner Sea . |
| 16 | We were all working flat out and the only break we had was on the second Sunday when Isvik was on the slip and the Yard closed . |
| 17 | No there was a vision and I think the , the Apostle had was of the third heaven |
| 18 | The only difficulties I had was in the last 24 hours when the steering gave me problems . ’ |
| 19 | The last time they met was in the old second division at the county ground . |
| 20 | The only place they lived was in the northern mountains , the Greshorns . |
| 21 | At this stage Hitler 's plans were still fluid , but the last thing he wanted was for the useful Danzig problem to be solved . |
| 22 | The last thing she wanted was for the local press to find out that she had a personal interest in finding Angy 's killer . |