Example sentences of "was [adj] [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They gave us six piasters and told us it was advance pay for work on a rubber plantation not far away . |
| 2 | Another of his innovations was inviting students to Sunday lunch , after which they would join the family in the garden and give ‘ much valuable help ’ . |
| 3 | Lord Hailsham held that the mental element required for rape was intent and that there was ample authority in support of this proposition . |
| 4 | A MAN behind a building firm that has taken thousands from customers for work that has remained undone was bouncing cheques to suppliers last spring . |
| 5 | The first was due process in procedure , and the general limitation of official discretion within the criminal justice system . |
| 6 | It was low tide at St Catherine 's Dock , and the Thames was about to meet its match . |
| 7 | There was strong support for maturity having a negative effect on volume , that is , volume rises as delivery approaches . |
| 8 | In southern India , where the population was predominantly low caste , there was strong support for Singh 's action . |
| 9 | His conclusion was that four-point alignment was strong evidence of design rather than accident . |
| 10 | And there was much in that , for the policy of these raiding parties was always to loot , never to attempt the towns or the castles if there was strong possibility of resistance . |
| 11 | Financial limitations and unwillingness to sell made new players increasingly hard to find , in an area where , as Chapman pointed out , industrial conditions were not conducive to home-grown talent , and where there was strong competition from rugby . |
| 12 | America was also difficult but there was strong growth in Malaysia and Chile . |
| 13 | However , there was strong growth in merchant banking and securities dealing , where profits surged from £24.7 million to £38.0 million in the year . |
| 14 | In the middle levels of the administrative hierarchy there was strong commitment to Nazism , and many Nazi leaders were recruited from this stratum . |
| 15 | In his view there was no justification for continuing controls that were hurting Welsh Black breeders badly because there was strong interest in Germany and Scandinavia . |
| 16 | It was 2,880 yards in length and 9 feet 3 inches wide . |
| 17 | And the little town was rich ground for observation . |
| 18 | I was eight months at Huntingdon , from February to October 1945 , and during that time the war came to an end , first the German war and then , most unexpectedly , the Japanese war . |
| 19 | Its fuel consumption was eight miles per gallon ( 2–5 km per litre ) on the road and 16 mpg on rails . |
| 20 | From the time that I was eight years of age , on coming out from Morning Service , I could not hang about with my friends , but had to dash to the Sunday Newspaper seller who operated a pitch outside Wilkes , Son and Cassey 's Ironmongers Shop on the corner of Milford Street and Queen Street . |
| 21 | So my mother brought us all to on the train and er I was at that time about let's see nineteen thirty twenty I think I was eight years of age then . |
| 22 | Again in 1727 " We was eight days at Twitenham . |
| 23 | One year later , she was private secretary to Mr Peter Lilley , who was then at the Treasury . |
| 24 | John Major insisted at question time : ‘ The paper was private advice to ministers and will not be published . ’ |
| 25 | Almost nothing is known of his family , childhood , or early education except that his father was private messenger to George IV and William IV , and that he had one sister and two brothers . |
| 26 | Here there was complete inhibition of growth , and this inhibition extended for a distance of about 1 cm. beyond the limits of the mucus . |
| 27 | Result of this raid was complete stoppage of production for two months , deliveries when they did recommence being only a fraction of previous supplies , thirty enemy aircraft destroyed in aerial combat and 38 on the ground . |
| 28 | There was complete concordance between culture , CLO test , and histology for the detection for H pylori . |
| 29 | Treatment was considered adequate if the oesophageal lumen could be dilated to 15 mm and there was complete relief of dysphagia . |
| 30 | If deferred diagnoses and the artefactual disagreements involving delirium are excluded , there was complete agreement in 89% of the cases and complete or partial agreement in 92% . |