Example sentences of "was [art] [adj] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How was the fifty thousand pound credit |
| 2 | That was the nineteen ninety year was n't it ? |
| 3 | JAMES BOND was the requisite '60s fantasy role model for repressed males . |
| 4 | ‘ I ca n't believe what 's happened today , but I have to say it was the best 45 minutes I 've had since coming back , ’ he smiled . |
| 5 | ‘ That was the best two sets of serving I have played against for a long while , ’ he said . |
| 6 | ‘ That was the best two sets of serving I have played against for a long while , ’ he said . |
| 7 | And they were grown apiece while he was away and they were better than ever and the deal was been that he had was gon na give them the best two cattle you see and this was this was the best two animals he had . |
| 8 | It was the best three years in my life . |
| 9 | The 1913 Marsden Hartley ( lot 158 est. $1–1.5 million ) was the only million dollar plus twentieth-century work , going to Citibank for $1.05 million ( £656,250 ) . |
| 10 | Well it was the first hundred houses that were built in the New Town and it housed a lot of building trade workers , a lot of engineers and a lot of archi well a lot , a few architects and a few engineers and the rest were building trade workers or of some sort or another , and a few British Hydro |
| 11 | oh he was the first four minute miler was n't he ? |
| 12 | Our ship 's most vulnerable spot was the first four feet of her mainmast , which was heavily eaten by rot . |
| 13 | It was the first two categories of capital murder in particular that discredited the Homicide Act . |
| 14 | We must now fear with good reason that it was the first three months which were not typical . |
| 15 | That was the first seven weeks . |
| 16 | And the Buttercup that was the other three shops . |
| 17 | My test car was the top-of-the-range 1.6 Aerodeck SE ( a hatchback to you and me ) but at £9299 including delivery , plates and road tax , it 's a saving well into four figures over , say , the market leading Ford Escort . |
| 18 | The most publicised of these was the terrible DC-10 accident to a Turkish Airlines aircraft near Paris . |
| 19 | By 1989 the largest Conservative back-bench group was the right-wing 92 Group . |
| 20 | The most notable example in 1992 was the 6.6 billion francs received by Groupe Bull from the French taxpayer . |
| 21 | While he was away was the longest fifteen months and eight days I ever spent . |
| 22 | I was running in the 100 and 200 metres with some very imposing names : Don Quarrie , who was the Olympic 200 metres champion from Montreal three years earlier ; Allan Wells , the British number one ; James Gilkes from Guyana , a world-class runner ; and the big , imposing figure of Haseley Crawford , the Montreal 100 metres gold medallist . |
| 23 | Bogart was the quintessential Seventies entrepreneur who ploughed through an alpine landscape of cocaine , finally towing his company , Casablanca Records , over the financial brink and leaving the entire disco industry and , in particular , Casablanca 's owners PolyGram , tottering on the edge . |
| 24 | In the afternoon it was the same two Spaniards who led the home team to a whitewash over the visitors . |
| 25 | This is further confirmed by the fact that it was the same three informants who did not mark " reaction tanks ' as SF elements ( which could otherwise be characterised as central examples of an SF world ) . |
| 26 | As it was the next two years proved very difficult . |
| 27 | The corpus used for this was the three million sentence bilingual proceedings of the Canadian Hansard ( parliamentary proceedings ) . |
| 28 | United have been going well in recent weeks , but they really could do with another win at home this was the last 6 weeks ago against Cambridge United . |
| 29 | He was saying what happened was the last three years there 's been no plums about so the supermarkets have sort of found something else . |
| 30 | It lasted twelve hours and that was the worst twelve hours in my life . |