Example sentences of "was [adv] [art] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was dead the last time I saw him . ’ |
| 2 | yeah I mean to be honest it 's just a case of one of you , it does go that way , I knew I was right the first time , of one of you just remembering |
| 3 | Advocating a full multiparty democratic system and the CPSU 's abandonment of " democratic centralism " , this was effectively the first faction openly to have emerged in the CPSU since the 1920s . |
| 4 | A mere two hundred miles from Washington had brought them into a different season although it was obviously the first hint of real autumn in New York : around them others were hurrying because they were too thinly dressed or tugging at coats and gloves that were unfamiliar and awkward after half a year at the back of the closet . |
| 5 | ARCHIE BINDING , who has died aged 105 , was perhaps the last survivor of those Royal Naval Air Service and Royal Flying Corps airmen who crewed airships in the First World War . |
| 6 | when she was only a second year therefore that means , she 's not given enough work , but I mean |
| 7 | He repeated the Government 's support for Mr Patten , who embarked on his reforms last October , and said that publication of the plans was only a first step which should not be an obstacle to talks with Beijing . |
| 8 | ‘ There was no inheritance in the case , you see , for Robert Beckenham was only a third son and chose to live at home in idleness rather than follow a profession . ’ |
| 9 | It was wonderful , the shops were excellent , it was only the first day of our holiday and I had spent most of my money . |
| 10 | Taking the lifeboat out of the narrow harbour entrance into the face of 100-knot winds was only the first hazard . |
| 11 | That was only the first occasion that Chairman Khrushchev reminded Chairman Mao that the paper tiger had nuclear teeth . |
| 12 | Cyril Humphries , the dealer who supplied Dr Sackler with most of his maiolica , backs up Mrs Sackler 's claim , noting that ‘ Dr Sackler always told me he would like to keep the collection intact … he wanted eventually to collect the entire spectrum of ceramic arts , and the maiolica was only the first part of it . ’ |
| 13 | Rabin said the agreement was only the first step towards a hoped for comprehensive Middle East peace . |
| 14 | This was their sixth successive League victory , and though it was only the first time they have scored three goals in a game this season , everyone at Highbury knows it could have been seven . |
| 15 | This was only the 12th race of Sure Sharp 's career . |
| 16 | In fact , when he stunned Jim courier and double Wimbledon champion Stefan Edberg that week it was only the seventh time in over four years that feat had been achieved . |
| 17 | It was only the second occasion ever in which bankers had been summoned and reflected both the high degree of public outrage and government embarrassment over the spate of recent financial scandals . |
| 18 | This was only the second occasion on which a French court had given the maximum sentence for this offence ( the first being for Arrospide — see above ; for capture of Arrospide and Urrutikoetzea in France see pp. 36406 ; 37588 ) . |
| 19 | Darlington was only the second date on the tour and got off to a bad start with a trip from Manchester through freezing fog arriving late and cold . |
| 20 | Between 1856 and 1859 he travelled to Palestine and Syria and up the Nile beyond the sixth cataract ; he believed he was only the second European to have gone so far . |
| 21 | Kingsley Amis 's Lucky Jim , on the other hand , was only the second novel he had ever written , and he has since admitted that he was glad that the first was not published . |
| 22 | He was only the second man she had ever slept with . |
| 23 | ‘ I was only the second actor to get a non-exclusive contract . |
| 24 | It was only the second time she had taken part and this race , taking less than ten minutes , had been a particularly fast one , but as she said , it was a family tradition to take part in it and she had really enjoyed it . |
| 25 | It was only the second time this season we 've been comprehensively beaten . |
| 26 | It was only the second time since they had been married that she had rebuffed him . |
| 27 | It was only the second time they had worked together . |
| 28 | It was only the second time Meg had seen Arthur really angry . |
| 29 | Ichkeul , indeed , was only the second wetland , after the Florida Everglades , to be given World Heritage status . |
| 30 | It was only the second authority in the country to open a state-run nursery , George Dent 's , which this year celebrates its 75th birthday . |