Example sentences of "was [conj] [num] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A slight variation in this household was that one social worker stayed behind . |
| 2 | The irony of Buchanan 's attack on ‘ Hooligan Imperialism ’ was that one important way in which the Hooligan figured within the troubled preoccupations of his contemporaries was precisely as a fighting-fit recruit for the imperial armies . |
| 3 | Newman 's central idea , both as a Catholic and as an Anglican , was that one holy Catholic and apostolic Church exists . |
| 4 | Partly it was for lack of anything else to be curious about , the usual island obsession with trivialities ; partly it was that one cryptic phrase from Mitford and the discovery about Leverrier ; partly , perhaps mostly , a peculiar feeling that I had a sort of right to visit . |
| 5 | That 's right , Bolton won five nil but what we did get clarified from the Football League today was if two English teams finish their four games on the same number of points , is it goal difference or is it the number of goals scored that is the crucial factor ? |
| 6 | Its leading edges were free to articulate , the central keel was retained simply because short of cutting it away , there was no choice , and there was but one forward cross-spar . |
| 7 | 1985:21 ) from concepts of structural relativism ( which took the place of the idea that there was but one right model of organization , on the basis of a firm hierarchical structure ) through structures of which some were mechanistic and others organic and into the realm of " contingency " models ( structures of management which alter according to the issues with which they have to deal ) . |
| 8 | This was because one strong feeling dominated me : ambition . |