Example sentences of "was [adj] [coord] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The project was controversial and the power station was only permitted providing the smoke was clean and the building did not challenge the visual dominance of St Paul 's . |
| 2 | Helen whispered to Sarah that it had been confirmed that she was pregnant and the baby was due in late November . |
| 3 | We ventured out only in the mornings and the evenings when the sun was low and the shadows of the tall robed figures stretched to impossible lengths across the sands . |
| 4 | But the wood was strong and the lock was well made . |
| 5 | Although drastic , this rebuilding was not a success , as presumably the main body structure was weak and the car was soon dumped in the back of Penge depôt ‘ out of service ’ . |
| 6 | Cranston sat on the bed just staring at the corpse as if the man was alive and the coroner wished to draw him into friendly conversation . |
| 7 | The Selby Canal was iced and the Winter Warmers match was switched to the River Aire swhere conditions were so bad only organiser Billy Harrison turned out ! |
| 8 | In the immediate post-conciliar phase ( 1966 – 7 ) , Rome remained not far off the avant-garde of progress , but once the first round of directives was complete and the curia firmly back in control , the conservative tendency regained the upper hand in the centre while progressive tendencies were still growing stronger in many a periphery . |
| 9 | By the outbreak of the second Welsh war in March 1282 Rhuddlan was complete and the others well advanced ; James proceeded to Aberystwyth ad castrum regis ibidem construendum ; in July 1282 he ordered the demolition of the old keep at Hope . |
| 10 | You could see everything that was n't visible out front ; the braced wooden frames of the canvas flats , the angle irons and stage weights that held everything in place , the fact that the ceiling was hollow and the space went on up to about another fifteen feet above , the gap crossed by a catwalk and a lot of cabling . |
| 11 | She tried to speak , but her throat was dry and no words would come . |
| 12 | The scenery was lush and the house values just as high as London . |
| 13 | From London to Canterbury the traffic was solid and the fumes that built up in the car made her head ache . |
| 14 | The school was rural and the children from supportive , stimulating homes . |
| 15 | That was a clear case where the Bill was right and the timing was wrong . |
| 16 | Indeed the game against England will tell whether Ondarts was right and the Bègles men were vastly over-rated following their summer campaign in Romania and the USA , or whether they really are tough ( though raw ) customers who are about to become a force to be reckoned with . |
| 17 | But of course Robert was right and the rider did go on to greater things . |
| 18 | Yet , in a sense , the dramatist was right and the actress wrong . |
| 19 | I have already said that , on the question of jurisdiction , I can discern no difference between the policy of the Act of 1914 and that of the Act of 1986 , and under those circumstances I think that the registrar 's decision was right and the appeal must be dismissed . |
| 20 | The music was loud and the killers were laughing like it was a picnic . |
| 21 | Then in the 18th century , either the choir was awful or the weather was awful , er nobody 's too sure which , but they then settled for just seeing the one thing they knew by memory which was this Eucharistic hymn : Todaym Parchym that they sang in the hall every night as a grace , and that 's how it 's gone on . |
| 22 | The coffee , of course , was awful and the cheese sandwich I had enough to buy was probably made out of some new plastic rather than the milk churn . |
| 23 | The first four of these had mainly family farms and the pattern was understandable but the Wester Ross response was more difficult to explain . |
| 24 | The experiment was short-lived and a failure ; but it suggested that the young king might not be able to reckon as a matter of course on wielding all the powers of his great predecessor . |
| 25 | But it was short-lived and the State soon sought once again to enforce ‘ homogeneity ’ . |
| 26 | He was asleep but a voice from behind me might have curdled anybody 's dreams . |
| 27 | Victoria was asleep and the detective paused a few yards away to swing Richard down to the ground . |
| 28 | The water here was turbulent but the crews held their form well . |
| 29 | The money was alluring but the people with the money were very unattractive . |
| 30 | If a secured creditor omits to disclose his security in his proof of debt , he must surrender it for the general benefit of creditors unless the court relieves him on the ground that omission was inadvertent or the result of honest mistake ( r 6.116 ) . |