Example sentences of "was [adj] [subord] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its organization was similar in that it was controlled by persons of relatively high social status , that ransoming was a major source of profit , and that the transporting of animals over long distances was usual when a payment was not forthcoming . |
| 2 | Beeney was solid as a rock , dealt with the back pass superbly , and only kicked ONE out of play the whole match . |
| 3 | Times were not so hard for businesses then and I was grateful when a year of events raised £107,000 . |
| 4 | The man 's heart , even in captivity , was light as a bird . |
| 5 | That he was high as a kite on Ecstasy and had thought they were larking about ! |
| 6 | He give me them , I took them for three days , right , I did n't come down for a fortnight and Russell 'll tell you that , I was high as a kite . |
| 7 | That was clear as a succession of batsmen joined Gooch in the ignominy of having their stumps knocked over . |
| 8 | Abolition of the Southern League also robbed players of a useful safety valve , for no transfer fee was payable when a player moved into it from the League . |
| 9 | But the existence of her precious archive was unsuspected until a suitcase containing about 450 glass negatives was discovered during a house-clearance at Ripon in 1988 . |
| 10 | As I placed them in the water , the bone-china cups and saucers became first glass then nothing ; the water was cold as a glacier . |
| 11 | Travel in the UK was unlimited though a case had to be made for every European exhibition other than the Venice Biennale and the Kassel Documenta , and most trips to the United States had to be funded privately or tied in with a conference or some other event that would cover the cost of the trip . |
| 12 | They ended up laughing about that , but it was the uneasy laughter of desperation and displacement , and all they could do after that was finish the whisky and have the joint Rory had been working on , and it was almost a relief when Fergus was sick as a dog out of the window , hanging out barfing onto the slates and into the guttering while Rory tried to clean the plaster off the top bunk and stowed the guns out of harm 's way . |
| 13 | Yer was pretty as a picture an' I said ter meself straight away , ‘ Fred ’ , I ses , ‘ this 'ere little lady is gon na be good fer yer business . ’ |
| 14 | It was unfortunate when a zoo lost an eagle , so why did he feel so pleased about it ? |
| 15 | What he said was informative if a touch inconsequential ; you did n't remember too much of it but the effect was cumulative . |
| 16 | We describe a female patient who developed both these conditions , the treatment of which was unsatisfactory until a thymectomy was performed . |
| 17 | The shaikh was concerned because a man 's arm had been broken ; but the cause of the dispute was the use of government resources to damage the interests of rival lineages . |
| 18 | ‘ I was puzzled when a paper recently called me a ‘ bread head ’ . |
| 19 | Her smile seemed to me to be defiant and triumphant and accepting all at once , which was ridiculous since a smile is only a smile : sometimes honest , sometimes forced no more . |
| 20 | Astronomers know that the early universe was uniform because a remnant of that period , the cosmic microwave background radiation which bathes the Earth from all directions , is remarkably uniform . |
| 21 | The fuel situation in western Romania was desperate because a lot was being smuggled into Yugoslavia before it even got to the petrol stations . |
| 22 | It was uncertain whether a ballot in 1984 would obtain the needed support , and so Scargill developed an alternative strategy to achieve a national strike without calling one . |
| 23 | ‘ I was disappointed when a move to the club fell through earlier in the season because I believe my style would be suited to the English game . |
| 24 | She was aware of her body , realising that it was taut as a lute string with anticipation . |
| 25 | Mr Lawson asserted that the right to a trial without delay had long been established : see Magna Carta Chapter 40 : and such a fundamental principle was valueless unless a court had power to enforce it by not tolerating abuse of its process . |
| 26 | But it was she who was surprised when a man 's voice said explosively , ‘ What the hell are you doing here ? ’ |
| 27 | The man , who had head injuries , was dead before a doctor could be flown to the ship . |
| 28 | There we were , messing around with his things , and all the time he was dead as a doornail in Paris . |